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Public School vs. Home School

 Now for all of last school year I was enrolled in virtual school, due to concerns with omicron and me not being old enough to get vaccinated. This year, I've been fully vaccinated, so I decided to move back to the public school system after two and a half years of online school, and let me just say, it's been a rough adjustment. Public schools and virtual schools each have their own upsides and downsides, so I'm going to list them out for you so that you know what you expect if you enroll in these schools.   Now, the main focus of public schools is on efficiency and learning, while also giving you opportunities to socialize, and make friends. They're good enough at what they do: which is teaching you, but they have quite a bit of problems. For example, bathroom breaks. If you want to go to the bathroom, you have to sit there, and raise your hand, and then wait for the teacher to answer you, and pray that they actually let you go to the bathroom. But chances are, if the

My Time at the Dentists

 Humans don't tend to agree on a lot of things. One look on any social media platform and that becomes abundantly clear. One thing most of us can agree on though, is that no-one looks forward to the dentist. It's basically children's surgery. A bunch of people strap you to a chair, then poke around a crevice in your body with a bunch of metal tools, while you can do nothing but listen.  Despite that comparison, I think we're irrationally scared of them. These people are licensed professionals, and if they mess up it could ruin their livelihoods, so I doubt they'd mess up so badly as to permanently injure your mouth or something. And it doesn't even hurt that bad because of the anesthetics. I mean, they even have licenses for a radiation machine, which is definitely only for the x-ray machines and not anything else.  So, I've been to the dentist's twice in the past month or so, once for a simple checkup and cleaning, and the other to get a filling. Now, t