<p>Are any of you guys feeling especially crappy this year?</p>
<p>if i were to narrow my feelings to two adjectives, i'd say: Loneliness and listlessness</p>
<p>I feel like all my years in high school, i've been focusing on just doing well and a lot of it was my big goal to get into a top university. Now that I've already applied ED and sent in my app, I feel like i've just been doing stuff for college and have the life sucked out of me. Like I've done a bunch of work that was specifically oriented for school. I joined clubs here and there, got positions to some clubs that i really don't care about, done a lot of stuff that i'm not really interested in basically. And the other activites that I enjoyed doing and could have excelled in, I let slip and half azzed. </p>
<p>Making it worse, I just have too much free time this year and feel no push to work like i used to. Even though I'm taking hard classes still, it's really ez still compared to previous years. So i'm sitting at home a lot and wondering what I can do. </p>
<p>I feel alienated from a lot of my friends too. It seems all the times that I could have enjoyed with them and just chilled, I spent working and studying my life away! I don't really have much to say anymore. What the Fawk can i talk about? All i know is a lot of ******** school knowledge. Now i'm reallly really lonely everyday. I never felt this crappy all my life.</p>
<p>I doubt i can earn friends again. A lot of my friends i'm not even very interested in anymore anyways. Right now, only love can save me.</p>
<p>hey. try to find yourself a completely new goal. you feel your life is empty. omg! I feel I have just millions of things to do, and don't know where to start from! also sent my ED app. have to start writing my RD essays. to be sure. also have to prep for math olympiad. at the end of the year I'll also have our final exam(the romanian baccalaureate). plus there are I think tons of books I'd like to read. come on! there are plenty of occupations! get rid of this mood(also felt it...quite often) and start enjoying life! go in a trip or something forthe weekend. do something different! go take dance lessons![just an idea :p]
don't worry to much about it. this mood is also evanescent :)</p>
<p>well I did the exact same thing u did in high school (i'm a senior too just sent in my ea app) and there's a couple things u can do:
1. u can try and start anew second semester, try to regain some old friends, make some new, and live up the rest of ur high school days, so at least u can leave high school w/ some memories
or
2. u can just decide, **** it, i won't make the same mistake in college and make some new friends there</p>
<p>I'm gonna try and go for #1, but if that doesn't work out, hey just wait till college, and no matter what, we've both learned our lesson</p>
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<p>I really feel sorry for you walla =( But hey...things will get better.
I had the same problem at the beginning of the school year because I was busy with SATs, uni applications etc...and I started to grow distant from my friends as we spent less and less time together. But then I talked with my friends about it because I couldn't stand being sad and angry at them because they seldom talk to me anymore. It turned out that they actually missed me when I didn't hang out with them. Things are getting better now; although I still worry about school work and such, I find time to go out with them or just 'loiter' around with them after school, and I feel as if I've never been away from them ^^</p>
<p>The reason that you feel that you've lost interest in them might be because you feel distant with them; talk to them about it...you never know, maybe they're actually waiting for you to go back to the days where you were yourself =) Don't worry about having nothing to talk about, there's always something to comment on (music, sports, girls/guys, jokes, funny articles you've read on the web etc...); and if there's nothing to talk about, you can always create topics of conversation by doing stuff together (going out for a movie, hanging out at a friend's house etc)</p>
<p>And hey, who wants to be with someone who's constantly sad? Cheer up, the best days are yet to come~ Be positive and talk to them again...you never know what will come out of it ^^</p>
<p>Just my two cents...hope you feel better soon =)</p>
<p>i actually still have friends but yeah i am kind of bored now. thus i am getting a job at sav-on. that will give me something to do and i will make money at the same time.</p>
<p>yea i just moved soo i am the epitome of bored most of the time.. the only time i do stuff is when i go back to my old town or go down to lsu to hang out with my sis...... but if your bored you can get on cc and go vote for me 4 rookie of the year!!</p>
<p>Senior year is, in the words of a class of '05 friend of mine, "a transition into a transition." And it REALLY IS just that! This is something like your life AFTER high school, as scary as that might seem.</p>
<p>I think we all use so much of our energy just applying that this big-send off leaves us with a void. We were all so rushed, so nervous, and now there's nothing you can do. Same goes for senior year...all that work, and the year isn't as hard as you were preparing yourself for!</p>
<p>You will lose friends. However, if you give yourself time, you will find new ones, I promise! This funk is VERY temporary. Everyone gets depressed sometimes...you should go get some help if this lasts longer than a couple of weeks.</p>
<p>Well, maybe there won't be so much depression if you did the things because you like them and have a true passion for what you did, rather than being so superficial and doing it only as a means to get to college. If you want to manipulate the system and do what it takes to get to the top, then the consequences are inevitable.</p>
<p>It doesn't really make much sense really. You'll be in the same situation again in a competitve college environment.</p>
<p>When you choose your extracurricular activities you should choose them because you have a genuine passion in them and not because it will look good for college. Otherwise of course you are going to get an empty, hollow feeling once you have applied for college because it isn't truly want you want to be doing deep down in your heart.</p>
<p>eh, i've lost a friend here and there approaching my senior year. but that's how life goes. just think, in a few months, it will be a new life and a fresh start.</p>
<p>It's my hardest year academically... but it's manageable. That's not even the point, though. I just feel like high school is not enough. It's missing something. Perhaps this means I'm ready for college? I don't know. As I said, my classes are hard, but yet I'm still BORED.</p>
<p>And I'm torn between senioritis and working hard for AP tests. Blech. </p>
<p>Another reason why it's weird for me is it seems as though all of my peers are done learning because it's their senior year. But I don't really care that it's my senior year... I still have a lot to learn and I want to continue to be engaged but it's hard to be excited about class when I'm the only one paying attention for some lessons.</p>
<p>tetrahedr0n, considering ur applying to mit and caltech ea, and the only possible schools that are accepting students right now are rolling admissions, I'd venture to guess u got into ur safety state school. But u didn't spend ur life working to get into that. Wait till u get into MIT/Caltech, and maybe then ur hollow feeling will dissapear</p>
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I'd venture to guess u got into ur safety state school. But u didn't spend ur life working to get into that. Wait till u get into MIT/Caltech, and maybe then ur hollow feeling will dissapear
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<p>It's certainly possible Social_Pariah. But I'm actually pretty happy with my state school, and I wouldn't have really called it a safety - it's a great school!</p>
<p>my top 2 choices are both safeties and ive already been admitted to both so for me its like all the excitement is gone... im still waiting on xavier, depauw and wisconsin-madison but i really dont care much... the only thing i have to look forward to is getting out (05/27/2006 at 2:00)</p>