<p>Seriously?
I can't wait to get out of the Catholic school system. I'm sure I'll miss some of my friends, but come graduation day, my tears will be tears of joy.</p>
<p>You're looking at it all wrong. After 1st semester, you are doing nothing but having fun. Grades are almost irrelevant, you just blast through everything you can. Everyone has regrets about high school. You can't let them hold you back from enjoying the here and now. Once you send in your apps, you're officially done, and have 8 months of partying, chilling, relaxing, expeditions into the unknown.</p>
<p>Also, you only have 8 more months of seeing the people you don't like as well :). Just don't take this time for granted, and pout through it. Take it at face value, and remember this as the greatest time of your life.</p>
<p>I just want you to read your post again, and realize how pessimistically nerdy it is lol. </p>
<p>No more discussing "SAT scores." Honestly? I'm nerdy as well, but that one made me laugh in real life. </p>
<p>Relax though, you're over thinking it. Be more like me, fly by the seat of your pants for as long as you can. You can't really recreate this time, so ignore the bad aspects, and have more fun than you can handle.</p>
<p>I just gotta say... thank god its gonna be over soon...</p>
<p>^amen alexE</p>
<p>its gonna be over in like less then 8 months.</p>
<p>i'm gonna cry like a baby when high school ends! im not even kidding.</p>
<p>Well Im still in high school, but ive always heard that it passes so fast and I think its true so right now I decided to enjoy it, but I think ill miss it when its done.</p>
<p>While your post did make me think of some of the thing I'll miss as well, I fully expect college to be better in almost every way.</p>
<p>haha yes, thank god it'll be over in less than a year...i'll never go visit my high school again. I have high expectations for college...hopefully the ppl there will be more to my liking, and the instructors will actually be unbiased and good at teaching.</p>
<p>woot I'm not the only one dwelling on the past! Apparently it's unhealthy
I go to a stupidly socially retarded school and my friends all live like 2 hours away by train
yet if I had gone to the upper crust private jewish day school all my friends would live around me, I'd have had an actual social life, and been a little more normal... and I just realised I probably would have been in the more popular/party group because my friend who goes to that school is in that group and she wouldn't have abandonded me... life would be MEGA different.
I just feel like I missed out on soo much, oh well get to go crazy in college...</p>
<p>ahahah thats kinda like me except freshman year and second half of junior year and entire senior year.</p>
<p>NY_Democrat (nice username, by the way), I feel your pain... or is it nostalgia?</p>
<p>Anywho...</p>
<p>I am one of the estimated 3.3 million graduating high school in 2009. Day one of high school seemed like such a short time ago. I pretty much did the same thing you did - take initiative, join clubs, become a leader of said clubs, so on and so forth. I don't have a 4.0 GPA anymore, and my ACT/SAT scores aren't amazing, but I think I've done at least an adequate job. Looking back, there were a bunch of things that I missed out on because of my stupid mistakes or mindset (more than likely a combination of the two). However, I know that I can't really take back the past and do it over again. I'm happy that I've learned from my experiences, but I will miss them for sure.</p>
<p>It's a bittersweet thing about ending high school. I remember being a freshman and not worrying about anything, but at the same time, I felt that I have grown much wiser. It also feels pretty good that I've stuck to some of my ambitions. I wanted to take all the hard classes and join all the clubs and become president of at least one of them, and I've made it that far. Of course, I'm human, and I'm never satisfied with my progress. The end of high school makes me want to work on a level that I've never reached before. I want to leave with a bang, you know? I want to look back on my senior year and think that I've done all that I didn't do in the previous years. I regret not taking advantage of the opportunity to go to Governor's School, or actually hanging out with my friends when I had the time instead of staying home on the computer, and not running cross country when I was a freshman. I know that time is pretty crucial right now, and I shouldn't laze around like I want to.</p>
<p>Last Friday I went to cross country practice as usual. The season is closing up on me and my last meet is this week, and my coach made us to mile repeats... for the last time. All practice I thought, "This is the last time I get to do this... make it count."</p>
<p>And that's all I want to do. Make everything count. I know that college will be great, but I think it'd be nice to not be so focused on the future and just think about what I need and should do right now. Then at graduation night, I'll be happy that I've done my best.</p>
<p>Lol @ all the 'piccolojunior' fanboyism in this thread, is he like your hero or something?</p>
<p>^ Clever....necroing an old thread.</p>
<p>(I was going with the lols with da vinci.)</p>
<p>It's a sad thing, meeting the capstone of an era and casting your history aside. But, it's also a chance for a new start. I'm loath to forget my high school days when I remember that first nervous moment at school, the time I changed my philosophy on life and began living. High school inspired growth and aspiration in me to the extent where I abandoned the melancholy of my life and became happy. I've taken full control of my life and engaged myself in everything I could, but I still regret not having had more time. When I think of the people I could've met, the research I could've done, and the places I could have gone, I feel a pang of loneliness and remorse. The times were good; I think many would agree. And although the impending end may seem disheartening, I remember that high school changed my life for the better, and I believe college will do the same again.</p>
<p>I'm so glad it's almost over</p>
<p>My school has both a middle a school and a HS so ive been with the same people for 7 years. It will be weird and I will miss alot of things. But there is so much to look forward to as well. im sure everyone knows the beatles song that goes " you say goodbye........I say hello". I'll say goodbye to what i'll miss, but i'll say hello to an entirely new world.</p>
<p>Woah, my school is pk - 12 and I've been there since kindergarten. I can't wait to get rid of these people I've gotten so sick of.</p>
<p>I won't miss this entity or institution of "high school", I'll miss people and a few teachers. High School is more a name for the period in your life, and if that whole period was miserable, then its not that high school sucks, its that you made sucky life choices. </p>
<p>I do think many high schools do have a at times overwhelming set of serious and light issues, but overall, the experience has been fulfilling.</p>
<p>armageddon, that seems like a college essay rough draft.</p>
<p>I cried when the seniors left last year. I'm not that close to any 09ers, but I still might get emotional seeing everyone cry at the last few lunches on the commons. And I know I'll cry a lot in '10. There are so many people that I've known since I was 6, and some since I was even 3. I'll probably never see them again. There are all these people who, even though we're not close friends, have played a part in my life since the start. And there are the people who were just important for a short while. I hate saying goodbye. </p>
<p>But college is definitely very fun.</p>
<p>Question... who is piccolojunior... and why is he "restricted"</p>