MR Writer’s Club: (Not Too) Cool for School

“Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.” Mark Twain once said that. I also had a teacher who taught that one should never begin a story or an article with a quote.

That same teacher gave me detention for falling asleep in his class, which I guess taught me that staying up until 3 AM in hopes that the guy I liked also had insomnia and would message me on AIM was pretty fruitless — and then wouldn’t you know it, that very same lesson somehow transitioned into a greater one about me doing me and the importance of independence.

The classroom teaches you lots of things: how to share, how to pick a good field trip partner, how to be kind, how to stand up for yourself. The classroom — whether it be a kindergarten one with alphabet carpeting and little baby chairs made out of thick red plastic, or a graduate program’s lecture hall where you’re the oldest in the room, potentially more experienced in life than your academic peers but equal when considering GMAT scores — is an opportunity to learn something more than just what’s in the books.

Write about that something. In ~500 words, whether it was Newton’s Law or Pythagorean theorem or that the person next to you has their headphones in for a reason, we want to know what the best, or most important, thing you learned in a classroom was.

You know the deal: submit your essays to write@manrepeller.com by 12PM on Friday, November 21st, and if you’re feeling social or particularly millennial, the hashtag is #mrwritersclub.

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