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'And what good does it do you to be rich?' 'It makes it possible for me to buy more stars, if any are discovered.'" -From The Little Prince, by Antoine De Saint-Exupery  Image source Three and two make five. Five and seven make twelve. Twelve and three make fifteen. Good morning. Fifteen and seven make twenty-two. Twenty-two and six make twenty-eight.If you have never read The Little Prince, I know two things about you: First, you have absolutely no idea why I am counting. Second, you should slap yourself in the face and read this mind-blowing classic! Just kidding I love you, random internet reader. So why was I counting you may ask? I am quoting a businessman from the little prince. He is a guy so focused on counting and counting his millions upon millions of stars he owns, that he never actually stops to look at them. In fact, he doesn't even stop to light his cigarette or acknowledge a new visitor. He was always so busy with "matters of conseq...

Quote of the week: "Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes... hollow" -The Imitation Game Our Attraction to Watching School Fights It   was a Friday like any other at Carrollton High School. The cafeteria was  bustling with life.  Since it was one of the last lunch shifts of the day, you could always sense the hunger and unused energy of the students.  Our hungry classmates were trying to make the most our of the 30 minutes of free time, before having to go back back to the drudgery of lectures and classwork. My lunch table was discussing the new debate topic, unaware of what was about to happen just outside the glass doors that led to the picnic table outside. Doctor Albertus, our school principal, was sitting in the corner of the cafeteria right behind the booth we were sitting in. It was his job to make sure ...

Quotes of the week: "Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing." -Euripides "Beauty may be dangerous, but intelligence is lethal." -Unknown Reasons why school is prison (besides the terrible lunch meals) Image drawing and editing done by me . Have you ever sat in a boring classroom, with nothing to do but hear the teacher talk about the most boring subject ever, and asked yourself, "Why am I here?." As students, we sit in classrooms, in the exact same location that we're in, six to seven hours a day, five days a week, sometimes even more. A  friend of mine  once said that " Instead of striving to learn any of the vast curiosities that surround us, we drill in just enough to bubble in and scribble out the right letters to be passed along year after year, with no actual gain of useful knowledge more than facts that we will inevitably forget as we move along." The truth is that for most of us, it feels like w...