Being in high school is about a lot more thangoingto high school. It’s about discovering new places, new hobbies, and new people—and opening your eyes to the world. This book is about the stuff theydon’tteach you in high school, like how to host a film festival, plan your first road trip, make a podcast, or write a manifesto. Want to make a time capsule? Spend a day in silence? Learn how to make beats like a DJ? Or shut down your house party before the police do? Whatever your creative, social, or academic inclinations, you’ll find 97 ways on these pages to amuse, educate, and interest yourself, and your friends. Because your life doesn’t stop at 3pm each day—it just gets started.
Winner: NAPPA Honors Award
Steven Jenkins is a San Francisco-based cultural critic whose writings on film, music, art, and literature appear in national periodicals, exhibitions catalogs, and artist monographs. He is the editor of
City Slivers and Fresh Kills: The Films of Gordon Matta-Clarkand
Model Culture: James Casebere, Photographs 1975-1996.Erika Stalder is a San Francisco-based writer who has contributed to
Wired, Missbehave,
Planet,and
The Journal of Life Sciences,and worked with the International Museum of Women to produce the
Imagining Ourselvesanthology. She also currently writes the Dear Erika advice column for ABC Family’s
The Secret Life of The American Teenwebsite.
Redo Your RoomFace it — your bedroom is the only place you can call your own. It should reflect your ideology, personality, and charm. But who chose the furniture, wallpaper, and paint? Were these stylistic atrocities forced on you by clueless decorators whose ideas of cool were ballerina figurines and tiger-striped throw pillows? Reclaim this precious space by redecorating. All it takes to transform your bedroom is some ingenuity and a little (very littll£)
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