Not to diminish the importance of this, but I think those statistics csn be miss leading. I like math and science, I always have, it’s magical stuff, but I don’t want to be an engineer. I want to write stories. That’s normal. Sometimes people like things but don’t want it to be their career!
Not to mention you can like math amd science and do other things with it than be an engineer! You can be a biologist, physicist, doctor, astronomer, mathematician, statician! Most 4th graders don’t distinguish between different sciences anyway. It’s all just “science”. Expecting even a majority of those interested in the 4th grade to become engineers is unreasonable. People change, or they have other interests as well.
So it’s not as dismal as this would make you think!
I don’t mean to get all “90s kid” on everyone, but it just occurred to me that there are now a sizable number of people on the internet who don’t remember what it was like when Pokemon was everywhere.
Like, obviously Pokemon is still very popular, but I mean it was everywhere. Back in the late 90s/early 2000s there was not a single goddamn square foot of human civilization that didn’t have Pokemon on it.
You could wake up in the morning, slide out from under your Pokemon blanket, and go to the kitchen to eat some Pokemon marshmallow cereal and a Pokemon pop-tart. Then you get driven to school while listening to the Pokemon soundtrack CD your parents have very graciously allowed you to play in the car for the past three months.
It’s classtime. You’re doodling pictures of Pokemon inside your Pokemon notebook. You crush the lead on your Pokemon pencil with the Pokemon pencil topper, so you borrow a Pokemon pencil sharpener from your friend, who pulls it out of her Pokemon backpack with Pokemon keychains on it.
Time for lunch. Your lunchbox? Pokemon, of course, though you can hardly see it underneath all the Pokemon stickers you’ve plastered over it. Inside you find a Pokemon fruit roll-up, a pb&j sandwich made with jelly from a collectible Pokemon jelly jar, and a box of apple juice. (The apple juice is not Pokemon-themed, but your mother has drawn a crude approximation of a Bulbasaur on it, because she loves you.)
Then recess, glorious recess. Half the kids run around the playground, pretending to either be wild Pokemon or Team Rocket members. The other half bring out their Pokemon cards. Anyone who hasn’t brought their own alternates between discussing Pokemon card strategy and how excited they are for the upcoming Pokemon movie (so excited.) Somewhere in the back of your mind you notice Kevin isn’t here, but rumor is he managed to smuggle in an entire Game Boy and is hiding in the middle of the playground structure.
School’s out. You read your Pokemon Handbook in the car on the way to get some after-school fast food, with which you get one of an astounding number of Pokemon toys. Back home, you watch one of your favorite Pokemon episodes on tape (they’re all your favorite) and color in your Pokemon coloring book. Your parents, sophisticated adults that they are, read the lastest issue of Time magazine - which has a Pokemon cover story.
Then you have Pokemon-shaped macaroni and cheese for dinner, brush your teeth with a Pokemon toothbrush, and cuddle your Pokemon stuffed animals as you fall asleep.
POKEMON.
Its true
i am sad that i am just a tiiiiny bit too young to have remembered this magical world
THIS IS ALL TRUE. Literally everywhere you went there was something pokemon related within 10 feet. Although all things Pokemon were eventually banned from my school because too many kids were getting into fights and beating each other up for their pokemon gear. xD
It was a huge disappointment as a child to fall in love with the stars and then find out how much math it requires to get anywhere near them.
Unless you can figure out that math, then you have uncovered the exclusive route to an intimate relationship with them.
Trying to write a short story that blends astrophysics, chemistry, and witchcraft when I have maybe a 2% understanding of each of those topics because why not?
Today I was asked by my very hetero male coworker if girls looks at other girl’s butts. He had to ask me because, despite what everyone seems to think, I was the only straight girl there.
But yeah, I look.
Then he asked why and I really couldn’t come up with a straight answer, just kinda… I dunno, some girls have nice eyes and you notice, and some girls have nice butts and you notice. It just happens?
