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Humans of Tam: The Thing That Makes Them Happy
By Logan Little
May 22, 2019
Humans of Tam features anonymous students and snippets of their voices and experiences. It [ballet] was taking over my life pretty much. I couldn’t do anything and ballet at the same time. I had no social life at all because I was either at ballet or doing homework or eating food. I had no free ...
Humans of Tam: I Didn’t Want Anyone to Treat Me Differently
By Kennedy Cook and Christopher Giron
April 23, 2019
Humans of Tam features anonymous students and snippets of their voices and experiences. My doctor was like eh, if you want to. But my mom would never [pass up the X-ray]. She is one of those really cautious people. When the doctor told me, oh it’s probably just swollen, I thought, ‘oh okay, then it...
Humans of Tam: It’s not like I’m reassured
By Kennedy Cook and Christopher Giron
April 18, 2019
Humans of Tam features anonymous students and snippets of their voices and experiences. "I definitely think that if I didn’t smoke weed I would do more homework, and be more motivated to have good grades. I smoke almost every morning before school and between most classes because it makes it m...
Of a Different Breed
March 4, 2019
Hidden away in Tam’s mass of students is a small, a very small, but distinct subset of students (and an alumnus) linked by a common, somewhat taboo, artistic interest; anthropomorphic animals. Yet, being part of the small community is often difficult, as those who count themselves as part of it are...
Humans of Tam: Social Media Doesn’t Hurt
December 11, 2018
Okay. I would say that social media is underutilized. I feel like a lot of kids nowadays just use it for posting pictures of themselves Juuling, or vaping, or drinking with friends, just a lot of dumb stuff. But I see social media as something more than that. Social media for me is a platfo...
Humans of Tam: She Just Didn’t Believe Me
By Kennedy Cook
June 10, 2018
I’m not close with my mom at all and it’s really hard for me to open up to people. I have such an issue with that, even my friends. I bottle things up and then I get really stressed and I have breakdowns and stuff. I’m just not used to opening up to people because I never really went through tha...
Humans of Tam: I Had Begun a Spiral of Hatred
By Kennedy Cook and Michael Diamandakis
December 9, 2017
“It seemed like you weren't there mentally during that fly. Your strokes were sloppy, you barely kicked off the walls and your drive wasn’t straight.” [My coach] was trying to make the feedback a little nicer. I just stared at her, having no excuse for my awful swim. In the weeks following the meet...
Humans of Tam: I can’t hide from it, I can’t run from it.
By Kennedy Cook and Michael Diamandakis
May 31, 2017
High School is not easy. I struggle with bullying a little bit. It’s gotten better, but it’s still kind of hard to deal with every now and then. Once I was walking on the field next to MVMS, and a bunch of juniors at Tam, they might have been drunk, I’m not sure, tackled me and threw a condom f...
Humans of Tam: I Don’t Belong Here
By Kennedy Cook and Michael Diamandakis
February 10, 2017
My parents were together. We had a home, I never really appreciated that. I never really knew what it was ‘till I lost it. My dad left, he moved into a different house. He came and saw me every now and then but he just left me with my mom. Even though he knew I was in pain, he just kinda le...
Humans of Tam: My Brother Had to Come Home
By Kennedy Cook and Michael Diamandakis
December 14, 2016
My brother had to come home. The doctors didn’t really know what was going on because he was having a lot of headaches and was having seizures, they didn’t know what was happening, they thought it was something to do with his teeth. They thought taking out the wisdom teeth would make it ...
