How was your High School experience and why?
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By 9th Grade, I was still the most popular kid in the neighborhood and still athletic. Although I went to a school I didn't like. I hadn't grown whatsoever and had been the same since age 10, but I wasn't that worried yet and still thought a growth spurt would be imminent.
By 10th Grade, I entered a neighboring school and was still popular there. I had four childhood friends, and two of them went to a poorer school, while one of them was in this school I was now in. I joined track and field there and the wrestling team, but still hadn't grown yet, as my growth spurt was overdue. I started to worry.
By 11th Grade, everything changed. My three friends, one of which was in the same school, had all fully grown to adult age. ("D" was 6'4", "J" was 6'1", and "C" the female of the group, was 6'0".) I started seeing a doctor every other week to see what was wrong with me, but the idiot couldn't help me. I had done the SAT's, but after that, started to lose interest in school work and grew more depressed.
By 12th Grade, everyone had now reached adulthood size and I never did. My best friends betrayed me and I felt super depressed and moody from it. I stopped caring about everything and my popularity had disappeared completely. I became the "moody" kid no one dared messed with. Unless they were new to the school, like this one wanna-be bully was. I rammed him against a locker, shoved my elbow into his windpipe, and threatened to follow him home and kill him in his sleep if he dared try to f*ck with me. I was suspended and told to see the school counselor. My depression had fully blossomed, even if I had never grew an inch since ten. My former best friends graduated high school having transformed into confident adults and I had regressed.
I'd spend another 13 years fighting depression, in addition to the one year of 12th grade. So in short, I started high school at the peak of the social ladder and ended it suicidal. Mostly due to Precocious Puberty being something I was stuck with all my life.
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Loved it!! I often think of my high school and college years as some of the best of my life.
It was that time when you started having a social life independent of your parents. In my case, it was when I started developing the interests that would carry through into my professional life and career. Oh, yeah, and there was girls, too.
For my part, although I did not think of myself that way at the time, I guess I was a popular kid. I worked on the high school newspaper and threw myself into it with gusto. In fact, there were months - it came out monthly in those days - when I was literally the whole editorial section of the paper.
Some of the friendships I made have lasted to this day. When I am back in my home town, I still have lunch or get together not only with some of my friends from those days, but even the teachers.
In many ways, it was the typical high school experience. Homecoming, prom, the occasional sporting event - my younger brother was more the athlete, I was more the scholarly guy - but I would go to a football or baseball game with my girlfriend.
Of yeah, I did mention my girlfriend. I dated - briefly - several gals until I met this one. We just hit it off and dated all the way from my junior - her sophomore - year till my sophomore - her freshman - year of college.
She had a large family and they lived on the lake and every Independence Day would throw a huge party. It was that night - again between my sophomore and junior years of high school that... well... let's just say that I became a man!!!
Add it all up... and I could go on and on and on and on... and it was a great experience that shaped me in many ways and gave me friendships and interests that I hold to this day. To be sure, the years that followed had many great things - my college years, the birth of my children, etc. - but I like to think that my high school years were the starting point of a really good life.
My freshman and sophomore year was AMAZING. I went to a private school, had a great group of friends, was social, got good grades and loved going to school. It was like a second home.
My mom sent me to a private school that only had 100 students grade K-12 for my junior and senior year. My graduating class had 7 people. It was a Catholic school that had extreme views, had girls dressing like nuns, etc. I remember begging my mom daily to not send me to this school and cried everyday that summer. I had no friends, sat in the bathroom during lunch, had depression, became an emotional eater, gained 100 pounds, she never let me see my friends, etc. It literally changed who I was and was the stepping stone to why I’m the way I am today.
If I had stayed at my first school, I know my life would be so much different. I’m 24 and the happiest time in my life was my freshman and sophomore year of high school along with my senior graduation because I got out of that school. I don’t know what happiness is anymore honestly. It sent me into a spiral of depression, emotional eating and now an eating disorder that I have never been able to get out of.
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I 100% standby saying that going to my high school was the hardest I have ever worked in my life during a concentrated period of time...and I graduated with honors from university. I went to a high school where medicine was their specialty so it was designed to prepare you for med school. The workload was absolutely relentless. From the moment we started freshman year, on average we did about 4 hours or more of homework a night, we had endless rounds of medical terminology we had to memorize and practical's to do that we had to ace. We were all taking advanced math/science classes on top of mandatory college prep courses and more volunteer hours than the average high school. It didn't even end in the summer, because we were given assignments to do during our summers. I once saw a documentary on the rigors of the Korean educational system, and I was like, "relatable!" My social life was not great because of the constant workload but that insane school made university, jobs, life problems, seem a lot easier having gone through it all, so I'm not bitter about it.
