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<p>Yeah, that was exactly how I was like too. It didn't help that I did not get social rules and people took advantage of that.
Yet, by the time I graduated, in retrospect, I was surprised how many people actually liked me or even knew who I was. Plenty of people who I thought didn't even know my name requested to add me on Facebook. When I went to Prom, I got complements from people who I assumed would not bother with me.
My point is that sometimes it is all in your head and you have to relax and not worry about how everyone might feel about you because you never know how others truly feel.</p>
<p>I hated high school because it didn't prepare me for college. Teachers were horrible. Substandard math curriculum. Too many required BS courses. Not as many students, therefore not as good a pool of friends. Students had inflated egos. Seniors thought they were "grown up" and "mature" but were not /pressure to conform/ people trying to be who they weren't. Majority of high school was extremely conservative. (Conservatives at my college, on the other hand, are actually smart, think for themselves, and have good reasons for their beliefs and ideas.) Had to live at home, parents were control freaks. </p>
<p>Positives about high school for me: "Top" students were pretty level-headed. Math/science competitions. Strong music program. Met a few of my closest friends. </p>
<p>I suppose it was worth it, but I wouldn't go through it again.</p>
<p>I knew a fair share of people. But I was always so afraid of embarrassment that I just was scared of..doing anything. I can't say the same anymore and I'm the most crazy one out of my friends considering most stories my friends have involve me in some capacity... I'm happy I've learned to have fun. ;]</p>
<p>I loved my friends. But, I disliked everything else. Now, I basically like everything. :]</p>
<p>I miss high school so much. All the people who say "college contains the best years of your life" are probably the people who took easy ass classes and partied all the time and got by with C's. Now that I realize how easy and worthless high school was, I wish I enjoyed it more.</p>
<p>The good thing about college is that it filters out most of the stupid people. That filter does not exist in high school. High school culture is predominately anti-intellectual and unkind to introverts. This partly because of the abstract concept of having a "life". This term is usually defined by how often you hang out with friends or party. People who don't do these things often may be deemed as having no "life". The truth is that many people value things differently and an intelligent creative introvert may have a different idea of what constitutes a life than an extroverted beer-guzzling jock.
This anti-intellectual culture is sustained in high school because of the overwhelming majority of stupid people. Now back to my original point about the filter. Since (selective) colleges filter out these people, there is not enough idiots to sustain an anti-intellectual culture. Hence a new culture is created that has a niche for people of all different interests and all different values. </p>
<p>Basically if you are intelligent and hated high school life will probably get better in college.</p>