Which school year stressed you out the most?

[A Black Circle 1,586]

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.

Yeah.

-Attempted Suicide

-Brink of Insanity

-Emotionally Scarred for Life

 

This year just has EVERYTHING, doesn't it?

 

It's going for the better. The really good. Even if everything is SOO WONDERFUL itll still be the most stressful year.

[RainbowMau 291]

7th, I was a disaster in math, I was starting to feel the level-upgrading from elementary school to high, also book-summary homeworks were very continuous and I had almost no time to make the rest of the homeworks.

[flutterdango117 154]

first year in college i have to say. i mean sure this year is stressful  but freshmen was the first time diving into hooves first into the college territory. it was the first time living in a whole new world pretty much alone. due to papers not being submitted in time even advisors for my disability couldn't really be there for me. so not knowing where everythings at or much about my roomate and stuff was hard at first. especially focusing on studying then partying all the time that campus provided us for ponies who need a break. i still need work on stuff but at the same time after all the tears and frustration i wouldn't be the mare i am today because of it. just like flying it all needs practice and encouragement.  but this is going on for alittle too long. my apologies for getting emotional here.

[iceestarz 5,764]

Yeah.

-Attempted Suicide

-Brink of Insanity

-Emotionally Scarred for Life

 

This year just has EVERYTHING, doesn't it?

 

It's going for the better. The really good. Even if everything is SOO WONDERFUL itll still be the most stressful year.

Chin up, it gets better. High school is so much better than jr high. I've had it pretty easy throughout these 4 years. Senior year just kinda blows for the first semester until all college stuff is sent out and it's basically just waiting for graduation

[A Black Circle 1,586]

Chin up, it gets better. High school is so much better than jr high. I've had it pretty easy throughout these 4 years. Senior year just kinda blows for the first semester until all college stuff is sent out and it's basically just waiting for graduation

i know.

 

iiiii knnoooowwwwwwwww.

[The Crimson Cross 7,532]

Strangely enough it was Grade 1 or 3 that seemed to be the hardest & most stressful out of all.

I'm not exactly sure why but as I got older I didn't really find it as mentally draining doing simple problems as I once did.

 

I think it's just as a kid all of the classes seemed to go for absolute ages and it felt like years once you'd finally gotten home from school at the end of the day. Didn't exactly help that I lived a decent distance from the school either! 

[Gernia 691]

For me, it's a tie between my Freshman year of both high school and college. Getting used to different kinds of scedules, classes and people was a pretty stressful time back then. Glad I've managed to get past that since the rest of high school went well and so far the rest of college has been going well.

[LightningMana 146]

K-12

 

Had a persistant bully my entire life even after graduation

[Lucky Star 972]

Both years in middle school were tough because I had moved to a new school and had been bullied for the first time.

but I guess I would have to say that seventh was the worst because I wasn't used to it.

 

it was so bad I entered homeschooling 

but I went back to public school for high school after home school caught me back up.

I don't know whether my high school was good because it was really small or if the people there were just really nice.

but I definitely wouldn't have wanted to go to school in cities where there are like a thousand kids.  how big are those schools?

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 41,626]

Senior year of High School. At that point, the depression started to get bad and my anxiety was getting worse, plus I only had a couple of friends left at that point. Plus, I was just getting sick of being in such a pointless place, at that point I was learning way more at home on my own time then I was at that school. It just felt completely pointless and I was ready for it all to be over, but it was the slowest year of course. Nothing but being surrounded by people I felt inferior too with not much to keep my mind off of things, kinda like my internet life at this point.

 

I barely graduated too, since I failed a bunch of classes because my enthusiasm went downhill and plus I am an idiot with math entirely, I barely passed Algebra 1, which I failed that twice before I passed it. I am sooooo wonderful I guess. Yeah, I really don't like myself very much.

 

Never again do I want to be in a place like that.

