Highschool

[limetree]

I've left high school now, although I'm meant to be in my senior year... I hated high school, I forgot half the stuff I learnt except social perceptiveness. Change is exciting as well as terrifying. I'm prone to nostalgia in general, but even if I wouldn't want to go back, I don't want to enter the working world in a hurry either. I learnt a lot about myself in high school, how I identified myself in relation to others through relationships or lack thereof. In my english class when the topic of identity was being discussed, one guy raised his hand and said, "identity is how others perceive you." Hell, even I didn't believe that. It was evident that even the most confident bullies are victims of peer pressure and pack mentality. By playing/enabling the game they're being controlled by the very same fear of failure people with SA are subject to.

I was the shy, quiet girl who always listening to my ipod or reading. I never really got involved in class participation or "school spirit" activities... I cared about academic performance until year 11 when total apathy consumed me and I started sabotaging my performance. I spent that last year complaining about how shit high school is and how the school system should be totally reformed. Luckily I got to express my opinion in a council's survey before I left. I found it difficult making friends, sustaining conversations, fitting in, usual SA stuff.

 

[Lorraine Manca]

i hated highschool! even though im a shy person, i harrassed the administration at my highschool until they let me leave a year early as long as i promised to take certain classes in college.
think about it, eight hours aday sitting in a chair listening to the teachers gab. you'd really be nuts to enjoy that.

 

[slicknsly]

I was actually kind of popular and good at making jokes. But was quiet enough not to disrupt the teachers in class. Though i knew many people and they knew me i never let them get to know me personally. I had a two good friends. One of which I went to elementary school with and knew since 5th grade

 

[iamthenra]

Highschool wasn't much different than what I am like now. Being introverted I kept to myself, which made me target for bullies. I guess that is the only difference. I got beat up allot back in high school, now most of them bullies grew up and are actually quite civil... Blemishes are still a problem for me. I'm 41 and I still get acne very bad at times.

 

[AmunetSide]

High school was weird. I was cool with everyone, random people STILL look me up on MySpace, but I wasn't one of the popular girls. I was in all the advanced classes, but I was never labeled as a nerd. I got into fights, but I wasn't a bully either. I think, in hindsight, I traveled in a different orbit than the majority of my peers. I was pretty much what I needed to be WHEN I needed to be it…

 

[DownInAHole]

Mediocre........

 

[Harleyq]

I guess it was ok. I had a life - a group of 10 friends who I still care about even though we don't talk anymore. We were the school's nerds but we weren't exactly outcasts, if that made sense. It was just kind of acknowledged that we were uncool but we weren't disliked or picked on very often.

Hell, I can't lie, I wish I could go back to my highschool days. Now I'm 21, worried about my future, and I only have one or two people I can say that I'm mildly friends with, at best.