<p>I love performing, and I go to LaGuardia in NYC. It’s one of the most competitive high schools in the city and maybe the top performing high school. I get 5-6 hours a night to sleep. I have to get up at 5 and I come home about twelve hours later. I spend an hour on the train just to get there. I have tons of homework in both my studio and academic classes every night.</p>
<p>And I love every minute of it. I admit, I don’t appreciate the homework or lack of sleep, but I love my school so much because it’s a perfect fit for me. I wouldn’t change it for the world. Don’t get me wrong though- college, I am waiting!</p>
<p>oh my god someone in MA? where are you people omgomg.</p>
<p>Also, I really enjoyed high school. Freshman year wasn’t so hot for me because I had a tough time with my classes and had to deal with family stuff, but I got better at managing both things. I joined activities that I love to death, and i’ve made amazing friends from it.</p>
<p>I go to one of the most competitive high schools in the nation, but it is a very great place. For example,
Our gpa runs on a 5.0 scale, and like if you had a 4.03 your rank would be between 180-250 out of our class of 1544.
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<p>Yes, and no, there are aspects of high school I love and other aspects I hate. I love being with my friends, but then we got our schedules for the fall and I have no classes with any of my closet friends. I also love learning, but I love learning for the sake of learning more then learning for a grade (which unfortunately happens a lot at my school). I love my major (visual art) and how it had helped me grow as an artist. I hate the amount of homework I get (combined with EC’s I often am not done with everything till midnight).</p>
<p>You come off pretty close minded here. Do you really think everyone’s high school experience is like this? I was never driven/shuttled anywhere. Do you really think no one has to worry about putting food on their families’ table or about a job? I * certainly * don’t only worry about grades. </p>
<p>With regards to your comparison of the “real world” (that phrase always makes me lol, cause of course high school is also in the real world), you’re right, to an extent. It’s true that many deserving people don’t currently have jobs. But your examples of lawyers is a bit off, because there is a certain responsibility to go to school for a usable purpose - if someone * knows * that there is a glut of lawyers, it’s silly to go to law school and then expect a job.</p>
<p>Anyway, high school has generally been ehhh. I liked freshman year, moved sophomore year and hated that, worked a lot junior year but made some good friends. I think senior year will be good. I won’t miss the APs, homework, family drama, and working multiple jobs. There are like 4-5 people I’ll actually miss.</p>
<p>I really don’t like high school. I’m not challenged at all, (most of) the teachers are just wastes of money for the school-district (for some of them, I’m confident I could do better independent study…), and honestly I don’t really enjoy my friends that much either. I mean, sure, there are about a half-dozen or so that I really love to spend time with talking, playing basketball, etc, but pretty much everyone else frustrates me. So much drama, so much tea-partyism (South, uurgh). You know, as much as I feel underused/underchallenged by high school, I’m not even really set on Ivy leagues or anything like that. I mean, sure, it would be nice to get in, but there’s also a part of me on the inside that secretly hopes that I get rejected from Princeton and Yale, haha. Which, I guess is part of the reason why I don’t like high school. I’m totally underprepared for life further on. Then again, I guess most people are… argh. </p>
<p>I just don’t feel like I enjoy it. There’s nothing really to enjoy, as it is. I’m not really into the party scene or anything (read: not into at all, haha), so much that I don’t think I’m even gonna go to prom next year, as it’s infamous for being an absolute mess… yeap, I’m that guy. I could’ve gone last year, but I just stayed home and played Mario Tennis and ate pizza with two of my friends (yeah, I’m cool). And y’know, this post makes me think: Something about my high school just puts me in a ranting mood. Yeah, you could probably already tell that by this post, but what/evs.</p>
<p>To summarize: I can’t wait to finish up my final year and graduate. Mrrhfhfmm, this is gonna be tough to get through. I can feel the senioritis already. :/</p>
<p>I can’t wait to leave high school! I guess I’ll miss parts of it, like my friends and seeing my parents every day, but other than that I’m really excited to go to college. I want some independence, and I want to be around more people who actually care about learning (unlike most of the kids at my high school).</p>
<p>It depends on what you mean by enjoy? I enjoyed the friends I made. I enjoyed the activities I did (theatre, debate, GSA, etc.). And I enjoyed getting to learn a lot.</p>
