Welcome to 32nd and Chestnut...

This is the blog for 75 or so Drexel students, most of whom are new to college and new to Drexel.

We'll document the strangeness of college life, try to translate our experience for diverse readers, and chronicle what it means to be a college student during these crazy days of economic turmoil and political battle.

That's it for now; I have to go an play Spore.

Friday, November 21, 2008

Futile Football Strategy

In my experiences growing up, I know one person who was completely hovered by his parents. With his father as a therapist and his mother a librarian, everything thing he said would be written down and thought as insightful. We were friends in elementary school before he was was ultimately put into a different school due to the ridicule he received. All of his childhood life, he would try and use "big" words to describe how he was feeling to us. We were about 8 years old and the kid was using the word "futile" to describe our football team's strategy. If only I had known what the word mean at 8, it would be obvious the kid had no idea what he was talking about. His parents would not let him play football, because it was too physical. This then turned into him thinking he was hurt anyone touched him. While jumping on a trampoline, he fell and bounced back up and complained that his arm was broking. It finally became the point where no wanted to play with him, because he would start crying every time.
When parents start valuing everything a five year old says, it is a clear indicator of his future unless he can use friends to balance him. But if he is not allowed to be with other kids, his future does not look socially and academically bright. He had a trouble learning new information on a topic that he had learned earlier due to his stubborn behavior. He always thought he had the right to stand up to teachers, because his parents would let him. The "big" words he thought he knew what they meant proved to hurt his vocabulary, because again he thought he knew the real meaning. Overall, he was unable to hold friendships and was put into a small, private school after elementary school.

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