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On January 06 2010 09:28 Chromyne wrote:
Fortunately, though I am Chinese, my parents never pressured me to be a hardcore student in order to pursue... medicine? However, I still adopt the mindset of, "what I do is never good enough and I should always strive to do better."
haha, pretty much the same as me. i'm in my final year of high school and while my parents are like 'you better study' bla bla bla, i'm glad they don't totally push it on me unlike other asian parents.
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Yea you are doing high school wrong, don't do any work and start smoking weed and drinking.
I did the first but not the latter two unfortunately, would have made high school awesome.
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Seriously
I'm taking
AP Physics AP CompSci AP English Lang and Comp and with all my other classes it's a fucking nightmare... every week I'll probably have 2-3 days where I get less than 4 hours of sleep.
Yes, my school is really hardcore academically and it doesn't help that our student-body is like 53.5% Asian. The average GPA among all of my friends is around 4.3 weighted and most of my friends have gotten 2300+ on the SAT (40 points short of that myself, retaking on the 23rd of this month D: )
The problem is I wish I could attend a high school that isn't as hardcore and has lower standards for giving out As...
High school sucks
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On January 06 2010 12:54 Loser777 wrote:
The average GPA among all of my friends is around 4.3 weighted
This is so funny about high school to me. I went to my (college) orientation, and saw a poster somewhere about the average gpa of the college's incoming students being like 4.2. Yet I never really felt like I was around a lot of smart people up to the day I graduated. So meaningless.........
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Man, high school was pretty ezpz for me.
I slept during class, didn't do homework, and played poker with buddies at night. Managed like 96% average too, and multiple math/physics awards.
But my school was lax as fuck, and my parents didn't really give a shit cause they didn't really expect me to do that well until I did well, and then they just rolled with it.
University is supposed to be harder, and its getting there, but I'm only in my second semester now.
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On January 06 2010 12:38 Rotodyne wrote:
Yea you are doing high school wrong, don't do any work and start smoking weed and drinking.
I did the first but not the latter two unfortunately, would have made high school awesome.
This. High school was a bore, so my friends and I found other ways to have fun. That stage in my life was so much fucking fun. And since high school is a joke, it doesnt set you behind for college where you will actually have to work hard.
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I go to a pretty academically demanding high school and am entering my final year this year. Year 8 and 9 were kind of awkward, but once I made some good mates in the end of year 9 and start of year 10 and 11 high school is awesommeeee. I've found the one most critical thing is STOP PROCRASTINATION and everything is super easy. However nobody ever does, so just keep a cool head and you do have time to do everything, it's just how much procrastination you do that decides when you go to sleep :D
Man TL has fucked me up hardcore with procrastination in high school and probably will this year too lol, but I will try to resist
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I liked high school, but then again I was a cool kid.
+ Show Spoiler +btw, hand over your lunch money nerd.
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Perhaps I could give you some insight from a familiar source, I'm also living in Canada, but probably unlike you I'm doing my last year of high school. I certainly don't think the last 5 years have been the best of my life, in fact, I hope not!
If anything, I would suggest trying to keep everything in perspective. It can be easy to get caught up in the seemingly endless assignments, extra curricular activities and the expectations of others, but taking a step back and focusing on whats important can really help. Organizing your life is really helpful. You know those 5 dollar agendas the school supplies for each student? They have a purpose. Truly organizing your life really does help. Juggling all the things that are important to you is just part of life. I play drums in 3 different bands and sing in one other, am learning guitar, play video games often, and draw. It's part of growing up! Just focus on one thing at a time, and everything usually falls into place.
Also party. Partying helps. I discovered partying in tenth grade, and high school suddenly seemed a lot easier. Getting drunk with friends and hamhandedly flirting with girls way out of your league really does take a lot of the pressure off. If you can avoid a hangover, you'll feel great for the next few days, and (in my experience) generally be much more productive. If your parents wont let you go to parties, just try to find a good group of guys who live near by who you can hang out with. Human contact really helps. Like a lot.
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On January 06 2010 08:55 Ryoo wrote:
I understand that the average age in TL is just above college(?). I want to hear people's stories about their high school lives, the kind of pressure they have faced, their goals and if they have achieved it or not, etc. I hope they will motivate a high school noob like me.
Okay, well, high school is not a breeze, by any means. It is meant to teach you more than just academics. If you don't understand what I mean right now, you will in a few years.
College/University is the same. Sure, you get an education, but what you learn outside of class is far more important than what you learn in class.
I dropped out of high school for a year. I went back, and ended up doing lots of volunteering, playing Football and Rugby, I was the undisputed leader of the chess club, and I still found time to go and hit the bong once or twice a day, among other things. High School wasn't stressful for me, because I realized how dumb it was getting stressed over that kind of thing.
Think about it this way - what is stressing you? If you looked back it a year from now, would you still be stressing over it? Then why the fuck are you stressing over it now?
It's not like someone's life is in danger, is it? So don't stress it. I had a huge change in mind set when I dropped out.
