<p>I don't know, I still keep in touch with a few of my good friends from elementary school. Some people never change, some end up totally different.</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Some teachers make good friends.</p></li>
<li><p>Get a stress ball for classes with teachers who don't.</p></li>
<li><p>Fake it. Until junior year. Then you can't fake it.</p></li>
<li><p>Only join clubs you care about, because otherwise you could just be hanging out with your friends.</p></li>
<li><p>Lower your standards. Seriously. Like, forget the Ivy League and delete your account from this website. You will never be competitive.</p></li>
<li><p>Nobody is competitive. Everyone, like you, has some serious holes in his or her record. The science dude who plays concert oboe and is tops at tae kwon do probably has no self-confidence and can't dance. The first things are good for getting into college, but the last two are for staying there.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Find someone to look up to. Better yet, find several people you can look up to and pool together their best achievements/qualities and strive for that.</p>
<p>Plan for your summer way in advance (in December). Apply for competitive internships or summer programs.</p>
<p>Find out what competitions/programs are prestigious and do them.</p>
<p>Find two clubs you love, and own it up.</p>
<p>Develop your public speaking skills.</p>
<p>Never settle for "good enough." To be merely good enough is to never succeed.</p>
<p>Procrastination is evil(but great at times)
Having a gym class last period is awesome(especially if you can get counted present and then leave)
Teachers can be really sensitive about their weight..lol but true story</p>
<p>Make sure that you have other people share food with you too, not just the other way around.</p>
<p>Deal with *****y people, and don't take their... poop. Or you'll be their doormat. </p>
<p>Don't buy the school's food if you can help it; it's not good economics.</p>
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<p>HALLMARK MOMENT!!</p>
<p>I disagree, by the way.
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<p>I agree with you, amber. </p>
<p>1st vs. 60th actually matters quite a bit.</p>
<p>Perhaps this has already been said, but...</p>
<p>Girls, you don't need a guy to make you feel worthy. In fact, in a few years, you'll look back and wish you spent that time trying to love yourself for who you are instead of degrading yourself to make a guy "like" you.</p>
<p>I'm am almost sure the two of these have been said, but I can't resist.
1) Always remember that life is an experience that doesn't hinge on one test, one decision, or one event.</p>
<p>2) Do something unreasonable every once in awhile. Pretty soon you won't be able to justify it anymore.</p>
<p>3) Never I-just-don't-have-time someone. Especially your girlfriend. You'll regret it and you won't realize how much you took her for granted until she was gone.</p>
<p>4) Go to Prom, Homecoming, and every other event high school has to offer.</p>
<p>5) Teachers are people too.</p>
<p>So far I have learned,</p>
<p>1.) Drop a course for a different teacher if you believe the teacher suks ass in teaching. (I am sorry but some people just can't freakin teach.)
2.) Try your best in quizes,tests,and projects. In the end, you will thank yourself.
3.)If you actually, ''ACTUALLY'' spend considerable amounts of time during the weekend on your subjects, your grade will improve.
4.)No one seriously cares if you deserved a B, nor will they care what scores you scored on tests.
