<p>I can't wait to go off to college. I am actually starting to get sick of high school completely. Just walking into my high school building makes me mad. I am very excited about the whole idea of college, being on your own, living in dorms, meal plans, going to classes, partying, meeting new people, and a lot more. What sucks though is that we seniors still have 8 more complete months to kill before we start our first semester! I don't know how I'll get through high school hell. The people in my high school are all so immature and simply, "dumb". It is not possible to have a intelligent conversation with anyone there. All the guys think about is girls, and all the girls think about is guys. Plus, there is always "sex" talk going around which really makes me mad. Everyone dresses "ghetto" with their long t-shirts, rags on their heads, pants that are 6 sizes to big, timberlands and air force ones, big chains, etc. Not to offend anyone, but I truly despise people like this with a passion. I would say about 75% of my senior class will be going to community colleges. And then they complain that the SATs are unfair and that the teachers in our school are biased, etc. Those kids deserve to get screwed over in their lives (excuse my language) because of the choices they have been making. Every weekend they party with hard liquor and drugs. I don't know how it is with people in other schools, but I truly hate my school and most of the people in it. Because of the people like this, I only have 2-3 real friends. I hate it.</p>
<p>Well anyways, sorry about the ranting. I just got so into it and decided to let out my steam. Well anyways, good luck to everyone.</p>
<p>RUTGERS UNIVERSITY (New Brunswick) C/O 2010!!!</p>
<p>Not everyone is hell bent on getting a perfect SAT score or a perfect GPA. </p>
<p>A student like the ones you mentioned above could go to community college, get good grades, and transfer to a school vastly superior to the one you're going. </p>
<p>Now that is not me just for the record, but I find ways to get along with some people like that...they can be very nice and very intelligent- not all of them do drugs or dress "ghetto".</p>
<p>"Those kids deserve to get screwed over in their lives (excuse my language) because of the choices they have been making."</p>
<p>What have they done to you? Have you considered they may have problems at home that predispose them to the things you listed (most of which are induced by a want to fit in)?</p>
<p>"I truly hate my school and most of the people in it."</p>
<p>Rather than hating people, you should try to understand them. That will make your future experiences in college easier.</p>
<p>i completely agree with collegehunter, i am completely surrounded by kids who have dropped as many AP classes as they can so they can party it up throughout the year...
i can only have intellectual conversations with a very small number of friends (1-2), while the rest appear to have no concerns for their future...18s/19s on the ACT :confused: ~ 500s on the SATs...wow</p>
<p>i am so looking forward to going to Grinnell next year!!!
woohoo!</p>
<p>Please do not make generalizations like that.</p>
<p>Maybe there are a few rotten kids and you might be surrounded by them. But you do have to realize that not everyone that is doing what you have described have had the opportunities you might have had. </p>
<p>I bet you anything that if your life had started the way some of theirs did... if you grew up in the exact same environment and with the same people they did... you probably would have ended up the same way. </p>
<p>Sorry if it seems like I'm "bashing you" but to say everyone but a few people are 'unworthy people to be surrounded by' is simply ridiculus. Most people can change... it's just a shame that often they are put down and they chose to live lives like the ones you have described.. they will live thinking that's the best they can do. I will refrain from using much of my personal experiences.. but having lived under similar situations... (perhaps worse since.... sex could have have been seen as a positive... most things are 'better' than murder)... I'll advice you to put yourself in their position.. and maybe you might understand that perhaps you are the one person lucky enough with the ability to help them. Trust me, the feeling you get from knowing you could have made a difference if you had tried.. is not a pleasant one at all. </p>
<p>Remember... too much money can 'spoil' people.. but not enough can do the same thing... everyone on either side of the spectrum can be affected.</p>
<p>Note: Just keep your mind open, I hope you enjoy your time in College...</p>
<p>Just remember the old saying ... "Wherever you go, there you are." Chances are, you'll take whatever happiness you have or lack thereof with you to college. Usually, this kind of stuff comes from within.</p>
<p>You think kids in college don't drink or do drugs heavily? If you are ready to write these kids off because of that, then you are in for a rude awakening when you wind up in college. More drugs and drinking than you can even imagine, and I bet they are pretty intelligent. Don't be so close-minded, it'll ruin your college experience.</p>