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High school was miserable for me. My mother was in the Army so the high school I went to was not even where I grew up. I knew nobody when I started high school. My first fight in high school was because a bully decided to try to choke me. When I beat him up, I got suspended too. However, that fight also revealed that I knew martial arts, which made my life even more of a living hell because everyone wanted to beat me to prove themselves and the teachers used my knowledge of martial arts as a reason why I should not be fighting. The teachers basically said that I should just take the beating because I'm tough enough to do so (never mind that I was outnumbered and the other students had weapons yet I received the same or greater punishment than them). NOBODY (talking about other students) ever stood up for me or tried to help me. When I went home, my mother was an abusive alcoholic (had good reasons for it, but that did not help me) so going home was no relief. The only happiness I found was my first job. I loved going to work both because it was a relief from the hell of school and home and because my coworkers felt like family (I still keep in touch with most of them today). I would have dropped out if it was not for ONE teacher in my corner. I'll never forget her and her kindness. She NEVER wrote me up or got me in trouble. She would actually listen to me and try to offer me helpful advice. She never made me feel like I was a waste of space. She was the ONLY reason I graduated, which allowed me to join the military.
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I had a lot of fun with my friends but at the same time I was kinda depressed because I was too afraid to pursue girls and I felt like I was the only virgin in my school. I decided I was never going to approach any girls I went to homecoming once without a date and never went to a school dance again. Never had a date or a girlfriend in high school let alone sex, didn’t go to prom and accepted the fact I would be a lifetime virgin. Aside from all that I still thoroughly enjoyed hanging out with my guy friends smoking weed and getting drunk with them. But my inability to get girls definitely was a huge bummer and mental burden. Kind of taints all my good memories. I didn’t lose my virginity till like eight months ago. Before that I really had a mindset that no women would ever find me attractive. I was fully prepared to lose my virginity to a hooker. Im a lot better now, I have a friends with benefits thing going on with this one girl and im having fairly decent luck on dating apps. All in all high school was ok, but I do wish I could of had at least had one girlfriend in high school
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Absolutely hated it, & I wish I had never attended to the one I had gone to. The education material they have in their system is just pathetic. There was always fights happening all the damn time and I mean ALL the time. Some of these students acted like bullies practically treated the high school like it was jail or prison, some of these bullies acted like they wanted to be a gang leader/"shot caller" & "hold the keys" to the school & the school field. If you didn't so called "put in work",.. you would get your head smashed in/"wig-split". If you some how pissed off the so called bully gang leader/"Shot Caller",.. he would "order a hit/put a green light" on you.
Teachers were just pathetic. Every time these stupid kids wanted to kick off a "jail or prison riot", their so called "best solutions" were to just ignore them. No wonder why they all merely had an education degree & not a criminal justice degree. This was beyond their scope of work. The teachers never gave you the education that you needed to advance yourself in life considering they always thought it might be too hard for you regardless if you were interested or not.
There are times I even thought if it was best to just drop out of that program considering there wasn't a good deal amount of education value in what they taught.
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A real living hell. Most people that had an amazing high school experience were either the jerky bullies that were taking joy on making the others suffer, or some lucky popular kids that were popular for not apparent reason. High school is a nightmare for most teens cause you get judged and belittled in your most insecure period of your life and where you’re the most mentally vulnerable, most of your classmates will try to make fun of you for no reason, and the teachers most likely don’t give a fuck, and can even be a part of the bullying. That was my experience tho.
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It was miserable. I was a fat kid that everyone picked on and I got into weight training in 9th grade. This was 35 years ago when nobody was training with weights. I lost weight and got in shape but was still the same fat kid to everyone else. By the time I was in my Junior year the football coach asked me to go out for the team. I was an angry kid and wanted no part of any of it. I didn't have many friends and I didn't go to the prom or went out on dates. I was an average student. I was happy to graduate and never look back.
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I was extremely short and skinny in HS. I weighed 120. So I was often a victim of bullying and when I would hit on girls it lead to dozens of reactions. One girl told me. "Sorry, I like my boys with some meat on my bones."
So I realized I wasn't what women wanted so I got fit, very fit. And now my confidence matches my body type. I was always confident but now I attract a lot more women because I have meat on my bones.
