The High School Experience: What was/is high school life like for you.

[teewee1432]

I have my ten year high school reunion coming up next summer, I'm still deciding if i want to go I can't believe it's been 10 years already. It got me thinking about high school. what was high school like for you guys. Were you popular/unpopular. Did or will you go to your reunion. What was your time in HS like?

[Harls]

You should go.

[teewee1432]

You should go.

Knew that was coming. we all make mistakes:cwink:

[ComicChick]

I would definitely go to mine, which is coming up in a few years :old:

in highschool i was surprisingly pretty popular. I had friends in all social circles. i played sports, i had upperclassmen classes so I was friends with all grades

[SpideyVille]

I dreaded my high school years, even though I kinda wish I could go back now as the person that I am today because maybe I would've have made the same mistakes, and instead enjoy my time there. I spent the first two years pretty much alone since I had a falling out early on with my friends from middle school and was very shy at the time so I didn't know how to make friends. Then my junior and senior years were full of drama and endless pining over girls that always ended with disappointment. Prom was also a complete waste. I did pretty good grade-wise, but I know I could've done even better had I focused more on what mattered.

I graduated in 2007 and I haven't really kept in contact with that many people since except through facebook. But I definitely wouldn't mind going to a reunion. Like I said, I'm a different person than I was then so all the silly teenage things don't bother me like they used to.

[ComicChick]

i have lost contact with a lot of my friends from school. we're "friends" on facebook but honestly not many of us speak like we should

[amazingfantasy15]

I had a good time in high school. I wasn't in the popular crowd, but had plenty of fun with my friends. I don't look back on my high school years with regret or anything, but never had any interest in going to my high school reunion. I am going with my girlfriend to her reunion though this fall, but we went to different schools and she's 4 years younger than me so I'm not going to know anyone.

[Scourge2099]

I didn't care much for high school. I did have friends from all the different social circles and my school even had a pretty sweet farm with cool animals though. I was in pretty good shape back then too.

[Kane52630]

I would go to mine if I got someone to take with him, im not paying gas money on that :o

but yeah I loved my High School years, best time of my life.

[Immortalfire]

High School...well, ALL school was a long depressing era of my life, and I was quite thankful when it was over.

[Cmill216]

As I prepare to graduate from college, I look back at my high school years....and I don't miss much.

[ComicChick]

i actually do miss some things about high school i'm finding. i wish i hadn't missed so many days for one thing

[THE MR. TERRIFIC]

I went to mine a couple years ago. It wasn't bad. I was class clown...I know, you guys are really surprised!:word: I had fun in high school. I kinda went to show off my wife as well. :oldrazz:

You should go as long as high school wasn't like dreadful or anything.

[ComicChick]

i was class clown too! :highfive:

[ProjectPat2280]

I really enjoyed high school. Well my sophomore, junior and senior years anyway. I was fairly new to the area where i went to school, so i didnt have many friends from middle school when i first got to high school, that changed by the end of my freshman year tho. I played baseball all through high school and would pal around with the athletes and the 'preppy' crowd. I was more of the sarcastic class clown throughout school(a tradition my sister carried with her 2 years after myself). If my school has a reunion, im not sure id need to go, the core group of friends i had in high school are still my same friends now, we all are at the same college, altho some of them are starting to graduate, but we all still keep in touch.

I think my biggest regret is not taking my school work seriously and not taking baseball as seriously as i should have. It wasnt until my senior year that i really realized i could potentially play baseball at the next level. I think had i of worked as hard during my sophomore and junior yrs as i did my senior yr, i probably would of gotten asked to play D1 ball.

Overall i had a lot of fun during highschool. I liked the routine of everything.

[Kane52630]

i was class clown too! :highfive:

I still doubt it :o

[webhead731]

High school sucked. It felt like a huge waste of time considering most of it was worthless information and the rest was stuff we had been learning all through grade school. Most of my closest friends were ones I met in another high school, who were all in college by the time I finished my run. The kids in my school were either ***holes or ghetto, with only a handful of great people.
95% of the teachers and staff were stupid and took their job way too seriously, especially our hall monitors who thought they were like Danny Glover or something. I always suggested have T-800's walking around, but no one listens. :o

Older people tell you high school is the best time of your life, and if that is true, life sucks horribly. I honestly don't believe it. Maybe back then it was, but today and in the school I was in, no. It was a waste of life. -_- I had some good laughs and some good times, and did learn some useful info, but that hardly helped.

High school=suck.

Nuf said and God bless.

[ProjectPat2280]

High school sucked. It felt like a huge waste of time considering most of it was worthless information and the rest was stuff we had been learning all through grade school. Most of my closest friends were ones I met in another high school, who were all in college by the time I finished my run. The kids in my school were either ***holes or ghetto, with only a handful of great people.
95% of the teachers and staff were stupid and took their job way too seriously, especially our hall monitors who thought they were like Danny Glover or something. I always suggested have T-800's walking around, but no one listens. :o

Older people tell you high school is the best time of your life, and if that is true, life sucks horribly. I honestly don't believe it. Maybe back then it was, but today and in the school I was in, no. It was a waste of life. -_- I had some good laughs and some good times, and did learn some useful info, but that hardly helped.

High school=suck.

Nuf said and God bless.

Haha, my school had hall monitors like that as well, but most of us were pretty cool with em so we could always get away with stuff. I dont know how many classes i missed just roaming the halls. The monitors would give me the look but would never really stop me.

[webhead731]

They were worse to Freshmen and Sophomores, sometimes Juniors. They didn't like me because I was a smart ass, so they usually left me alone.

[VenomVsSpidey]

" I wasn't a mathlete, or a hardcore gamer, or a jock. Like most people my age, I simply existed.”

These words from Dave Lizewski rings true to me also.:o

[ChickenScratch]

I moved around a lot as a kid, ended up going to 4 different high schools so I didn't really have a high school experience. I also graduated a junior so I wasn't there very long anyway. I did get into quite a few fights always being the new kid, always feel sorry for those guys in retrospect picking on me.

[ALP]

High School was just like High School Musical. We all broke out into synchronized song and dance before and after every class :awesome: :grin:

http://cdn.channel.aol.com/aolr/high-school-musical-400ds06.jpg

[webhead731]

Omg u r so luky. Wish zefron wuz in mai skool.

[SuperFerret]

High school sucked and the people in it sucked. That said, I plan on going to my reunion to show off how successful I'll be.

Yes, I'm a *****.

[SpideyVille]

I liked the fact that my high school was one of the top 3 high schools in the city, and it was only a 15 minute walk from my house.:woot:

[C. Lee]

What was your time in HS like?

It was pretty good, once the black plague ended and the Renaissance started.

[enterthemadness]

It was pretty good, once the black plague ended and the Renaissance started.

You look good for your age...

My time was miserable in H.S. I was lonely, horny, slept a lot, didn't like it, thought about quitting school, but finished it. Three D's 1st three yrs and an C my senior year and 0 missed days...:o...whereas junior year I missed 20 or so days.

[Marx]

I really don't miss anything from high school and have zero desire to ever go back for a reunion.

[SpideyVille]

I didn't miss one day in high school. I remember even showing up after getting no sleep at all on the day after prom, just so I could get an award. :csad:

At least they didn't make me stay the whole day. :O

[C. Lee]

You look good for your age...


Damn right.....

[Hobgoblin]

I have my ten year high school reunion coming up next summer, I'm still deciding if i want to go I can't believe it's been 10 years already. It got me thinking about high school. what was high school like for you guys. Were you popular/unpopular. Did or will you go to your reunion. What was your time in HS like?

I went to my ten year back in November. I kinda miss high school, but the reunion sucked. One of my buddied came with but he was with his pals all night. It would have been more fun if the rest of the gang had come. So basically I spent all night with the people I never talked to.

My sophomore and senior years were a lot of fun. Freshman and junior years kinda sucked. I had a few awkward conversations at the reunion. So yeah, only go if a bunch of your buddies are going.

" I wasn't a mathlete, or a hardcore gamer, or a jock. Like most people my age, I simply existed.”



That about sums it up.

[enterthemadness]

I really don't miss anything from high school and have zero desire to ever go back for a reunion.

I wanna go back for my 10 yr reunion, even though I didn't care for most peeps there. I mean I have some high school friends on facebook/myspace.

[C. Lee]

This year is my 35th year out of HS. I graduated in Florida, a month later moved to Kentucky.....haven't seen anyone from school since.

[VenomVsSpidey]

You look good for your age...

Damn right.....
:hehe:

the only reason I would go back is just to gloat about how successful "that kid who loves superheroes" is.:o



That about sums it up.

:up:

[d.k.]

going into my final year of high school in September and I love it. the work can get to be a pain and the whole routine gets a bit dull, but I love the social aspect of it and have a lot of fun every day.

[Aesop Rocks]

I hated 9th and 10th grade, studied super hard 11th so I could graduate the next year. Slept all 12th grade on the couch the the library.

[PyroChamber]

I went to 3 different high schools and I was the quiet loner in all of them. The first school was okay, lot of gangs went there but I didn't get involved in that, the second school was in the suburbs and it mad me realize just how ghetto the burbs are; junior year was the most easiest out of all of them, people knew me and spoke to me more and I started getting out of my shell a bit.

In my senior year, I moved and went to another school again and pretty much start all over being the loner. At that point I pretty much said "**** it" and kept to myself, hell it was the last year there wasn't much of a point to try.

[Alex The Great]

I sort of enjoy High School, Granted I'm that sarcastic clown guy, hell for a slam poem we did last year, I just did a stand up type thing and cracked jokes about calebrities. Pretty Sure I failed that, but it was fun.

School starts on the 31st so I'm kind of ambivalent about it all

[ComicChick]

You look good for your age...

My time was miserable in H.S. I was lonely, horny, slept a lot, didn't like it, thought about quitting school, but finished it. Three D's 1st three yrs and an C my senior year and 0 missed days...:o...whereas junior year I missed 20 or so days.

so you've not changed much eh?

[scifiwolf]

I loved high school. Football, clubs, friends, being young - it was all great. Blew my left knee out twice over junior and senior years, but that didn't keep me down. Haven't kept too much in touch with friends, but am definitely looking forward to my reunion in a few years. It's kind of funny, now that I think about it, but I found this site my junior year of high school, all the way back in 2001. Don't know why I waited to join the forum for over three years...

[Midnyte_Sun]

It seems the comments on HS are very polarized. You either loved it or hated it. I would say I lean definitely more towards the latter as well.

My experience was like this:

9th grade: ******. New city/state, 1 friend.
10th grade: ****tier. Both good friends I had went into drugs and alcohol
11th grade: ****tiest. Got a job; stopped hanging around old friends, not much luck finding new friends.
12th: Old friends wised up, had a car, had a job, eager to get the hell out.

[Manic]

I think I enjoyed every year in high school except for my senior year.