<p>You sound like one of those uptight people who don't realize that you are wasting your life if you never enjoy it. Not everybody likes to have "intellectual conversations". Sometimes it's better just to down 26er and party hard. You only live once. Enjoy it.</p>
<p>By the, what is your "future"? Let me guess:
-Go to a top college
-Get a high-paying desk job
-Get married and have kids
-Accumulate wealth and possessions
-Die</p>
<p>"Just remember the old saying ... "Wherever you go, there you are." Chances are, you'll take whatever happiness you have or lack thereof with you to college. Usually, this kind of stuff comes from within."</p>
<p>Agreed. 2000%. Especially after my first semester: you DO take the happiness/unhappiness with you. I was exactly how you are now in high school. Couldn't wait to get out, hated the majority. Now that I've been through my first semester, I realize how much I never think about that anymore, how much of a waste of energy it was to sit there and hate them, and that there are people like that no matter where you go. I'd rather have 2-3 friends, hell, I'd take just 1 good friend that I can trust with anything than to have a whole crew that I can't trust at all. Just my two cents.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that college may not be any different. Yes, there may be more intelligent kids, but many smart kids also do party hard and do
"immature" things, especially in college. Just find ur niche.</p>
<p>I can't wait, either.
But be thankful your classmates have the option to wear ghetto. I have to don a white shirt and khaki pants every single day. And tuck my shirt in. And wear a belt. And an ID badge. Flip flops are not allowed, nor are any shoes without a backing around the ankle. And face the regular checks on our uniforms. And this is a public high school!</p>
<p>I'm waiting for some more liberation here! I think it'll be weird to find myself standing in college, like, "You mean. . . you're not going to give me a detention? My shirttail is out!" </p>
<p>Collegehunter, I don't know if you are aware, but there are A LOT of people like the people in your high school at Rutgers (And yes, I am talking about NB, not Newark or Camden)</p>
I bet you anything that if your life had started the way some of theirs did... if you grew up in the exact same environment and with the same people they did... you probably would have ended up the same way.
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<p>Sorry, but I completely disagree. That's basically, to me, blaming your circumstances on anything but your own choices you made (in other words, "deterministic factors"). Those don't exist in my opinion. There is influence but not enough to attribute an environment as deterministic. You're either responsible for the choices you make or you hide in a corner and pick scapegoat(s) for your circumstances and become those kind of people. We are not talking about absolute power but rather absolute realization of free will.</p>
<p>To get back to the original topic, I don't ever see anything wrong with both sides of the story ("living it up" vs. a much different kind of lifestyle). I tend to not do what most people define as "living it up" because it is simply not my definition of "living it up". And I don't need drugs because I am always high on life (hehe). As the others said, try to keep an open mind about it all and don't judge people based on their lifestyles. Perhaps they are just as willing as you are to have an intellectual conversation or to do more than just partying but at the moment they want to simply do something else. And is it bad if they don't have a reason for it? I wouldn't think so. I know I sometimes do things for no reason so who am I to judge?</p>
<p>"I would say about 75% of my senior class will be going to community colleges."</p>
<p>And what, might I ask, is so wrong with going to a community college? I went to a community college for two years, and think things have turned out just fine. I know it's hard to believe but not everybody can get a perfect SAT score and GPA. My GPA was far lower then most poples on this site (3.3uw), and my SAT score was terrible (1000, remember however mine was out of 1600). I had to go to a Community College for two years because of those reasons. Does that make me a bad person? Just by reading to your post I feel as if I should fling myself out my second story window right now...</p>
<p>Personally speaking those two years at a Community College did wonders for me. While that is not the case for everybody, for some people that really is the best path. I'm now a junior at UCLA and am even considering the Ivy League for Law School. Just because not everybody can take the same route as you, it's not right to say that they deserve to get "screwed over". Sorry if this post seems like I'm bashing you. When people instantly assume that everybody who has ever and will ever go to a community college to be immature and dumb, it can come off as being somewhat offensive to those who had to take that route.</p>