Junior Workshop

A brand new subject in school called Junior Workshop is a class where students pick any topic their heart desires and either write about it, draw about it, make it, film about it, and the list goes on. It is basically a topic where you delve into your hobbies to the next level. As long as it meets the specific guidelines, you can go wherever you want with this project.

Some students have struggled with this class, despite the difficulties in narrowing down their broad topics to a topic that is much specific. For instance, a student had trouble with their topic simply because he first wanted to write about airplanes, but teachers criticized how vague it was. What kind of airplanes? What about airplanes? What makes you want to know about them? Which specific aspect of airplanes do you want to research? Teachers overflow you with these type of questions when topics are so vague. I even had trouble narrowing down my topic.

Speaking of which, my topic, at first, was to write a plain creative story. Yeah, just a regular creative story with no specific moral that didn't seem to meet the guidelines for the project. I spoke to the teacher, and proposed the next step. To write a response to one of Haruki Murakami's works with a creative story. But that didn't work. But finally, I came up with the idea of writing a fictional story based on the earthquake in Japan. That was perfect.

And in fact, I literally did an exceptional job. It turned out to be a 35 page novella. More and more teachers requested me to send my story to them. Sooner or later I'm thinking that it will be published LOL JKJK.

But the moral here, is that even though you feel like there is a subject in school that does not seem interesting to you, don't give up. Because no matter how boring it might seem, you never know what you would expect.