Category: Back To School

Back To School College Culture High School Memes

Meme perfectly explains the difference between freshman and and senior year

sudshr47 August 28, 2018

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There’s something so embarrassing, yet sweet, about how excited you were before the first day of school freshman year. 

By the time senior year of high school or college rolls around, it’s easy to catch yourself doing things a bit differently than the wide-eyed kid you were four years ago. Thankfully there’s a meme that sums up the self-awareness perfectly. 

After freshman year, levels of enthusiasm when it comes to getting school supplies quickly drops, right alongside a steady increase of the unshakeable plague that is senioritis. 

Night before first day of freshman year: Ok I have my backpack, notebooks, color coded folders, pencils, pens…

Night before first day of senior year: Ok I have one piece of .7 lead…

— sydnee allen (@sydnee_allen) August 28, 2018 Read more…

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Back To School Mental Health Social Good Stress Teens

5 tips to help manage your back-to-school mental health

sudshr47 August 19, 2018

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If you’re headed back to school, chances are you’ve already made at least one checklist. Got your schedule? Check. What about your supplies? Check. Talked with friends about which classes you have together? Bet you checked that one more than once. 

But there’s something likely missing from your list, and it might be the most important thing you take care of all year: addressing your mental health and wellbeing. 

Going back to school can be exciting. It can also be terrifying, particularly for teens who’ve already experienced bullying, anxiety, stress, depression, or trauma. In addition to the nerve-wracking aspects of middle school or high school — crushes, grades, cliques — students today are grappling with intense experiences, including natural disaster anniversaries, school shooting drills, and heightened political and social tensions that disproportionately affect young immigrants and LGBTQ people.  Read more…

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Back To School Mashable Shopping Shopping Fun Stem Toys

Walmart has STEM toys, kids’ tablets, experiment kits, and more on back-to-school sale

sudshr47 July 27, 2018

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Back to school season is (somehow) here, y’all. 

This means parents have about a month of kids being excited about entering a new grade until they’re, uh, not anymore — and then they’re rushing through homework to get back to video games and Spongebob. Awesome.

That is, unless they have toys that make math, science, creativity, and spelling fun instead of frustratingWalmart has a massive learning toys section and has dropped the price on a ton of items to give parents a hand with getting kids pumped for learning, just in time for the new school year. Read more…

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Back To School BackPack Gift Ideas Pizza Sale

Obsessed with pizza? Us too. Get this cute pizza backpack on sale.

sudshr47 November 20, 2017

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The pizza trend will never die — and we’re okay with it.

Should we even try to act surprised that there is a backpack with pizza slices all over it (that somehow still looks stylish)? And the fact that it’s 40% off right now — how can you not?

Herschel Supply Co. has been huge in the backpack game for some time, so it’s really no surprise that they were able to create a pizza backpack that’s actually cute and not completely obnoxious. The real surprise is that it’s 40% off right now — that almost never happens with these backpacks, so it’s kind of a big deal.  Read more…

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