You Stay Inside All Day (Derogatory)
Am I enabling students to become more withdrawn, to become more anxious about engaging with the world outside their computer screen?
Alex Johnson (‘19) is a virtual computer science teacher and a proud resident of Grand Rapids. When she’s not brainstorming the newest project to inflict on her students, she’s cooking semi-vegetarian food, reading too many romance books, and playing rhythm games.
by Alex Johnson | Sep 5, 2023 | 0 comments
Am I enabling students to become more withdrawn, to become more anxious about engaging with the world outside their computer screen?
by Alex Johnson | Aug 5, 2023 | 1 comment
It is forever in the way that every teenager screenshots a text message to send to a friend in disbelief, in the way that grandmothers download pictures off of Facebook and print them out.
by Alex Johnson | Jul 5, 2023 | 5 comments
4 am to 6 am: Camping’s witching hour.
by Alex Johnson | Jun 5, 2023 | 0 comments
Maybe scrapbooking is my true calling.
by Alex Johnson | May 31, 2023 | 0 comments
Are you interested in joining the post calvin community? We have a few openings for new writers beginning this August, and we’d love for you to audition!
by Alex Johnson | May 5, 2023 | 2 comments
As if I was meant to absorb the classics in the womb.
by Alex Johnson | Apr 5, 2023 | 0 comments
Perhaps the Meijer family is more savvy than I give them credit for.
by Alex Johnson | Mar 5, 2023 | 0 comments
You reached your hand out of the ocean of people, standing stock-still in the middle of an intersection while the masses swarmed around you, and I took it.
by Alex Johnson | Feb 5, 2023 | 2 comments
But then your inbox stays dead. Your calendar remains open.
by Alex Johnson | Jan 5, 2023 | 0 comments
If I lived alone, my apartment would probably look destitute.
by Alex Johnson | Dec 30, 2022 | 0 comments
There’s a reason New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day are holidays.
by Alex Johnson | Dec 5, 2022 | 1 comment
But the Mystery of Love prevailed: God did not say Goodbye or Who Are You but Hey Ya; no Ghost Rule, but God crowned Jesus Lord of the Castle.
by Alex Johnson | Nov 5, 2022 | 6 comments
How does revealing to them that my mother has died help? What’s the point?
by Alex Johnson | Oct 5, 2022 | 2 comments
The GPS says three hundred miles to the next turn, and the only thing you can do is pop on the next episode of Serial, mentally prepare yourself for the amount of tolls you are going to E-ZPass through, and settle in.
by Alex Johnson | Sep 5, 2022 | 1 comment
For company, I had my two siblings and other high schoolers from my church with whom I hadn’t exchanged more than a passing word for years due to my aversion to youth group. The food was delicious; the time passed like molasses.
by Alex Johnson | Aug 5, 2022 | 4 comments
Be with the internet archivists, continually trying to record an ever-shifting and ever-decaying virtual world.
by Alex Johnson | Jul 5, 2022 | 1 comment
I never thought I would entrench myself deep enough anywhere to forge friendships with people who I don’t want to know my real name or face and whose lives I only have the slightest inkling of.
by Alex Johnson | Jun 5, 2022 | 4 comments
Don’t you want it so so bad? Aren’t you willing to do the right things so you get to have it? Isn’t not having sex awful?
by Alex Johnson | May 31, 2022 | 0 comments
Are you interested in joining the post calvin community? We have a few openings for new writers beginning this August, and we’d love for you to audition!
by Alex Johnson | May 5, 2022 | 0 comments
Decrying my job seems particularly ironic as a virtual teacher.
by Alex Johnson | Apr 5, 2022 | 5 comments
Re:Coded is the unfairly maligned stepsister I will defend with my life.
by Alex Johnson | Mar 5, 2022 | 0 comments
But I’m writing about both, even if they are only connected by gender, because I want you to know them.
by Alex Johnson | Feb 5, 2022 | 3 comments
USURP isn’t a very strategic play, but using it makes me feel like a level three English major.
by Alex Johnson | Jan 5, 2022 | 4 comments
All of these assigned character quizzes are dumb, but I can’t stop taking them.
by Alex Johnson | Dec 31, 2021 | 0 comments
The cream of the crop, in our humble opinions.
by Alex Johnson | Dec 29, 2021 | 0 comments
You offered up some of the essays that cheered, comforted, and challenged you.
by Alex Johnson | Dec 5, 2021 | 0 comments
If I retire to my room early, it’s hard not to feel a twinge of guilt.
by Alex Johnson | Nov 5, 2021 | 1 comment
A part of me always knew the place wasn’t the right fit.
by Alex Johnson | Oct 5, 2021 | 6 comments
Distant bass jars you from Adrianne Lenker’s sweet crooning.
by Alex Johnson | Sep 5, 2021 | 0 comments
If we’re doing footprints in the sand, I’m wandering into the ocean.