Which school year stressed you out the most?

[iceestarz 5,765]

For me it's probably this year, my senior year. I mean all my classes are a breeze and I've got all A's so far. My lowest grade has been a 90 so far which was in English cause I had trouble following along with Beowulf since it bored the crud outta me.

 

Just all this college crap is stressful. Mostly because I'm the first one in my family to go through the process. I'm already way ahead than most of my friends and probably most of the seniors at my school. I've finished my college application for West Texas A&M, I just have to get a transcript request form and basically I'll be all done. I'm gonna wait till the end of this month to have my parents pay the fee and then I just have to copy the application and get the other 3 applications sent off as well. I've got 5 scholarship applications submitted so far, I have a few saved since the deadlines are so far off from now but I still have some more I'm gonna apply to for these next few months.

 

Not to mention I have to take the SAT TOMMOROW UGGGGH. And I gotta register for the ACT for next month. so much crap. So much stress.

Edited October 11, 2014 by Cupcakes14

[Vox 870]

My worst year was likely Sophmore, what with all geometry and such, math was always my absolute weakest subject.

[CT-1138 3,182]

Junior year and the freaking ACTs! I hated that an test and I still do!

[A Black Circle 1,586]

Seventh Grade.

 

And I'm a month into it.

[Redeye 399]

Fourth Grade.

 

I'm in 9th now, but damn, my 4th grade teacher was a Grumpy old BITCH! She even acted like a witch towards me on my birthday... 

[DubWolf 17,279]

I hope you specifically meant in terms of workload....

 

Probably this year (college junior). I'm no longer in the marching band, but I also have a job, and most of my classes give a decent load of homework, which means I'll be busy pretty often.

[iceestarz 5,765]

Seventh Grade.

 

And I'm a month into it.

7th grade was the struggle of my jr high years. Literally I try not to think of that year ever. It was just the worst. So I feel you.

I hope you specifically meant in terms of workload....

 

Probably this year (college junior). I'm no longer in the marching band, but I also have a job, and most of my classes give a decent load of homework, which means I'll be busy pretty often.

I kinda tried not to make it too specific cause people might hate one school year because of esteem issues or something. But if workload applies for that school year then by all means!

 

Homework sucks.

 

Although I wouldn't know since my teachers hardly ever give homework, save for my history teacher who absolutely loves giving our class useless projects that take forever.

[Lelek 178]

Education here is different. The most stressful school year is the year I am in now (college senior year?) and taking the CIE A Level exams. I don't know how to compare with American education but it is most like the same level as taking the SATs?

 

**note: CIE A Level = Cambridge International Examination Advanced Level.

[Tanos 179]

This year (Senior in high school) for sure. College apps are the worst!!

[Scrubbed user 3,416]

My sophomore year in high school was just awful for me. Junior year is only slightly behind.

[Starshine 16,334]

The last year of high school. The schooling system here is kinda weird in that instead of a week full of tests, we have a whole fricking months full of projects, so freaking lot of it... I can remember crying at 2 AM when I ran out of printer ink

[Dovashy 1,734]

Definitely my second to last year, year 11. It was really hectic in regards to work, and also life in general. 

[lomk 20,663]

All you kiddos talking about junior year this, ACT that, SAT, whatever. 

 

As a grad student, none of you have anything on me. I've been doing the school thing for 17 years now officially. And I have to say that pursuing an MBA while working 36 hours a week is very stressful indeed. You guys don't know what a stressful school year is until you have to take an Advanced Business Statistics course which you care nothing about and have to drive over an hour to get to. My paycheck is docked 10% because I have to work 4 hours less than normal to go to school. 10% may not sound like much but it's about a $280 difference each month. That's a little less than half my rent (which is a HUGE expense, I might add - about 35% of my paycheck goes to paying rent alone). Not to mention the gas it takes to get there, the cost of books, the depreciation on my car, the risk I take by even driving it out that far because it's old as dirt, and the cost of school such as fees and tuition.

 

All this, and I still have to manage to pay my electric bill, rent, phone bill, credit card bill, internet bill....all kinds of bills. And my salary is pretty modest for living in a nice area of downtown Oklahoma City. The cost of living is much higher here than it was in my little college town. 

 

So yeah, all you kids who think you've got it rough...wait a few years and you'll laugh at the "problems" and "stresses" you had in high school. I promise it. They're nothing compared to adulthood. 

Edited October 11, 2014 by Space Woona

[Snow Frostflame 3,568]

currently I'm a Senior I would have to say of all 13 years (its including kindergarten) I would have to say my Sophomore year was the most stressful year of school maybe even in my life so far, I will just leave it at that

[Dewdlz 938]

Senior year for me was the worst for two reasons:

 

1. I was supposed to graduate 2 years before.

2. All of my friends already graduated a year before me, so I had not a single friend.

 

I wanted to quit so many times, I barely passed on purpose and wanted to get my GED. I still graduated, and those days of being institutionalized still haunts me to this day.

[Stellafera 3,836]

So yeah, all you kids who think you've got it rough...wait a few years and you'll laugh at the "problems" and "stresses" you had in high school. I promise it. They're nothing compared to adulthood. 

