fantastic new york magazine article on the way our high school experience can have far-reaching effects excerpts a moment from Rookie mag:

Among the wisest essays came from Winnie Holzman, the creator of My So-Called Life: “In high school,” she wrote, “we become pretty convinced that we know what reality is: We know who looks down on us, who is above us, exactly who our friends and our enemies are.” The truth of the matter, wrote Holzman, is that we really have no clue. “[W]hat seems like unshakable reality,” she concluded, “is basically just a story we learned to tell ourselves.”