The How I Learned Series

Tuesday, June 11th, 2012

The lovely New York Times Magazine "Drink" columnist, Rosie Schaap, dialed up her shrink of 25 years ago to find out why she had gotten kicked out of school in 8th grade after all. Was she as crazy as she'd been led to believe? Find out in this episode recorded live at How I Learned to Make the Grade: Stories About Education at Happy Ending Lounge.

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ROSIE SCHAAP
"The Truth About 8th Grade"
(Music: "Don't You (Forget About Me)," Simple Minds)

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Blaise Allysen Kearsley is a writer and storyteller, as well as the creator, producer and host of the How I Learned series, and she also does some other stuff, too. She's appeared on The Rejection Show, The Liar Show, The Soundtrack Series, Real Characters, The Story Collider, Steamboat, Mortified, Cringe, Literary Death Match and elsewhere. Her writing has been published in The Nervous Breakdown, Vice Magazine, a couple of anthologies, and several other places a long time ago that are perhaps not worth mentioning by name. One time, she was awarded a writing residency in Vermont where she got electrocuted and maybe almost killed a horse. Visit her at your own risk at www.bazima.com

Photo: Lou Noble

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Jesse Chan-Norris

Alex Crawford

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