Author: Lela Reed

Hey y'all, my name is Lela Reed. I'm sixteen years old and a Mississippi School of the Arts student. I like to talk and give my opinion on different topics. So, each week we'll have a yap session. Hope everyone enjoys each week's post, but if you don't oh well.

Adjusting To MSA

 

It’s been two and a half weeks since I started at MSA, (Mississippi School of the Arts). It’s very different from any other school I’ve been to, a big change, and with all changes come adjustment. I’ve spent my whole school life in private religious schools and now I’m going to a public arts school. It’s crazy, but a good crazy of course.

One thing I’ve had to get adjusted to is dress code. I’ve only ever worn uniforms so being able to wear my own clothes is something very new. I feel the biggest adjustment, however, is living an hour away from home. In a dorm, with two other girls. Thankfully I absolutely adore those two other girls. They’re two of the sweetest people you’ll ever meet and I’m very lucky to have them.

I’ve also made quite a few new friends since coming here. I don’t think I’ve had a group of friends as big as mine now since middle school. I love my friends. They’re all ridiculously talented, smart, and very funny. You know those big belly laughs that seem rare sometimes? Well, when I’m with my friends they aren’t rare at all. I feel like I’m always laughing when I’m hanging around them.

Another big adjustment for me has been block schedules. I’ve only ever been on a traditional 1-7 period a day schedule. In the beginning I was very confused, but I really feel like I’ve got a handle on things now. Four periods- sorry, blocks a day, each an hour and thirty minutes. Right? Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.

I’ve also had to get adjusted to sharing my work. I expected that I would have to share some pieces of course but expecting it doesn’t make it away less nerve wracking. I will say that everyone has been very kind and helpful during the workshops where we have to share. I reckon that the more I share my work with other people, the easier it’ll get…I hope.

Overall, I think that I’m adjusting quite well to being a student at MSA. I’ve gotten pretty used to the block schedule, the dress code, my roommates, the curfew, still getting used to sharing my work but we just went over that. I’m curious to see as the year goes on what other adjustments I’m going to have to make.

Thank all of you who read this for reading my yap session and please do come back Wednesday so you can read me talk about more of nothing! I’m kidding but really do please come back.

(My friends and I)

All About Me

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. For my first post I figured that I’d tell whoever is reading this a bit about myself.

To start, my name is Lela Reed. I’m sixteen years old. I was born on June 23rd, making me a cancer if you’re into astrology.  I grew up in Natchez Mississippi, only about an hour away from Brookhaven. I’ve been to four different schools (including MSA). Before coming to MSA I’d only been to parochial schools. *A parochial school is religious school. I was also a dancer before MSA, I had done ballet since I was three. Twelve years later and I still suck at it, but ballet did make me a big fan of The Nutcracker and Swan Lake.

In my bio I mentioned that I have a myriad of different interests which is true. A few are: shopping, makeup, writing (obviously), reading, traveling, musicals, late 90s and early 2000s shows, story-based video games. The list goes on and on.

Another interest of mine is animals. I love animals of all different species. It doesn’t matter if the animal is a mammal or if the animal is a reptile. I love them all equally. I have a dog and two cats, three if you count the one I accidentally kidnapped. Anyways my dog’s name is Beaux, pronounced “Bow”, and my cats’ names are Roses and Twister. Roses is named Roses because she was found outside of a store called Roses, and Twister is named Twister because of a drink. Twister is an outside cat; she loves to be out in the sun roaming around and doing her own thing. I would like to have a few more pets, like maybe a few more cats and a snake.

On the contrary, something I hate is AI, artificial intelligence. It doesn’t matter if it’s Grok or ChatGPT, I don’t like AI. I’ll be talking about why I don’t like AI in a future post, maybe. I just feel like it’s kind of obvious why I don’t like AI, I go to an arts school…

Moving on, most of my blog posts will most likely consist of whatever’s on my mind at the moment. I could post about climate change, Bora Bora, an ancient civilization, the Uncharted video games, Harry Potter, etc.  

To close out if you got this far thank you for reading my blog, and hopefully you’ll want to read whatever I have to say next Wednesday.