Hey guys and welcome back to Melissa Talks. Today I'm going to be sharing my school experience. How
do I even do that? Let's begin. I've talked about my school experience a couple times in
various videos, but the moral of the story is it's nothing special. I know for a lot of people the
time you have in school is incredibly special, but to me, an ENTP, it was simply a social experiment.
School is where I learned all of the social and transactional relationships that we have in this
world. I think a lot of us learn it in college and kind of our in our first two to five years in the
actual working world. But as to me an ENTP, once I hit middle school and social status was kind of a
thing, I don't know if it was the lockers that did it to the students, but as soon as we got
to middle school and we had lockers your social status was everything. As a cis female all of a
sudden my looks was everything. Every other thing about me, I felt like once you got into middle
school status and how you represent yourself is everything. Now to me an ENTP, I didn't know I
was an ENTP at the time, I noticed all of these differences between all of my social friends.
I was friends with everyone. I've talked about this where ENTPs will literally befriend anyone.
Why would we be selective with our friends? It's kind of limiting opportunities and possibilities.
So to an ENTP there's not going to be one ENTP out there that is clicky. We don't want to stay in a
clique. We're friends with everyone. Being friends with everyone also comes with their own set of
problems I will just tell you that. But continuing on with my school experience, yeah middle
school is where I, Melissa, really learned human behavior. I always just took school at what it was
for, to teach us the basic things that apparently our educational system believes that we need to
learn these things. So there was no one special in school. We all had to be there. You needed
to be in school if you were a youngster. So I was really intrigued with this whole idea of status,
and how clicks believe that there are hierarchies, and you get where I'm going with that. So all of
the intermingling within people was what caught my interest in middle school and that's actually what
I ended up doing basically all of high school. I know this is a weird way to segue into this,
and I'm gonna do a whole nother video on body and beauty like I talked about, but it's safe to say
some people say I'm pretty. And in middle school in high school I did not react well to how I was
changing throughout puberty. I did not like how people were treating me as I was changing. I
caught on to all of these significant changes. The only change on my end was how I was presented to
you. Which means via my face and body. So it was a weird experience for me, an ENTP, to visibly
keep tabs on and track how people treated me as I changed through middle school and high school.
And I will say to me, an ENTP, I don't know, I just never felt like school was special. It was
literally a huge learning experience. Obviously that's what you're in school for, to learn the
basic curriculum that we all learn. In school I did really well with that. It was not difficult
for me. Group projects, getting along with people, debating, just understanding the material overall,
studying for tests, and actually doing well on tests. I'm not a good test taker I will say
that. I don't know if that's an ENTP thing or not. I'm not good with actually taking a test, but I'm
good at understanding stuff. So overall like the teachers I got along with all of them. I didn't
really cause anyone problems. I didn't really do anything drastic. I wasn't really in a clique.
There was no real identifier of who Melissa was. I kind of was just very independent. I had a
ton of friends. Though my experience in middle school and high school and I guess elementary
school school and all I guess even in college I could like relate this to college as well,
I feel like if there was ever like a camera like tracking me throughout school, I think a lot of
people would think I was alone a lot. Maybe even a loner because I liked doing things alone. I
didn't like studying with friends. When I needed to collaborate with others it was easy for me.
It was easy for me to introduce myself to people. It was easy for me to get along with people,
understand people, and befriend people. So the whole school system for like students,
I don't mean to simplify it and like smooth over all of these skills that a lot of people do
struggle with, but the stuff that the educational system was trying to teach me, that was easy for
me. I was studying human behavior the whole entire time because like I said, it was middle school
when it clicked for me. As I was going through puberty I got to watch firsthand how people
change and react depending on the image you give across. It was very interesting for me
to be in school. Anyone that remembers me in school remembers I had like one look. There were
certain times, maybe like 20 to 30 times a year, and each time was kind of a bit drastic because
I was going for the reaction. But other than the 20 or 30 days that I probably showed up to school
in a very let's just say interesting outfit because I was going for the reaction, but the
rest of the days I had one look. My hair was in a bun. I did not want it down. The difference in
how people react to females with their hair up in a bun, hair in a ponytail, their hair down,
oh my gosh, I need to study that more because it's very intriguing to me. But anyway that's beside
the point. I had my hair in a bun. I didn't want people to know what my hair looks like.
