I'm afraid to leave HS

<p>I'm 17, a senior and in the middle of churning out essays for college apps and my stomach is in knots. Earlier this spring, when I was visiting campuses, I thought I was pretty much ready, but now I have a girlfriend who is a sophomore and most of the people I hang out with are sophomores and juniors. I have a couple of good friends who are seniors, but that's about it. I really like where I am right now and enjoying life, but I'm really nervous about leaving this comfort zone. I do know what I want to study in college (comp. science), so it's not like I dont' have any idea what I want to do or where I want to go and I make pretty good grades. My parents expect me to be getting all excited about applying to colleges, etc., but to tell the truth, I'm really scared to leave all my friends and everything I know. Is this normal?</p>

<p>of course it is. i’m just as scared too. i don’t want to leave my comfort zone either. i’m afraid i might never see some of my close friends again and i know i’ll miss them a lot, not seeing them each day. it’ll get some getting used to. but i guess there are always ways to stay in touch iefacebook,aim but still seeing them idk im scared ill miss them cuz theyre really close friends but we all have to move on, it’s part of life i guess
but know ur not alone in not wanting to move on, i think a part of many of us doesn’t want to move onto college</p>

<p>Trust me, I know how to feel even though I’m only a sophomore. </p>

<p>I may sound ignorant but if I were you, I’d just face reality and move on with life. Just expect college to be a fun experience and remember that you could always keep in touch with your close friends through Skype, Facebook, Aim, Msn, etc.</p>

<p>you could always go to college locally
but that’s probably not what you really want</p>

<p>For me, it’s kinda the opposite. I can’t wait to get out of high school and actually start focusing on a career and becoming more independent (and there are a lot of people I sometimes wish disappear as harsh as that sounds). Then every now and then, I realize empty my life if I didn’t have those relationships with people and that kind of saddens me.</p>

<p>The thing is that most people in my school end up going with to the same state university (like a good 80%), so I kinda stuck with them for a while now.</p>

<p>I can’t wait to leave high school. Firstly, I am going to flick my GC off on my graduation day.</p>

<p>nevermind.</p>

<p>I love how my previous post makes zero sense. It’s irritating me - ugh. Can’t even express my thoughts coherently - it’s been happening to me the whole day…</p>

<p>@toystory: lmao hell yeah</p>

<p>You need to get out more, period. Go explore outside your bubble so you won’t be so disoriented when you leave it. I think it says quite a bit the fact that most of your friends are younger than you. Travel, take a pre-college program. </p>

<p>I took a precollege program in the city this summer and now my friend and I can’t wait to go to college. I am so done with the bureaucracy and restrictions of high school. I mean, I’m enjoying it while it lasts, but I’m still pretty excited to graduate.</p>

<p>You should purposely fail yourself. You’ll be the student known as the twenty year old senior.</p>

<p>@ Kiwi_Nights - the bureaucracy of college is much worse.</p>

<p>so close to being done…</p>

<p>It’s normal and a lot of people feel the way you do. But I, for one, cannot wait to get the hell out of high school and all the cliches and things that are associated with hs and go on to do bigger, better things. And i’m only a junior which sucks. Senior will be one hell busy year so i can count on that just flying past and then i’m off to uni. I also want to go to an inter-state university(if not the US) and get as far away as possible and experience new things. (i don’t live in the US) I guess it’s because i’ve moved so much in my life that i’m more adventurous and adaptable while my friends have been in one place their whole lives that it is really difficult for them,even though at the same time i crave that stability that they’ve had throughout their teen years.</p>

<p>I’m sorry guys, I think I’m the opposite. You have no idea how much I want to leave my city.</p>

<p>ha, I don’t think so. I go to boarding school, you see.</p>