[Magic Note 2,748]

I would say definitely my freshman year of high school. I was completely not myself, due to stress and anxiety from being in extremely unfamiliar situations at the time. At a couple times during the year, I came close to losing my friends. Somehow, I made it through my freshman year year, despite those odds stacked against me. After that dreaded year, it was smooth sailing from there.

 

It was quite a roller-coaster ride to say the very least.

[Antismurf9001 1,271]

 

 

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

An argument could probably be made that a student has a more difficult workload as well.  While a student supposedly tackling simpler problems, each of these problems requires different areas of expertise.  Math equations and written essays need to be thought about in (almost) completely different ways, yet students are expected to excel in both simultaneously.  Not to mention, the topic of the individual subjects changes constantly, so you're almost never working on something that you're wholly familiar with.  This is often not the case in a career setting, where you're more likely to work on tougher problems, but you remain focused on a single subject for an extended period of time.  Also, never underestimate the joys of not having homework.  I just recently returned to being a full-time student after eight months of internships, and I really miss the lack of homework...

 

Disclaimer: the above is solely based on my own experiences as a student and in a workplace setting.  Any number of people could easily disprove everything I've said with their own experiences.  I have also not factored in tasks such as paying bills, managing a home, and etc that come along with adulthood.  It's merely a comparison between student workload and career-based workload.

 

Anyways, my hardest year was definitely junior year of high school (11th grade).  That's mainly because I had the bright idea to take AP Chemistry (because they let me in, so why not?), which I cite as my absolute worst academic decision to date.  I didn't do awfully in the class, but it was ridiculously stressful, and then I bombed the AP test, essentially making the entire class a waste of time.  There was also the SATs (I hate those things so freaking much) and other college stuff to deal with...  On the flip side though, I think that that's the year that I made most of my high school friends, so that's something.

[Raritas 6,820]

This year will be for sure. Last year of Sixth Form with my A-Levels on the line. Did alright last yeah, but need to do a heck of a lot more this year than I did in Year 12. 

 

DayZ... Don't distract me this time  :okiedokielokie:

[SparklingSquirrels 21,345]

If only talking about workload, then last year was probably the most stressful, since I had a lot of work to do in all of my classes... I was also failing math :/

 

If talking about the year as a whole, then I'll say 8th grade. There were a lot of outside issues which really caused me to feel stressed in school.

[SCS 7,537]

10th grade sucked. I took way too many AP classes that year, and I had never taken an AP class before that point. I failed to understand the fact that AP = tons of work. That was easily the most stressful school year for me.
 
I'm in 12th grade now, and it's vying for 2nd place (if not 1st place) in my list of most stressful school years, simply due to all that's going on in regard to applying for college (got accepted though, fuck yeah), applying for scholarships, financial aid, grants, so on and so forth. Basically, dancing the financial dance and filling out a lot of forms. Everything's in flux, everything's about to change, and I'm not even mad.

 

I look forward to things settling down again.

[Nulln 755]

Probably this year.  It's my sophomore year of college and I'm in some really demanding classes with a lot of things i have to do outside of class so I have like no study time and I'm doing really really bad Like, I'm not even sure I can pass this year and it's pulling on my last fibers of sanity.

[WWAPD 126]

For me it's definitely junior year. I was taking Calculus BC and AP Physics C. There were times when my physics teacher had to teach us how to apply calculus we didn't even know yet.

 

 

 

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.

 

 

How did your SAT go? I took it on Saturday too.

[iceestarz 5,764]

For me it's definitely junior year. I was taking Calculus BC and AP Physics C. There were times when my physics teacher had to teach us how to apply calculus we didn't even know yet.

 

 

How did your SAT go? I took it on Saturday too.

I hated physics last year. I failed my semester exam for 2nd semester with a 25. but my mom talked to my counselor and he talked to my teacher so I wouldn't fail cause I had moved states and had no idea what they were learning that whole semester so I was essentially never taught anything on the exam.

