<p>I know graduation is still a couple of months off, but I was wondering what would you seniors like to pass on to us juniors and younger? It can about anything, cars, school, life, drugs, alcohol, college, applications, scholarships, whatever floats your boat</p>
<p>Get started on your applications early! (As in, don't submit your early app on November 1st at 10:37pm ;)) Seriously though, senior year starts like a slap in the face. It definitely gets better, but the last thing you need when you're trying to adjust to a harder workload is that nagging feeling of impatient college apps.</p>
<p>And once in a while, give a nice h a senior,underclassman (or two) a ride home. They'll feel all special for getting a ride with a senior, and you'll get the warm, fuzzy feeling inside for doing something nice. =)</p>
<p>Avoid High School relationships despite the prom. Have deep friendships, but keep them platonic. The way society is structured is no longer conducive to success in High School relationships. In my humble experience, my peers, including myself, are neither indpendent enough to learn responsibility nor mature enough to become independent. Avoid the bedlam that results from teenagers' hormonal outburts. At All Costs.</p>
<p>I expect to find a quantum leap in the maturity of my peers going from high school to college (although, admittedly, I have lower expectations of myself). There may be no difference in character, but circumstances dictate change. A chick thrown from the nest had better learn to fly. Fast. Then again, if it is able to realize it hasn't got feathers yet . . . eh, terrible analogy.</p>
<p>Another lesson for you is that you should always quit while ahead . . . ; )</p>
<p>^^ someones skipped their bedtime</p>
<p>Uh. . . what? I dun get it.</p>
<p>"Nom",</p>
<p>I actually made this account just so I could reply to all those damn posts you keep sending me. Yeah. Deal with it.</p>
<p>First off, lots of high school relationships are wonderful. I'm currently in a High School Relationship that's better than fine, and I resent you blowing it off as "teenagers' hormonal outburts".</p>
<p>Second off, I'll agree with you that SOME (dammit how does one italicize up in here?) relationships are BS or hormone-based or existant for... icky reasons. And that if some people were more mature, these mistakes would not take place. But then isn't the icky relationship a learning experience (if dealt with right) that could actually help the teenager in the future. Isn't it better to mess up in high school than to have no idea what you're doing at 35?</p>
<p>Everybody else,</p>
<p>NOW. Advice from a senior. Uh. Avoid taking things out of proportion with anything... grades, college, social situations... And use lube.</p>
<p>um, take out "h a senior" when you read my post. i have no idea where that came from. lol</p>
<p>@Newyorksnow: I feel no need to rebut your post publicly. In fact, I don't think you actually counter any of my points.</p>
<p>As far as what you introduced to the conversation . . .
I agree that it is important to have an "idea what you're doing at 35". I very strongly advocate sexual education in school. But, for the reasons I described above, I don't agree that high school is the place to "mess up". I encourage "deep friendships" but not the experimentation that inevitably follows. Romantic relationships are (arguably) never complete without the dimension that sex adds. Therefore, there's no more to be learned from a faux high school relationship than from a truly deep high school friendship. This is, by now, assuming that you agree with my point that the high school enviroment does not promote the maturation of a deep friendship into a real relationship.</p>
<p>So, now we have two associated cycles of behavior: society's view of high school aged adolescents and an individual student in a relationship. You can probably make better sense of it than I. . .</p>
<p>dont treat your car like crap. mine was a 2000 corolla when we bought it about a year ago. so far we've done the following to it:
brother-ran car into frame of garage door cause he didnt know how to de-fog the windows.
dad-hit a dear and destroyed from corner
me-
made too sharp of a left turn, slid, and ran bumper into a pile of snow, it broke.
backed into a parked car
was rear-ended when turning into garage
friend kicked the door, now there's a dent
found another big dent on the back which i never noticed before</p>
<p>oh how i love the car. we've probably spent way way way way more than the car's actually worth...and i told my dad to get me a 300zx, but nooooo, the corolla is safer and more reliable. unfortunatly, my speeding ticket sealed the deal, even if my parents COULD afford it, im never getting a sports car, at least from them.</p>
<p>also, do something fun senior year. join the soccer team, run track, play c-team baseball, learn to break dance, join a band. do something! dont let it all slip away, remember this is the last year you have in your little bubble, enjoy it.</p>
<p>almost forgot, get away from CC! it will consume your life as a senior.</p>