<p>Things I miss about highschool:
never doing work and still being able to pull off good grades. Here I have an all nighter 2 days a week!</p>
<p>I mean conformity is essential here. You have to listen to the same music as everyone, drink the same amount as everyone... i.e. everyone loves Family Guy, but if you watch Family Guy and Futurama you're the weird kid.</p>
<p>you know how in high school, there would be some weeks with a bunch of papers and projects due and it'd be coming down like a ton of bricks?</p>
<p>...well, that's every week of college.</p>
<p>that's the only thing I miss about high school, not having so many ridiculous projects going on at the same time. </p>
<p>do I miss my town, the kids, the culture in general? the answer is a resounding NO.</p>
<p>Do I miss high school? NO! I didn't even make it to the top half of the class. I didn't have lots of friends, and I bombed practically every subject I took except for Math, Physics and Computer Science. I didn't even graduate (now that I think about, I'm glad I never graduated...). </p>
<p>In high school, you will still have to deal with a lot of craps like History, Political Science, American Goverment, Biology (eeewwww), visual arts, PE, Sociology, ... etc (most of my high school years were not spent in US by the way. That would explain the difference in system). </p>
<p>While you have to do a lot more work in college, at least YOU got to choose your classes and major, and you could careless about the distribution requirement, as you long as you could get at least C's.</p>
<p>I miss....
my house
my city
my family
my dog
my fish
good food(at home)
easy As
ability to use calculators on tests
not having to think on my own
having someone tell me exactly what to do all the time
my teachers
the sports, the club meetings... :(
the slumber parties
my art classes</p>
<p>I DON'T miss...
getting up at 5:30AM
my friends(I know...its terrible. I think I hung out with my friends a little TOO much)
doing dumb homework
not getting home til 10PM and having homework due the next day
having to drive everywhere
overrated AP classes
...the list goes on and on</p>
<p>Hell no. College is awesome.</p>
<p>WHAT I MISS:
-my dog
-my car
-my best friend
-my other friends
-my job
-some of the teachers
-the fact that people actually cared about the students
-tv class
-the custodians</p>
<p>WHAT I DON'T MISS
-band
-idiots
-drama
-the dances (too much pressure to find a date)
-the food
-waking up early
-getting stuck behind school buses when you're running late</p>
<p>I really don't miss anything from high school. I hated my hometown. Didn't like the people. It really sucked.</p>
<p>Ok maybe not sucked, I was in the sports, clubs, and honors classes and supposedly had the time of my life. I mean, I thought I was happy in high school but now that I'm at college, it is so much better. Better friends, better environment, better parties, more fun, more freedom. What the hell happened in those four years that really mattered? Here's something I really want to know, has anyone seriously managed to keep in contact with more than 5 people from high school? The losers from my school that come here just hang out with people from our school all the time. Get new friends! Seriously, they're losers.</p>
<p>People say they miss the teachers and looking back I had about 3-4 amazing teachers. I miss them. But most hated me (it's either love or hate with me and teachers). So I don't feel any less love at college (I even sort of like the fact I'm a bit anonymous, they can't hate me that way.) and I make good friends with my TA's.</p>
<p>There are reasons why I dont seem to miss things that everyone else misses. I never liked driving, I don't miss my car. I didn't have a pet til senior year (I think it was my mom and dad's efforts to fill the nest after me and my sisters back to back leaving). I live in a pretty nice dorm. I didn't really have a job I cared about, got jobs I liked in college. I also had one best friend (I had a lot of friends but I didn't really like any of them) and he is come to the same college (unfortunately he lives a bit far away so I don't see him a lot now).</p>
<p>I pretty much just miss my parents but they're only 2 hours away and can visit every other weekend. My dad loves the drive. He'll do it without warning sometime. (He has settled down a bit after a year but he'll jump in the car at the slightest thing. Earlier this year, my sister, a freshman, needed something for a class but didn't have a bank account set up so didn't have enough money to buy it. She didn't need it right away but she whined to my dad about it on his machine. I told her she shouldn't have done that he's going to come here. Sure enough, minutes later, she gets a call telling her he's getting in the car and if she needed anything else. She was flabbergasted. and I just said, "Told you so.")</p>
<p>And about school I learn so much more in college I love it. And that fact that I actually like and understand math. As opposed to just tolerating it in high school. And my classes (even if the profs aren't great at least I know they're brilliant) are really interesting, well at least the subjects are.</p>
<p>The only think I don't like about college is kids in easier majors getting better grades when my classes are so much harder and with smart people with a ridiculous curve. Just can get to you after a while. I've seen a lot of really smart people drop out and now they're breezing through other majors. They're really smart but in my classes they're average and they (or their GPAs) can't handle it. It can be really frustrating.</p>
<p>Btw I have no idea what college you go to deevo but that isn't true at my school at all. There are conformers (look at the Northface brand) but it doesn't dominate your social life.</p>
<p>Even after being a freshman for a semester, high school faded into some very distant memory where I only remember minor things. It's been over 4 years and I am graduating from college in May and I don't think I will miss college either.</p>