Did/does anyone actually like high school?

What are the good things about hs/college? The bad?

-- Anonymous, January 21, 2001

Answers

High school sucked. The jocks hated me. I was a band geek, and I loved my friends, but the day-to-day sucked.

College is better. You can get away from the assholes and find your own niche of friends. Most times, you don't even have to deal with the jerks much in class, unless it's a really small class.

But college sucks when freshman are just getting their first taste of freedom and have no means to control themselves. That's No Good.

ps: I'm glad you're trying to write more often, Katie. I miss you.

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2001

i'm a senior, so i don't have much other than jr high to compare high school to (and i'm sure we all know how much fun that was), but high school is a little odd for me. i hated my freshman and junior years, but loved my sophomore and am loving my senior year. i've learned to filter jerks out of my every day life and am finally getting to the point where i can be open and out of my shell in most social situations. i've also worked on friendships and getting to know people i wouldn't ordinarily. for that, i love high school. for all of the stereotypical reasons (sometimes the jerks DO get to me, i'm tired of listening to people whispering things under their breaths about things i may or may not have done, etc.), i hate it. i guess i can't make it anything other than that.

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2001

I hate high school. I'l just like it noted that I hate high school. I spent a single night with my sister at her dorm, and I fell in love with college and everything about it. (Did I mention I'm a sophomore, and I have abot four sevenths of an eternity left here?) Lord.

-- Anonymous, January 23, 2001

I must say that I had mixed feelings about high school. At the time, I was having a blast, while at the same time understanding that I was a nerd and no one would ever want to date me. I had lots of band/drama friends, but we were eschewed completely by the popular crowd. (In the county, you're branded for life around 5th grade and there's no changing your status. Once a nerd, always a nerd.) anyway, so there was no hope of breaking that. Rather than aspire to be cool, we wrote the popular people off as "jerks, "idiots," "players," "jocks," etc. and went on about the business of being nerds.

As it turns out, they were fine human beings, which I didn't find out until an xmas break around age 21 when a lot of us ended up partying together. It was very hard for me to deal with the fact that I had done to them what I always accused them of doing to me: labeled them unfairly. Very rude awakening.

Of course, some of them actually were jerks. But not as many as I'd originally suspected. There are jerks everywhere, it's just a matter of correctly ferreting them out. When you brand someone a jerk and have to admit later you were wrong, it's very hard to deal with. Even if you never acted on their jerkiness. You still feel like an asshole inside.

So for those of you still in high school, my only advice is to try to lighten up, get the chip off your shoulder if you have one, and don't dislike people by assuming they dislike you. Oh yeah, life gets a lot less serious after high school, so you have that to look forward to.

Anyway. Yes I liked high school. I probably like it more in retrospect than I did at the time, though. I feel like an old lady talking. I'm really only 23. That's basically... I'm like, a spring chicken.

-- Anonymous, January 23, 2001

Well, let's put it this way...I spent the first twelve years of my education in Catholic school. Finally getting to hit the "freedom" of college was like...an epiphany of life, or something. That's actually the reasoning behind my email name - everyone's like, oh, you graduated high school in '98. But it's more than that. It's like I'm celebrating the year I was finally able to become a real person. Cheesy, I know...but that's how I am sometimes :)

-- Anonymous, January 24, 2001

HS was ok, I mean, the after school stuff I did like Choir, Drama and Cross Country rocked, but the class thing really sucked. I had friends, but didn't really fit in with any one crowd, I drifted between different groups depending ojn my mood.

As for college, well...I think I've covered that before. I have gained the best friends I've ever had, but I hate the school itself. Can't 2002 come along so I can finally get the fuck out of there?

Anywho's...

-- Anonymous, January 25, 2001

I'm odd in this way, but I really liked high school. But I hated middle school and probably would have hated high school if I'd stayed in the public school system that my middle school was in. Instead I went to a really small (80 students, grades 7-12) private school for social misfits...half the people there were the types who had behavioural problems and would get in screaming fights with teachers and do drugs and such, but the other half were these genius artistic kids who rejected the system and such. It was a great place to be for me.

-- Anonymous, January 26, 2001

I absolutely love High School. The only qualm is that you think you're so much older now. Now looking at the freshman I think, wow, I was really that small thinking I was so big.

I guess I'm in the popular crowd at school, but that's not really hard to get into. I got into it because of my "half-assed" (as Katie likes to say) brother. He was the big arrogant jerk that made everyones day hell. My group of friends however, are all younger siblings that were corrupted by thier older popular siblings. So now, we're the super nice group that actually talks and hangs out with everyone. Our class is blessed that way. Differences aside, we're all friends. Then again, I got to Seperate Catholic School in Canada, how bad can we really get?

-- Anonymous, January 26, 2001

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-- Anonymous, January 27, 2001

i love high school! everything about it is so much fun! but i cant wait to go to college and meet some new people! I think that everyone in my school is ready to go and move on to better things! we graduate in 3 months! yeah! i am looking forward to college it shoudl be a great new fun experience!

-- Anonymous, March 18, 2001

I want to smack the shit out of my dad every time he tells me that I'll miss high school when I graduate. YEAH, OKAY. High school has been the WORST time of my life. I'd rather kiss a toilet seat than go to high school each and every day. UGH

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2001