Culture Club
The new math: addition by subtraction
Seventeen-year-old Sheelan Balata says that her more timid personality disrupts her from getting closer to others. She finds herself unapproachable and wants to remove this to be more confident later in life.
“The shy awkward part of me makes me not talk to people and I’m like really scared to get embarrassed,” says Balata, who goes to Boston Community Leadership Academy.
Addition by subtraction is an equation that can benefit teens, whether it’s students who remove distracting friends to raise their GPAs or those who reduce their use of social media to be able to get through each night’s homework.
“I’ve subtracted school a little to rap,” says 16-year- old Eric Frias, who goes to Madison Park High School.
Frias hopes to move to New York and get recognized for his rapping talents.
Sallan Mohamed, a junior at East Boston High School, wants to pursue a career in basketball and plans to delete any diversions that get in his way.
So far, he says he’s cut out characteristics like procrastination and laziness and replaced them with determination and stability.
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