This is tough, since I thoroughly detested high school on many levels.
This is perverse, but the only thing I enjoyed was actively pointing out stupidity on the social level. High school students handed me daily doses of comedy, and I had to act upon it.
A couple of examples:
- Some kids at school had a habit of bringing along their CD players and strolling down the halls rapping along with their "music," as if they were trying to impress people. Well, they impressed other morons, but not me. I always mocked them, and of course they got angry at me (but never dared lay a fist to me, for whatever reasons)
- Sports are always instantly recognizable emblems of stupidity, and as such, I had fun taunting vain, pompous athletes in gym class, as well as the game itself and everyone who took it seriously. While most students were going in a hissy fit when they missed a point, I actively did things to adversely affect the points of whichever team I was slapped onto. It ended up being useful not only in mocking the kids who take sports seriously, but also in getting me "out" so that I could stay outside of the drudgery of the game.
I love high school! I always hated it last year but now its ripping awsome!
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You guys are so lucky, I can't think of one positive aspect of HS. I hate it. I started classes again on the 12th and it's been terrible. I didn't even go on Friday. And yesterday I decided that I'm leaving my HS and I'm going to do my last year in a program where you do it online at home. That's how bad it is.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. - E.B.White
I know what you mean, I'm both Alexander the Great and a Caesar (though I haven't figured out whether it was Octavia, but that's my suspicion) ireincarnated.
My town is very much like yours, country. our grades are actually smaller (and it's a regional school) but knwoing everyone-wise. I could name every person in my old highschool. Everyone knew everyone else, and I really liked that. Ofcourse this year, I'm in a school of 50 students per grade (100 students total) so once again I get to know everyone. College should be an eye opener.
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I live in a small community and am four hours away (in all directions) from a city. It's probably weird for some of you who live in cities, but we practically know everyone in our high school (abt. 100 students in each grade). If we don't know them, it's not hard to find out who someone is. I went to a large city school for a football trip to cheer and it was an eye opener! It's like you are one thing that you are really good at and that's it! Also, it's like each of your schools are a small to scale new york, so you basically stick with people that you know and don't try and get to know the whole city. It's just weird to think about. I don't think I could handle it! I mean, here we aren't all best friends. There are plenty of people that I would never hang out with, but in a city it's on a different level because you don't know everyone like we do here. We don't have the stabbings, and the extreme fights. Yes, we've had the fights take place, but they weren't like what you would see at a big school. Last year a fellow student of our school took his life. The next day went everyone found out what had happened, the story at school wasn't "did you hear there was a some guy that killed himself last night?" It was "you know Glen Ivings*...." We all knew him. I wasn't his friend, and I don't think I ever spoke to him, but I knew his face when I looked through my year book at the end of the year and I knew him. Even though it was one of the most difficult days at school I have ever had besides sept. 11, 2001, it was nice to know that we all could support each other for that day. School life in a small town doesn't have the swimming team, ice hockey, or any other extra class that our school doen't need. However, it diffinitly has it's advantages.
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