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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/03/06/elizabeth-warren-condemns-bullying-bernie-sanders-supporters/4972959002/
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No, I had never seen the orange sticks before. Vermonters are used to driving in the snow.
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I didn't incur debt when I was enrolled in the Biotechnology Associate's Degree program at Bunker Hill Community College from 2016 to 2017. I was so poor that I received grants for everything.
I did end up paying $1400 to the school; $700 each for two classes. One was a class that I dropped in the summer of 2016, when I was feeling too vulnerable at school after having spent the last several weeks of the 2016 Spring semester defending myself against outrageous lies that were told about me by a group of students in a class where I had reported being harassed and a misrepresentation of the truth by the professor of another class. I didn't know that dropping the class so late would result in my having to pay for it. The other class was one of four which the Dean of the school forced me to fail when she suspended me from the college in the summer of 2017, after I had reported the third instance of harassment in a class in three semesters of attendence. She called me a liar, accused me of being dangerous, suspended me for a year, banned me from the campus and said that if I were to apply to the school again I'd be on academic probation for the rest of my college career at Bunker Hill if I were re-admitted. That was several months before Me Too gained prominence.
Before the counter-attacks that resulted in my being threatened with expulsion in the Spring 2016 semester, I had a 4.0 average. I was still living at the Pine Street Inn for the first six weeks of that semester, and then I moved into the second apartment in a row in Massachusetts where I was criminally victimized by hidden, illegal cameras. Despite the challenges of my living situations, it wasn't until the school brought charges against me that I started to have trouble studying. I passed the final exam for the math class with a grade in the 70s, after having had an A on every test for every one of my four classes during that semester. I ended up with two A's, an A- and an F for the semester. I was given a verbal warning from the school with no attempt by the school to confront the student who had viciously harassed me for hours in class every week and then led other students against me. I also had to go through a formal process of evaluation of my work for the class in which I'd been harassed because the professor failed me in retaliation. At the end of the summer of 2016, the F grade was changed to the A that I deserved, but although I had enrolled in summer classes I walked in fear in the school, knowing that if I were harassed again I would have to put up with it or risk expulsion. That's why I dropped the summer class, and then spent months paying it off.
A year later, after I was evicted from the second apartment in retaliation for objecting to the hidden, illegal cameras in it, the Dean of the school destroyed my grade point average and gave me a lot to try to explain if I ever try to transfer.
People look me up online and assume that they can mess with me. Unfortunately, that assumption is correct most of the time.
I am used to violent threats now. There have been thousands of them, for years.
At least the school replaced the missing letters in the sign over the doorway soon after I was enrolled there in 2016. I don't remember what it said before that, maybe "UNKER HILL COMMUNITY COLLEGE" or "BUNKER ILL COMMUNITY COLLEGE."
I'm not saying that I put the school on the map. The movie "Good Will Hunting" already did that in 1997, with a fictionalized scene portraying students there as bordering on retarded, to use a word which was still in use at that time. Despite the movie's cruel, snobbish, exaggerated depiction of the school, there's a case in the lobby commemorating it. That type of groveling reaction is perhaps why the entertainment industry is so used to walking all over people and expecting their gratitude for it.