<p>But I had more teachers I despised than ones I like. I disliked that freedoms were being taken away year by year for God know what reason. I hated a lot of immature people and really stupid, petty, drama. </p>
<p>Overall, let’s just say it was a mixed experience.</p>
<p>Right now, I despise it. But if I get into the colleges I want to I’ll look back and love it because it will have been a relatively easy four years - it’s a very average school.</p>
<p>I’m not going to miss a whole lot about high school. Many of the people I go to school with are clueless and it’s quite frustrating. I’m not an overly social person so I don’t have any deep relationships with anybody except my girlfriend who is going to be a freshman in college. Overall, I just think it’s a phase that I’ll be happy is over come June.</p>
<p>What about those law students who were already in law school when the bottom fell out the economy? </p>
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<p>Lol.</p>
<p>What a literal interpretation of what I wrote.</p>
<p>So when Shakespeare writes “what’s in a name,” do you reply “nothing; a name is not a physical object - there is nothing in a name”? </p>
<p>Lol. </p>
<p>High school is a sheltered microcosm of the real world. Success in high school can portend success out of high school. In HS, there are guidance counselors. There is grade recovery. There is late work. There is makeup work. Where can you find these crutches in the adult world?</p>
<p>To put things a bit more in perspective for my long rant, my school literally has a graduation rate only a little over 70%. Just gives you an idea about the atmosphere here</p>
<p>High school is a different experience for everyone.
It’s easy for some people ( those who only have to worry about grades and whose parents basically shuttle them).
Alwaysleah has a point: not everyone has the “luxury” of only having to worry about grades. High school is especially hard on kids with a dysfunctional or financially difficult family. They can’t just leave. There is no escape for them.
Not everyone in high school think similarly, and if you think,act, look, or even dress differently, you risk of being bullied or ostracized. In real world, you can, for most of time, walk away and find other people, whereas in high school you’re stuck. I personally think that high school has quite some ignorant and intolerant people (the main reason why I dislike it ).
By the way, I think it must feel strange for young people who just got out of college to work in the “real” world. Some school-smart people might suddenly find themselves not so smart in the job market (it is much more complicated that homework, tests, and grades).</p>
<p>@IceQube: To be fair, you’re not really taking into account people who come from rougher situations. Although I generally agree with you if you’re talking about the typical white/Asian, suburban, upper-middle class guy or gal on CC - high school is pretty damn peachy. But high school is a lot rougher for people who aren’t in as good of a financial situation. Some kids out there are working part-time jobs to support their dad who recently lost his job, or have to spend an hour driving his brother and sister to school. Some kids don’t have two parents to drive them around everywhere, some kids have to share their only parent with their two or three other brothers and sisters. Some high schools aren’t really filled with ambitious people who you can have thoughtful discussions with and share ideas with - but rather kids who have been in HS for 5 or 6 years and on the verge of dropping out, or kids who would rather do drugs than learn, or who are more concerned about making the football team than bringing up their D in English. Sometimes this is to a point where grades are only an after-thought. </p>
<p>If you live in a situation where your parents have money and attention to give you and you are in a well-off high school filled with ambitious people and positive influences, great! But you can’t really assume that this is the situation for everyone, you get what I’m saying?</p>
<p>No, I most probably won’t miss high school as a whole. I mean sure, I’ll miss a few of my closest friends, and I’ll definitely be sad to see us part ways, but in terms of the social aspects, without a doubt I’ll be happy to move on. My high school was quite small (circa 1800 kids), but high socially stratified. And most people, to me, seemed fake, or plastic. People would (and still do) ditch their friends for better “social status,” people would turn into “female dogs” to impress others, and basically, were decadent. There were very few people that I could have an intellectual discussion with; and those people were my friends. They also were one of the more disliked and excluded groups in the school. What this meant? No “blowout” party invitations, no major social events. Basically, my decision to not hang out with idiots led to my deprivation of a social life. </p>
<p>Our school was, for a suburban school, decadent academically and socially. I have one year left in this place…I’ll be quite happy when I’m out.</p>