What It’s Like to Come Back to School After 4 ½ Years
By Eden Shaveet | Observer Contributor
During the spring of my 7th grade year, I decided that I did not want to go to school anymore.
A seemingly tactless and unrealistic decision, I know, but I hoped it would make me happy after years of struggling with what seemed to be an unexplainable, perpetual sadness that worsened with each year I ignored it. After nearly a decade of jumping from school to school and transforming myself to fit each new social environment I was placed into, I grew tired of my “new girl” status and wanted space from everyone and everything I had once so desperately tried to become.