 

True, you definitely have it rougher than most of us here, but having responsibility and big stresses in life is new to us.

 

You go from being a little kid who doesn't have any real responsibilities to being somebody who is expected to be able to step up their plate to become an adult, and fast. And all of this while our minds are still developing. You pay bills? We don't know what bills are yet. We're going to have to learn. Think of all the lessons you've learnt in your adult life, delete them, and add in a lot of fear about your place in the world. Even the "low" workload of high school can be stressful then. 

 

And additionally, even though I acknowledge that your work is more difficult, I wouldn't count out a high schooler's workload either....

 

Let's see, my school day is slightly longer than 8 hours.

 

8 x 5 = 40. 40 hour work week, depending on your classes, can be low or high intensity. Not that bad.

 

And hmm, I usually do homework for about... 3 hours, averaging in between my late work nights and those days where I don't actually have a lot to do. 

 

3 x 5 = 15.

 

55 hour work week. Add in a project and 3 tests of your choosing.

 

At least we get good vacation benefits.

[long gone 8,929]

My senior year.

• Everyone below the 11th grade were annoying as hell
• Workflow was sometimes too much for me, or at times too little for me, with some classes having too little work (history) with others having too much work (English)
• Most of the teachers I had the past three years were either stricter or downright left - and their replacements weren't that great
• On that, they scrutinized me each time I was late for class, telling me scare stories that my college professors wouldn't let me into class at all if I was late (which never even happened, so ha)
• Senior outing, which was hyped up to be this huge, special thing for seniors, was boring as hell
• There was this one girl in my classroom named Deanna. She wasn't in my grade but was in my classroom anyway because of her age, and she was easily the most ANNOYING person in the entire school
• Had to get up very early in the morning towards the end because my transportation company was suddenly switched from Attleboro Public Schools to this privately-owned company, probably because of this kid from Mansfield who wanted to be on the same bus as me
• Many classes felt rushed and many teachers barely knew how to work their computers - I sometimes spent more time doing tech support than actually working
• Almost all of the cool people graduated by then
• Many senior projects seemed utterly pointless and more in-line with an elementary or middle school environment than a high school one
• 9th graders absolutely sucked
• This one goes for all four high school grades, but NONE of my classes taught me anything relevant to what I'd be studying in the future, and I got more out of some subjects through alternate means than I did in school (e.g. Kerbal Space Program for physics)

[Starflower 323]

Prooobably senior year. I had a job during that year, being an office assistant at a middle school. It was hard to balance classes, and the long rides home, and the 5:00 pm end shifts. At least school ended at 12:30 for me, which was alright. 

[Lelek 178]

All you kiddos talking about junior year this, ACT that, SAT, whatever. 

 

As a grad student, none of you have anything on me. I've been doing the school thing for 17 years now officially. And I have to say that pursuing an MBA while working 36 hours a week is very stressful indeed. You guys don't know what a stressful school year is until you have to take an Advanced Business Statistics course which you care nothing about and have to drive over an hour to get to. My paycheck is docked 10% because I have to work 4 hours less than normal to go to school. 10% may not sound like much but it's about a $280 difference each month. That's a little less than half my rent (which is a HUGE expense, I might add - about 35% of my paycheck goes to paying rent alone). Not to mention the gas it takes to get there, the cost of books, the depreciation on my car, the risk I take by even driving it out that far because it's old as dirt, and the cost of school such as fees and tuition.

 

All this, and I still have to manage to pay my electric bill, rent, phone bill, credit card bill, internet bill....all kinds of bills. And my salary is pretty modest for living in a nice area of downtown Oklahoma City. The cost of living is much higher here than it was in my little college town. 

 

So yeah, all you kids who think you've got it rough...wait a few years and you'll laugh at the "problems" and "stresses" you had in high school. I promise it. They're nothing compared to adulthood.

 

We were discussing about the school related stress and issues. Be patient. We'll get there eventually (in a few years time). For the time being, I cannot say that school stress is much more horrible compared to your >insert topic here< stress and I also cannot say the same vice versa. We (by we, i meant the kids here and I) will get there eventually.

[iceestarz 5,765]

All you kiddos talking about junior year this, ACT that, SAT, whatever.

 

As a grad student, none of you have anything on me. I've been doing the school thing for 17 years now officially. And I have to say that pursuing an MBA while working 36 hours a week is very stressful indeed. You guys don't know what a stressful school year is until you have to take an Advanced Business Statistics course which you care nothing about and have to drive over an hour to get to. My paycheck is docked 10% because I have to work 4 hours less than normal to go to school. 10% may not sound like much but it's about a $280 difference each month. That's a little less than half my rent (which is a HUGE expense, I might add - about 35% of my paycheck goes to paying rent alone). Not to mention the gas it takes to get there, the cost of books, the depreciation on my car, the risk I take by even driving it out that far because it's old as dirt, and the cost of school such as fees and tuition.

 

All this, and I still have to manage to pay my electric bill, rent, phone bill, credit card bill, internet bill....all kinds of bills. And my salary is pretty modest for living in a nice area of downtown Oklahoma City. The cost of living is much higher here than it was in my little college town.

