mega thread How is or was your experience in high school?

[Gamer98 51]

I'm curious to know how your experience was or is 

[Clawdeen 19,785]

It was a messy hellish experience 

[Snoopy Fan 7,611]

It was passable. Not great, but I made it through.

[Night Sky 842]

High School was better than junior high.

I went from having riots of kids chasing me down to being invisible the first year. 

That was such a relief I just coasted. 

Second year I began to make some friends and my grades improved.

I was all gothed out as a sophomore. 

Junior year, I was like a normally constituted, well adjusted guy.

It was the year 2000 B.C.E. and everybody wore their baseball cap backwards sooner or later, even goth kids.

Senior year, I was just so bored of the place. 

My grades were good enough though I had some senioritis.

For me High School wasn't so terrible, for me it was junior high...let's not revisit that. 

[Longhaul 7,930]

It's been a few years now so I can talk about it.  More than a "few" years, actually.

My experience in high school was mixed, at best.  It is where I learned some valuable real-world skills, and there were some good times.  What I hated about it was being bullied, marginalized, physically abused, and if I had to do it all over again, I don't know what I'd do, because the alternative would have been ten times worse.

[Fluttershutter 2,843]

and characters and stuff

[SharpWit 2,837]

I didn't have any serious problems in middle school, but the amount of bs they put us through made freshmen year a vast improvement.

Honestly, had a great first two years. Despite drama with my first stepfather and my grandmother, my life felt well put together.

Then we moved, and that upturned everything. I went from seeing people I'd known for a decade almost daily, to not at all, and I've seen so few in the decade since. Daily bouts of laughter replaced by,,, nothing. Just the absence of joy.

Things began to look a little up my senior year. I'd adjusted a bit, made a few friends in intro to theatre, and then my dog, my best friend whom helped me get through every challenge up until then, was wrongfully put to sleep. That destroyed me. The latter friendships lasted until I graduated, and then it was back to a period of isolation, only as an adult. I still talked to friends from before and saw my closest ones a few times a year, but it wasn't quite the same, and that's kind of how it still is.

Only all of the hardship got me to being with my person, and I couldn't be happier to have her.

[Ganondorf8 11,688]

High school was when I got diagnosed with my mental disability so that alone should tell you how my experience was.

[SparklingSwirls 21,514]

It was eh. Not really a time I wish to go back to but I had a couple good friends who I’ve unfortunately fallen out of touch with (but I try to message one every New Year’s).

I got very good grades but otherwise mostly kept to myself. I did stage crew in the last two years and that was a lot of fun, though tiring at times. 

[Acinonyx 1,914]

No saving grace. Rude teachers and downright nasty students. Within weeks of leaving I'd already permanently severed ties with everyone. 

Had one or two people attempt to find me in the years since, only to then disappear again as quickly as they reappeared. The same shallow nobodies with nothing to do and naught to say that only sought you out because they remembered "the easy times" and haven't done a thing with their life since, you sad cretins.  This is what that school taught. 

A vain facade of humanity. 

[Avery 191]

Work, study, go home. 

[Retro*Derpy 3,293]

Didn't like it at all. Most of the schools around here are just terrible all around.

[papermare 55]

horrible, i remember NOTHING from school besides being bullied by students AND teachers, i "graduated" in 2023. i say "graduated" because i never got my diploma, failed the ACT test 3 times and they kept pressuring me to retake it, it was $50 per retake. had no money. constantly pulled me into admin office to tell me im not going to have a liveable life because i will have no job, no car, etc, if i dont pass the test
needless to say i stopped showing up to school the last 2 months and disappeared. i eventually got a job, still have my car, but quit my job because i feel completely unable to work, plus i also got bullied so much i had to quit. yes, i was being bullied by grown adults older than me. 

[DubWolf 18,378]

23 hours ago, papermare said:

horrible, i remember NOTHING from school besides being bullied by students AND teachers, i "graduated" in 2023. i say "graduated" because i never got my diploma, failed the ACT test 3 times and they kept pressuring me to retake it, it was $50 per retake. had no money. constantly pulled me into admin office to tell me im not going to have a liveable life because i will have no job, no car, etc, if i dont pass the test
needless to say i stopped showing up to school the last 2 months and disappeared. i eventually got a job, still have my car, but quit my job because i feel completely unable to work, plus i also got bullied so much i had to quit. yes, i was being bullied by grown adults older than me. 

Well you showed them!

There's almost always a better job unless you've found what you're looking for. You can always get your GED, which probably wouldn't be as troubling as going to school... just an idea for the future!

[Envy 6,357]

Well, it was now a loonggg time ago. People from the year I graduated will be eligible to vote soon. 

Anyway, high school for me was, well, not my best time. Socially, I learned that I was "annoying", lost a lot of friends, and any friends I had at any given time I couldn't trust, because I had no idea where the boundary between what about me was annoying versus what was sociably acceptable. I also couldn't read people very well. All of that is still true today, but at least it isn't new to me anymore. Back then it was, and it hurt a lot.

Academically I was very mediocre. There wasn't really any threat of me not successfully graduating, but I struggled with some classes, especially math.

Best memories of high school were in marching band. My high school's marching band was nationally competitive, so it was a very big deal. But even though smaller schools thought us snobby I'm sure, I didn't ever get the feeling that we thought too highly of ourselves when I was in it. It may be different now, as lets just say they're a lot more used to success now then we were back in my time. Anyway, I had a great time and made friends, one of which is still very close to me to this day.

[Magic Note 2,771]

I didn't have the best time in high school. Nobody understood me and the first two years were tumultuous, to say the very least. The "friends" I had usually talked behind my back and only pretended to like me. It was not a great time and I had emotional outbursts I had little to no control over. 

[Dreambiscuit 11,076]

My experience was similar to what I’d imagine a descent into hell would be; miserable, hopeless and seemingly without end. The classes were poorly taught, the teachers indifferent if not completely evil, and I was uniformly despised by most of the other students, a feeling that was more or less mutual. I was bullied, ridiculed and the teachers did nothing to alleviate the miserable conditions, but in many cases exacerbated them. Ah, the wonders of education; the only thing I learned was how to dodge victimhood, which was accomplished only after my parents took me out of that hell and home-schooled me. That’s when my education truly began and learning became natural, fascinating and addictive.