Now, I'm in University studying to become an Engineer. I've been getting decent grades, yet still finding time to do the things I enjoy. Now I have to deal with other types of stress. (Engineers might get this, everyone else will think I'm nuts).
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The average IB score of my highschool was above 40 points, leading a lot of people to stress. In Asia, people are ingrained with the idea that high grades will somehow give you a good life, and thus people stress over exams that really won't matter that much.
I never felt too pressured, knowing that so long as I could get into a decent University, the exact figure of my grades wouldn't matter. You just miss out on too much if you focus your life around the academics during high school.
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I'm finding college easier than high school. I was a maniac in high school, though.
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On January 06 2010 08:55 Ryoo wrote:
I understand that the average age in TL is just above college(?). I want to hear people's stories about their high school lives, the kind of pressure they have faced, their goals and if they have achieved it or not, etc. I hope they will motivate a high school noob like me.
Highschool sucked, man. I did fuck all up until grade 12 and realized I didn't want to flip burgers my whole life, so I tried hard and got a good GPA and am now in college, transferring to prestigous Uni soon.
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I wish I had thought to ask questions like this when i was in HS. Man HS sucked, I went in with high social and academic goals, just for the sake of it. It resulted in me just feeling like complete crap everyday because i wanted what i didn't have. I looked at marks as the ultimate goal and so I overlooked the content of the classes!
My advice would be to find ways to enjoy whats there for you, instead of wishing to enjoy other things you know? My biggest mistake was that i wanted the result and not the journey, so more thought went into the "what ifs" of marks than into seeing how applicable and cool some of the shit they will teach you is! For instance trying to apply certain things you learn to starcraft yo! Like the perseverence of the protagonists in an English class's novel, how they went about it, how can you use their method to benefit u in star? Use math and shit to figure out different economic theories, be interested in war generals and stuff.
A lot of highschool girls are like, pretty faggy from what i've seen too so like i dunno if its even worth that much thought. Substance abuse... yeah man its unbelievable how helpful an alternate mindset can be, things look different from every perspective.
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On January 06 2010 10:38 zer0das wrote:
The one major difference is that you have a lot more time on your hands in college, since you're not in class all the time.
This is very degree and college dependant!
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Highschool is like the retarded runty downs syndrome little brother of university. Don't take it too seriously and you'll be fine.
Oh, don't take university too seriously either. It's not worth it unless you're shooting for med school.
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Roffles
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On January 07 2010 04:28 rushz0rz wrote:Show nested quote +On January 06 2010 08:55 Ryoo wrote:
I understand that the average age in TL is just above college(?). I want to hear people's stories about their high school lives, the kind of pressure they have faced, their goals and if they have achieved it or not, etc. I hope they will motivate a high school noob like me. Highschool sucked, man. I did fuck all up until grade 12 and realized I didn't want to flip burgers my whole life, so I tried hard and got a good GPA and am now in college, transferring to prestigous Uni soon.
High school was great. I fucked around all throughout high school, even flipping burgers, and still got a good GPA. Now I'm at a prestigious uni.
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On January 07 2010 06:00 Roffles wrote:Show nested quote +On January 07 2010 04:28 rushz0rz wrote:On January 06 2010 08:55 Ryoo wrote:
I understand that the average age in TL is just above college(?). I want to hear people's stories about their high school lives, the kind of pressure they have faced, their goals and if they have achieved it or not, etc. I hope they will motivate a high school noob like me. Highschool sucked, man. I did fuck all up until grade 12 and realized I didn't want to flip burgers my whole life, so I tried hard and got a good GPA and am now in college, transferring to prestigous Uni soon. High school was great. I fucked around all throughout high school, even flipping burgers, and still got a good GPA. Now I'm at a prestigious uni.
you forgot CHINESE PEOPLE lololol like..c'mon. chinese people!!!!
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Roffles
Pitcairn19291 Posts
On January 07 2010 06:12 littlechava wrote:Show nested quote +On January 07 2010 06:00 Roffles wrote:On January 07 2010 04:28 rushz0rz wrote:On January 06 2010 08:55 Ryoo wrote:
I understand that the average age in TL is just above college(?). I want to hear people's stories about their high school lives, the kind of pressure they have faced, their goals and if they have achieved it or not, etc. I hope they will motivate a high school noob like me. Highschool sucked, man. I did fuck all up until grade 12 and realized I didn't want to flip burgers my whole life, so I tried hard and got a good GPA and am now in college, transferring to prestigous Uni soon. High school was great. I fucked around all throughout high school, even flipping burgers, and still got a good GPA. Now I'm at a prestigious uni. you forgot CHINESE PEOPLE lololol like..c'mon. chinese people!!!!
Hey, ProbeSaturation, bugger off.
Chinese people are cool. Our parents are just mean. They give us no freedom, and we're like slaves for life. =(
They're so mean. It's unfair. I can't believe my asian parents. All they want me to do is study study study study unfairly. It's UNFAIR.
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