The End of High School...

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Firstly, don't get me wrong - materially and on the surface you would think I took full advantage of all the oppurtunities of high school and made the most of it. Student Gov. President, been a leader in tons of organizations, stellar grades and scores, and I still love to and have time to hang out with friends and everything like that. </p>

<p>Yet recently though, (perhaps also due to the onset of senior year and college admissions), I feel as if my high school career hasn't been complete - I am the kind of person who likes to experience everything, and there are a few clubs that I wish I could have gotten more involved in or been a true leader in, but now it's too late. I will never have the same oppurtunities again, ever, because college clubs and then real life organizations are totally different from high school clubs. </p>

<p>I'm also feeling down about the end of high school itself - my teachers, who's classes I absolutely loved and enjoyed, and my classmates, who with I enjoyed. Most of them I will never see again, ever, and I will truly miss them. Never again will there be a truly 'fun' class taken by me ever again. No more things like making fun powerpoint presentations (the ones in college and beyond will never be of the same fun-underlying nature), no more things like posters, easy papers, and fun projects. Never again. No more things like high school football games, for college ones are nothing close to that. I even might miss gym class a bit, because all of the colleges I'm going for don't require things like gym. No more things like everyone crowding before class gossiping about things like SAT scores (since no one will take the same standarized tests again) or everyone feeling the comradeship of college admissions (for we all take different paths then on in life - i go to a suburban school where most go to college so we all feel the bond of that). No more high school styled classes, no more anything like that. High school had that color of 'fun' inherently mixed in with it...but college, although it is fun as well, it is not anywhere near as close...</p>

<p>The fun is over from here on out. And I'm feeling a bit sad about that. I wish I had done more things, enjoyed more things, and made the most out of these 4 years, but now it really feels like to me that it all went by so fast and that perhaps I didn't make the most of it. There is so much time in the rest of my life to have done things and enjoy my childhood more, decades upon decades to do everything serious in the world, but these 4 years are over. These 4 years went by so quickly, and all that's left from these are memories and yearbooks... : (</p>

<p>Anyone else's thoughts on the end of high school?</p>

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<p>Fun is over from here on out? Wow, that is a completely depressing outlook! Unless you're planning on going to UChicago (KIDDING), I think there will be plenty of opportunities to have fun in college. I'm looking forward to having a blast at college!</p>

<p>That being said, I do hear you. It's weird knowing that I probably won't see a lot of the people around me ever again. I can't get used to that feeling.</p>

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<p>I'm sort of with you. While I do not think this is the end of my fun, it's strange to think that I may not see a lot of people ever again.</p>

<p>I'm planning on going pretty far away from home (I live in Arkansas), so it is highly unlikely that we will be attending the same institutions or anything like that.</p>

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<p>i'll be pretty sad too..but not nearly as sad as i will be if i don't get into an out-of-state school with scholarships(which i won't get)...maybe i'm being too hard on myself.</p>

<p>i won't be sad to get out of spanish though...i really wish i took latin instead. too late to switch out of ap spanish though.</p>

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<p>basically i had no life for the first 2.5 years of high school
and i really regret that</p>

<p>so im just trying to make the most of my last year in high school</p>

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<p>lol, well I didn't mean all fun in life ends here, I just meant that nothing else will have the same 'mix' of adolesence and maturity that high school did, since College is already leaning to the more adult/mature side than adolesence, while high school is in the between. I'm very much looking foward to the rest of my life / career (business undergrad and then law school! =D), but these 4 years, in retrospect, just feel really short now. Some people I wish I would have gotten to know better, and done a few things differently, you know.</p>

<p>Though this year I'm certainly going to make it worth it ;)</p>

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<p>^depends, some adults are worse than us. four years are always short... i mean, i've already started to forget my age in middle school. it makes me feel old, even though in reality i know i'm not.</p>

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<p>I'm a sophomore. 3 years left... ;)</p>

<p>My whole life has been characterized by fun. All I basically do is play (in many senses of the word).</p>

<p>And that'll continue on..</p>

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<p>imo college is a lot more fun than high school.</p>

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<p>Woah. I'm in college now and it is TONS more fun. Seriously. I learn a crap load but I am seriously having the most fun of my life- also having some of the happiest times of my life. I looooove it. So much better than high school in every way. </p>

<p>More of a community, more 'fun' classes, more hanging out and talking with people, more dances, more movies, more fun fun fun fun fun. The stress level is about the same, maybe lower, but it's only the beginning of the semester and I'm sure it'll get a lot more stressful from here on out, but that's to be expected.</p>

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imo college is a lot more fun than high school.

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Pretty much word.</p>

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<p>How could anything not be funner than high school?</p>

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<p>^^oh dear...</p>

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<p>Have fun in HS and stop dissing it so much. Trust me it's one of the best times of your life. Everything is just good for you in HS.</p>

<p>College is pretty good too. Nothing wrong with enjoying both.</p>

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Have fun in HS and stop dissing it so much. Trust me it's one of the best times of your life. Everything is just good for you in HS.

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<p>I think piccolojunior would blast that statement to pieces</p>

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<p>
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I think piccolojunior would blast that statement to pieces

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<p>Agreed, haha.</p>

<p>I can see the sarcasm coming from a mile away.</p>

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<p>
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I think piccolojunior would blast that statement to pieces

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oh man, I was so thinking about that too. I kinda know the guy now and he's a pretty chill guy (but smart, talked to him on AIM a couple hrs ago and he's doing some chem stuff at Harvard).</p>

<p>Unfortunately, he's... "restricted" from CC now.</p>

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<p>
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imo college is a lot more fun than high school.

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<p>Win.</p>

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Everything is just good for you in high school.

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<p>In the ideal high school, there would be no 'required' classes. I could pick whatever classes I wanted to take, even if it meant 3 sciences classes in one year. Kids would be mature, teachers would be amazing, and there would be no such thing as grade inflation. Of course, as Plato has generously pointed out, this world is a mere shadow of the real world and all that exists in this world is an imitation of the ideal.</p>

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That being said, I do hear you. It's weird knowing that I probably won't see a lot of the people around me ever again. I can't get used to that feeling.

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I've been getting that feeling a lot lately, it's very strange. I look around my classrooms, some of whom I have known since kindergarten, and it's strange to think that I will never see these people again after graduation (or maybe sometime next summer). Kind of surreal, even if I won't miss most of them...</p>

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<p>There's always facebook haha.</p>