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No on my graduation day this stupid idiot class clown crash behind my car that I had spend 4 years saving up. That jerk I had to deal with his clownish behavior ever since 3 grade. I hated that kid with a passion and still do to this day he is a old grown married man now. When I go to Forthwort his stupid face still apires in town. Also remember there so much drama and way way to much competition , Who wear the best clothes who drives the best car. I remember well I went to high school is n Texas and teachers would just hand you packets not interact with you they would just sit around texting or long on the computer watching YouTube. No I am good now.
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For me, it was like a long prison sentence. I was very backward and withdrawn, had few friends, got bullied a little, got made fun of a lot, didn’t get involved in any activities, and just had a long depressing time. I just showed up, stayed as invisible as possible, did my homework, and passed on to the next grade.
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High school was so much fun, I met lifelong friends, and learned a lot about life. :) I was a super nerdy type of kid but I genuinely enjoyed high school, as to why I liked it is mostly because of my awesome teachers who really cared about their students, a quality that's hard to find these days!
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I'm still in high school, it's my third year n here we have 4years to graduate...
My experience was literally bad, I'm not so social person plus I'm friendless and I feel everyone is childish around me but by time it turns out I was wrong I don't like fun and I never started a conversation even people who try to talk to me I push them away so now everyone is scared of mingling with me...
Thank god I still have two friends but they r not my besties we just hang out and talk n spend most of the time together...
Anyway 60% of high school time was spent at home since we had corona for almost 2 years n the lockdown thing and reducing days of studies and stuff...
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I was a popular, quite, helpful, teachers pet, shadow/invisible.
Everybody at school knew who i am, because i did make a lot of great things, gave good advices to other students, helped out many times, i was everybodys friend, although i stayed away from many people and trubble. Said no to many drunk parties. Books were my escape comfort zone.
Even though i was someone anyone can feel comfortible talking to, i only hanged out with my only 2 close friends, because they were introvert and chill. -
It's been alright so far. I've struggled with grades in math/science majority of the time, but other than that it's been.
Socially, I do alright. I'm a tall pale lanky kid who wears black a lot and is often sleep deprived, so I can come off as intimidating to people. Just going off of what people have said for that, but soon as they talk to me they realize I'm very friendly lmao -
I quite enjoyed my time in highschool. I went to a Waldorf school so I spent elementary, middle and highschool with the same students plus minus a few who moved in or out. It was in the same building with the same teachers. My graduating class was 11 people including myself.
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It was pretty great even though I got pregnant and ended up graduating early so I could be a stay at home mom. I can honestly say that I could have lived my adult life without my diploma so I'm not sure it was worth all the hassle of acutally graduating.
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Not typical. I'm from Los Angeles and our public school system is terrible, one of the worst in the nation. As such, parents make a lot of sacrifices to send their kids to private schools, so I went to a private school filled with the kids of CEOs, top lawyers, etc. Everyone there was future and career-oriented and being a nerd (not a socially challenged one, though) was normal.
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High school was OK but not spectacular. I did very well but I wasn't involved with much, like student politics or anything like that. I studied and got good grades and was the best student in many classes, but I didn't even know who the student president was. Turned out he was someone I knew in one of my classes but I didn't even know it... LOL
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I loved it all. It was so much fun. Hanging out and being with friends. Doing what teens do. The it ended and covid came. And since life is at a stand still. We grow old and move forward but don’t get to experience the things we should have. So. Yea. I’d love to go back. Just to be able to be normal again.
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I loved high school. It was filled with after school bonfires at friends, going to the beach and having sleep-overs after with sand still in our hairs, falling asleep in each other’s mom’s cars on the way back to ur own house, 4 hour threeway conversations on how we’ll all be famous, cafeteria hang outs, funny group projects, bathroom karaoke, group crushing on boys just for the fun of it, school dances, school clubs, changing ur style every week, etc. It was such a care free time where
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Awful. The American high school system is set up to give you the knowledge you need to pass standardized tests, and not much more than that. If you fall behind, there's some programs in place to catch up, but if you move ahead, you'll find yourself pulled back. And if you openly defy it... hoo boy, you'd better be ready for a helluva fight.
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Awful. Thank God it finally ends. All my school years were awful. I developed social anxiety and agoraphobia really young, so school was always like hell to me. I was reallyyy lonely in high school. I only spent one year having some friends. But they were mentally ill (two of them self-harmed). They were not honest and I didn't share any common interest with them.
Nobody was interested in talking to me. Most girls didn't like me. And generally people at my age could not relate to me. And as for relationships, I didn't experience anything with the opposite gender, in relation to many teens in high school. It was a time for me to focus on my studies.
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