<p>Seriously. After coming onto this site, I lost major sympathy emotions for my peers. For example, when they come to me crying/texting about their friend being absent tomorrow and I'm just "um, okay?" or better yet, I don't even text them back! I used to text them back trying to comfort them. But now I feel that whenever I text I'm just wasting time to study...</p>
<p>Has CC changed you in this way too? xD</p>
<p>No. NO. CHANGE BACK.</p>
<p>Wait… these are the kinds of dilemmas your friends have?</p>
<p>Haha that’s a little needy of them.
For me I find myself getting similarly upset over a test score that lowers my percentage or an unfair project grade. I find myself becoming an overachiever.</p>
<p>oh thank God, I thought this was a thread about someone who was unable to feel any sympathy at all (CC has some weird people)</p>
<p>LOL. I’m just less sympathetic at people because I feel that whenever I worry about this kid about some really pathetic reason, I could be filling my brain with mega SAT words :D</p>
<p>The SAT is not, nor should it ever be, more of a priority than maintaining a healthy relationship with friends.</p>
<p>^wrong
Friends don’t last forever, but your sat score will.</p>
<p>^Not one word you just said didn’t make me feel sad for you.</p>
<p>I hope you were joking. It’s so hard to tell on here.</p>
<p>I’m not joking 
I honestly see nothing sad about what I said. Is that bad?</p>
<p>…I don’t know what to say except I will definitely be avoiding a lot of people in college because studying, sat words, etc. are not more important than friendship, sympathy and empathy, even. Dang, the tour guides I met at Harvard would scream if they met some of you guys (“Friendship is magic” and all that jazz, you know?)</p>
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<p>I actually agree with this. If you go to an out-of-state college and then go to grad school or med school you’ll probably move a lot. Friends tend to go away when you move.</p>
<p>Besides, you can always be social and make more friends.</p>
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<p>I agree with this too, because friends are good for your mental health, and if you don’t have good mental health you won’t score well on the SAT. Actually that’s false, but it is important to be happy, even if the things that make you happy don’t last forever. And you’ll probably get used to a bad SAT score, but it’s harder to get used to being lonely.</p>
<p>not replying to your friend’s text sympathetically because you feel like that would be choosing between studying and socializing, and you would rather be studying because you think that’s the good thing to do probably isn’t a good thing…</p>
<p>what it really seems like to me though is you are using the new-found importance of studying and school to you to justify not doing the duty of expressing sympathy for things which you never really felt sympathy for before (like your friend’s worry about which of her friends won’t be at school the next day).</p>
<p>Fizix2, are you saying that because your high school friends won’t last ver long, it’s not worth making them? A lot of things don’t last very long. It is definitely worth getting to know the people around you at any point in your life.</p>
<p>On a side note, I know plenty of people who have kept their high school friends past college.</p>
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<p>No, read my second paragraph.</p>
<p>And here I was , a 58 year old mom who worried that I was an Over-Emoter ! Thanks for helping me understand ></p>
<p>fizix2, yeah sorry, I get you. I guess it should be more directed at basoonapus.</p>
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<p>Except after you graduate high school nobody will give a crap what your SAT score was, or what your GPA was, or about how many APs you forced yourself to pretend to be interested in just to make it look like you have a strong rigorous schedule. Yes, studying and getting into a good college and all that is important but high school is your one chance to enjoy a stress-free life without having to worry about a job, kids, paying taxes, and the mounds of debt you may or may not have to pay off after going through 8+ years of college and grad school.</p>
<p>I don’t know why I’m taking the time to type this out. You’re probably just ■■■■■■■■. But moral of the story is enjoy life while you can and don’t worry so much about your SAT score. From the wise words of Aubrey Grahm, “You only live once: that’s the motto, ***** YOLO”</p>
<p>^^No problem.
^ The flipside is high school is your one chance to learn subjects like math and physics at a reasonable pace instead of scrambling to catch up in college. In college there’s very little time for learning. So there are costs and benefits of both options. I don’t think SAT preparation itself is very meaningful, but it is important to study and learn stuff in high school, or else you will be less prepared later.</p>
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<p>YES.</p>
<p>And i have never lost sympathy like you have, OP…</p>