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Equipment
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12B #3 Sheena Chiang

We didn't really take equipment monitors beneath them, I love admiring the artwork
seriously. Growing up, there were years here past seniors have left on 12B's broom closet
and there where teachers asked for a restock of doors. There is a joy in discovering notes
chalk or a wobbling fan was teetering a little left on the sides of our desks in Sharpie and

too dangerously. Otherwise, my classmates laughing about how the backs of our chairs are
had mostly accepted that some of our cubbies removable. The wear and tear in our facilities
and paint jobs were a few decades too old. reflect forty years of memories and rebellious

Questions like, why do we still have these teenage ploys.
metal lockers? Half of them are locked, faded School, after all, is first and foremost a
away into halfhearted pondering. learning environment. I've picked up modern
At this point, it's come as no surprise to calligraphy by practicing over and over on
the BDSC officers and I that our number one my green desk. I've become comfortable

complaint is that IBSH equipment is quite navigating difficult terrain because there's
shabby. This ranges from inconvenient sliding no way to walk from the old building to the
barn doors to bathroom smells that sneak into new without walking up and down at least

classrooms and always, without fail, terrible three flights of stairs. My patience for internet
wifi. It's almost become a mantra, our new connectivity has doubled in my high school
school slogan: We want better wifi! years, and I've learned to simply give up
But I've always found a charm to the using my phone and spend that time talking to
place. As much gum as I've found under the friends.

student chair desks in Mr. Krystal's room, I've The environment can shape who one
exchanged countless notes with occupants becomes, and I'm glad that we have forty
of the same seat from different classes. As years of history shaping us.

scary as it is to lift rusty cabinets during final
cleanup for fear of unknown creatures lurking

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