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

[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.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

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.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

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.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

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.

 

[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 *****ebags 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 ******s 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.

 

[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.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

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

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

 

[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 ******ed 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!

 

[Hound55]

Oh Lord, the stories I could tell...

 

[Colossal Spoons]

About you outrunning every poisonous creature in Australia?