<p>Well, if I could turn back the hands of time, yes.</p>
<p>Now it is too late to switch back even if I could.</p>
<p>Yeah, last year was really tough for me. My school was so much larger and more stereotypically "high school" than I ever expected it to be. It's suburban/rural (though we have city kids too. That's the weird part of living in an NC suburb--you're ten minutes from cows and twenty from a city.) and driven by the DECA kids and athletes who constantly skip class to smoke and go to local restaurants. I'm starting to appreciate the diversity, but I'm considering attending a free, instate boarding school for junior and senior year. I thrive around the academically or artistically motivated, and while the people at school are awesome, it feels a lot less like a school than an academic institution should.</p>
<p>I'm the only one I think who said no and that's it... wow</p>
<p>we like to complain a little, i guess :]</p>
<p>This is just a classic case of how the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.</p>
<p>Or, if you're into the Little Mermaid, how the seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake.</p>
<p>I love my school. Sure, you get the kids who kill everyone else on tests and you get the kids who do the bare minimum because they just to get out of there, but I don't let that affect me. I just try to do my best. If I had to choose between my school the school I used to go to (it's grade 6-12), I'd stay at mine! When I was there, I'd stress over every little thing because the competition was so crazy. Instead of being happy with getting 98% of the test right, I would ALWAYS obsess over the 2% that I got wrong. I've learned to chill a bit more now.</p>
<p>yeah. i wish my school was more racially and ethnically diverse. always being the only black person in my class gets old FAST.</p>
<p>plus, i go to an all-girls school, so, obviously, there are no boys lol. even though there are a lot of pros to getting a single-sex education, i can't help but wish that i had the "normal" high school experience.</p>
<p>but whatever.</p>
<p>I wish I'd gone to a larger high school just for the ability to have more interesting courses. Larger schools always seem to have neat electives at a variety of levels, while we don't have many electives and nearly all the ones we do have are dumbed down so everyone can take them.</p>
<p>Aside from that, I really liked my high school. Sports were a big thing, but that's cool because I loved having an awesome basketball team to root for. A lot of kids were a lot wealthier than I was and completely unashamed of flaunting it, but I had awesome friends who happened to be grounded in reality and that was all I needed. And perhaps most importantly, I had some amazing teachers.</p>
<p>I've got a weird situation. I wish some of the people in my high school went to a different one because they just don't care. Yet, there's not so many to make me want to leave, and there's plenty of honors and AP classes and good teachers and good (caring) friends to make me like the school. Yet, sometimes when I see how much people don't care it makes me wish the school were a bit different.</p>
<p>My friend says that the biggest mistake we made was not going to another private school that's supposed to be very good and gets a bunch of their graduates into Ivy League schools and the like. I don't think I would have been happy there, though, and she probably wouldn't have either. It was so far away and so different...</p>
<p>I'm sure they care more, though.</p>
<p>it depends. I sort of do, but then again I sort of don't. Because when it comes down to it, all high schools are pretty much the same. You have your good seeds and your bad ones. I think the faster I can get the hell out of it, the happier I'll be :).</p>
<p>Not for a minute. My high school is the best!</p>