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I'm kind of curious as to what other people's high school experiences were like. I didn't have much of a traditional high school experience -- something that I deeply regret. It's really not been fun whatsoever, and I missed out on a lot of stuff that my friends get. Because I chose to go to an all male Catholic high school, I basically deprived myself of any opportunities to meet girls in high school and missed out on opportunities to go to parties and have fun. I also left behind all of my old friends. I've made a lot of new friends over the last three and a half years, but it's been tough.
I think a lot of people struggle in high school, not just in an academic sense. But I was wondering how other people felt about it. I could go on and on about my negative experiences, but it doesn't really matter. The few good experiences I've had were incredibly fun, and I look forward to making the most out of the last few months with my friends. I wish that I could've stayed better friends with the people from my old school, but things just didn't work out. I figure I would've left them eventually; whether it was when we all went off to college or if we just all had a falling out during high school.
Anyway, feel free to share your experiences in high school. I'm also kind of curious to hear what it's like in other countries. A friend of mine from the UK mentions high school every once in a while, but it seems pretty different from that of the US.
I didn't really care. I got a high school education and learned how to communicate (although that wasn't because of school, just me being around people my age some of the time), so it was good enough for me.
The way they taught is pretty close to college, I guess that's a good thing?
High school sucked. Waking up early sucked. Doing all this shit that did not prepare me for college and instead just weighed me down sucked. The environment in general sucked. I liked a lot of my teachers personally, and I made a lot of great friends, but it was still shitty overall.
College was great though. One of the best times of my life.
First two years of high school were awful. It was in a relatively small city that my family had just moved to, so almost everyone but me already had friends. I didn't have much interest in learning stuff either, just wanted to get home and play CS. I may have problems now, but I was so much more depressed and sleep deprived then.
Then it got better, partly because I decided I wanted to go to a good college, mostly because I made awesome friends who also love gaming and had good times. Never partied or met girls, but I think people seriously overrate that, seeing as it's lame in college it must be cringeworthy in high school.
On November 16 2014 11:23 The_Templar wrote: The way they taught is pretty close to college, I guess that's a good thing?
That's really good. College was really overwhelming for me because I never had to do research, take notes, study really hard for tests, or anything like that in high school.
Loved it. We were the most ghetto school you could have in suburbia. Worldstar-worthy fights every day, but it wasn't an issue for the students, it was more like gladiators. You don't give people a reason to want to fight you, nobody will fight you. Then you just watch the people who do.
Then again we also were light on punishment; a kid who threw a security guard down on the floor (who was restraining him from fighting another kid) sent him to the hospital for three months and got a four-day suspension so it wouldn't weigh down our town's records.
Also loved the diversity, coming from Moscow where the average color of the people isn't much different from the color of the snow to an incredibly diverse mix. Probably even more diverse than my college right now. Probably didn't solve the problems of racism, just trivialized them and made them a lot funnier. I'd imagine the word 'nigga' was used as casually (by all colors) as 'cunt' is in the UK. Getting out of that mode going into college was a bit... interesting, to say the least.
I mean it's nothing compared to college, but it was a great time while it lasted, and even all the bad stuff was still very formative.
Also my college is about two miles away from my high school. In fact our graduation is held on the college campus. So every day I just see fellow classmates and we just pretend it's eight years of high school
I had an awesome time in highschool. Friends with cars drove me places, cuz I was poor. I never really partied or anything, mostly played mario kart or laser tag or minigolf or w/e, which I much prefer anyway. I went on dates with my first girlfriend which were little more than excuses to make out. My best friend in high school was a girl, and that kinda let me get all the angsty nonsense out. I couldn't really talk about that stuff with my guy friends, or at least i didnt feel comfortable doing so. As for my guy friends, we'd mostly chat over MSN, discuss music or movies or video games. We were all kinda the creative types so we'd share and critique each other's photography, short stories, poetry, music, etc. And then sometimes they'd link you to lemonparty or tubgirl and you'd hate them for a week.
The most memorable parts of high school were actually grabbing dinner a couple times with my English teacher. The dude was garrulous as fuck. He'd praise a platter of greasy nachos until they'd turn into sparkling edible diamonds. One time we invited him to go bowling with us, and the bowling alley had a bar. We ended up having to drive him home. Which was a great hilarious happenstance for little straightlaced me.
Ended up losing contact with almost all my high school friends. It happens.
Highschool itself was boring. Schoolwork was decently challenging (tons of Advanced classes) and that occupied my time, but the stuff I did with friends is really the only memorable part. So the question 'did you enjoy highschool' is a bit strange. I think people's opinions really just depend on their friends and what they did outside class.
Oh my god some of the best years of my life. I went to a school with a lot of kids that only took AP classes, so we all bonded over the mass studying and whatnot. Plus our school was kind of small, only like 2000 students, so it was very tightknit ad everyone knew each other, and yeah. Also, marching band was the greatest thing that ever happened to me, and swim was really fun too.
On November 16 2014 12:21 XDJuicebox wrote: Oh my god some of the best years of my life. I went to a school with a lot of kids that only took AP classes, so we all bonded over the mass studying and whatnot. Plus our school was kind of small, only like 2000 students, so it was very tightknit ad everyone knew each other, and yeah. Also, marching band was the greatest thing that ever happened to me, and swim was really fun too.
Is 2000 considered small? The biggest school in my city had 1500 or so, and my my school had 600-800 people.
On November 16 2014 12:10 Tufas wrote: I guess you only ment US ?
No, I'd love to hear about experiences people from other countries had in high school. Education is pretty much unique to each country, so I'd like to hear about what school is like in different places.
Edit: It's pretty cool to see the range of answers. It seems like a lot of it just came down to who you were friends with. Also, a school with 2000 kids seems pretty large to me, unless you live in a major city or an area with very few schools. Where I live the average size of the school is probably 700-1200 students. I go to a larger private school (1700 students), but I came from a school with only around 500 students.
On November 16 2014 13:15 itsjustatank wrote: high school went by fast, at about 300 wpm
what high school did you go to
If you're asking me, all you need to know is that one of our most (in)famous alumni is Bill O'Reilly. I'm even more embarrassed about this fact than you could imagine.
I didn't know any better so while looking back I would say there are some things I should have done, some things I should not have done, etc, I enjoyed it well enough at the time
On November 16 2014 13:15 itsjustatank wrote: high school went by fast, at about 300 wpm
what high school did you go to
If you're asking me, all you need to know is that one of our most (in)famous alumni is Bill O'Reilly. I'm even more embarrassed about this fact than you could imagine.
that you are concerned about that means you have a lot of growing up to do still
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