5.)The grade of a ''C'' will cause irritation to skin, loss of an substantial amount of money, gf/bf will dump you, parents will be dissapointed, and you
''SUC" and of course been, " OWNED UP THE ***"</p>
<ul>
<li>DON'T PROCRASTINATE on standardized tests. They creep up on you if you do.</li>
<li>Get your parents involved in any kind of issue and even the most adament administrator will give way.</li>
<li>The more advanced classes a student takes, the more likely he is to cheat. Our weighted rank 1 cheats all the time.</li>
<li>Never expect integrity from anyone during a school election. Underhand deals happen often--look out for them.</li>
<li>Don't trust anyone that holds on to a 4.0 by senior year.</li>
<li>If you end up with a teacher that sucks ass, GTFO NOW.</li>
<li>If you end up with a class full of dumbasses and/or potheads, see above.</li>
<li>If you hold a student office for even one year, everyone will know your name by the time schools out.</li>
<li>If you're taking more than four AP's in your senior year, brace yourself. This won't be the great year you thought it would be.</li>
</ul>
<p>I learned that I enjoy debating (not formally) and giving speeches, which is weird because I'm so quiet. So...explore lots of different areas in high school.</p>
<p>I have learned a lot of stuff:
I can do well in sports and still have fun. I can also do sports that I'm so not good at and still have fun.</p>
<p>It's really fun to be friends with younger kids. They can be great, especially the ones a year younger than you, since you're not competing in school, but you're basically the same age.</p>
<p>Take all the advanced courses you can, because they are more fun than being with people who don't care.</p>
<p>Never study take prep courses or driver's ed, because those are just big wastes of time. If you want to do that stuff, you can do it on your own time.</p>
<p>Where I live if you take driver's ed you don't have to pay as much on insurance...</p>
<p>I'm a Senior already, but I like threads like these and I'd say I've learned my lessons pretty well. Not everyone would completely agree with these, but..</p>
<ol>
<li>Learn how to manage your time/split your efforts.</li>
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<p>Take a hit in your highest class to raise that B+ to an A- two weeks before the semester ends. BS all your other homework to get that extra studying in for the subject you're lacking in.</p>
<ol>
<li>Get your drivers lisence before your senior year; earlier is even better.</li>
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<p>I learned the hard way. I'm always hitching rides from friends and stuck in the backseat.</p>
<ol>
<li>Develop a sense of humor/Get people to laugh.</li>
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<p>Don't go overboard trying to crack a joke every second, high school is MUCH more enjoyable if you're out with friends and telling the jokes instead of laughing on the side all the time. I'm sure most of you know what I mean. For guys, your chances with a girl greatly improve if you can make her laugh. And of course it's great for a girl to be funny too =P</p>
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<li>Respect others.</li>
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<p>Very very simple. High school (life in general) is too short to make enemies. Don't talk crap about people, don't be difficult to your teachers, don't go out of your way to make people feel worse, just for the sake of "revenge". This has a great feedback effect-others will respect you too and you'll have few problems.</p>
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<li>Probably the most important of the five-learn to make/keep friendships.</li>
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<p>Moreso than grades, it's the time you spent with your friends that will define your high school years. Do your best to be loyal to your closest friends and spend time out whenever you can. Try to make new friends every year, because many doorways open for every friend you make. It's always worth it. Don't slam the door on anyone or refuse to give anyone a chance.</p>
<p>Long post already but I hope it's helpful. Hope all of you enjoy</p>
<p>Not every teacher is earnest.</p>
<p>It doesn't matter that every teacher before has liked you because you are a perfect student, you can still come across one that inexplicably hates you.</p>
<p>People cheat, a lot. And get away with it.</p>
<p>That one C- that you got on that math test DOES matter, because it will lower your overall math grade, and therefore your average. So if you get a C-, work SUPER hard to compensate for it.</p>
<p>-Read the textbook. Always do this--especially if you know the test material is straight from the text!</p>
<p>-Regardless of what teachers and parents say, in high school cheaters do prosper.</p>
<p>-Talk to everyone--don't pay attention to garbage about who's cool, who's nerdy, whatever. Make friends and talk to anyone who's there, it's great to have a variety of friends with different interests and backgrounds.</p>
<p>-Take harder classes and take an interest in the subject. I found normal classes almost harder than APs because they were boring and I wasn't interested. Example, AP Bio was considered the most difficult class in my school, but because I found it fascinating and took the time to talk with my teacher out of curiosity I did amazingly (I'm talking a 98 one quarter) and leaned TONS.</p>
<p>-Your teachers are human beings and they talk about you behind your back with other teachers. </p>
<p>-Get involved, not just for your college apps, but because it's fun. </p>
<p>-Don't be like me and spend your first three years hating school and things like football games so you can look so cool, because then you'll become a senior and realize that stuff is fun.</p>
<p>-Finally, high school is a ridiculous pit of garbage and stupidity. Just do your work and try to have fun, I hear that it will hardly matter by the time you turn 20.</p>
<p>Don't tattletale, because it will not get you ANYWHERE...except for maybe a nice beating from your peers after class. Stupid tattletales. </p>
<p>Some teachers deserve to be fired. </p>
<p>You will find out what stupidity really is. </p>
<p>Bf/gf relationships will never last.</p>
<p>High school sucks.</p>
<p>Lol. That was the most cynical post so far.</p>
<p>-Have a variety of types of friends so that you always have one to talk to when the others are ****ing you off .
-Most teenagers are morons and will do a wide variety of unintelligent things to fit in with their peers.