Freshman Year: Big group of friends to hang out with during lunch, my Stage Craft class (where we built the sets for the Drama Club productions) was awesome, and we had a series of substitute teachers through the whole year in my Algebra class because the teacher hurt herself in November. :up:

Sophomore Year: Algebra was super-easy because I (like everyone else from my class the year before) was repeating my Freshman math class, I shared classes with some of my friends, I met a cute girl (who I totally blew it with, but it was fun while it lasted), and I had the best History teacher in the school (seriously, a poll was taken). :up:

Junior Year: I was living on Easy Street as a Teacher's Assistant (complete with a permanent laminated hallpass), I got all of my community service requirements out of the way by volunteering as part of the tech crew during my school's production of Kiss Me Kate, I developed a Martin/Lewis type friendship with my friend Mike, and I killed during my Creative Writing class. :up:

Senior Year: All of my friends had a different lunch period, so I had to hang out with a different clique filled with intellectual snobs. I started slacking off during my History class, so I had to take Independent Study to graduate. My supervisor on the Yearbook Staff was a total b****. The girl I liked was in love with one of my friends. I did get to star in Little Shop of Horrors as the plant, but literally none of my friends bothered to show up during any of the 3 performances. I think only half of them turned up to see me in the Senior Class Skit (our class theme was Thriller. I played a dancing zombie. We took 1st place over the other 3 classes). Oh, and I had a graduating class of 900 and my last name starts with W, so the grad ceremony took forever. :down:




There's no way in hell I'm showing up to my class reunion. I have a bullcrap job, I'm back in school for my AA when I have old classmates with Masters degrees, and I'm still living at home because I can't afford to move away.

I'd like to think I at least matured since high school, but that'd be a lie. I haven't grown more mature so much that I've become bitter, jaded, and full of rage.

[teewee1432]

wow manic thats all hell of a story

[ComicChick]

my junior year my spanish 3 teacher tried to fight me ha

[Alex The Great]

2 Questions:

Was she hot?

And...

Did you kick her ass?

[Manic]

wow manic thats all hell of a story

That was a little more verbose than I intended. There's a bunch of crap I didn't mention.

[Aesop Rocks]

wow manic thats all hell of a story

Wanna hear one hell of a story? Get on SHSkype and hear one of mine.

[Kane52630]

Wanna hear one hell of a story? Get on SHSkype and hear one of mine.

/ horrible self-promotion

[Aesop Rocks]

You missed the joke.

"But you never can finish a sentence".

[Colossal Spoons]

My high school experience was a combination of American Pie 2 and Can't Hardly Wait. Great 4 years :up::D

[Kane52630]

You missed the joke.

"But you never can finish a sentence".

oh.

[teewee1432]

my junior year my spanish 3 teacher tried to fight me ha

Thats funny i remember my 6th grade subsititue teacher tried to fight me. Scared me so bad i never really fu*ked with a sub since. when the other kids acted up i sat there with my hands folded. lol

And Manic- If thats the edited version id love to read the unedited one. lol Ive got some stories also.

[SpideyRacoon44]

There are a lot of idiots, hood-rats and gangstas in my school..I love my friends though. I made lots of friends being in drama club. My choir/orchestra teacher is THE BEST teacher ever. I'm gonna be a sophomore this fall. My Spanish teacher is one of those short guys that walk around thinking they're badass :P
My school's graduation rate is bad... We're getting a grant and a new principle.

[Scourge2099]

I went to 3 different high schools and I was the quiet loner in all of them. The first school was okay, lot of gangs went there but I didn't get involved in that, the second school was in the suburbs and it mad me realize just how ghetto the burbs are; junior year was the most easiest out of all of them, people knew me and spoke to me more and I started getting out of my shell a bit.

In my senior year, I moved and went to another school again and pretty much start all over being the loner. At that point I pretty much said "**** it" and kept to myself, hell it was the last year there wasn't much of a point to try.
I became a loner when I had to go to another school after I was expelled from my first school. The core group of my so called friends knew I got sent to this continuation school that's in the same area of the old one. The liars said they'd visit me , but they didn't. Then I got expelled from that one and I wet to adult school.

[AndThePickles]

I hated high school. I wasn't confident in myself, and looking back, I don't like the person that I was as a result. I was surrounded by super fake people and most were pretty awful human beings (and still are, as a matter of fact, at least from what I've seen of some :oldrazz:)

[Dark Victory]

I'll be entering Junior year this fall, which is going to suck. I started my AP homework a few weeks ago, and I'm nearly dead. Paper on social theory, annotated copy of Black Boy and reflection, science internship; ugh. I'm not even going to bother with my engineering assignment.:wow:

But Sophomore and Freshman year were the ****. Other than a few intense periods throughout those years, I couldn't have been happier with my GPA and classes, and I participated in five extracurricular activites both years - football, basketball, volleyball, tv crew and the high school's news channel. Not to mention all the awesome people I've met. Sure, we all have to put up with the average crap of high school, but other than those few dupes, it's been smooth sailing for me.

[Hyper Venom]

My only regret is that I was so angry and depressed in high school that I missed out on alot of good times I could have had. That's not to say I didn't enjoy it at all, because I did. But man did I cause myself alot of unnecesary grief.

[PyroChamber]

It seems to me like high school prepares you for dealing with people when you become an adult. It's like "you think the people you go to school with are *******s, wait until you hit the corporate world".

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

I was the anti-social, "everything about school is lame" guy. I couldn't have participated any less in after school activities. I was friends with different clique members, but I preferred being with the slacker crowd, people who liked joking about things others would find offensive.

Ninth grade was a private Catholic school. Pretty sure I was the only atheist there. I was also a new student, so it took awhile, but I became pretty popular for a school that had about four hundred students. It was really a cool school and I had a lot of fun there.

The first go around in tenth grade was the worst; new school, not a lot of friends, incredibly crowded, and I lost just about all credit for that year. Due to a family issue, I was going to stop living with my mom and newborn sister and go back to where I currently live and went to most of elementary and middle school for. So for about a month, I wasn't going to school. Never thought much about it, but turns out I was never officially withdrawn from that school, so all those days I missed were tallied as absences.

Went to a new school in May and had to take exams, even thought I wasn't going to get jack **** for them. The bright side was that I got to come home of sorts and see old friends all grown up. Unfortunately, most of those friendships were never rebuilt. Had to take summer school that year and got a total of three credits, including that school year.

So tenth grade was repeated, and I finished out the rest of school there. Fun times were had, but I'm glad it's over. I know it doesn't mean much, but I'm proud I didn't participate in graduation, as "everything about school is lame." Got my diploma in the mail, along with what's probably two different covers, but I haven't even opened them. :awesome:

[Alastor]

HS was all over the place for me junior year being the worst, but senior year was pretty great. Our days were split, so we had 4, 1 hour 45 min classes each day and one semester I had two gym classes, a nurses aid class, a study hall, algebra 2, and a couple of easy history classes. It was a cake walk. I also had a class where we would read any novel of our choosing and then do a report, but I got away will wandering the halls and sleeping. Sure there was some drama with my friends (I stole a buddies gf), but it was a great year. I had my first drunken evening that I would rather forget, a great first love, and all the possibilities in the world ahead of me. Then things went down hill and I have yet to recover from that summer before my frosh year in college.

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

Our days were split, so we had 4, 1 hour 45 min classes each day and one semester I had two gym classes, a nurses aid class, a study hall, algebra 2, and a couple of easy history classes.
Block scheduling was pretty cool. Always had at least two days to do homework. :up:

[Alastor]

Yeah, that was great. One day my first class was as a nurses aid, which consists of sitting at a desk with one of the hottest chicks in school and MAYBE doing something, and my second class was study hall, so I really NEVER had homework that year.

[Bruce Banner]

High School was a weird time for me
I was always the quiet one, and took any creative classes that I could creative writing, art. (Unofficially learned about theater/drama class by hanging out with them at rehearsals and in there class.)

Freshmen and Sophmore year was me being the loner with few friends.

Junior year things started changing, people started acknowledging my presence.

Senior year just felt strange but in a good way. I was more vocal(not much). I hung out with everyone from to the so called "popular" kids to everything down to my outcast roots. Which I felt like it never left. I was rejected by my high school crush(when I look back on it that was stupid) but ended up meeting a old friend who started working with me and we sorta hit it off.

I don't really miss anything from High school, other than taking classes that I enjoyed unlike now in college.

[BlackLantern]

hated it, had to fight the urge everyday to not burn the place to the ****ing ground, don't even acknowledge people who remember me

[kane9321]

My Sophmore year was nice..met a few older girls who were juniors...they were cool. Slept with one of them. Junior year Played football, and wrestled..met my future gf for the next 7 years..went to prom. Senior year OH boy! Still wrestled but during a match I Thought i sprained my wrist..didnt know it was sprained untill after the match. Couple of months passed...went to senior prom, Then GRAD NITE..WOHOOOOOO.

[Doctor Jones]

Gonna start my senior year this fall. I'm nervous but kind of excited. I'm worried about getting into a good college but I know I'm gonna have to work my ass off. I pretty much took all the English classes on the list with AP U.S. and some other electives. I want to get into RIT badly so I can get into film. The program is fantastic and the college is only five mibutes away from my house. I hope I can get a girlfriend this year at least. I told myself I wouldn't try to get one until I had a job and a car. Have a job now I need the damn car. And my license.

Freshman year - my most stressful year ever. I didn't do too bad though which was good. But I lost 10 or more pounds from my Algebra class constantly stressing me out. But I had a hot English teacher.

Sophomore year - laid back and simple other than Spanish which I sucked in. Weird because before I did so well in it. Maybe it was because I didn't care. I got an 89 on the regents though. Thank God it was easy. Had a really hot film study teacher. She even rented The Usual Suspects per my reccomendation.

Junior year - not as good as sophomore year but still pretty good all around. Other than Chemistry which was a nightmare. My God, I never used to be that bad at science until chemistry. ****ing class was a waste of time. Didn't get to go to prom because the girl I asked turned me down (reasons being I completely understand and have no hate) Perhaps the highest point of my life suddenly crashed off a cliff before the day even ended.

So yeah, I hope Sneior year will be good for me. I'd like to get involved more. But I can't just fit in with the popular crowd. And most of them are pretty cool people.

[Kane52630]

Did anyone had fights in their schools? I mean a good fight, either seeing it or actually being in one.

I remember when 2 girls that moved from New Orleans got into a fistfight during Lunch, I was just about to leave for me next class when it happened. It was glorious, huge swings, hair pulling, everything. Even my coach couldn't break up the fight, the assistant principal came over and try to break it up and got one good punch to the face. She fell so fast that her wig fell off, all you can see is her trying to reach her walkie-talkie

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

Best lunch ever- seeing one girl beat the hell out of another for at least a minute; totally one-sided. Nobody was making a sound except for the girls' grunts and "SOMEBODY HELP...GET HER OFF OF ME!" A year earlier, I got to see two or three cops wrestle two different guys to the ground and use pepper spray. Best part about those incidents was that I sat about 5 feet away from the police one and about 20 from the second.

[Scourge2099]

The coolest fight I seen at school was when two Mexican gang bangers fighting each other. One got on top of the other one and started punching the s*** out of him.The buddy of the one who was doing the punching joins in and starts stomping the legs of the one on the ground. So this big Mexican dude comes running out of nowhere and kicks the one doing the punching right in the jaw. Then he starts beating the s*** out of the other one and body slammed him on the railroad tracks. Then they all ran away because someone called the cops.

