Thread for complaining about disappointing stuff

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>We've all faced them. Come complain about yours, get it off your chest. </p>

<p>I was just rejected for admittance into a performing arts HS in my area. It makes me want to seriously reconsider ever pursuing a career in theatre. If I can't get into a stupid high school, there's no way I have the talent to get a BFA at Juilliard or Northwestern or CMU. </p>

<p>Alas. I'll probably wind up getting my bachelor's in History or English or something at a community college and then OD'ing on sleeping pills when I'm 50. I'm not a STEM-oriented student. My heart lies with the arts. I feel so desolate and like I have no chance at a future. Math makes me feel so stupid, and to top that off- I've basically been told I'm not good at the only thing that I truly love, so now I feel stupid AND talentless AND like there's nothing for me out of high school.</p>

<p>How about you guys? What disappointments have you faced recently that made you want to cry for days and kick people in the mouth just because they were there?</p>

<p>Don't be afraid of sounding whiny. We're teenagers. Just let it all out :)</p>

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<p>Ugh, I want to graduate as a junior next year, and I planned on taking dual-enrollment classes at the community college (3 classes per quarter) and taking three classes at school, plus summer classes at the college and online courses. I had the whole thing planned out perfectly to a T.</p>

<p>But a friend informed me today, that if we choose to take full time dual-enrollment, which is the three classes, we can only take one class at the high school, which totally ruined my whole plan. And I think I may have found a way to do it, but It’s gonna be pretty difficult.</p>

<p>I talked to my principal and school superindenent of education about it last month, and they said the earliest I could graduate if I did everything by the book was january of my senior year. Which is useless, because I won’t be graduating early, i’ll just have one semester free.</p>

<p>It may not seem like a huge problem, but it really bothers me and I just want to leave my school so bad. :(</p>

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<p>This is completely and utterly my fault, but I’m an extreme introvert…which pretty much means all of my teacher recommendations are going to be terrible.
Also I’ve had mental breakdowns in class, which does not help my case at all.</p>

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<p>I wasn’t chosen as a WUSTL Scholarship finalist, which is really disappointing :l. Now I feel like I won’t get into any of my reach schools or gain enough aid to afford them! Even if I WAS accepted to WUSTL, I don’t think I would be able to pay the tuition.</p>

<p>Oh, well!</p>

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<p>Hugs, pandamic. That was my son’s situation. He loved WUSTL, but there was just no way we could afford it, even with the scholarship money they offered. Very frustrating.</p>

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<p>Propinquity, are you me? I’m very timid myself, and tend to get ignored by my teachers. But it is in no way your fault- there’s nothing wrong with being introverted so long as it doesn’t negatively affect how you live your life. I’m sure your teacher recs will be wonderful!</p>

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<p>I’m too ****<em>ing stupid and poor to get anywhere.
Everyone laughs at my mother and me when we endure hardships. My mom has so much pressure on her as a single mom and I feel terrible. I don’t have a family. I only have my mom and she’s so stressed she’s barely there. In sixty days we will be homeless. I live two miles from the goddamn bustop, which makes job search a b</em>tch. Never had a job. I took a gap year to regroup from severe poverty, but guess what? No break.
Sending in my mom’s W-2s has been so embarrassing. She isn’t even required to file taxes.
I’m tired of others speaking ill of me and patronizing me. Tired of my mom being judged and hurt.
Sick of asking for advice and being handed cliches. Sick of venting on an online forum because no one else will listen. Sick of trying this hard and nothing works.</p>

<p>Life just won’t let the heck up.</p>

<p>/rant</p>

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<p>SopraNOPE - Around here, teachers tend to think quiet = stupid.</p>

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<p>Studied every amc12 since 2008. Took them all, getting between 80 and 105. Took the test and missed the cutoff for AIME by 3 points. Oh well, I’m better at chemistry anyway</p>

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<p>@alexissss I really hope things get better for your family. I’m sure you will get in somewhere. I have a feeling that acceptance will be exactly what you and your mom need to get back out there and make the most of life. Good luck with everything!! Rooting for the best! :)</p>

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<p>My parents are fighting.</p>

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<p>@alexisss</p>

<p>Why do you say that you’re too stupid and poor to get anywhere? Aren’t you black with 2100+ SATs? What schools did you apply to?</p>

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<p>I got into my dream school but I can’t afford it. I live in the run down part of a very rich town. We bought our house when my mom was married but she got divorced last year and now we can’t afford all the bills and we rarely have money for groceries. There are town scholarships but they aren’t for much because everyone is rich. Why do they need them anyway? They can pay all four years up front while my mom makes less than the cost of one year at the school I’ve dreamed about. I’m currently in the process of stressing over scholarships while desperately needing a job (I live in the middle of nowhere so having a job would mean needing a car which would mean more money being spent). I have never been this stressed out before.</p>

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<p>I have pretty much no friends. :’(</p>

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<p>I am a high school senior and I am sick of it. The state board is making us to do the ACT test on March 20th at school. As far as I know, many college and scholarship applications were already OVER. The school is puttling a lot of pressure to us because students’ ACT score will affect the school’s performance score (SPS). They shortened our class periods and put an extra period in the middle of the day to do ACT preps. It sound helpful, but my teacher does not know how to teach. Also, they did a practice ACT test last month, and NOBODY cares to put effort into it. Everybody just bubbling to go to sleep because they know what they are going to do! *** is the state board doing?</p>

