School Story Lab
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“Free Will Isn’t Real”
“I remember distinctly my mom being like “oh boy, you know, [Calvin’s] been having all these realizations every, every couple of days [Calvin] has some new realization” and I would always be like trying to pepper my mom with philosophy. I’d be like “Mom. Free will isn't real.” Like I remember scouting these things, so that was a huge shift. And it was actually my mom, I remember, who really who really made me conscious of the fact that, like, wait a minute.”
Male, USA
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We Collect School Stories
School Story Lab is a student-run lab directed by Professor Susan D. Blum at the University of Notre Dame. We want to provide a place for people from all countries to talk about their experiences in all levels of schools: the joys and fears, triumphs and shame, friendships and loneliness, curiosity and boredom, and everything else that accompanies the experience of school. School is about what people learn, how people learn, what they don’t learn, who they learn with. We want to know what it feels like. Tell us your stories!
What brought you to this moment, and what is next?
Guiding light of this study is to examine how did you come to study what you are studying, what brought you to this educational path, and what does this mean for you in the future? What factors (wealth, family, passion, societal expectations) have shaped your educational journey?