[SpideyVille]

One thing I really regret sort of is not taking the whole college process seriously. I didn't prepare myself for the SATs and ended up doing bad compared to the school average, and then I ended up getting accepted on the spot by some college that me and my best friend planned that we would dorm together, so it was supposed to be awesome. I ended up not applying anywhere else, but then my friend ditched me for some girl so I ended up going to the college for a day until I realized I hated it and had to leave.

[Dark Victory]

I go to the biggest high school in the nation, and the population of ghetto kids is staggering. There's a huge fight like every other day. Once, I saw these two huge fat girls go at each other in front of my locker. Slapping, punching, pulling the other's hair - intense ****.:wow:

[katie_girl09]

There wasn't really any in-crowd at my high school. Well, there kinda was but no one really paid attention to them. Everyone had his/her own group of friends. That was what I liked about it. I don't remember high school very often though. University was so awesome that there's no point.

I wasn't actually as geeky then as I am now. But I was still a geek. And I went to prom with a football player (OMG XD)!

[PyroChamber]

I go to the biggest high school in the nation, and the population of ghetto kids is staggering. There's a huge fight like every other day. Once, I saw these two huge fat girls go at each other in front of my locker. Slapping, punching, pulling the other's hair - intense ****.:wow:You don't go to Curie do you?

[kane9321]

i have a cousin that goes to north chicago high

[ComicChick]

2 Questions:

Was she hot?

And...

Did you kick her ass?

no and no

she was this short, slightly androgynous looking thing in the face who thought she was this ish. she was not

the bell rang, we never went to fisticuffs

[Dark Victory]

You don't go to Curie do you?


nah eths

[redhawk23]

I just graduated this past may, so its still pretty fresh and I don't have much other life experience to compare it to. High School for me wasn't particularly horrible overall I guesse but I cannot say that I enjoyed it either. I wasnt "popular" in the traditional sense, or at least not with the school population at large, but withing a certain demographic, namely the high school band and associated friends I am. I was certainly well known though, mostly because I am vey outspoken and kind of stick out. I'm from the less than afluent section of a very afluent WASP-nest bubble-dome midwestern suburb. In a vehemantly conservative community, my family is known for being very liberal. Add to that fact that I am a geek but not shy about it. I have a fairly wide array of friends but very few I keep very close. Another thing I'm known for is kicking ass at football but refusing to play, it ticked off a lot of people and the coaches bugged me about it constantly. I played freshman year, and I guesse it was a slap to their face that I never did after that. Another thing is that this town is filled with churches and as such pretty much everyone goes and it is known that my family doesnt. Ive never felt that I really fit in anywher in this town, so I just made the best of it and tryed to enjoy my self in school, but many times that was easier said than done.

It is as cliched as it is true, but the faculty at my school were completly inept. Many of the teachers general attitude towards students combined with their apathy for the subjects they teach is extremely offputting. Many of my classes were extremly frustrating because there was simply no meaningful interaction, you either just figured it out yourself or failed. I did pretty well in school but it was often infuriating. High school taught me very little about what I want to do with my life but has definitely taught me what I dont want to do. Going in freshman yeah I wanted nothing more than to be an engineer of some kind. The math faculty at my school has litterally made me hate math. I'm actually really good at it, but I've lost all taste or interest in it. I also used to be really interested in learning spanish but I had a spanish teacher who was extremly neurotic and a total b**ch who taught with this total nonsense method involving made up sign language and listening to the same spanish love song 10 times an day. It has made me completely uninterested in spanish.

Also my school was rediculously strict about really frivalous things. My district got really paranoid after the whole columbine thing, even at the elementary level in which I was in at the time. they never really came back from that level. they never instituted metal detectors or anything like that (because that would make sense) they just over reacted to petty little things. even the most minor offense would bring extreme consequences. it was an aggrivating enviroment to go to school in.

i think I made the best of the time I had, but I am more than ready to move on with my life. I refuse to let these past 4 years be the best I've ever had.

[Parker Wayne]

High School in a way, is hard to describe for me. I just graduated in June and its hard to really sum up high school for me now. I’m just gonna start from the beginning.

I went to a vocational county High school, which meant I could learn a trade when become a junior. It was a high school with high standards and you had to apply to so it only had 500 students. I got in after sending in an appeal from the waitlist.

When I got there as a Freshman, I was pretty awkward and I tried too hard to be cool. I made d**kish jokes which offended many people and pissed people off. I didn’t have many friends because of it. I found myself struggling as a student and considered transferring. Freshman year luckily was my worst year. I also nearly got into a fight with a guy who’d become my best friend haha. Another issue was that since it was a county high school, the people I did talk to lived far and my mom wouldn’t let me hang out with friends at night (she was the overprotective type). I didn’t like the people I would ride with on my bus because most of people from inner Jersey City are ghetto a**holes. I was happy when the year was over.

Sophomore year was kind of the lost year. Nothing really happened. I talk to more people but I wasn’t close to anyone at school. I only had my only serious girlfriend which is another story of itself. She lived in Brooklyn. We had fun hanging out and I really cared for her, but she the long distance relationship was taking a strain, especially when overprotective mom found out. We broke up by the end of the year and don’t talk at all now.

Junior year was where things got interesting. This year and Senior year would feel almost like a different era than the first two years. I started tv production classes and really got into it. I also got into a screenwriting class too. Junior year is where I truly learned who my friends are and I finally started getting close to people. My mom was finally letting me go out constantly and I enjoyed going to movie theaters every week. However, junior year I went into a slump. Once I figure out what I wanted to do (which was to make films), I saw science and math classes (classes that I already hated) more useless. I hated Chemistry and Pre-calc and I started to slump. I was tired, constantly sluggish and I hated going to school by the end of the year. I missed more classes junior year than I did in my whole life. I also started to visit colleges though, do SATs, etc. etc . I even discovered Superherohype and its forums haha.

Senior year was my best year. I finally had friends I could trust, and could go out as much as I want. I had little problems in classes (finally averaged a B+ in calculus after Cs in math first 3 years) and I finally felt like I was someone around my school through my tv sketch show we had every week. I applied to only 3 school; NYU, Rutgers, and Syracuse (some of my friends applied to 10 and one of the students applied to 20!). I got rejected from NYU (I wasn’t too disappointed by that though; saw it coming.). I got accepted into Rutgers and Syracuse; I decided to go to Syracuse. I’m pretty excited for Syracuse as I move there in 16 days.

So how was high school? I guess I would say it was pretty average for me. I had my good times and bad times. If I had one regret, it was me not being who I was soon enough. I was lucky enough to be under the radar in terms of gossip all four years and not have any huge drama. Even though it’s too early to say if I’d go to a reunion ten years later, I’ll say now I would go.

EDIT: I don't miss it.

[redhawk23]

I can honestly say at this moment that with the exception of my few friends from my own grade, I never want to see any of those people again.

[Parker Wayne]

I can honestly say at this moment that with the exception of my few friends from my own grade, I never want to see any of those people again.

I feel the same way about the girls in my school. Most of them thought either dated college guys, loved Twilight and were waiting for Edward, too awkward, or just didn't like talking to guys.

I didn't mind most of the guys though. None of them were bad.

[Parker Wayne]

But to be honest, the further in the past high school is, the more I want to distance myself from it. I don't like nostalgia trips and we never even talk about high school after we graduated last june. On facebook I see all of my former classmates still commenting on high school and bringing up pictures. I just never had that huge a sentimental value about it.

But I have a feeling college will be different.

[Midnyte_Sun]

Did anyone had fights in their schools? I mean a good fight, either seeing it or actually being in one.

I remember when 2 girls that moved from New Orleans got into a fist fight during Lunch, I was just about to leave for me next class when it happened. It was glorious, huge swings, hair pulling, everything. Even my coach couldn't break up the fight, the assistant principal came over and try to break it up and got one good punch to the face. She fell so fast that her wig fell off, all you can see is her trying to reach her walkie-talkie

I saw a couple good fights. Two big ones were racial fights. Blacks vs Whites. In the middle of a "Pepsi" rally. I'm not sure if they do this anymore, but soda companies would finance school pep rallys and give financial support for the school so long as they would promise to sell only their crap.

Anyways, a black girl pushed a white girl for stepping on her foot on the bleachers, and then the white girl's boyfriend pushed the black girl. That soon evolved into a giant race scuffle between black vs whites. I was on the opposite end of the bleachers and all I remember was a lot of kids got maced in the face and some were kicked out of school. There was probably like a dozen people involved in the fight.

The other big race fight happenned outside of our school across the street in the parking lot of an unused elementary school. Basically the initial fight happenned during gym between some black people and some Eastern European immigrants playing basketball. They agreed to meet up in the parking lot across the street and the Blacks brought bats and knives and the Eastern Europeans brought crowbars and guns. The black side ran off, as did most of the spectators and everybody learned not to **** with the Eastern Europeans.

[Doctor Jones]

High School in a way, is hard to describe for me. I just graduated in June and its hard to really sum up high school for me now. I’m just gonna start from the beginning.

I went to a vocational county High school, which meant I could learn a trade when become a junior. It was a high school with high standards and you had to apply to so it only had 500 students. I got in after sending in an appeal from the waitlist.

When I got there as a Freshman, I was pretty awkward and I tried too hard to be cool. I made d**kish jokes which offended many people and pissed people off. I didn’t have many friends because of it. I found myself struggling as a student and considered transferring. Freshman year luckily was my worst year. I also nearly got into a fight with a guy who’d become my best friend haha. Another issue was that since it was a county high school, the people I did talk to lived far and my mom wouldn’t let me hang out with friends at night (she was the overprotective type). I didn’t like the people I would ride with on my bus because most of people from inner Jersey City are ghetto a**holes. I was happy when the year was over.

Sophomore year was kind of the lost year. Nothing really happened. I talk to more people but I wasn’t close to anyone at school. I only had my only serious girlfriend which is another story of itself. She lived in Brooklyn. We had fun hanging out and I really cared for her, but she the long distance relationship was taking a strain, especially when overprotective mom found out. We broke up by the end of the year and don’t talk at all now.

Junior year was where things got interesting. This year and Senior year would feel almost like a different era than the first two years. I started tv production classes and really got into it. I also got into a screenwriting class too. Junior year is where I truly learned who my friends are and I finally started getting close to people. My mom was finally letting me go out constantly and I enjoyed going to movie theaters every week. However, junior year I went into a slump. Once I figure out what I wanted to do (which was to make films), I saw science and math classes (classes that I already hated) more useless. I hated Chemistry and Pre-calc and I started to slump. I was tired, constantly sluggish and I hated going to school by the end of the year. I missed more classes junior year than I did in my whole life. I also started to visit colleges though, do SATs, etc. etc . I even discovered Superherohype and its forums haha.

Senior year was my best year. I finally had friends I could trust, and could go out as much as I want. I had little problems in classes (finally averaged a B+ in calculus after Cs in math first 3 years) and I finally felt like I was someone around my school through my tv sketch show we had every week. I applied to only 3 school; NYU, Rutgers, and Syracuse (some of my friends applied to 10 and one of the students applied to 20!). I got rejected from NYU (I wasn’t too disappointed by that though; saw it coming.). I got accepted into Rutgers and Syracuse; I decided to go to Syracuse. I’m pretty excited for Syracuse as I move there in 16 days.