<p>After the hurricane Issac, the school system increases our school time from 7 1/2 hours to 8 hours everyday until next week. The classes are already long (because we have block schedules), and this makes it longer! If I miss one day of school, I have to make up a lot of work.</p>

<p>I understand that Louisiana has a horrible education and they try to improve it, but that doesn’t mean:

  1. They can fire all professional teachers for TeachForAmericas.
  2. Make teachers teach from bell to bell without stopping.
  3. Again, wasting money doing ACT while many people know what they are going to do after high school. My mother pay for it.
  4. increase student-teacher ratio from 30:1 to 33:1
  5. 40-student honor classes.</p>
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<p>@tinny
Thank you so much. <em>^▁^</em> I really appreciate your words of encouragement. :heart::heart:</p>

<p>@slikkk
Didn’t take the SAT. :O</p>

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<p>My mom was the one who pushed me to do stuff in school. I picked up the cello in 5th grade, I started the desire to make good grades sometime in elementary school, I took up honors classes, I joined my school’s math club in 9th grade, and other academic influences.</p>

<p>We drifted apart after the summer math camp before 9th grade. She became more in tune with her faith and less conversations with me at dinner. Of course, high school was the time I was exploring my personal desires and forming my beliefs in life. During my sophomore year, a teacher taught me how to meditate. I had a meditation session weeks later that revealed an epiphany. </p>

<p>My mother actually doesn’t show concern/caring about my life (or at least she has strange priorities). She says she wants me to make good grades, but she refers me to ask other people for help. Whenever I talk about my day, she looks away and busies herself with a task. My mother would pay money for my orchestra trips to festivals, but not pay her time to attend my concerts. I am able to eat dinner with her friends’ kids, but not allowed to visit my classmates’ houses ( my social life ): ). </p>

<p>Weeks ago, I failed my AP Chemistry class. She flipped and gave me an ultimatum to cancel all my extracurricular activities and regain my science credit through an online class. Ignoring the drama for a bit, it seemed like failing made my mother decide to care about me again.</p>

<p>Everyday, she reminds me to do my online class… and asks nothing else about my school life. She doesn’t ask “Oh, you have a 100 question drug exam in two days? Do you need help?” or “Do you have another 40 calculus problems to do for homework tonight?”. I don’t think she understands the schedule of a high school student with 4 AP classes, a medical career class, the 2nd most difficult orchestra class, and clubs. </p>

<p>Whenever she has the day off, I stay after-school and do schoolwork to prolong the time before having to hear her complaining that I’m slacking off. </p>

<p>I want my mom to care about me… but I don’t want to keep hearing that she cares about me finishing my astronomy class. It’s like she cares more about that class than my efforts to enjoy and graduate my last year of high school.</p>

<p>This is a strange post… and definitely not all my opinion about my relationship with her… but I thought this was a perfect place to vent.</p>

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<p>@Smallkid9: That sounds really hard for one of the people who should care the most about you to do that. I hope things get better between the two of you :)</p>

<p>My rant:
I’m sick of missing everything by the tiniest bit. I missed Internationals for DECA by 2 points, missed AIME last year by 3 points, this year, by 1.5, missed CMO by 3 points, and got exactly 1 wrong on basically every single other math contest I’ve taken since Grade 6 (Gauss, Pascal, etc.). I’m tired of always coming close but never reaching my goals. I’ve hardly ever placed first in anything. 2nd in this, 2nd in that, always by the tiniest margin. I know I shouldn’t be complaining, and most of you reading this will think I’m being a whiny attention seeker since 2nd isn’t bad at all. But honestly, I’ve come to the point where I’d rather come 3rd than 2nd, or even 4th, 5th, 6th, heck a lot of the time I’d rather come 2nd last instead of 2nd, because at least that means that I didn’t just barely miss reaching my goal. Again. As always.</p>

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<p>^
I’m sick of missing everything by a lot.</p>

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<p>I know this is wrong, but I’m really annoyed that this one kid in my grade got into my dream school because he’s a state champion football player. He’s not very smart. Though he has taken some honors classes, in sophomore year when I had AP Euro with him he almost failed the class even though he cheated and had the test questions and outlines from the previous year. Since then he hasn’t taken an AP class; he’s not even in Calculus! His SAT scores were nothing special (around 1800/1900 I think), but he’s going to my dream school, the dream school that would give me amazing financial aid and actually allow me to afford college, the dream school that gave me hope that I could go to college despite having no money, the dream school that I’ll probably be rejected from, just because he’s a good football player.</p>

<p>Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s good that colleges have a variety of students. Schools’ need good football players just like they need good artists and good musicians and students from different backgrounds. I think that being a good football player should help your application, but I do not think it’s fair to give it to someone who never would have gotten in otherwise. This kid doesn’t care about academics, and I know he won’t use the school’s resources to their full capacity like I would and like many students who have been rejected would have. </p>

<p>It’s just making me even more nervous for the decision dates. I have no idea how I’m going to afford college, no idea where I’m going, and finding this out certainly did not help me feel better.</p>