 

So yeah, all you kids who think you've got it rough...wait a few years and you'll laugh at the "problems" and "stresses" you had in high school. I promise it. They're nothing compared to adulthood.

Oh trust me. I already know it's gonna be stressful becoming an adult and doing things on my own.

 

I intend on getting scholarships so I don't gotta pay for pretty much anything which is why I'm gonna apply to a crud load cause I know I won't get em all. Probably for the first year I'll live in the dorms and then maybe share an apartment with my 2 friends who are going to Corpus Christi A&M(that's only if I decide on going there, still haven't made up my mind. Well if I get accepted that is )

 

Shoot I don't even look forward really to getting out of college and finding a job and living by myself cause it'll be probably faaaaar away from my family. Bills, doctors, all that jazz is not looking peachy to me. I just haven't had to deal with those things so they haven't stressed me out. Just remember that some of us are still kids and have yet to go through the struggles of adulthood

Senior year for me was the worst for two reasons:

 

1. I was supposed to graduate 2 years before.

2. All of my friends already graduated a year before me, so I had not a single friend.

 

I wanted to quit so many times, I barely passed on purpose and wanted to get my GED. I still graduated, and those days of being institutionalized still haunts me to this day.

Well I'm graduating on time but i totally understand how horrid it is to have no friends. I moved states my sophomore year and I had not a single friend, I struggled with staying in school. It was just god awful. I tried switching to online school but the principal talked me into doing half online and going to school for the other half. Which was fine, but having no friends was a crappy situation. I felt alone. Terrible feeling, but now I'm living back in the state that I moved from and going to the high school where all my friends go. So it's nice to have my friends back.

[__Duck-Quack__ 151]

Their all a bit of the same to me I have lot's of friends in both higher and lower grades and always meet new people, the work on the other hand is stessful regardless of dificulty.

 

And even in elementary school when I was bullied and teased I wasn't stressed or unhappy so I can't say that,

 

It's all very much the same to me I guess then.

Well I'm graduating on time but i totally understand how horrid it is to have no friends. I moved states my sophomore year and I had not a single friend, I struggled with staying in school. It was just god awful. I tried switching to online school but the principal talked me into doing half online and going to school for the other half. Which was fine, but having no friends was a crappy situation. I felt alone. Terrible feeling, but now I'm living back in the state that I moved from and going to the high school where all my friends go. So it's nice to have my friends back.

I had tons of supportive friends and I still felt lonely and slowly dropped out of school it wasn't always about having friends, but feeling okay about myself. But yeah I havn't seen or had a friend in 6 months so I know it's terrible.

[iceestarz 5,765]

I had tons of supportive friends and I still felt lonely and slowly dropped out of school it wasn't always about having friends, but feeling okay about myself. But yeah I havn't seen or had a friend in 6 months so I know it's terrible.

I can get where you're coming from. I didn't drop out but in 7th grade I had a really extremely crappy self esteem. I still have esteem issues but mostly just anxiety issues when put in overwhelming social situations. But I had tons of friends and still felt like crap cause I hated myself.

 

Really? everybody needs friends. Having none is awful. I'm sure you'll find some. I moved schools my junior year as well and had to start over. I thought I wasn't gonna make any friends like the previous year but I actually met some of my bestest friends up in Washington. I still talk to some of them even though I'm living in Texas. I'm sure you'll find some

[Shift 4,272]

I hated 6th grade and 5th grade. 5th grade because I needed to keep my grades up so I could get into the best classes once I got to middle school, and 6th grade because most of my teachers stunk and I cared about my 'image' or some other crap, and that's why I didn't join some of the more nerdy clubs. Thank god in 7th and 8th grade I just said 'what the hell, screw it' and joined all of the nerdy clubs and started reading long books for kicks.

 

I'm not excited about becoming an adult and going to college. That sounds stressful as hell.

Edited October 11, 2014 by Shift

[Wind Chaser 4,768]

I'll have to say college was bad for me, too. Before that, it was kindergarten, 11th grade, and 12th grade. Kindergarten because the school and class I went to sucked and were full of a-holes, 11th grade because of academic pressure, and 12th grade because of administrative incompetence, bureaucracy, and worrying about the future.

[Envy 6,172]

My first two years of college were super stressful because of outside issues. I probably would have cruised through them otherwise. I especially would have loved the first semester, because I was able to switch to my desired main instrument (bassoon, of course!) and I really began to feel that music was right for me.

 

But the outside issues made it downright terrifying for me.

 

Further years into college I had fully settled into denial mode... Although my year in university was the most stressful altogether, and that's why I'm not there right now. I attempted working, commuting, and majoring in music all at once, and it did not work for me on top of everything else. Never having a day off was too much for me. I somehow did fantastic academically, but not musically... In between everything I mentioned above and always being sick and exhausted out of my mind I could not keep up with practicing.

 

It was a sad realization... My dream simply can not be achieved anymore with my conditions.

 

Regardless of all of that, I treasure that year. I treasure the amazing classes I got to take from really good professors, getting to be in a high-level orchestra class, and the friends I made.