Interview and Article by Amaiya McCleod, Assistant Editor
“It was extra.”
Kayla Thomas said when summarizing her high school experience.
Thomas is a second-year student at Tallahassee Community College. She was born and raised in Tallahassee, Florida. She feels that high school didn’t properly prepare her for college.
She said that she feels she wasted her time.
“No. High school was weird. I was an Honors and AP student and the expectations were high. When I got to college, that didn’t matter. All of the study habits I had were useless. Knowledge, useless. Time management, useless,” she said.
Thomas said that high school was on “crunch time”, as assignments were always piling up.
She did not believe that the this was the school’s way of over-preparing students for college.
“I guess it made me realize that you know, deadlines are deadlines and to not do
assignments the day before the due date but other than that, I just felt like that was too
much,” she said.
Thomas currently wants to pursue a career in dentistry.
“I want to play in people’s mouths for the rest of my life,” she said.
“Sounds weird, but that’s actually what I want to do. People don’t realize that your smile and your confidence go hand in hand.”
Thomas said she’ll be honest with her patients.
“I want them to be able to come to me; I’ll take their yellows and make them white, tell them if they have teeth growing in all over the place. I want to be able to tell them ‘Oh wow! I can help you.’. Then when their confidence shoots through the roof, it will be because of Dr. Thomas—that’s me.”
Featured photo by Amayia McCleod.
