STEM Club

I grew up poor white trash in the middle of nowhere. Thanks to financial aid, I was able to attend the community college.

My home life was horrific. My parents fought constantly. My dad always held it over my head I wouldn't have a place to live if he weren't there and every day it seemed like he was going to leave. I was an adult, they both acted like retarded teenagers.

My life at this point was working 24/7 to get through school and save money so I could get out and have a chance of a better life and life in peace for once.

I'd walk around the school sometimes after work. I saw a sign for STEM Club. I thought fuck it since I was already there and a few years before I had to be in it for a class and it was okay.

I get to the room and it was meh. I was around 23, the other people were mostly 18-19. Many of them sounded very coddled and naive, one boasted about how good STEM Club would look on a resume and I knew that was bullshit. That same person bragged about going on vacation to Rome and the customs there. So yeah, some of these people were definitely not my kind of people. A couple seemed okay.

The teacher who ran it came off as naive but well meaning, kind of like the teacher on Beavis and Butthead, of thinking everyone is there because they want to be and each student has limitless potential. The Rome girl LOVED to kiss this teachers ass.

I attended these meetings for some form of social interaction because I couldn't do much else. I helped out at a Halloween event, magically I didn't end up on the Facebook post the school posted of this event.

Then when I was almost out. When I was a few months from finishing my Bachelors. I was walking around the school and saw the teacher. She gave me this dismissive attitude like what was I doing there, I tried to mention my internship and she brushed me off. I was used to being looked at like I was trash in the town I grew up in, not in the town this school was in. Pissed me off too that someone as supposedly well intentioned as her was judging me, especially when I never slept around, did drugs, drank, or anything. Again, my life was working 24/7 to get out of the hell I was in.

I don't know why I'm reminded of this. I'd assume the spoiled Rome girl probably walked into a cushy job, the descent people of the group are probably doing okay, I'm doing okay. My degree is pretty much worthless and I'd bet many of the other people's degrees aren't being used either.

As for that teacher. Fuck her. She can make poverty wages teaching at a community college in bumblefuck nowhere. The place pays REALLY poorly. I looked at it when I thought about applying and no.

Teacher bitch was married and preggers at the time. Probably has some dipshit factory worker husband who she sucks off for money. Slut.

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anonymous School November 02, 2026 at 5:08 am 0 0