How to Properly Navigate the School

by Saber Slate | May 7, 2018 | Advice

Have you ever been walking down the hallway, and suddenly a fellow student wildly walked around you? Have you been walking your normal path, straight through the doorway, and walked directly into a person going the opposite direction? This article will attempt to clarify the ins and outs of how to get around the school to avoid collisions through several scenarios.

Scenario 1: You and your friend are walking down the hallway and want to talk. If you want to do this, you are obligated by school rules to stop or at least slow down. If you walk too fast, you might outrun the sound waves of your friend’s voice, leading to a weird shift of sound that blocks out all volume! Everyone else is required to walk around you.

Scenario 2: You’re walking to your next class and it’s pretty close. You can walk at whatever speed you want; nobody else is affected by your speed. In fact, everyone else will simply accommodate your needs and walk the same speed as you – even the ones needing to go from one side of the school to the opposite side! This is purely out of the goodness of everyone’s hearts, as humans are known to have.

Scenario 3: You need to go through the doorway from the cafeteria to the back hallway. You might think that you should only use the right doorway, as this would make logical sense – you walk on the right side of the hallway normally, so you probably have to follow this rule for doorways as well. Well, you can actually use either doorway you want; the blind corner leading directly to the left side of the hallway is completely fine to walk directly into. Even when walking side by side with another student, it’s perfectly fine to take the blind corner without seeing if you’ll walk into anyone.

I hope this article helps with all your hallway-navigating needs!

Looking for Love this Valentine’s Season?

by Saber Slate | Feb 7, 2018 | Advice

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, ‘Loveless in Language Arts’ asks: “How do I get a girlfriend? I’ve been crushing on this one girl for a while now and I wanted to know how to get her to go out with me.”

Now, this is a very exclusive and biased topic, so I’m going to extend the question a bit and ask: How can I start a healthy, love-filled relationship in this high school environment? The answer is simple: don’t try so hard. I know it’s not the answer you want but hear me out. If you’re trying so hard to get that person to like you like you like them, then you’re probably passing by people that are interested in you as well.

Another important step in the road towards a relationship is accepting rejection. Picture this: you’ve got it all set: the flowers, the corny sign, the backup dancers; your promposal is complete. Here they come, walking down the hall, and here you are with enough confetti for a New Year’s Eve party. You do your whole bit, and it finally comes to the question: Will you go out with me? “No,” they say. How do you react? Do you:

1. Scream in their face about how they’re wrong?
2. Repeatedly ask that person until they change their mind?

or

1. Say that you accept their choice and respect their right to say no?

If you answered A or B, you need to learn how to take no for an answer. No matter who you’re asking out, there will always be the chance of them saying no. If this happens, you should tell them that you respect their choice and stop trying. You might take a hard hit to your emotions, but you can’t let it out on them, no matter how much you want to.

In the event that they say yes, however, congratulations. You’ve completed step one. Oh, you thought just because they said yes that you were in the clear? No, you’ve just begun you’re journey towards a relationship. There are many more steps in the adventure that we call love, however I know them not. They are different for each situation, and no one answer can be made for how to solve every conundrum. The only absolute I can say is that honesty must be part of your relationship. If you cannot trust each other, then you cannot possibly begin to have true love for each other.

Well, question asker, I hope you found this useful on your quest to start your relationship, and I wish you well on your journey. Sorry for the long wait, but technical difficulties as well as personal conflicts kept me from writing back.

If you have any questions that you’d like me to answer then please leave a comment below and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can!

Feeling Hungry During Class?

by Saber Slate | Feb 7, 2018 | Advice

Starting this year’s advice column off with a problem I think we can all relate to, HungryStudent01 asks: “What are some good foods to bring as a snack to school? I’m always hungry, even after lunch.”
Now, I think this is something we can all relate to. No matter the class, be it english or history, underwater basket weaving or human anatomy, we’ve all heard the obnoxious growl of the starving abdomens of hungry students that either didn’t have nearly enough to eat in the morning or skipped breakfast altogether — those of us with late lunch get it especially bad. You might want to consider packing yourself a full breakfast to eat in first hour so that you don’t get the 3rd hour blues.
If square meals aren’t your thing, here are some small foodstuffs you can easily stash in your backpack for future use:
– Consider cereal/granola bars, they’re great for energy and as a plus, they’re really tasty!
– Fruit snacks are the best thing ever invented, they’re not as filling but they’ve got taste for days!
– If processed foods aren’t for you, you can bring in fruit or something small like a bag of baby carrots to help tide you over until lunch.
That concludes the first edition of the Saber Slate Advice Column, I hope you [HungryStudent01] found it helpful to so be sure to post your questions for next week in the comments below!

Introducing: The Saber Slate Advice Column!

by Saber Slate | Feb 7, 2018 | Advice

How do you do fellow kids? I’m here to inform you about a brand new form of informational entertainment: The Saber Slate™ Advice Column!
I know you all probably have some questions, but that’s okay! That’s what the Saber Slate™ advice column is all about! I’ll take in a few (appropriate) questions each week and answer them to the best of my ability! You can ask me about any school related topic, and if I think I can answer it, I will!
For those thinking “But A, where do I submit my dozens of questions I want you to answer?”, the answer is simple: Just put them in the comments below! Next week will be the first official post to the Saber Slate™ Advice Column where I will answer all the questions I can that you posted on this article. In an ideal future I’ll post a new article to the Saber Slate™ Advice Column each week, answer the questions from the previous post’s comments, and the cycle will continue each week!
So, do you have any questions for me to answer? Leave them in the comments and I might just answer them next week!

How to Deal With the Aftermath of AP Exams

by Saber Slate | Jan 18, 2018 | Advice

Originally Published April 30th, 2014 by Bazinga62 (Okay this one is clearly Euvin)

Well, now that I’ve told you how to prepare for AP exams, it’s only natural that you’ll also want some advice for how to deal with it when you fail miserably.

And trust me, some of you will.

When you get a score on an AP test that makes you want to bury your head in your hands, never to resurface to the light of day again, you’re probably reacting quite logically. After all, after spending so many hours in preparation for something, if you still failed, it’s more than understandable why you would detest existence. You just best simply weren’t good enough. Deal with it.

Seriously, just chill. It’s really not that big of a deal. The positive side of AP tests is that your scores don’t affect your GPA. So what if you just wasted nearly a hundred dollars and weren’t able to receive college credit for some thing you’ve invested countless hours in? That’s life. Like it or not, this kind of thing is going to happen to you A LOT. You can sit there, separating yourself from society with a curtain of more than obvious (and pitiful) shame, or you can work with what you’ve still got and make the best of it?

You’ve still got next year (unless you’re a senior), and hey, it’s almost summer. For those of you whose classes are mostly APs, congratulations: YOU’RE PRACTICALLY DONE WITH SCHOOL FOR THE YEAR. Lighten up a little. What’s done is done.