be(r)nice.

voy a cambiar vidas.

i write a lot. i have this little notebook that i carry with me everywhere.

porque este mundo es increíble.

i love tumblrs. because people these days are so quick to judge and if you happen upon this site, you get a whole different perspective of someone you thought you knew.

because sometimes we don't speak aloud all we want to say. and written words preserve the moment's intensity.


“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.”
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Vita Sackville-West
January 26
schoolit: Samantha Garvey, Homeless Teen Up For Prestigious Intel Science PrizeSamantha Garvey, an 18-year-old senior at Brentwood High School on Long Island, was selected as a semifinalist in the Intel Science Talent Search, the premier science competition for high school students.  Her research concluded that the ribbed mussels native to the Long Island Sound (Geukensia demissa) were able to detect chemicals that predators in their waters released (in this case, it was the recently arrived Asian shore crabs, Hemigrapsus sanguineus), which makes them produce thicker shells as a defense mechanism – a change that was noticeable after just 65 days of testing.Throughout her 2.5 years of research, Samantha endured notable hardships.  Her parents were injured in a car accident last year and were hospitalized. Her father, a cabdriver, was able to recover quickly and keep driving, but her mother, a nurse’s assistant, could not work for nine months.  The eldest of three children, she and her family are newly homeless, evicted from their home on December 31st and living in a Suffolk County shelter. Despite these difficulties, Samantha maintains a 3.9 grade point average, is president of her school’s chapter of the National Honors Society, and is ranked 4th out of 433 students in her grade.  Samantha hopes to attend Brown or Yale. She recently appeared on Ellen DeGeneres’s daytime talk show, where she was awarded a $50,000 scholarship, and AT&T also presented her with a scholarship of equal value on Wednesday. Do you think Samantha’s setbacks gave her the motivation to succeed? Okay it’s great that she managed to do this despite her those personal struggles. But I just hate how the media like sentimentalizes?- is that even a word/ the right one- everything. It’s like “omg this girl managed to succeed even though she’s poor and living on the streets!!! Wow!!!”. It reminds me of a friend whose family would be considered low income, but she didn’t apply to certain scholarships because then you admit you’re poor and need this help to get by. I don’t think it’s an ego thing. But idk, I just think it’s wrong that articles are published like this- what this girl discovered is super amazing, unique because so many teenagers these days don’t do anything. But why do you have to emphasize her family background, like ohmydamn let’s get into her personal life because that’s where the real story is. Some people will probably disagree with this, but I just feel like these articles are subtley perpetrating the stereotype that poor people can’t succeed BUT HERES THE EXCEPTION!! Does this make sense.

schoolit:

Samantha Garvey, Homeless Teen Up For Prestigious Intel Science Prize

Samantha Garvey, an 18-year-old senior at Brentwood High School on Long Island, was selected as a semifinalist in the Intel Science Talent Search, the premier science competition for high school students.  Her research concluded that the ribbed mussels native to the Long Island Sound (Geukensia demissa) were able to detect chemicals that predators in their waters released (in this case, it was the recently arrived Asian shore crabs, Hemigrapsus sanguineus), which makes them produce thicker shells as a defense mechanism – a change that was noticeable after just 65 days of testing.

Throughout her 2.5 years of research, Samantha endured notable hardships.  Her parents were injured in a car accident last year and were hospitalized. Her father, a cabdriver, was able to recover quickly and keep driving, but her mother, a nurse’s assistant, could not work for nine months.  The eldest of three children, she and her family are newly homeless, evicted from their home on December 31st and living in a Suffolk County shelter. Despite these difficulties, Samantha maintains a 3.9 grade point average, is president of her school’s chapter of the National Honors Society, and is ranked 4th out of 433 students in her grade.  

Samantha hopes to attend Brown or Yale. She recently appeared on Ellen DeGeneres’s daytime talk show, where she was awarded a $50,000 scholarship, and AT&T also presented her with a scholarship of equal value on Wednesday.

Do you think Samantha’s setbacks gave her the motivation to succeed?

Okay it’s great that she managed to do this despite her those personal struggles. But I just hate how the media like sentimentalizes?- is that even a word/ the right one- everything. It’s like “omg this girl managed to succeed even though she’s poor and living on the streets!!! Wow!!!”. It reminds me of a friend whose family would be considered low income, but she didn’t apply to certain scholarships because then you admit you’re poor and need this help to get by. I don’t think it’s an ego thing. But idk, I just think it’s wrong that articles are published like this- what this girl discovered is super amazing, unique because so many teenagers these days don’t do anything. But why do you have to emphasize her family background, like ohmydamn let’s get into her personal life because that’s where the real story is. Some people will probably disagree with this, but I just feel like these articles are subtley perpetrating the stereotype that poor people can’t succeed BUT HERES THE EXCEPTION!! Does this make sense.