 

And man, I hope I did good on the SAT. The essay I wrote probably was crap, for the simple fact I sorta rushed and wrote huge and ran out of room at 3 paragraphs. So yeah, I'm sure I got a crap score for that. (Don't even care though the college I wanna go to only counts the reading and math sections.) Other than that I thought the test was kinda easy, I felt like maybe I assumed it'd be harder than it was. The only questions I weren't too sure on were a couple of the gridable math ones.

 

I guess I'll find out if I did as good as I think in a couple weeks when the scores go up online. (I feel like I probably did really bad for the simple fact that I'm so confident. Same thing happened on my ap English exam. I swore that it was so easy and then I got my score back and got a 2. I was sad for like 2 seconds and then was like oh well the college I wanna go to doesn't accept ap credit, plus I didn't pay for the test, my teacher paid for it hahaha. I still won.)

10th grade sucked. I took way too many AP classes that year, and I had never taken an AP class before that point. I failed to understand the fact that AP = tons of work. That was easily the most stressful school year for me.

 

I'm in 12th grade now, and it's vying for 2nd place (if not 1st place) in my list of most stressful school years, simply due to all that's going on in regard to applying for college (got accepted though, fuck yeah), applying for scholarships, financial aid, grants, so on and so forth. Basically, dancing the financial dance and filling out a lot of forms. Everything's in flux, everything's about to change, and I'm not even mad.

 

I look forward to things settling down again.

I agree. AP sucks. Last year I took AP English and Government. I took English out of my own will and I took government since my school didn't have a regular one and I knew I was gonna move states again so I wanted to get a jump start on some credits for my new school (which is my old school at the same time...went there freshman year and now my senior year )

 

I have my college application all filled out but I'm gonna wait for my SAT scores to come back in a couple weeks. I just wanna know if my scores are good enough to get it or if I need to take the ACT instead. All the applying is kinda crappy though. It's so much time taken away I was applying for a scholarship worth 20 grand and it needed my class rank and size and I just sat there like well crap. I have no idea. Cause my counselor said it wasn't showing up on my transcript or whatever. I know my gpa but not my rank. So yeah that's kinda annoying, now I gotta set up an appointment just to ask him that simple question.

[A goat 323]

6th and 8th grade were my worst years in school so far. Everybody there was a horrible person (including me).

[BastementSparkle 20,326]

All of it. Every single year from when it started, to when I dropped out. I had to deal with every problem under the sun. Bullies, bad self-esteem, lack of friends, struggling to get good grades, teachers that were actually out to get me, lack of motivation, constantly getting really bad stomach aches, people not believing in my stomach aches and thinking I was just lying to get out (I did do that later in high school and such, but not in elementary/early middle school). Tons of other problems.

 

 I'd pretty much break down crying at the end of every single summer. It was getting to the point where I was thinking of hurting myself just so I wouldn't have to go back to school. I hated everything about it, and anytime a problem was solved, another one was created that was even worse. I did go and get a GED, but my family wants me to go to college. I don't want to, even thinking of it right now is already giving me a massive headache.

 

 My experiences there messed me up big time.

[Starshine 16,334]

Hahah oh wow... After reading through this thread I realized I got away easy. I never had too much psychological problems beyond being mentally drained from the projects and exam stuff.

[Yoshi89 5,293]

Any year of schooling was nothing compared to my senior year of college.

[CosmicHooves 2,705]

10th.

It was the year my grades struggled.

Also I had to take *shivers* Biochemistry.

 

11th grade (which I am currently in) is incredibly easy for me.

My schedule is laid out just how I like it.

And all my subjects are easy.

So far my grade are all straight A's.

[Movealge 104]

The current one I'm in right now. Ninth Grade. There is gonna be so many exams taking place this year.

[Retro*Derpy 3,186]

Hands down my Junior year. I was failing everything but weightlifting, and finals was coming up shortly. Somehow I managed to scramble some things together and passed all the classes, and math class by 1 point!

 

I was terribad at school, but give me a computer and I can do just about everything.