this planit is fucked up and its like god is a crul ringmaster

struggles academically (several grade levels behind). unlike 95% of kids at our school his goal is graduation, not college. rough around edges, very funny, very popular with girls. dating straight A student. very poor, lives in a neighborhood with lots of gang violence, sometimes gets jumped but has managed to steer clear. older brother went to our school, got accepted to a UC w/ a full ride but dropped out due to drug and financial problems. most people in his neighborhood who get out do so via enlisting in military. we're really close on a personal level but nothing i do seems to work to steer him in a better direction academically. one time he invited me to a party at his house. i told him absolutely not and that it was more or less illegal for me to fraternize with my students, he said not to worry and that there'd be older women there. when i told him firmly no he offered to snapchat me during the party (i don't have a snapchat). i feel like he is in freefall because due to DACA stuff his family might be relocating to mexico this year, and he is figuring it's all his efforts here are for naught if that happens. i tried to talk to him about taking things a day at a time and doing your best w/ what's in front of you rather than worry about stuff outside of his control.

Amazing

he wears diamond studs and likes mumble rap but i have convinced him to give "old school" a shot ... i got him into mobb deep etc but he doesn't like wu tang much ... yet. i've tried to get him into other music. when i played him some reissue stuff off now again he said "this is the junk old people in my neighborhood listen to when they have streets protests" and when i played him suicide he said it sounded really amateur and asked if alan vega was me.

i told him that was rich coming from a guy who gets 95% of his rap music off soundcloud

well the drawing is incredible. good call on the one day at a time stuff. hope this dude graduates.

yeah me too :-/

<3

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fuck
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you know, it look similar fuck this planit

haha Ubu roi!!!

different student drew this behind me on the whiteboard today

http://i.imgur.com/O6duaCo.jpg

xpost to too much time (too many years?) on ILM

hope this dude graduates.

― del griffith, Sunday, January 28, 2018 8:08 PM (eleven months ago)

not only is he graduating, he scored in the mid-20s on his ACT and should at least be getting into CSUs w/ grants as a result

nice! I'm pretty sure I left a sharpie doodle or three on some bathroom stalls at SDSU. he should go see if he can't do any better than my 15 year old masterpieces that are almost surely gone

i didn't know you went to SDSU!

i currently live (and spent a large chunk of my childhood) literally right across the 8 fwy on the other side of college from SDSU

oh word? I was just in that woods-neck on new years day to see the mighty rushing river through mission trails and then chow down at DZ Akin's for the first time in a long time. hello neighbor!

lol I'm so Midwest I read SDSU as South Dakota State

yeah, the rightful claim to the SDSU acronym has been a hot point of contention between Jackrabbits and Aztecs for generations. the way I see it, your institution beat mine to founding by 16 years (plus, you're not relying on one of those troublesome indigenous culture co-opts for a mascot name) so you win and you can have it.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EmMIx5HUcAg0Yfo?format=jpg&name=small

otm

thread title occurs to me once every two months or so

the praphasies