Poll: Do you miss high school(or college)?
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I'm in high school right now, and so far my theory is that if you fondly miss it in your 30s, than you were probably one of the people making it hell for everyone else. General exceptions apply, of course.
I've assumed it was a form of weeding out the weak ones among us. If you can go through high school, have adults say "it's the best time of your life" over and over, and not off yourself, than you are strong, my friend.Vault101 said:
Its not like its a bad thing that people say that to you anyway. But people in high school tend to find that annoying because they havent reached their post-high school years where they could think to themselves, "man, I wish I could go back in time and be in high school again".Dangit2019 said:
I miss having something to do (I'm unemployed and on a disability pension, until my books start selling and I start raking in the cash like Steven King and J.K. Rowling... it's totally going to happen!) but I don't miss the way I was treated by every girl ever (just about). Nor the fake, chaotic evil friends from school.
In retrospect I do miss some of my Grade and High School teachers.
My 7th grade English teacher, since she convinced me to keep writing, and would critique my writings.
My High School choir instructor. He was a pretty cool guy in his own right, and he was one of the few people that
actually encouraged me to sing, when I have a weird singing voice. (Think Coheed and Cambria or Rush). He even wanted me to do the big solo in Dinner Theater (The entirety of Bohemian Rhapsody)
My English 3 Teacher. I hated her unjustly in High School since she failed me (I failed due to my group not including my name on out project, and my own low marks in English)
As for actual High School, I don't miss it one bit. Too many assholes the first time around. However I think if I could go back and be 14 again with my current attitude I would probably be a lot more popular than I was the first time around.
It doesn't help that the majority of my classmates who stayed around here still have the same mental capacity they had in High School. I actually got a kick out of kicking one of them out of my store a few weeks back. He called Home Office on me, and he ended up getting completely banned from the store (To the point where if he comes in, we can call the cops).
I do miss college though, and I want to go back. The only thing holding me back is that I can't find a degree that seems that I'll enjoy and is relevant and can get me a job.
My 7th grade English teacher, since she convinced me to keep writing, and would critique my writings.
My High School choir instructor. He was a pretty cool guy in his own right, and he was one of the few people that
actually encouraged me to sing, when I have a weird singing voice. (Think Coheed and Cambria or Rush). He even wanted me to do the big solo in Dinner Theater (The entirety of Bohemian Rhapsody)
My English 3 Teacher. I hated her unjustly in High School since she failed me (I failed due to my group not including my name on out project, and my own low marks in English)
As for actual High School, I don't miss it one bit. Too many assholes the first time around. However I think if I could go back and be 14 again with my current attitude I would probably be a lot more popular than I was the first time around.
It doesn't help that the majority of my classmates who stayed around here still have the same mental capacity they had in High School. I actually got a kick out of kicking one of them out of my store a few weeks back. He called Home Office on me, and he ended up getting completely banned from the store (To the point where if he comes in, we can call the cops).
I do miss college though, and I want to go back. The only thing holding me back is that I can't find a degree that seems that I'll enjoy and is relevant and can get me a job.
I do. Currently in university and I miss how easy things were back then. I barely did anything and I was able to get by. Now I can spend 12 hours in school before I go home. Granted I like what I do do a higher degree now and I love the feeling of getting home after a whole day of science, but it's really tiring.
My high school class was pretty awesome too.
My high school class was pretty awesome too.
Only twenty, but I absolutely dreaded the weeks leading up to graduation from high school. I had made a decent amount of friends in high school. I kind of hung out with all the different social cliques, but never enough with any particular group so that I actually belonged to one of them. I was kind of a background person in each group. And because of that I knew that I would lose the majority of my friends. Graduation day came and that was the last time that I ever hung out with any of the people that I graduated with other than my best friend. Three years later and I still see pictures on facebook of my old friends getting together to party during summer vacation, but I have been forgotten.
College, on the other hand, sucks. Managed to make only a small handful of friends during my time at University and of those friends I only hang out with two of them outside of Quidditch practice. Probably would be even less if one of them was not my roommate.