So how was high school? I guess I would say it was pretty average for me. I had my good times and bad times. If I had one regret, it was me not being who I was soon enough. I was lucky enough to be under the radar in terms of gossip all four years and not have any huge drama. Even though it’s too early to say if I’d go to a reunion ten years later, I’ll say now I would go.

EDIT: I don't miss it.

Tv Production and screenwriting classes? WTF? My school sucks. There was nothing to do with films except film study. :cmad:

[Chris B]

I didn't like it, especially my last two years. I mean, the teachers I had were pretty decent for the most part, but I just didn't really fit in with the other students and I disliked the whole atmosphere there.

[Spider-Vader]

Going to be a sophmore in a couple weeks. My first year of high school was boring. It went by really quick, I did good in grades (despite a few Cs) & it was nothing like the general high school stereotypes. Though, maybe I avoided seeing the douchebags since I'm in the advanced classes.

I also never saw any fights because when ever one happened there was just a big group of retards yelling around the fight, so I didn't even bother. Saw some fights in middle school though!

[Alchemyst]

My highschool reunion is in 2 yrs. Highschool life for me was kind of ok, I didnt do jack **** my freshman year but skip class the majority of the time, i managed to pass. Sophmore and Junior year was nothing really spectacular, saw a few good fights, some of them were gang related, some race related. Also, there were a group of girls who for some reason loved to set the girls bathroom on fire. My senior year was really fun because of the fact that alot of my teachers were really lax and they pretty much made class fun. My art teacher gave us a project to create ourselves as a superhero, at the time, I was really big into anime, so I drew myself as a Gatchaman/Guyver hybrid, won first place. Senior day was fun, we all went to the beach and got wild lol. Prom was pretty meh, graduation, everyone got hammered drunk and it seemed like the house parties were going on all summer long. The weird thing about it now is that with me being out for 8 years, the people who were really good at sports and what not ended up not doing **** with their lives now, a few of them either got injured really bad or wound up on drugs.

[MessiahDecoy123]

I enjoyed looking at hot chicks but that's about it.

The only reason I'd want to go back would be to hit on girls I was too afraid to approach the first time around.

[Alchemyst]

I enjoyed looking at hot chicks but that's about it.

The only reason I'd want to go back would be to hit on girls I was too afraid to approach the first time around.

It's the other way around for me, chicks that I was too afraid to approach in highschool approach me now. :huh:

[MessiahDecoy123]

via Facebook?

[Grillz]

I can honestly say at this moment that with the exception of my few friends from my own grade, I never want to see any of those people again.

This is kind of how I feel after greaduating this May. Other than my real friends, I could care less about those other people.

[Parker Wayne]

Tv Production and screenwriting classes? WTF? My school sucks. There was nothing to do with films except film study. :cmad:

They had that too but I decided not to take that. Like I said, my school was a vocational high school that had majors. There were other classes like automotive technology, drama, computer animation, desktop publishing, business, AP Science classes, Audio Technology, musical theatre, and more.

I was able to get away with a lot in high school. With most teachers you could ask to go to the bathroom and not come back for 20, 30 minutes. My school was a lot like college. Teacher would be concerned if you weren't doing work and they'll help, but in the end you have to want to have help in order to really get it.

[Alchemyst]

via Facebook?

nah, If I happen to be out somewhere.

[Alex The Great]

School in 22 Days :(

[VenomVsSpidey]

I saw a fight. During the fight, when teachers were trying to break it up, someone spit at the wrestling coach, and the coach straight took him down.

it was awesome :up:

[Scourge2099]

My highschool reunion is in 2 yrs. Highschool life for me was kind of ok, I didnt do jack **** my freshman year but skip class the majority of the time, i managed to pass. Sophmore and Junior year was nothing really spectacular, saw a few good fights, some of them were gang related, some race related. Also, there were a group of girls who for some reason loved to set the girls bathroom on fire. My senior year was really fun because of the fact that alot of my teachers were really lax and they pretty much made class fun. My art teacher gave us a project to create ourselves as a superhero, at the time, I was really big into anime, so I drew myself as a Gatchaman/Guyver hybrid, won first place. Senior day was fun, we all went to the beach and got wild lol. Prom was pretty meh, graduation, everyone got hammered drunk and it seemed like the house parties were going on all summer long. The weird thing about it now is that with me being out for 8 years, the people who were really good at sports and what not ended up not doing **** with their lives now, a few of them either got injured really bad or wound up on drugs.
I wanted to go to prom , but I got expelled and the new school I went to was too small for one. I do want to go my reunion , but the *******s never cared to invite me. Sure I went to the first 2 years and got expelled , but I was still part of it.

[ObakeTora]

I had a ****ed up High School experience. I grew up in a very multi cultural city, but my dad for some reason decided to pick up and move to the nazi meth capitol of the world. I always got in fights, had nazis scream "White power" as I walked home, and my cloth headed parents who grew up in the racist south had no idea why I was getting in fights and so behind in school. I could be bitter about it, but all that crap in HS went the wayside when I got into college. I had a blast in college, but hey if you like your HS good for you. As for me, my 20 year reunion is next year, I don't have a supermodel girlfriend or a private Island off of Hong Kong (yet!) so I won't go....

[Jager X]

I will be graduating college next May. Looking back at highschool, I don't miss is in the least. My personality has not changed much since highschool, but I was not really an individual that need to change in such manner. I never hung out with people outside of school nor did I have a desire to. I was not in the popular crowd, but was very well known. There were some great times with my friends during school that I will always cherish. I had it pretty easy with the student body and the majority of faculty.

Now, did I like highschool? No, I did not. I had great times there but I felt that it was ultimately a waste. I was an observer and all I saw was a buch a petty **** going on. Highschool kids as a whole are friggin stupid. I have seen plenty of fights from rival neighborhoods despite the fact that both 'hoods were equivalent to a mound of horse****. I have seen plenty of girls bust each other up over a guy whose balls haven't even dropped yet.

My mentality of highschool has not changed at all. It is a institute of inept teachers, and socially retarded kids. Highschool became the center of a lot of teens' universes. It was almost a daunting task to go to school and be surrounded by people who concerned themselves with some of the most irrelevant things. With that said, I would not repeat a day in highschool but there is always reunion.

[Grievous]

This year is my 35th year out of HS. I graduated in Florida, a month later moved to Kentucky.....haven't seen anyone from school since.
Kentucky FTW! :awesome:

[Hound55]

Oh Lord, the stories I could tell...

[Colossal Spoons]

About you outrunning every poisonous creature in Australia? :p

[NotAHenchwench]

High School...well, ALL school was a long depressing era of my life, and I was quite thankful when it was over.

As I prepare to graduate from college, I look back at my high school years....and I don't miss much.

High school sucked and the people in it sucked. That said, I plan on going to my reunion to show off how successful I'll be.

Yes, I'm a *****.

Honestly, everything that I feel about high school can be summed up in these posts. :up:

[Heretic]

High school was misery for me.

I was a pretty bright kid, and had some health issues when I was young...so I read a lot. Therefore, by the time I started Freshman year, I already knew most of what I was going to be taught my senior year. I knew that I was starting my own business as soon as I could get out of school and away from my home town, so the entire experience was just a horrible waiting game. By the way, thanks to the fact that I worked at a part time job, I was able to move to a new state and start my own corporation immediately after graduation.

On top of that, I never took part in the childish cliques and all of that. Call me anti-social or whatever...I just didn't want a bunch of backstabbing transient friends. I wasn't picked on or anything...and in fact the popular crowd liked me...but it really bothered me that the less cool kids were picked on all the time. At my high school we had some suicides from kids who got picked on a lot, and absolutely no one at the school, including the staff, thought to take action to stop other kids from getting harassed. I kind of took it upon myself to stop it whenever I could...so I ended up in lots of problems...I even got in a fist fight with a teacher once after school because a drivers ed kid was late, couldn't find the class, and he grabbed her by the throat and was choking her for wasting his time.

Eh...the point is that I never put an ounce of respect into high school and never got anything of value from it.

[ObakeTora]

yea **** High school! ::mad::

[Parker Wayne]

I think we can all conclude that high school just plain sucks for 98% of us.

[Doctor Jones]

They had that too but I decided not to take that. Like I said, my school was a vocational high school that had majors. There were other classes like automotive technology, drama, computer animation, desktop publishing, business, AP Science classes, Audio Technology, musical theatre, and more.

I was able to get away with a lot in high school. With most teachers you could ask to go to the bathroom and not come back for 20, 30 minutes. My school was a lot like college. Teacher would be concerned if you weren't doing work and they'll help, but in the end you have to want to have help in order to really get it.

:csad: My electives suck compared to yours.

And how did you get into Syracuse?

[Lighthouse]

By my junior year, I was suffering from kidney failure, oral chemotherapy, dialysis, and loaded on prednisone. Then I had to deal with all the normal high school BS. It was hell.

[Parker Wayne]

:csad: My electives suck compared to yours.

And how did you get into Syracuse?

High SAT scores, 3.5 GPA (out of 4.5), and a s**tload of extracurriculars and electives. I had nearly 200 high school credits by the time I graduated. I also visited Syracuse.

[Manic]

GWy_uauR-6k

[Golgo-13]

By my junior year, I was suffering from kidney failure, oral chemotherapy, dialysis, and loaded on prednisone. Then I had to deal with all the normal high school BS. It was hell.

I can relate, although all of that happened to me right AFTER HUs, when i went in the Military.:csad:

HS was pretty meh. I wasn't part of the popular crowd, but i wasn't at the bottom of the food chain either, so to speak . I was just the average guy, getting average grades.

[Doctor Jones]

High SAT scores, 3.5 GPA (out of 4.5), and a s**tload of extracurriculars and electives. I had nearly 200 high school credits by the time I graduated. I also visited Syracuse.

What kind of extracurriculars? I need to some some of those this year myself.

And 200 credits? Jesus Christ man. You school much work differently than ours or I'm just plain wrong about that. Here you only need 21 credits to graduate.

[S.A.A.D.]

I hated high school so much,and wish that I could kill the people who hated on me for nothing,I never did anything wrong to them. All I ever really did was trying to get work done and getting work done. I'm really relieved that it's all over. I spent much of my time in high school as a loner who wasn't too popular and who struggled alot due to really strong internal defects,from the noggin.

[Hobgoblin]

I can relate, although all of that happened to me right AFTER HUs, when i went in the Military.:csad:

HS was pretty meh. I wasn't part of the popular crowd, but i wasn't at the bottom of the food chain either, so to speak . I was just the average guy, getting average grades.

Ditto. Sometimes I liked high school, sometimes I hated it.

[Colossal Spoons]

All you people who had a horrible 4 years in HS, I wish I could have see what y'all were like(in action/person) to assess the problem. The ugly, fat, and nerdy kids at my HS didn't seem to have half as bad a time as some of you guys :(

[Manic]

Hell, I'm an ugly, fat nerd who had a blast in high school.

