<p>I don't care about high school. I don't care about friendships or prom or any of the so-called memories that I'm supposed to be making that I will "cherish" forever. High school to me is one thing. Grades. Its simply a four year long stepping stone into college. </p>
<p>Now don't get me wrong. I have friends. There are some really fun times in high school. But I've come to understand that within 12 months of graduation, I probably won't even be speaking to any of my friends. I don't see the point in "best friends" because to me, best friends are friends made in college or in careers that last a lifetime. </p>
<p>Maybe I'm just cynical, but I'm starting my senior year in a couple of weeks and all I want to do is apply to colleges and graduate. That's it. Anything in between, whether it be prom or senior bbq or even yearbooks are all just trivial fluff. </p>
<p>I was the same way in high school. Not about the friends portion (I still have great relationships with my friends from high school even 3 years after graduation), but definitely about the prom, social events, yearbook, etc. portion.</p>
<p>I try not to live in the future too much. I could die five minutes from now and only my past would matter. EVERYTHING is transient, so I definitely don’t think things are meaningless just because they don’t last very long.
I was never an especially social person, so I never cared about high school dances or football games. But I care about academics and learning, and I don’t see my classes as just requirements I have to meet so I can go to college.</p>
<p>Totally understand. Fun, pep rallies, and football games are one thing, but academics come first. I need to keep that mindset this year as well.</p>
<p>I feel the same. For me high school is a stepping stone. Really the only thing I’m looking forward to this year is college acceptances, I really actually am going to be dreading prom. I am not an anti social person, but all the extra stuff like dances, football games, etc. seem so pointless, and they aren’t fun to me, the only reason I will attend prom is social obligation.</p>
<p>I initially was the all study no fun type of guy starting from 9th grade. That continued until halfway through junior year where I realized that I was wasting my time trying so hard.</p>
<p>I love the kids whom I’ve grown up with. Can they be pains and twits? Of course, but I’m assuming that I can be as well. Prom, yearbooks, etc. I don’t care about, but all of the less-hyped memories in between? Definitely. I don’t know if I’m ready to graduate, to be honest.</p>
<p>My high school experience is extremely important to me. The musical, going to football games with my friends, Sweet Sixteens, the late-night drives. I have lived a pretty difficult life and my friends and these experiences have really brightened my bleak home and family life.</p>
<p>Of course, academics are extremely important to me but that’s all part of the experience for me too. NHS inductions, Academic Honor Society dinners, study sessions in the classrooms of my favorite teachers with my best friends. It’s not meaningless to me, as life itself is so precious and I have learned to simply to enjoy what is put in front of me. However, it definitely takes a certain mindset: I can see the lack of appeal for this kind of stuff but for me, it means a lot.</p>
<p>I think I would care more if other people did. To me, it’s like everybody is a lot closer to me than I am to them. I rarely get invited out, and I’ve never had a date to a dance. When I go to school, I have a group of people I talk to and I am pretty talkative, but when I get home, it’s like I realize how alone I am. And there’s no point trying to get closer to people, because I’ve tried and tried before and all I got was hurt. So while I do enjoy having fun with my “school friends,” and prom sounds like fun, I guess I would be a lot more excited about these things if I could experience them with people who actually cared about me. </p>
<p>Yeah, if you have a good group of friends, high school can be full of GREAT memories. But I can’t wait to college, start over, and meet new people. To me, college is hope, an intellectual haven and a place where I can make MY friends of a lifetime.</p>
<p>Same here. except that I hope to keep my two best friends. I just view it as college prep. I think prom and homecoming and dating are a waste of time. Everyone you date you either marry or break up with & I know I don’t want a long distance relationship starting college so it’s a waste of time.</p>
<p>Yeah. You could do almost nothing in high school and still make it to engineering at Purdue in my high school, so long as you don’t take difficult AP English or Social studies classes and you can get A’s in the math/science courses(only take AP Calc AB and regular versions of Bio/Chem/Physics) and were a decent test taker. But then, college would be a real pain if you’ve never really had to study before because you took those easy classes. </p>
<p>So high school doesn’t appear to matter, but one needs a foundation or you’re screwed in college.</p>