I had no makeup. I never wore makeup. I hated makeup. If I did wear makeup it was just eyeliner
and mascara and that's it. My shirts were always big t-shirts. Big t-shirts. Like I said I did not
like how people reacted to my body. I did not feel the need to have you be able to identify what my
body looked like. So big t-shirts was the way I went every single day. I'm a jeans lover. I love
jeans. I was always in jeans and then just random shoes that I was wearing. I have a ton of shoes.
I did not want people to look at me. I know I'm going more into like the looks aspect of school,
but a lot of people their whole experience is how people treat them in school. We're all learning
the same stuff. None of us are special. We might be in like a honors class or an AP class, but
we're all basically learning geometry, algebra, history, science, english. So none of y'all are
special regardless of what school you go to. But anyway the point is I apparently have nothing good
to say about school. But school in general for an ENTP is just annoying in a way because we go to
learn what we have to learn, we can interact with people, we can befriend people, we're independent.
So we can walk alone in the halls or we can walk with our friends in the hall. We can kind of do
whatever we want to do. I don't think school is scary to an ENTP. That's basically how I will
summarize this. As an ENTP I was never bullied nor was I a bully. I didn't mess with people. I
didn't let people mess with people. I was kind of known as like the safe person because like I said,
I was friends with everyone. I was nice to everyone. Literally as long as you weren't an
a-hole I was nice to you. I didn't see the point to be mean to you. Every person is interesting to
me. So unless you just have a honestly horrible personality where you're just a mean individual,
why would I mess with you. Why would I be mean to you? So I went into every kind of classroom
with the same mindset, so I made a lot of friends. High school was when I started getting labeled or
being called intimidating. I actually don't know why, but I just didn't mess with people.
But I also didn't let people mess with me and I also definitely didn't let people mess with the
people around me. So take whatever you want from that statement. But overall like school was just
there. Yeah there's good and bad in it. Like there's times in middle school where I wanted
to be home schooled. There's times in high school where I just wanted to drop out. I feel like we
all go through highs and lows. I don't feel the need to explain mine on the internet. Each student
will have a different experience in school. And like I was known as the connector. I could connect
people across all of the cliques, across all of the grades, because I was friends with everyone.
I don't understand why so many people front in school because it's a complete facade. As humans
I think in the last like 15-20 years we all know these fake facades that people put up on their
social medias. So I think it's funny when people try to do it in real life as well because you're
not fooling the ENTPs in your presence. Like I'll tell you that I visibly just watched you guys
do all of this ridiculousness. Like I never said my two cents half the time. I was curious on what
y'all were doing. I was studying you guys. I guess that's a little weird to say, but that's what I
was doing. Because that's what was interesting to me. Because people were reacting to me for
at least reasons that I thought I should study because I didn't understand. So school wasn't a
struggle for me. I mean I got good grades, I got along with people, yeah I I caused some problems,
yeah i was known as annoying, yeah we're talkative. Like I said we can talk to anyone.
So ENTPs are talkative. In class we will talk your ears off. Sometimes we don't necessarily
know that we talked too much. Young ENTPs, I think we do a little bit struggle with certain social
cues because we get really excited about certain things. And in a way this is where the entertainer
of the ENTP really emerges. This is how we learn it. In school settings we are constantly studying
human behavior from a very young age, well before we know what we're even doing. There's reasons
we have stereotypes ENTPs. I'm not going to be specific with my experience because it's not going
to be specific and relatable to yours. When I was young I honestly was just curious with everything.
That has never changed since I've aged. School, it's just a simple annoying structured system
that every young human being you will have to go into a school setting, meaning you have to
interact with people. School is just about people. Teachers, administrators, and your peers. So I
think ENTPs will thrive in school. It just set me up for my future and I appreciate school for doing
that. But besides that I'm not going to spend any more time talking about school because it's over.
So I guess I want to end here by asking you, ENTP, because a lot of my experience and takeaways from
school came from the actual intermingling with other students. Unfortunately over the last year
and a half a lot of school systems have moved to a completely online or hybrid scenario for students.
I am curious on y'all's feedback. If you are a current student and you happen to have the
ENTP personality type, feel free to write in the comments below your experience, your
suggestion, anything you want to say to fellow ENTPs. We're all listening. As always I hope
you guys enjoyed this video. Don't forget to like and subscribe and I'll talk to you all soon. Bye.