The wonderful high school days... yeah right!!!

[Classic Beauty]

I hate high school. I have senioritis and I'm a junior.

[joytheobscure]

I never skipped, did my homework right before class or during another class. Graduated third in my class (dang algebra If it weren't for that C I'd have been top) Academic team three years, top scorer on the academic team senior year. Two years of FFA, Two years of speech and drama. First person from my school to go to regional speech, I won academic competitions in History and Government. Member of the science bowl team. Senior year I was in the local Pageant to go to Miss Oklahoma,(I lost) lol. Never ever skipped school or got in trouble. Was the principals pet.

My "town" isn't a town.. its a school... in the middle of a pasture. Although a nashville recording artist who has toured with Keith Urban was raised 5 miles down the road, which has given me a second degree of separation with the celebrity world. LOL!!

I was poor, exceedingly shy to the point of phobic to talk to people, never looked at people read books at lunch to avoid conversations. Hung around with either the wild poor group they decided I wasn't alcoholic or druggy enough (how Ironic) so the popular crowd invited me to hang around with them... looking back thats just crazy. We were very poor when I was in HS. I was still a makeup addict though at walmart. I had tons of penpals (before the internet... ) it was my social life.

Never had boyfriends - I was told I was a cold bitch.. hmm... I was scared to talk to people until they approached me in my size 3 bikini at the lake. LOL

Overall HS sucked but looking back when I reached adulthood I decided that being an adult sucks if you don't have the summers off. So here I am going to school every day but its nice- I can drink pop in class and be the boss so its not so bad.

[midnightlouise]

Hmm. High school. That was a loooong time ago lol! I was a mostly a pretty good student, accelerated classes, honor roll, academic team, art club president, swing choir, drama, Spanish club...lots of nerdy stuff. Total bookworm...still am. But I had a few quirks. I shaved my head & pierced my own nose when I was about 15 (keep in mind this was also 1987 heh.) and was going through my punk phase. No one would look twice these days, but 19 years ago it was pretty avant garde Had serious issues with depression, (Later I was diagnosed as manic depressive & they put it down to that. These days I doubt that diagnosis.) skipped alot of school, got in alot of trouble basically for defying authority, grades started slipping & then it was like I woke the h@ll up & realized where I was & straightened up. I had alot of rough friends who were drug addicts & were pretty wild, although I never did anything. They used to tease me for being so much of a goody two shoes. So I sorted myself out & graduated in the top 10%, went to art school at Indiana which was right up my alley. The rest, as they say, is history. (well, literally, because I'm studying to be an Egyptologist these days. )

[pugpug]

i was the same way in high school. i had cut gym so many times that i almost couldn't graduate. and gym wasn't offered as a summer school, so if i did fail out of it i would have to stay behind to take one semester of gym while my friends went to college.

[joytheobscure]

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Originally Posted by midnightlouise

Hmm. High school. That was a loooong time ago lol! I was a mostly a pretty good student, accelerated classes, honor roll, academic team, art club president, swing choir, drama, Spanish club...lots of nerdy stuff. Total bookworm...still am. But I had a few quirks. I shaved my head & pierced my own nose when I was about 15 (keep in mind this was also 1987 heh.) and was going through my punk phase. No one would look twice these days, but 19 years ago it was pretty avant garde Had serious issues with depression, (Later I was diagnosed as manic depressive & they put it down to that. These days I doubt that diagnosis.) skipped alot of school, got in alot of trouble basically for defying authority, grades started slipping & then it was like I woke the h@ll up & realized where I was & straightened up. I had alot of rough friends who were drug addicts & were pretty wild, although I never did anything. They used to tease me for being so much of a goody two shoes. So I sorted myself out & graduated in the top 10%, went to art school at Indiana which was right up my alley. The rest, as they say, is history. (well, literally, because I'm studying to be an Egyptologist these days. )

Wow, you do sound like me... how neat you are working on a history degree? masters? I have a history degree, you sound like me. I always liked the kids who didn't give a **** and were fun to be around but I never wanted to really be like them. I love history. My BA is in history and I'm trying to get brave enough to try to get into a Masters program in History--I know finding a job teaching history in Higher Ed. is hard. I'd like to study the American Southwest and the Spaniards /Pueblo tribes relationships. Oh you are in Art school?