[Parker Wayne]

What kind of extracurriculars? I need to some some of those this year myself.

And 200 credits? Jesus Christ man. You school much work differently than ours or I'm just plain wrong about that. Here you only need 21 credits to graduate.

I just took a few afterschool classes along with my electives. I was on the prodcution crew for a play, invovled in literary magazine, filmed plays and shows, took fitness classes, hosted a school radio program, and other things I can't remember.

[Harry_Lime02]

I enjoyed it well enough. I had a variety of friends, all from different cliches.

[Manic]

I enjoyed it well enough. I had a variety of friends, all from different cliches.

You were friends with the cast of Saved By The Bell?

[Colossal Spoons]

Hell, I'm an ugly, fat nerd who had a blast in high school.

Haha, you're spectacular

[Kane52630]

I had a blast at HS, best time of my life

[Manic]

Haha, you're spectacular

I know.

[CrashNburn]

I'm actually very surprised at how many people here hated high school. I enjoyed my high school years mostly. It was lots of friends, memories and good times for me.

[Colossal Spoons]

I'm actually very surprised at how many people here hated high school. I enjoyed my high school years mostly. It was lots of friends, memories and good times for me.

I'm not surprised. SHH posters have been having horrible times in HS since I joined lol.

[CrashNburn]

I'm not surprised. SHH posters have been having horrible times in HS since I joined lol.

:lmao:

[Colossal Spoons]

Ha, seriously the worst 4 years of everybody's lives :(

[Aesop Rocks]

Not mine.

[Golgo-13]

I graduated back in 1993. I can't help it, but i'm sure many can relate; a truly uplifting sight is running across some of those popular kids, now, and they're out of shape, with a crappy job, or just looking a hot mess!

[Parker Wayne]

Ha, seriously the worst 4 years of everybody's lives :(

Nah, my life's been getting increasingly better with age. Elementry school was my worst years and it went from terrible to mediocre (middle school) to average (high school)

[Golgo-13]

I think that alot of ppl that have it great throughout school usually miss out on alot of life's crucial lessons.

[CelticPredator]

Im fine. Good freshmen year, ****** sophmore year, good Junior year, ****** middle of junior year, and a good ending to junior year, and a good Senior year...and now another good senior year...



Dammit....

Yeah, I gotta go back another year. But that was mostly due to a horrible sophmore year. lol.

[redhawk23]

Im fine. Good freshmen year, ****** sophmore year, good Junior year, ****** middle of junior year, and a good ending to junior year, and a good Senior year...and now another good senior year...



Dammit....

Yeah, I gotta go back another year. But that was mostly due to a horrible sophmore year. lol.

Where I come from we call that being a Super Senior, you should totally get a shirt made with two s's crammed into a superman symbol.

[redhawk23]

Theres a hole in the world like a great black pit
and its filled with people whor are filled with Sh##
All the vermon in the world all inhabit it
and they call it Columbia High.

[teewee1432]

Im fine. Good freshmen year, ****** sophmore year, good Junior year, ****** middle of junior year, and a good ending to junior year, and a good Senior year...and now another good senior year...



Dammit....

Yeah, I gotta go back another year. But that was mostly due to a horrible sophmore year. lol.


I was dangerously close to failing 12th grade. But with the thought of spending a 5th year in high school and the fact that school uniforms were coming into play the following school year. I quickly turned those f's into d's and c's. Those two factors were enough to turn a whole years with of horseplaying around.

[Manic]

Theres a hole in the world like a great black pit
and its filled with people whor are filled with Sh##
All the vermon in the world all inhabit it
and they call it Columbia High.

Ha ha! Sweeney Todd reference.

[CelticPredator]

Where I come from we call that being a Super Senior, you should totally get a shirt made with two s's crammed into a superman symbol.
Yep, Super Seniors is what I is. Oh well. It's really not that bad. I thankfully made a lot of good friends with underclassmen.

Hell, even became better friends with one my friend's brother....lol. :awesome:

[Colossal Spoons]

I think that alot of ppl that have it great throughout school usually miss out on alot of life's crucial lessons.

Like what? How to deal with being disliked by a large group of people? How to rely on yourself for companionship/support?

[AndThePickles]

I think that alot of ppl that have it great throughout school usually miss out on alot of life's crucial lessons.

Agreed.

All you people who had a horrible 4 years in HS, I wish I could have see what y'all were like(in action/person) to assess the problem. The ugly, fat, and nerdy kids at my HS didn't seem to have half as bad a time as some of you guys :(

Get outta here popular kid, you wouldn't be able to assess the problem, as the *******s who were mean would have been your popular friendsies :cmad:

[Doctor Jones]

I just took a few afterschool classes along with my electives. I was on the prodcution crew for a play, invovled in literary magazine, filmed plays and shows, took fitness classes, hosted a school radio program, and other things I can't remember.

My school has none of these things. Just lame ****. :csad: Pretty much nothing that interests me. My buddies and I talked about to just show up to chess club and get our pictures taken just to say we were in chess club. I mean they bake more than play chess anyway. I'm taking good electives, it's just they have pretty much nothing that interests me in after school stuff. I mean they have freaking Bible Studies. Math Club, Foreign Language Club. *Yaaawwwwwnnnn*

[The Original Bamfer]

High school was fantastic... and after the nightmare that was middle school, I'd say I earned my positive experience. I was friends with pretty much everyone, and was never home after school. It was a lot of fun.

[Colossal Spoons]

Get outta here popular kid, you wouldn't be able to assess the problem, as the *******s who were mean would have been your popular friendsies :cmad:

Your statement is erroneous since your boy was "friendsies" with everybody :o

I just wanna see/know what somebody who had an atrocious time in HS looks and acts like.

[Anubis]

I don't remember most of it, so I guess it must have been fun.

[AndThePickles]

Your statement is erroneous since your boy was "friendsies" with everybody :o

I just wanna see/know what somebody who had an atrocious time in HS looks and acts like.

Well, you've seen some of my HS pics. I was plenty attractive, although at one point in high school I did have braces and glasses. I was shy, but nice to everyone. I was smart and did well in my classes. I was very depressed, though, so perhaps people preyed on that. I'm sure that my lack of confidence due to having so many ****** social experiences over the years made me an easy target :down

I was cleaning out things from my old closet in the room that I grew up in, and holy crap was that a miserable flood of memories. It was genuinely upsetting going through all of my old things from high school and middle school. **** everything before college :o

[redmarvel]

I'll be honest. High school was the worst years of my life. I would not wish to relive those years under any circumstances. There's something about having my hair set on fire that just does not appeal to me.

[Hound55]

I'll be honest. High school was the worst years of my life. I would not wish to relive those years under any circumstances. There's something about having my hair set on fire that just does not appeal to me.

There ya go, Spoons.

It looks like a person whose hair is ablaze and they act, I assume, by rolling around on the floor a lot, screaming and batting at their own head.

Another socialogical mystery solved...

[redmarvel]

I smelt something burning but didn't realize it was my own hair until I reached back and touched it and realized that a hunk of it at the bottom was charred.

[Anubis]

Did somebody set it on fire, or did you get too close to a bunsen burner?

[Spider-ManHero12]

I'm gonig to be a senior this fall, thank god.

High School has absoloutely sucked, and it's safe to say that it is WITHOUT A DOUBT the absoloute worse thing that has happened to me in life. Freshman year wasn't too bad. I didn't socialize alot, but i did have friends. The end of the year was okay. However, Sophmore was f****** terrible! I didn't socialize with anyone. My teachers were way too serious and some were way too much like the snobby w***** and jocks in my classes. I hate them with so much passion. A couple of my friends were in my gym class sophmore year, which was nice, but still.

My friends mainly had long hair and wore metal shirts like Metallica, such as myself. Though, I didn't have long hair back then. My hair is pretty damn long now. It's touching my shoulders, but not resting on them. So, it's still got some ways to go, but it's defeniteley considered long.

Summer 2009 = amazing. 'nuff said.

Junior year felt better in terms of friends because moreo f my friends were in there, but that didn't help much. I look back at it and cringe. I had a stuck up teacher who was stubborn as all hell. He pretty much lvoed making fun of me, even though that's not how he looked at it. I hated the students. I really did and it sucks that i'll be graduating with them. Thp roblem? My friends just graduated in june. I pretty much have nobody now except for a bulls*** artist of a friend that i met in junior high school, who isn't even honest. the firnds that graduated left me so sad the last week of school that i spent alone with nobody. I felt on the edge to breaking down into tears because of what was coming and that meant senior year with nobody. It actually kind of felt like they died. That's how I felt inside. They are the reason I whent to school, even though I didn't want to. We loved heavy metal music which was great. They were just so funny. I was and still am a bit anti social though. I don't have many friends if any at all.

Now, Senior year. You have ot have acertain amount of credits in order to graduate. I don't. My only chance was summer school, but that didn't happen. So, guess what? I don't think I can graduate. I might be able to, but i don't know. To top it all off, we have this thing called senior project. We have to do a project which takes MONTHS to do. Write an 8 page eassay, do field work on that topic, get a mentor, meet up with that person each day of the week, actually do something about your topic such as building a computer in front of judges. You actually have to do it in front of the judges. There are about 5 judges. you actually ahve to stand up in front of judges and talk for about 8 -15 minutes. If you mess up on 1 or 2 things when presnting, you have to do it over during the summer. If you can't do it, you don't graduate.

I'm sorry, but I think it's bulls**** and I don't support it. I really don't. I hate my school. I look at it as hell, tbh. You don't go to school for 3 days? They send people to your house. Happened to me. I stayed up all night, so they didn't take me to school in their car, and they let me stay home, but still. I don't support this. If it means not graduating, then so be it. The stress is way too great. It's funny, I've been called one of the best students because i never talk back, I don't hang around in crowds, i'm nice to teachers and I'm cooperative, yet, they still treat me like s***. That's why, when people tell me "High school isn't that bad" I get very upset and angry because they don't know what it has become.

High school has made me upset 24/7 even on vacations. I try to keep the days I have off as long as possible, fighting the urge to sleep so that my days last longer. I stayed up until 5 Am and all night sometimes last year. It was amazing. Sadly, so far, that has happened this summer and I'm gonig to regret it. I really am. Trust me, if high school is making it so that I will stay up and affect my health just to make it so that my days away from there last longer then there's a serious problem there. I honestly can't take it anymore.

I have a feeling my senior year this year is going to be horrible, and if I find out in september that i can't graduate, i'm not even going to bother finishing the year. I will literally leave the second day.

Trust me, I have alot more I can say, so if you guys want to hear it, just ask.

[-Arya-]

Every year except my senior year was horrendous. My senior year was merely bearable. So overall, I hated high school.

[CrashNburn]

Ha, seriously the worst 4 years of everybody's lives :(

Im sure some are exaggerating lol

I had plenty of great experiences from high school along with not so easy ones too but I was friends with every group. I got along with mostly everyone i encountered.

Im sure some had it tough but all 4 years??....and worst years of my life?? I dont know what to say. Seems a bit much.

