High School, place of suffering

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Well, I took close to forty credits in school and I was seventh in my class...I'm not being smart or anything my father was a teacher, and it helped a lot.

Just smile and bear it, believe me, college is worth the trouble. I've had more and better friends in college than ever before in my life. I was a nobody in high school...Star Wars geek, computer lover, son of a teacher...and in college I was deemed the most eligible bachelor (by some very close female friends) on the campus and have close to thirty close friends. Hang in there guys and gals, the experience is well worth the blood and sweat of high school.

 

I know that it's financially easier to be at school but i find the emotional strain to be to much somtimes. In all schools you get the few popular idiots who manage to make life hell for people who are different to them.




[This message has been edited by Z-Layrex (edited March 30, 2002).]

 

You just need to think positive about life. A wise Spanish teacher once told me this. If you think positive you might just pull High School off.

(no sarcasm intended)

 

I've got it! The reason I was more positive about high school than anyone else is because I live in Scotland - home of the dumbed-down Higher Still farce, whereby any idiot can get nine As over two years. The work I did was so nonsensically easy I had plenty of time to waste my life playing computer games. And of course, unlike most people I like having things easy instead of looking for a challenge. I'm currently in the first year of University, on a course which supposedly isn't challenging until third year - and I'm already suffering for trying to take it as easy as I did in high school. Also I don't tend to be very sociable - I go about in a little bubble of ignorance and shyness, and can't possibly follow the Byzantine politics that supposedly exist in every classroom - so the whole social aspect shich I have heard is so important has completely passed me by. I want to go back, or rather I want to have been through differently and come out as something other than a compulsive mouse-pusher.

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It's the high-school system that really sucks, not the high school itself.

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High school...
every day is terrible when you are labled or when you dont feel like working. Its really tough when you move from a place that passes people with a 50 to a place that passes people with a 70. trying to raise all your grades by 20 points on different teacher expectations is tough.

 

I have no idea what you're talking about, place of suffering? High school is great! The biggest problem I've encountered has been the whole like-the-girl-so-much-it-hurts-but-she-doesn't-like-you-that-way issue, but it didn't take more than a couple of weeks to deal with that (Wait for the feelings to subside). Anyways, high school is what you, and your friends, make of it. (Of course, due to changes in the provincial school board, I get to be a senior for two years, grade 11 and 12!! Of course, I get a year taken away, but hey, that means university in 1 year less!).

 

Just an onbservation born from months of skipping classes in favor of hanging in SP/otherwise misusing the school computers:

If one wants to find a calm place that doesn't have that many people in it, go find the classroom with computers.

Ara
(Insane enough to admit it and use it as an excuse for not doing homework.... seriously!)

 

Interesting: at university it seems to be the opposite: the computer room is the center of social interaction, the focal point of student life and VERY NOISY!

Anyway, on topic: I thought high school was great. Did little or no work, lots of free time... ahh nostalgia...