HTHMA is a public high school residing in the school district of San Diego, California. The students attending this school contain above average academic skills and succeed at life overall. These skills contained by these students lead to a successful after-school life for these children. 100% of these students end up acquiring masters degrees in ass-kicking. Other High Tech High Schools (such as HTH and HTHI) end up with less successful students, forcing the people attending those schools to be jealous. They often try to poke fun at HTHMA, but this is due to an outrageous amount of jealousy striking even the staff at other HTH schools. In the end, HTHMA is the school that produces the overall most kick-ass students in the world.
HTHMA Student: Hey! I just got into High Tech High Media Arts
HTHI Student: Wow, I wish I was you, then I could be
The sad little gangstabrother of High Tech High Media Arts. Kids who fail are sent there to fail some more and kids who fail over at that school are sent to High Tech Middle to succeed.
Poor Explorer kids having to go to school under High TechMiddleMedia Arts.
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”