[Anubis]

Well, if your life has gotten dramatically better since High School, then yeah. You probably could consider it the worst years of your life. I mean If I won the lotto, married a video ho, and suddenly found out I could fly, I'm pretty sure everything else would suck by comparison.

[CrashNburn]

Not really....it just wouldnt be as good

[CrashNburn]

That would be like finding $100 on the ground, winning the lotto later on in life and then saying it sucked when you found the $100. hahaha

[Immortalfire]

Im sure some are exaggerating lol

I had plenty of great experiences from high school along with not so easy ones too but I was friends with every group. I got along with mostly everyone i encountered.

Im sure some had it tough but all 4 years??....and worst years of my life?? I dont know what to say. Seems a bit much.

Every year of school was the worst year of my life, not just the final four.

[Anubis]

That's like assuming you actually found a 100 dollars. Let's say you farted real loud in Science class, and everybody called you Gas Leak for the next four years. Then yeah, winning the lotto makes that whole experience probably the worst thing that happened to you up to that point.

Or hell, getting a good job. Finding an awesome girlfriend. Friends, your own place....not having people call you Gas Leak all the time would be considered a massive improvement to friendless, social pariah, who got no play from the ladies.

[CrashNburn]

Every year of school was the worst year of my life, not just the final four.

Geez man! Im really sorry to hear that. Why is that if you dont mind me asking? That just seems like a bit much to me. Were you beaten up every single day of your school life or something....i just dont get it.

[Immortalfire]

Geez man! Im really sorry to hear that. Why is that if you dont mind me asking? That just seems like a bit much to me. Were you beaten up every single day of your school life or something....i just dont get it.
No I wasn't bullied or anything like that...just my personality being how it was, being forced to be somewhere I didn't want to be, doing work I rarely understood and didn't want to do, combined with the everyday challenges of childhood led to a lot of anger and near depression over time.

But thank the Lord I got through it, and am alright now. :yay:

[Scourge2099]

This chick let me touch her boobs in my geometry class once. That was the greatest moment in my High School life.

[Anubis]

I lost my virginity with my friend's girlfriend in his bathroom.

[Scourge2099]

This chick was giving free bj's in the boys bathroom at lunch. She must've been pretty good at it because the line was pretty long.

[VenomVsSpidey]

I never got a girlfriend in High School.

[-Arya-]

This chick was giving free bj's in the boys bathroom at lunch. She must've been pretty good at it because the line was pretty long.
Did she eventually die from a venereal disease?

[Scourge2099]

I have no idea. Maybe she's doing porn now.

[Anubis]

You don't have to be very good to get a long line for free BJ's.

[Hound55]

You don't have to be very good to get a long line for free BJ's.

Agreed. That denotes quality of promotion moreso than quality of service...

A better test would be repeat customers... but even then how many people have better options lined up than free BJs...

[CelticPredator]

I'm gonig to be a senior this fall, thank god.

High School has absoloutely sucked, and it's safe to say that it is WITHOUT A DOUBT the absoloute worse thing that has happened to me in life. Freshman year wasn't too bad. I didn't socialize alot, but i did have friends. The end of the year was okay. However, Sophmore was f****** terrible! I didn't socialize with anyone. My teachers were way too serious and some were way too much like the snobby w***** and jocks in my classes. I hate them with so much passion. A couple of my friends were in my gym class sophmore year, which was nice, but still.

My friends mainly had long hair and wore metal shirts like Metallica, such as myself. Though, I didn't have long hair back then. My hair is pretty damn long now. It's touching my shoulders, but not resting on them. So, it's still got some ways to go, but it's defeniteley considered long.

Summer 2009 = amazing. 'nuff said.

Junior year felt better in terms of friends because moreo f my friends were in there, but that didn't help much. I look back at it and cringe. I had a stuck up teacher who was stubborn as all hell. He pretty much lvoed making fun of me, even though that's not how he looked at it. I hated the students. I really did and it sucks that i'll be graduating with them. Thp roblem? My friends just graduated in june. I pretty much have nobody now except for a bulls*** artist of a friend that i met in junior high school, who isn't even honest. the firnds that graduated left me so sad the last week of school that i spent alone with nobody. I felt on the edge to breaking down into tears because of what was coming and that meant senior year with nobody. It actually kind of felt like they died. That's how I felt inside. They are the reason I whent to school, even though I didn't want to. We loved heavy metal music which was great. They were just so funny. I was and still am a bit anti social though. I don't have many friends if any at all.

Now, Senior year. You have ot have acertain amount of credits in order to graduate. I don't. My only chance was summer school, but that didn't happen. So, guess what? I don't think I can graduate. I might be able to, but i don't know. To top it all off, we have this thing called senior project. We have to do a project which takes MONTHS to do. Write an 8 page eassay, do field work on that topic, get a mentor, meet up with that person each day of the week, actually do something about your topic such as building a computer in front of judges. You actually have to do it in front of the judges. There are about 5 judges. you actually ahve to stand up in front of judges and talk for about 8 -15 minutes. If you mess up on 1 or 2 things when presnting, you have to do it over during the summer. If you can't do it, you don't graduate.

I'm sorry, but I think it's bulls**** and I don't support it. I really don't. I hate my school. I look at it as hell, tbh. You don't go to school for 3 days? They send people to your house. Happened to me. I stayed up all night, so they didn't take me to school in their car, and they let me stay home, but still. I don't support this. If it means not graduating, then so be it. The stress is way too great. It's funny, I've been called one of the best students because i never talk back, I don't hang around in crowds, i'm nice to teachers and I'm cooperative, yet, they still treat me like s***. That's why, when people tell me "High school isn't that bad" I get very upset and angry because they don't know what it has become.

High school has made me upset 24/7 even on vacations. I try to keep the days I have off as long as possible, fighting the urge to sleep so that my days last longer. I stayed up until 5 Am and all night sometimes last year. It was amazing. Sadly, so far, that has happened this summer and I'm gonig to regret it. I really am. Trust me, if high school is making it so that I will stay up and affect my health just to make it so that my days away from there last longer then there's a serious problem there. I honestly can't take it anymore.

I have a feeling my senior year this year is going to be horrible, and if I find out in september that i can't graduate, i'm not even going to bother finishing the year. I will literally leave the second day.

Trust me, I have alot more I can say, so if you guys want to hear it, just ask.


Dude...it's ****ing High School....lol.

If you honestly think you are not the problem, then that is why you're going though "hell".

And btw, you wont get far without a high school diploma. So you better start fixing yourself.

And dont tell me "I like myself! And I DONT WANNA CHANGE!".....well, obviously you dont like yourself if you're having a ****** time. If you let people know you're a loner, loser, weirdo, you wont have friends. Ever.

Try to be more open to people. Kids like that. They hate weird little ****s. I know I do. I used to have no friends...but I changed, changed my personallity. I'm still ME, i'm just way more open, and dont shun people away.

Seriously, it's 4 years of your life. Perhaps one of the more important years....the school **** is all BS...but the life skills is what you really got to learn.

So do yourself a favor, and get over it. Say "**** it" and try to have some fun. Honestly, you'll look back 10 years later and realize what a waste of time you gave to yourself. I know I do, and I'm not even out yet.

Honestly, unless you had a legit issue (Maybe a family memeber died, maybe you went to the hospital, maybe you got sick....), I dont feel sorry for anyone who hated High School. Because they could've easily changed.

I hate weirdos. I hate them because they are so oblivious they're weird that they act like they're doing nothing wrong. If you're a nerd, and all you do is spout the nerdiest **** possible, and make yourself a target, DONT.

I'm a huge nerd. And if I DO say something nerdy, i'll call myself out on it. Kids like that. It makes me seem normal. I mean, sure, you get the ocassional douche bag, and so what. Who cares about them. Either stick up for youself or ignore them.


Long post I know....but I just cannot stand this attitude people have. It's so useless for life.

[8wid]

No I wasn't bullied or anything like that...just my personality being how it was, being forced to be somewhere I didn't want to be, doing work I rarely understood and didn't want to do, combined with the everyday challenges of childhood led to a lot of anger and near depression over time.

But thank the Lord I got through it, and am alright now. :yay:

Totally can understand how that felt... I lived it for many years.

[Doctor Jones]

I gotta agree with ya Celtic. People need to stop blaming other people and things for their problems and take charge and recognize that they are the only people who decide what they do with themselves. It's about sucking it up and dealing with it. Yeah, it's probably tough as hell. I can't speak for SMH12 in what he's been through because I haven't been through that, but dude, just suck it up and get through it. It won't be easy, but do what you can to make the best of it. Don't go against something because you think it's not fair and it's ********. Tough. That's life. You need to take control yourself and just deal with it. You're not gonna like it, but if it means getting there and doing well, then so be it. Not caring whether you graduate is not a good thing. It'd pretty obvious it's a terrible thing. Stop blaming the people and things around you can just do it and get through with it. You'll be a much stronger person if you hang on. You're only committing yourself and letting them win if you let them get to you like that.

I dont mean to come off as an ass, I'm giving it to you straight. I hate it when people blame others for how their life is. It's only you that determines that. So SMH12, you better change yourself this year, because you need it badly. If you don't, then this attitude will carry on for the rest of your life. And you'll keep blaming others for your problems. Once again, I can't imagine what you go through, but in the end, like everyone else who has a problem or how many of them, they should deal with it on their own and make the best of it. Even if you don't make any friends, for the love of God at least graduate. You'll care in five years that you didn't graduate and had to take senior year again. You will regret that.

[Scourge2099]

I'm gonig to be a senior this fall, thank god.

High School has absoloutely sucked, and it's safe to say that it is WITHOUT A DOUBT the absoloute worse thing that has happened to me in life. Freshman year wasn't too bad. I didn't socialize alot, but i did have friends. The end of the year was okay. However, Sophmore was f****** terrible! I didn't socialize with anyone. My teachers were way too serious and some were way too much like the snobby w***** and jocks in my classes. I hate them with so much passion. A couple of my friends were in my gym class sophmore year, which was nice, but still.

My friends mainly had long hair and wore metal shirts like Metallica, such as myself. Though, I didn't have long hair back then. My hair is pretty damn long now. It's touching my shoulders, but not resting on them. So, it's still got some ways to go, but it's defeniteley considered long.

Summer 2009 = amazing. 'nuff said.

Junior year felt better in terms of friends because moreo f my friends were in there, but that didn't help much. I look back at it and cringe. I had a stuck up teacher who was stubborn as all hell. He pretty much lvoed making fun of me, even though that's not how he looked at it. I hated the students. I really did and it sucks that i'll be graduating with them. Thp roblem? My friends just graduated in june. I pretty much have nobody now except for a bulls*** artist of a friend that i met in junior high school, who isn't even honest. the firnds that graduated left me so sad the last week of school that i spent alone with nobody. I felt on the edge to breaking down into tears because of what was coming and that meant senior year with nobody. It actually kind of felt like they died. That's how I felt inside. They are the reason I whent to school, even though I didn't want to. We loved heavy metal music which was great. They were just so funny. I was and still am a bit anti social though. I don't have many friends if any at all.

