I suppose he's making a real fashion statement, but this is high school. You're not supposed to be real. You're supposed to be enough like everyone else to get through and out into the waiting world.

There are a million rules for being a girl. There are a million things you have to do to get through each day. High school has things that can trip you up, ruin you, people say one thing and mean another, and you have to know all the rules, you have to know what you can and can't do.

I was a scam artist in high school for a while.

I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single girl of high standing at Longbourn Academy must be in want of a prom date.

I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.