Cheat Sheet: How To Survive High School & Whatever Comes Next
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
College application season is here and Aria, a 17 year-old senior, is stressing—even more than usual. At her high school in Chicago's south suburbs, she gets good grades, is on the cheer team, in multiple honor societies, leads the choral ensemble, and hosts her own feminist podcast. But now that Aria's learning remotely during a pandemic, her anxiety is off the charts. How can she possibly choose a college, much less a career, amid such uncertainty? In this episode of How To!, we bring in Eve Ewing, a multi-talented poet, author, and sociologist, to help Aria work through her worries about the future. Like Aria, Eve spent time in Chicago-area public schools—first as a student and then, to her own surprise, as a teacher. Eve knows you can't plan your exact path from Point A to Z. Instead, just focus on taking the next best step forward, Eve says, and trust that when you do, you'll be getting that much closer to the person you're destined to become.
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| 0:00.0 | The best things that I've ever had the opportunity to do in my life, none of those things |
| 0:05.4 | happened because I knew what I was doing. Ever, ever, ever, they happened because I was like, |
| 0:11.6 | I know what the next step should maybe kind of probably look like and I |
| 0:16.8 | have confidence in myself that when I get there I'm going to be able to figure it out and if I |
| 0:21.6 | don't I'm going to ask for help. |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome to How Toe, I'm Cheryl Stuehik. |
| 0:28.0 | This is the third and final episode in our three-part series Cheatsheet which is |
| 0:32.3 | designed to help you make the most of this really |
| 0:34.9 | strange back-to-school season. |
| 0:37.8 | Last week we talked with parents who are struggling to navigate conversations about sex with |
| 0:41.9 | their middle schooler. |
| 0:43.3 | And today we're moving forward a few years with an episode for teenagers and their parents |
| 0:47.9 | about dealing with the unique stresses of high school. |
| 0:51.3 | Aria is a senior at a suburban high school south of Chicago and she's got a lot on her plate. |
| 0:57.3 | I'm involved in multiple honor societies at my school and I'm also holding leadership roles in those honors societies and I also have cheered for three years and I am a part of the top coral ensemble and I am the president of that ensemble. |
| 1:13.0 | After school, I'd have a meeting for the National Honor Society |
| 1:18.0 | and I'd probably get home and have to record from my podcast |
| 1:22.0 | and that's probably a perfect day and the most busy day. |
| 1:26.0 | I was going to say that's a pretty full day. |
| 1:29.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:31.5 | Tell me a little bit about your school, like is it a big school or a little school? |
| 1:36.0 | Yeah, so it's a super big school and with that, you know, there's the theater kids, you know, the football players. but then also there may be those same |
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