Now, Senior year. You have ot have acertain amount of credits in order to graduate. I don't. My only chance was summer school, but that didn't happen. So, guess what? I don't think I can graduate. I might be able to, but i don't know. To top it all off, we have this thing called senior project. We have to do a project which takes MONTHS to do. Write an 8 page eassay, do field work on that topic, get a mentor, meet up with that person each day of the week, actually do something about your topic such as building a computer in front of judges. You actually have to do it in front of the judges. There are about 5 judges. you actually ahve to stand up in front of judges and talk for about 8 -15 minutes. If you mess up on 1 or 2 things when presnting, you have to do it over during the summer. If you can't do it, you don't graduate.

I'm sorry, but I think it's bulls**** and I don't support it. I really don't. I hate my school. I look at it as hell, tbh. You don't go to school for 3 days? They send people to your house. Happened to me. I stayed up all night, so they didn't take me to school in their car, and they let me stay home, but still. I don't support this. If it means not graduating, then so be it. The stress is way too great. It's funny, I've been called one of the best students because i never talk back, I don't hang around in crowds, i'm nice to teachers and I'm cooperative, yet, they still treat me like s***. That's why, when people tell me "High school isn't that bad" I get very upset and angry because they don't know what it has become.

High school has made me upset 24/7 even on vacations. I try to keep the days I have off as long as possible, fighting the urge to sleep so that my days last longer. I stayed up until 5 Am and all night sometimes last year. It was amazing. Sadly, so far, that has happened this summer and I'm gonig to regret it. I really am. Trust me, if high school is making it so that I will stay up and affect my health just to make it so that my days away from there last longer then there's a serious problem there. I honestly can't take it anymore.

I have a feeling my senior year this year is going to be horrible, and if I find out in september that i can't graduate, i'm not even going to bother finishing the year. I will literally leave the second day.

Trust me, I have alot more I can say, so if you guys want to hear it, just ask.
Dude , you're taking high school too f****** seriously. I know you're gonna say "What the f*** do you know ?" I went through a lot of bulls*** when I went to school. I was filled with anger like you wouldn't believe. Sure I had some good moments like when that chick let me touch her breasts in class , but most of it sucked. I've been filled with anger for a big chunk of my life and what the f*** has that gotten me ? I got a s*** load of problems now. Trust me the path you're gonna go down is not worth it. Try to be positive. You don't have to listen to me and when you read this you can tell me to f*** off if you want because I don't really give a s*** , but at least listen to someone who has been through some s***.

[AndThePickles]

Agreed, you *MUST* graduate. Things after high school will be different, if you let them. High school was so awful for me, but that just made me all the more determined to make what came after it awesome. You will have much more control of your circumstances and who you are around. I made certain to change what I knew I didn't like about myself, and in combination with finally getting more control over my environment, I found myself truly enjoying life. After I graduated high school, I moved on and didn't look back. I may hate the memories, and they're painful, but I am so so proud of who I've become despite it all. Look at it as an opportunity to learn and grow.

[Aesop Rocks]

The only reason one goes to HS is to graduate. lmao.

[-Arya-]

Agreed, you *MUST* graduate. Things after high school will be different, if you let them. High school was so awful for me, but that just made me all the more determined to make what came after it awesome. You will have much more control of your circumstances and who you are around. I made certain to change what I knew I didn't like about myself, and in combination with finally getting more control over my environment, I found myself truly enjoying life. After I graduated high school, I moved on and didn't look back. I may hate the memories, and they're painful, but I am so so proud of who I've become despite it all. Look at it as an opportunity to learn and grow.
Listen to pickles SH12. Part of the process is also growing older and becoming more aware of yourself. I went through that, and many others have as well. Now is the time for you make some changes, and other changes will happen without you even noticing. Trust us on this.

[Anubis]

Yeah, gotta graduate. Cuz as bad as life is now, it will REALLY suck if you don't finish high school.......unless you got some kinda drug connections so you can go all Tony Montana up in this b***h.

[Scourge2099]

I kind of doubt he's going to listen to anybody's advice. To him high school is the end all be all of life.

[Alchemyst]

Agreed. That denotes quality of promotion moreso than quality of service...

A better test would be repeat customers... but even then how many people have better options lined up than free BJs...


:lmao: :awesome: :applaud

ROFL, that had me dying right there

[Manic]

You know what'll get you through high school? Movies by John Hughes. They taught me that even though high school kinda sucks, you gotta find your fun where you can and learn to let go of the bull**** that's holding you down.

Take a day off and go to town with your best friends. Spend a day with people of different social cliques to see that high school isn't a picnic for them either. Throw a huge party at your house with the aid of a magical computerized supermodel. Go to prom with a rich dude who may or may not really like you, leaving your devoted best friend who's obviously in love with you in the dust.

Maybe not that last one.

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

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[VenomVsSpidey]

You know what'll get you through high school? Movies by John Hughes. They taught me that even though high school kinda sucks, you gotta find your fun where you can and learn to let go of the bull**** that's holding you down.

Take a day off and go to town with your best friends. Spend a day with people of different social cliques to see that high school isn't a picnic for them either. Throw a huge party at your house with the aid of a magical computerized supermodel. Go to prom with a rich dude who may or may not really like you, leaving your devoted best friend who's obviously in love with you in the dust.

Maybe not that last one.

What, I'm not allowed to ask my friends for their underwear, then some 20 years later be kidnapped by the joker?

:csad:

[Manic]

You can do anything in a John Hughes movie except what Andie did to Duckie in Pretty In Pink. Oh, and Home Alone 3. Nobody should ever do that.

[VenomVsSpidey]

but the first two are acceptable? awesome. I love those :]

:awesome:

[Jow Strummer]

High School was easy. Didn't think it at the time of course. But my parents always used to say that when i leave, i'll look back and think it was a great time of my life... and they are right.

[Dark Victory]

My school has none of these things. Just lame ****. :csad: Pretty much nothing that interests me. My buddies and I talked about to just show up to chess club and get our pictures taken just to say we were in chess club. I mean they bake more than play chess anyway. I'm taking good electives, it's just they have pretty much nothing that interests me in after school stuff. I mean they have freaking Bible Studies. Math Club, Foreign Language Club. *Yaaawwwwwnnnn*


You should talk to your principal or some higher up about creating an elective. Earlier this year, a few of my friends and I created a movie discussion club, and even a movie review show for my school channel. It was pretty easy; my English teacher (who was a complete g) let us borrow his class for the club, signed off as the head of it, and I knew the broadcasting teacher from tv crew and he was fine with the show. Scheduling was a bit tough since I had track and weight room on top of it, but once we got it rolling, it was usually the highlight of my day. Not to mention the show made my friends and I a bit popular. Every now and then, some ghetto dude would call us out and give us a high five. Also, application material. Booyah

[CelticPredator]

**** dude, I just make movies. lol. We have some seriously cool equipment. Now we have 8 HIGH DEF cameras, a ****ING CRANE!!!! and a Steady Cam. Not to mention Final Cut, all that jazz...w00t w00t.

[Dark Victory]

**** dude, I just make movies. lol. We have some seriously cool equipment. Now we have 8 HIGH DEF cameras, a ****ING CRANE!!!! and a Steady Cam. Not to mention Final Cut, all that jazz...w00t w00t.


That's ****ing awesome. My high school surprisingly has **** equipment*. I was in film production, which assigned us to make a number of films based on a topic. I'd like to think that all of the material I wrote was half-decent, but 99.9% of the class obviously wasn't really interested. I always wanted to do stuff on my own with the school equipment, but no one I knew wanted to do anything serious. I did one project on my own time, and it was a piece of ****. None of the kids did what I wanted them to do, and all pretty much bailed on the project after the second day. At least it was only an extra credit assignment.

***** digital cameras which you can probably get at Radioshack for $10-20, a rolling tripod with a broken wheel and mics that didn't work. We used iMovie on Macs, which wasn't too bad for school assignments, but compared to Final Cut...

[CelticPredator]

^ haha. That sucks dude. We got lucky. There's a rival school that does great stuff. We HAVE to beat them. They suck so hard.

[Spider-ManHero12]

Dude , you're taking high school too f****** seriously. I know you're gonna say "What the f*** do you know ?" I went through a lot of bulls*** when I went to school. I was filled with anger like you wouldn't believe. Sure I had some good moments like when that chick let me touch her breasts in class , but most of it sucked. I've been filled with anger for a big chunk of my life and what the f*** has that gotten me ? I got a s*** load of problems now. Trust me the path you're gonna go down is not worth it. Try to be positive. You don't have to listen to me and when you read this you can tell me to f*** off if you want because I don't really give a s*** , but at least listen to someone who has been through some s***. I don't think you're being an ass, tbh. i actually feel bad fr you because i know how that feels. I have alot of anger as well.

[Spider-ManHero12]

Agreed, you *MUST* graduate. Things after high school will be different, if you let them. High school was so awful for me, but that just made me all the more determined to make what came after it awesome. You will have much more control of your circumstances and who you are around. I made certain to change what I knew I didn't like about myself, and in combination with finally getting more control over my environment, I found myself truly enjoying life. After I graduated high school, I moved on and didn't look back. I may hate the memories, and they're painful, but I am so so proud of who I've become despite it all. Look at it as an opportunity to learn and grow. I wouldl voe to do the same. Here's the problem though, I don't have enough credits to graduate. So if I can't get help or touterd, which is actually likely, then I can't graduate. You can't be abscent more than 15 times and if you are, you can't get touterd. Not enough credits = no graduation. Hell, I have all my senior project stuff worked out, but even that won't save me. So, Trust me, I want to finish high school, but it's not just about how bad it is. There are other things that are literally stopping me. Let's hope I still can.

Also Doctor Jones, you make very good points, and i agree with you. however, I do suck it up, trust me. I don't come home every day in a bad mood and I don't blame others for it. Yes, I do look miserable alot, but I don't take it out on other people. That's a cowards way of acting. Trust me, I don't blame others and I didn't even make a hint of that in my post. IF I did, then I really didn't mean it. I mean, just remember guys, you know the state of Rhode Island? From Family Guy? That's where i live. We are recquired to do senior project. I chose becoming a filmmaker. Now, I wrote my proposal letter, and it was accepted, which is great! That's very difficult work, but i know i can do it. However, then comes the credits thing. I can't make up those credits unless I did over the summer. I thought I could get touterd, but i found out that after 15 abscences you can't. I was abscent 17 times last year. Let's hope they go easy on me and let me get touterd. Trust me, i'm a very good student.

[Doctor Jones]

We can understand you're angry, but you can't let that bring yourself down. You have to overcome that. You are going to be a senior, so this must be a positive thing for you. Do the best you can so you can graduate. You hating the school isn't going to change, so change yourself and how you do things. Don't give them what they want. Prove them wrong. I give you points for sucking it up, but you can't let all that **** bring you down. It's lower than you. People when they realize it are better than that and can change things for them. In five or ten years from now, don't you want to be successful and do what you love and laugh at the past experiences and the people who treated you wrong? Graduating will be one of the steps to doing that.