College, on the other hand, sucks. Managed to make only a small handful of friends during my time at University and of those friends I only hang out with two of them outside of Quidditch practice. Probably would be even less if one of them was not my roommate.
The short answer is no, the long answer is FUUUUUUUUCK NO!
I was a phantom in my high school, nobody seemed to notice I was there - perhaps that was for the best. It was shunning, more or less. I wasn't really made fun of, I actually think people were genuinely scared of me because I was a bit of a quiet, anxious, smart-ass hothead in the years prior.
Of course, high school is designed to break your spirit and make you hate people, so you'll work in a windowless, crowded office day after day - wishing you could be more than you currently are. I don't plan on that happening. Also, fuck that social clique bullshit, shoot it in the ass, and drive it off a damn cliff at mach speed!
I'm still in college, well - I'm getting my Associates before moving on to Uni, and it is a little better than high school. It just seems... hectically tedious, if that makes sense. Sort of looking forward to Uni, although once I get there - I'm sure any form of excitement will be stamped out by some idiot.
I was a phantom in my high school, nobody seemed to notice I was there - perhaps that was for the best. It was shunning, more or less. I wasn't really made fun of, I actually think people were genuinely scared of me because I was a bit of a quiet, anxious, smart-ass hothead in the years prior.
Of course, high school is designed to break your spirit and make you hate people, so you'll work in a windowless, crowded office day after day - wishing you could be more than you currently are. I don't plan on that happening. Also, fuck that social clique bullshit, shoot it in the ass, and drive it off a damn cliff at mach speed!
I'm still in college, well - I'm getting my Associates before moving on to Uni, and it is a little better than high school. It just seems... hectically tedious, if that makes sense. Sort of looking forward to Uni, although once I get there - I'm sure any form of excitement will be stamped out by some idiot.
I'm currently 21, so I don't quite meet the "age criteria", but I miss high school quite a bit. Mainly just because it was easy and I didn't hate going. Then again, I prefer studying/learning over work anyway. That probably colours my opinion of high school a little.
Ok, I'm just gonna stop you right there. I have experienced that exact thing myself quite often. Maybe it depends upon which schools you go to, maybe it depends what state you are in, blah blah blah-lechat said:
But it still exists. Just pointing that out.
OT: I'm still in high-school and honestly it's... Well, not great. I'm sure I don't really need to explain.
I miss being babied I guess - never really having to think too hard or spend too long with homework and assignments. But I also really don't miss that aspect at all. I like having the freedom to voice my opinion, to discuss, and to not be told off if I have my phone out. It didn't help I went to a Catholic school, and very readily turned atheist after seeing how little the Church was willing to compromise with change after 2000 or so years. I miss the camaraderie of small classes and teachers that know you personally, and seeing your friends everyday.
But of course I miss those days. Anything where you are younger seems better somehow.
But of course I miss those days. Anything where you are younger seems better somehow.
No not really, I never went all that much anyway. School was shit, there was little point in going to a crumbling 1970s building with a leaking roof and no heating where there was little education to be had because all the teachers where too busy trying to get through the day with their teeth all where they where supposed to be.
Hanging around the estates "earning" money for cider and other interesting substances was much better.
Hanging around the estates "earning" money for cider and other interesting substances was much better.
I sometimes miss high school a bit, because the assignments feel so much more easier then in Uni. I remember how I used to complain about only getting two weeks to do a 300 word essay, and now in Uni, I only get one week to do 3000 word assignments. It does get easier over time though, because high word counts are only a problem when you don't know what to write about.
Fuck no. Working in HR is hilarious and they never tell me to do a cross country run.
I'm in control of my life now.
I'm in control of my life now.
Where's the "If I ever start missing high school, I would be labelled as clinically insane, and put out of my misery" option? High school was hell for me. There's a reason I dropped out when I was 16, and it wasn't because I was so stoked about entering the workforce. High school made me suicidal.