[Glow]

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Originally Posted by JJones

oh gosh i wish i could skip classes like that.... Our teachers will hunt you down and give you detention for whatever... plus, we can't really choose what classes we want to have.. at the moment I'm having 11 different subjects ugh.

and what really annoys me: getting up at 6 am every morning, heading for school at 7:15 (luckily my dad drives me!!!!! if not I'd have to go outta the house at 6:50) first period starts at 7:30 ....

Man your lucky i've gotta be out of the house BY 6 to get to school on time for my CALM studies class at 8.

[teamo7]

i'm a senior, and i actually feel a lot better maybe because i slacked off my 11th and 10th grade..
I got a slap in the face at a college fair, and well here i am, Last minute.. signing up for my SATs. I'm a sucker..
i still don't even know what i'm gonna do with myself, i'm not ready, and not sure of any skills i can use out there in the real world..
*sigh*

[quandolak]

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[flowerhead]

I ended up having too leave high school...or upper school as it's called in England, because people would say mean things too me about my makeup and long hair. Once I went into my class wearing teal pigment, and the stupid teacher (Who was wearing bright blue mascara and shimmery lavender lipstick, gross!) made me wipe it off! I didn't mind because I am pretty and they werent, and I usually just kicked them in the balls with my platforms. And I was always smoking pot and skipping lessons anyway...Amazingly I left with 8 A's.

[MxAxC-_ATTACK]

I only ditched school occasionally.. THEN when I turned 18, It was all downhill from there. because at my school at the age of 18 we were allowed to write our own notes and excuses from class.. so Sometimes I wouldnt go to school at all (my dad worked from 5 AM to 5PM so he never knew i was not at school) or sometimes if i got sick of school id write myself up a note,. and excuse myself for a "dentist" appointment.. haha. I got decient grades.. and graduated. I wasnt an honor student. i was just an average everyday student.
Haha i hated school with a passion.. .. i graduated 5 years ago..

Haha Except once, I stayed home and my dad came home for lunch one day.. All I did was sit in my room with the door shut... he never even knew I was there..haha..I guess he didnt notice the mac and cheese on the stove.. lol

[giz2000]

I was the world's biggest goody-two shoes in high school..I skipped class exactly 2 times in my senior year...to go back home to sleep (after my mom left for work). I actually enjoyed HS...the only regrets I have are that I didn't bust my butt more (I was ranked 100 out of 900 seniors) and that I didn't tell the love of my life back then that I liked him...*sigh*

[Katura]

High School was a drag. I had been to 5 different schools by that time, 3 different states, and thought about having to leave again all the time. I made friends immediatly, but becasue I was 'cute/hot' to all the guys, most girls gave me the 'oh shes a slut/whore' reputation. I never dated anyone from my highschool, I only hung out with maybe 5 close friends from there because after school I went immediatly to dance class that was a half hour away for the better part of the evening. haha, so eventually I thought it was hilarious what people were saying i was 'doing' or who, shoudli say. I told a couple people that I thought it was funny, because some of thhe stories sounded so fun, i wish I actually had gotten to do what I supposedly had. I had one serious boyfriend for the last three years of highschool who went to a private school near by...so obviously I wasnt messing around. I was captain of the dance company at my school and loved every second of that. I never skipped school and the week before I graduated I got a 'Refferal' (read:sent to the office for possible suspension) for going out to my car during class to get prom pictures. I had prmission from my teacher but not from the lady that caught me, so...I almost got suspended 3 days before I graduated.

Ridiculous. Thank goodness I'm out of there.

[MxAxC-_ATTACK]

oh no!! what a stupid thing to almost get suspended for anyways!!

Girls sometimes are dumb. A few nasty ones at my school started spreading rumors about me, I never knew why either because I didnt really know them I wasnt very popular or anything. I dont think that 3/4 of the school even knew who I was. Perhaps they were jealous of me.. being Rediculously good looking and all..

lol , Kidding.

[NutMeg]

Oh god. I'm in my last year, so senior year to all of you Americans. And it's brutal. I'm taking every core course that my school offers, and I'm first in all of them. I'm also in yearbook committee, grad committee, vocal jazz, and band. I also work part time and take singing lessons. So I'm pretty much burned out all of the time. It's depressing.

[Deirdre]

High school got in the way of my social life. :P

I barely graduated, waitressed for a couple years, then went back and got my bachelors, as an 'adult' student (at all of nineteen).

I wish I'd tried harder in high school though. I don't know why, as it wouldn't have made any difference in the long run. Actually, I wish I'd picked a different direction for post secondary: financial law. Yeah, I'd be loaded.