[Doctor Jones]

You should talk to your principal or some higher up about creating an elective. Earlier this year, a few of my friends and I created a movie discussion club, and even a movie review show for my school channel. It was pretty easy; my English teacher (who was a complete g) let us borrow his class for the club, signed off as the head of it, and I knew the broadcasting teacher from tv crew and he was fine with the show. Scheduling was a bit tough since I had track and weight room on top of it, but once we got it rolling, it was usually the highlight of my day. Not to mention the show made my friends and I a bit popular. Every now and then, some ghetto dude would call us out and give us a high five. Also, application material. Booyah

Our school budget is very tight. I think they lowered it this year and fired teachers from last year too.

I was in a video club in the 8th grade. We just got started and it was a new club that year. We didn't have alot of equipment but I stayed in it for the entire school year. I was surrounded by some very weird people, but that didn't matter because I realy enjoyed it, for what little we had. One of the guys who ran it was a producer of some sort and he taught me some stuff. I already knew alot of it, but it was great to actually get out there and film something. I learned to edit, which was a pain in the ass, but it was fun. I remember being the only one that day to show up to edit. I took charge and directed the very few videos we could film. They were mostly just test stuff but it was still fun. Then the school wanted us to film something for them to and we got one of the school's students who performed in our video. The video was awful, but I remember having fun setting things up and working with her. The dude running it also taught me to treat your actors well and they will come back.

[Spider-ManHero12]

Dude...it's ****ing High School....lol.

If you honestly think you are not the problem, then that is why you're going though "hell".

And btw, you wont get far without a high school diploma. So you better start fixing yourself.

And dont tell me "I like myself! And I DONT WANNA CHANGE!".....well, obviously you dont like yourself if you're having a ****** time. If you let people know you're a loner, loser, weirdo, you wont have friends. Ever.

Try to be more open to people. Kids like that. They hate weird little ****s. I know I do. I used to have no friends...but I changed, changed my personallity. I'm still ME, i'm just way more open, and dont shun people away.

Seriously, it's 4 years of your life. Perhaps one of the more important years....the school **** is all BS...but the life skills is what you really got to learn.

So do yourself a favor, and get over it. Say "**** it" and try to have some fun. Honestly, you'll look back 10 years later and realize what a waste of time you gave to yourself. I know I do, and I'm not even out yet.

Honestly, unless you had a legit issue (Maybe a family memeber died, maybe you went to the hospital, maybe you got sick....), I dont feel sorry for anyone who hated High School. Because they could've easily changed.

I hate weirdos. I hate them because they are so oblivious they're weird that they act like they're doing nothing wrong. If you're a nerd, and all you do is spout the nerdiest **** possible, and make yourself a target, DONT.

I'm a huge nerd. And if I DO say something nerdy, i'll call myself out on it. Kids like that. It makes me seem normal. I mean, sure, you get the ocassional douche bag, and so what. Who cares about them. Either stick up for youself or ignore them.


Long post I know....but I just cannot stand this attitude people have. It's so useless for life. sorry for my triple post guys.


Celtic, last year I had a nice group of friends. Not a ton, but a nice group. They weren't weirdos. We loved the same type of heavy metal music, as I said. We all had lnog hair, and it was nice. I didn't hang out with them outside of school, but my attitude really changed last year. I was happier, made more jokes, and like what I became, even though i didn't lose who I was. My appearance changed slightly, but not in a bad way. It jsut all fell into place. I knew them for 4 years and have seen 2 of them since graduation. The only reason I'm pissed is because now that they've graduated, I feel as though I'm back to being who I was. Sorry if I make high school sound like hell, lol, but I can't put it any other way. So it's really not the changing part. I already did that, and who knows, maybe I will keep the new me again this year. All I know is that i don't see myself with short hair anytime soon. I look better with it long, lol.

[CelticPredator]

I wouldl voe to do the same. Here's the problem though, I don't have enough credits to graduate. So if I can't get help or touterd, which is actually likely, then I can't graduate. You can't be abscent more than 15 times and if you are, you can't get touterd. Not enough credits = no graduation. Hell, I have all my senior project stuff worked out, but even that won't save me. So, Trust me, I want to finish high school, but it's not just about how bad it is. There are other things that are literally stopping me. Let's hope I still can.

Also Doctor Jones, you make very good points, and i agree with you. however, I do suck it up, trust me. I don't come home every day in a bad mood and I don't blame others for it. Yes, I do look miserable alot, but I don't take it out on other people. That's a cowards way of acting. Trust me, I don't blame others and I didn't even make a hint of that in my post. IF I did, then I really didn't mean it. I mean, just remember guys, you know the state of Rhode Island? From Family Guy? That's where i live. We are recquired to do senior project. I chose becoming a filmmaker. Now, I wrote my proposal letter, and it was accepted, which is great! That's very difficult work, but i know i can do it. However, then comes the credits thing. I can't make up those credits unless I did over the summer. I thought I could get touterd, but i found out that after 15 abscences you can't. I was abscent 17 times last year. Let's hope they go easy on me and let me get touterd. Trust me, i'm a very good student.

Dude...I think you need another year of high school. :o


But the point is, it IS your fault. It's ALL your fault. It's MY fault (and maybe another kid's :o) that i'm staying another year. But so ****ing what. Then after this, I can move on. And then life....life goes on! :awesome:

[Spider-ManHero12]

^^ Why did you stay back?

Btw, sorry about the spelling errors. Would was a typo.

[CelticPredator]

sorry for my triple post guys.


Celtic, last year I had a nice group of friends. Not a ton, but a nice group. They weren't weirdos. We loved the same type of heavy metal music, as I said. We all had lnog hair, and it was nice. I didn't hang out with them outside of school, but my attitude really changed last year. I was happier, made more jokes, and like what I became, even though i didn't lose who I was. My appearance changed slightly, but not in a bad way. It jsut all fell into place. I knew them for 4 years and have seen 2 of them since graduation. The only reason I'm pissed is because now that they've graduated, I feel as though I'm back to being who I was. Sorry if I make high school sound like hell, lol, but I can't put it any other way. So it's really not the changing part. I already did that, and who knows, maybe I will keep the new me again this year. All I know is that i don't see myself with short hair anytime soon. I look better with it long, lol.


I have a total of 4 friends left in my entire high school. 4. ALL my friends are gone. But that's not important to what I need to do.

It's still the changing part. If a random kid thinks you're annoying...then you probably are, in some ways. Figure out why, and then improve yourself.

It is possible the kid is just a douche. They exist. But if it happens more then once....ehh.

And hair isnt important. So I dont know why that's brought up all the time. :awesome:

[CelticPredator]

^^ Why did you stay back?

Btw, sorry about the spelling errors. Would was a typo.

:doh:


Sorry...heh.

Why? Because I did the same ******** stuff you did. I had too many friend issues that caused me to stay at home all depressed and ****, whine about stuff that never even existed....it was bad. So incredibly, ****ing bad.

Look, lets say you go to Film School without graduating. Awesome. How will you pay for it? Your parents? lol. No. You'll need a job. And most jobs will NOT hire someone without a diploma. So good luck with that.

[Spider-ManHero12]

I have a total of 4 friends left in my entire high school. 4. ALL my friends are gone. But that's not important to what I need to do.

It's still the changing part. If a random kid thinks you're annoying...then you probably are, in some ways. Figure out why, and then improve yourself.

It is possible the kid is just a douche. They exist. But if it happens more then once....ehh.

And hair isnt important. So I dont know why that's brought up all the time. :awesome: No, trust me, I'm not annoying. The one's who do pick on me like it because of my reaction. Which is normally just shaking my head. Every kid is different Celtic. No offense, but you don't know everything.

Also, I just think my long hair is cool. :word:

[Spider-ManHero12]

:doh:


Sorry...heh.

Why? Because I did the same ******** stuff you did. I had too many friend issues that caused me to stay at home all depressed and ****, whine about stuff that never even existed....it was bad. So incredibly, ****ing bad.

Look, lets say you go to Film School without graduating. Awesome. How will you pay for it? Your parents? lol. No. You'll need a job. And most jobs will NOT hire someone without a diploma. So good luck with that. Sorry, I meant wouldl ove was a typo. I meant would love. It's because I'm in hurry. Going to see Expendables in like a minute.

Like I said, all I can do hope I can graduate.

[CelticPredator]

I dont know everything, but I think I have a better understanding of High School then you do. Because i'm NOT going through hell.

Open yourself up. If someone gives you ****, turn it into something funny. Like you dont care. Go to parties. Get ****ing WASTED, and show people you want to have a good time. That's what you need to do. Establish yourself as a worthy person. Not a sad little monkey. :D

[CelticPredator]

Sorry, I meant wouldl ove was a typo. I meant would love. It's because I'm in hurry. Going to see Expendables in like a minute.

Like I said, all I can do hope I can graduate.

Ahhh! You gotta type this sentence! :o

It's not a AIM chat. :awesome: lolol :cwink:

[Hound55]

You know what'll get you through high school? Movies by John Hughes. They taught me that even though high school kinda sucks, you gotta find your fun where you can and learn to let go of the bull**** that's holding you down.

Take a day off and go to town with your best friends. Spend a day with people of different social cliques to see that high school isn't a picnic for them either. Throw a huge party at your house with the aid of a magical computerized supermodel. Go to prom with a rich dude who may or may not really like you, leaving your devoted best friend who's obviously in love with you in the dust.

Maybe not that last one.
Agreed. Detention is the best method for social growth.

As such I can claim to have grown more than any of you could possibly imagine...

[Scourge2099]

:doh:


Sorry...heh.

Why? Because I did the same ******** stuff you did. I had too many friend issues that caused me to stay at home all depressed and ****, whine about stuff that never even existed....it was bad. So incredibly, ****ing bad.

Look, lets say you go to Film School without graduating. Awesome. How will you pay for it? Your parents? lol. No. You'll need a job. And most jobs will NOT hire someone without a diploma. So good luck with that.
That's not true. I know people personally who never got their diploma or GED and still have a job.

[AndThePickles]

That's not true. I know people personally who never got their diploma or GED and still have a job.

Emphasis on *most* jobs won't, though. It is getting harder and harder to get a great-paying full time job with anything less than a Master's.

[katie_girl09]

True dat! Jobs for people who only went to high school (or less) are disappearing. I mean, a lot of university graduates with bachelor degrees can't find jobs!

[Scourge2099]

Emphasis on *most* jobs won't, though. It is getting harder and harder to get a great-paying full time job with anything less than a Master's.
The employer could always pay them under the table. I know a border hopper who works at a Chinese restaurant and gets paid under the table. There will always be shady employers willing to cut corners.

[AndThePickles]

Well, yes, but I would hope that the poster wants to be a legal citizen who can provide for his family with a great career one day.

[Anubis]

Most people are never gonna find a career and all they can hope for is a decent job.

[CrashNburn]

That's the spirit!! :hehe:

[BlackLantern]

its the truth....for every 5 or 6 people that are looking for their "dream job", 1 or 2 will actually find it, the rest have to worry about just surviving

[Hobgoblin]

True dat! Jobs for people who only went to high school (or less) are disappearing. I mean, a lot of university graduates with bachelor degrees can't find jobs!

That's pretty much where I am right now. I graduated college five years ago and am still working in a supermarket. That why I'm starting grad school this fall.