Issue 3, Theme
Intentional Ignorance
Created by The Tavern's Cartoonists,
Malik Gaye (Groton School)
Lilly Le (Milton Academy)
Alice Lu (Phillips Academy Andover)
Simon Zylstra (St. Mark's School)
Survey Question
We went around our schools and asked students:
"What is one thing you don't admit
to yourself?"
Here is what some students had to say...
“That I have potential.”
- NMH School
“Antartica is a desert.”
- Phillips Academy Andover
“My secret passion for Twilight: New Moon”
- Milton Academy
“That small progress is good progress.”
- Concord Academy
“I’m always looking for attention.”
- NMH School
“One day I'm going to have to tell my family about my girlfriend and I am not excited for that day.”
- Phillips Academy Andover
“That I'm not always right. Sometimes I continue an argument, even when it becomes detrimental to a relationship, because I refuse to acknowledge the other side.”
- St. Mark’s School
“I don’t work hard enough.”
- Milton Academy
“That I have a mixture of qualities, not just a few that make me good or bad.”
- Milton Academy
“The fact that I am, in reality, 5’9”, but I tell everyone that I’m 6’8”.”
- Groton School
“I don’t admit that I’m not a hard enough worker.”
- Brooks School
“That I’m racist.”
- NMH School
“That statistics show I am likely to be sexually assaulted in college because I am a woman.”
- Milton Academy
“That I'm sick and have to miss school.”
- Milton Academy
“Nothing.”
- Phillips Academy Andover
“Wouldn't I be admitting it to myself by writing it in this box??? Nice try.”
- Phillips Academy Andover
“I might be part of the reason I'm unhappy.”
- Milton Academy
“Life doesn't always work out as planned. Even after the election, I continue to believe that being a good person and having strong morals can get you far in life.”
- St. Mark’s School
“That I may have watched the bachelorette for a few seasons one summer.”
- Groton School
“I really need to turn off YouTube after 8pm.”
- NMH School
“That I might not be able to go to my top college because of price.”
- Phillips Academy Andover
“I'm a pretty little princess.”
- Phillips Academy Andover
“That maybe my friends are not my friends.”
- Milton Academy
“I don't admit that I'm crushing on a guy when I am.”
- Milton Academy
“That I am not as smart as my sisters. I've lived my whole life working to emerge from their shadows, and I refuse the possibility that they might be more successful than I am.”
- St. Mark’s School
“You're smarter than you think you are.”
- NMH School
“Mike Pence.”
- Milton Academy
“I come up with excuses for my failures instead of learning from them.”
- Phillips Academy Andover
“I hope I'm going in the right direction.”
- Phillips Academy Andover
“That I’m a hopeless romantic.”
- Groton School
“That it’s going to be okay.”
- Milton Academy
Created by The Tavern's Cartoonists,
Malik Gaye (Groton School)
Lilly Le (Milton Academy)
Alice Lu (Phillips Academy Andover)
Simon Zylstra (St. Mark's School)