I went to high school and college with this woman. I never considered her as a friend. But I did have a class or 2 with her. I probably even ate lunch with her maybe a few times. I haven't seen her since my freshman or sophomore year of college. Interesting though, she didn't start out as an education major, rather she was a computer science major like I started out. So I think perhaps a lot of her writings on her website is perhaps good ol college BS for a grade.
Anyways, she was always different. Painfully shy I would consider her. That's why when she changed her major to education, I thought that very odd. She would get extremely nervous when we had to give group presentations...almost to the point that she couldn't make it through them.
Maybe she grew out of that as she progressed into her major. I don't know.
Also, in school, she was sort of a forgotten peer. So maybe that was part of it too. She was always overweight, not the pretty girl or even the smart girl or anything like that -just a lost in the crowd person. I always felt a little bad for her because back in my much shallower college days, I always thought to myself how I'm glad I'm not like her...how will she ever get a husband or anything like that. I had already in my mind sentenced her to a miserable life.
Anyways, I'm still shocked by this as I never would have imagined anything this extreme. Obviously she has some mental and emotional issues/disorders. I feel for the students who will now suffer their own emotional issues perhaps as a result of this. Maybe we need to do a better job of screening our teachers?