-The majority of romantic relationships will fail.</p>
<p>-Don't trust your guidance department or parents to tell you how to start preparing for college. I wish I'd known how much ECs make or break an application in freshmen year instead of realizing it now.</p>
<p>-Almost everyone cheats at some point. </p>
<p>-Don't focus so much on college that you have a mental breakdown or lose out on your high school years. I have some really smart friends who have had a great time in highschool, but some others (who are highly qualified academically for the Ivies) spent all their time studying and slaving away for the SATs so that they literally don't know the difference between Playboy and Gameboy, or Democrat vs. Republican ideology, or anything about the outside world. Have a balanced life. College is just as much about starting to go out into the real world as it is academics.</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Lame as it sounds, staying sober can be fun. It means that you can get great blackmail pics of your friends when they're drunk :)</p></li>
<li><p>You may be surprised who you find at the gay pride parade. So if you go (and I understand the allure. Pretty, pretty boys... <em>drool</em>), wear sunglasses if you don't want to be recognized by your teachers 0.0</p></li>
<li><p>Procrastination is bad. Don't do it. (No, I don't have an AP lit project due tomorrow. Why do you ask?)</p></li>
<li><p>If you find yourself awake at 4 am the day your term paper is due (in case you do procrastinate, which, as i said, is bad), just get online for a minute or two. You'll feel better about yourself when you see the other 20 people in your class there too.</p></li>
<li><p>If you take the time to talk to them, you may actually find that teachers are people, too! (This does not mean that they are necessarily good teachers. It just means that they are more multi-dimensional than they look standing behind a desk.)</p></li>
<li><p>When you break up with a hs bf/gf its sad. But you have to pick yourself up and get over it. Chances are that you wouldn't have ended up marrying the person you were dating at 15 anyway.</p></li>
<li><p>Take advantage of those school-mandated easy classes you have to take. They're perfect for finishing homework for those other, fun, interesting classes you actually chose.</p></li>
<li><p>Find teachers you like and take other classes they teach. Even if you don't think you'll like it, a really great teacher will get you interested anyway. Plus, then you can use them to write your teacher recs since you've had them more than once ;)</p></li>
<li><p>If you want to get involved with theater, prepare to sign away your life. You will NEVER go home again. Save yourself some trouble and sign up for something else. (We in Model UN would really appreciate your support)</p></li>
<li><p>Learn to love, or at least live with, the kids in your AP classes. Chances are that you'll spend all day with them for four years.</p></li>
<li><p>AP physics is a soul-sucking beast. Sign up for bio instead :)</p></li>
<li><p>When you're assigned a book in lit (even if its stupid Huck Finn), don't just sparknotes it. You will fail the reading quizzes. </p></li>
<li><p>If your friends cause more emotional drama than fun, then you may want to consider making some new friends</p></li>
<li><p>If you take brilliant, detailed notes in class, you don't need to pour over the textbook. Which means that you don't have to bring home your textbooks every day. Your back will thank you.</p></li>
<li><p>High heels are sexy. Don't wear them to school. You will inevitably have a fire drill or need to run from one place to another or end up having to stand all period. It's not worth it.</p></li>
<li><p>Being a brain on a stick won't get you into college. Get a hobby, freak.</p></li>
<li><p>Seniors are way too busy being aloof to make fun of the freshmen. Watch out for juniors. They're vicious.</p></li>
<li><p>Just because your counselor says that you can handle 5 APs a year doesn't mean its true. Srsly, do NOT take AP lit, physics, calc, spanish, and gov at the same time. You will want to stab someone. Probably your counselor and you need to be nice to him/her because he/she'll probably end up having to write a letter of rec.</p></li>
<li><p>No matter how busy you are, you still have time to watch one or two TV shows a week. It may not make you well-rounded, but at least you'll know what the other people at your lunch table are talking about while you're doing your homework. (I suggest House or Heroes, but whatever floats your boat, really. My calc class has weekly discussions on Beauty and the Geek, and my physics class on Mythbusters so you really can never know.)</p></li>
<li><p>Most important of all...whoever said that senior year is the "best time of your life" DIDN'T APPLY TO COLLEGE! Essays and tests and essays and letters of rec and essays and homework and essays and ECs and did I mention essays? Senior year is more of a ***** than junior year was. I'm holding out for second semester... I mean, enjoy high school while its here. I'm sure you'll miss it when its gone.</p></li>
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<p>(wow, long post. sorry...)</p>