<p>I spent pretty much all day and night just thinking about my life, the good and the bad, the time savored and the time wasted. After thinking about it I just wrote. I ranted and put it all out in text so I could read it back to myself. Does anyone else feel like this? Maybe it's teen angst or maybe it's sadness and a realization my high school career is coming to an end with nothing to really show except a college acceptance letter and a pat on the back. Who knows, I don't even think I know deep down, I don't know if I even care anymore. Does this even make sense? </p>
<p>I honestly feel like I have completely wasted high school. I don't even mean getting high enough grades or partying or girls or anything like that. I just feel like I have accomplished zero and done nothing. Nothing that's going to matter or be remembered in 2 years, 5 years, or even next week. What's the point? Answering other peoples questions that have already been answered by millions of people? Why the hell do I need to know calculus? Or know how to analyze classical literature? That isn't going to help or benefit anyone in anyway. I have been robbed of the last 18 years of my life. And there's no changing it. And I don't know of It's even possible to correct it. I have been conditioned for the world of an American ideology, concerned with money and fame, and unfortunately, that is the path which I am going to take, right or wrong. So congratulations world on ruining another generation. End rant.</p>
<p>Not a senior, but I also feel like I’m missing something. Like I’m missing out on the high school experience or whatever and a lot things just don’t seem to matter. I don’t know I always pictured high school and my life differently. Not exactly the same thing you’re talking about, but I just feel like I’m not getting much out of it all. I guess this jut stems from my overall disappointment that high schools not like what you read in books and see in movies. Not saying that it’s miserable or anything, I like it and everything, it just doesn’t feel like right sometimes.</p>
<p>And I feel like through all of it I have gotten sucked into the preoccupation with college acceptance and popularity and what not, and then it suddenly hit me that all that is not as important as it seems. And really not as rewarding as we hope. I just feel like one day I’m going to reach my academic goals and stuff and just won’t be satisfied because in the long run because it wasn’t what I truly wanted. But who knows, maybe it is.</p>
<p>But for now, I have to convince myself that it all matters and stay in that mindset.</p>
<p>I get what you’re saying about not having a high school experience. Ironically enough I feel lately I’ve discovered that the high school experience is feeling like you’ve missed the experience. There is a definite cliched experience but I don’t know if it actually exists. Or maybe we are all just too caught up in trying to find it that we are missing what’s right In front of us. You’re not alone in that feeling of “somethings not right”</p>
<p>Question, if you consider these years in school ‘wasted’ on things that you assume that you will not use in the future, what do you think would be a good use of your time?</p>
<p>I can relate and I feel that [especially in the duller classes] that the facts we learn don’t really move us; however, if you learn to look at things from a new perspective, you can make the most out of these otherwise ‘wasted’ hours.
Proactive > Passive ?</p>
<p>I know many many occupations do not need any calculus knowledge and other occupations do not need one to know how to analyze classical literature. However, both these classes/skills teach one to look at situations, problems, or a passage from different points of view, be a critical student of the world, and these analysis skills can carry onto other things beyond math and lit. </p>
<p>For example, I use knowledge from my lit classes a lot to better understand art when I go on my little trips to museums and galleries. </p>
<p>Do you have a passion to pursue? I know I’ve accomplished little things in high school that I will treasure for the rest of my life just because I chased a passion while completing school work. Having a passion doesn’t help the fact that our education system is standardized and feels like an empty, all for-profit ploy instead of a system for the benefit of the future generations; however, a passion gives me a sense of purpose and time-well spent. :]</p>