What was high school like for you?

[POed_Ex_Repub]

Poll question: What was high school like for you?

[KissMyAsscroft]

1. Well...

they were lame, but non hell on earth...that was junior high for me.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

2. High School was wonderful for me because I excelled in music .

Junior high ... well lets not go there .

[democracyindanger]

3. Eh

Describes it perfectly.

[Rocinante]

4. Other

The first two years where pretty bad. Then I made some friends who introduced me to, shall we say a medicinal plant. Everything kind of went swimmingly after that.

[Piperay]

5. Stunk...

was in high school in the late 1960s, I didn't fit I was an outcast.:freak: It was different once I started college by that time being out was being in. :-)

[nickgutierrez]

6. Eh

I'd be a better person without it, frankly.

[AndyTiedye]

7. I Made it through HS on Sheer Masochism

[regularguy]

17. I hear ya.

I should have just gotten a GED and saved myself (and my parents) all the heartache.

[0rganism]

8. consensus has generally been that junior high is the deepest pit of hell

Any high school hellishness was mere nuisance by comparison.

I say this as someone who got busted for drug use and sent to a mental hospital for a month during my senior year. Even that, low point that it was, simply could not compare with the sheer daily crappiness of junior high.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

9. Junior high school was so bad for me that ...

It was so bad for me that I do everything that I can to not drive past the school . Bad memories come back everytime that I get to the area where the school stands . I remember my last day of junior school as a complete " victory " , because I made it through the 3 year hell . I gave a salute and then I gave the school the finger , right in front of the principal I might add . Nothing he could do . My mom watched my from her car and applauded my " salutes " because she knew how bad it was for me .

Someone should start a support group or something lol .

[NJCher]

10. I voted "eh"

At least I went to a good school and had good teachers and a solid education. That's way more than most people can say about high school in the U.S.


Cher

[izzie]

11. I seem to like ever age I have lived in.

I guess it is my make-up to find I am happy most of the time. If you do not like some thing it seems to pass fast of you just think of something else.

[VOX]

12. Not great, but very good...

High school had its highs and lows, like most of life. By the time senior year rolled around, though, I was ready to graduate -- I wanted to move on.

[CRK7376]

13. The only times I was

really happy in High School dealt with Cross Country and Track and Field, loved running the distance races. Hated math and science, excelled in history and pretty good in English, enjoyed Chorus since there were 70+girls to the 15-20 guys.....I went to a small, rural school where many of the students were related to other students, cousins, cousins twice removed etc...everybody knew everybody else and then this new guy comes to school. I never fit in well, spoke proper grammar etc...I had a teacher ask me one day "You're not form around here are you?" I actually am a native North Carolinian, but grew up in the suburbs before moving to the country. Pretty much of a book worm, didn't socialize well since I wasn't a NASCAR fan or play football or baseball, and did that running thing back in the mid 70s....

Funny that I didn't enjoy my own high school days very well, but I went on to teach high school history and coach Cross Country and Track for 13 years.....

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

15. lol " spoke proper grammar "

I am from the piedmont triad area in North Carolina . A good morning to you .

[onebigbadwulf]

14. I don't miss it

but if I had to do it again I wouldn't mind.

[regularguy]

16. Purgatory on Earth.

Life started when I got the hell out of there. When people told me these would be the best days of my life nausea would run over me. Luckily they were way off base.

[Loonman]

18. Ehh, it was what it was

Then I graduated and moved on.

[skippysmom]

19. I survived

Junior high was worse. By the time I got to high school most of us outcasts had formed a group of our own, and we managed to have a pretty good time.

But I was happy to go off to college.

[SCDem]

20. It was good

I had a real cool group of friends and enjoyed it... good and bad... but I hate when people say oh those were the best years of your life. Uh excuse me but why go on living if the best of life was behind you.

[Shrek]

23. Non sequitur

Just because they're the best years of one's life doesn't mean that life is no longer worth living. There's also another consideration; maybe high school represents the best years so far, but who knows what the future might bring?

[Az]

21. I was the official socially disconnected nerd

Got it from everywhere. My only respite was band (marching and jazz). Other than that it was pretty horrible.

[fudge stripe cookays]

22. GOD it sucked.

Junior high was okay. It was a small Catholic school, and I had lots of friends.

First year or 2 of high school was okay. I was still in Austin in a school where I knew other people.

Right before my junior year we moved to San Antonio. I fucking hated that place from day one. I was better friends with the teachers than I was with the kids. Plus, my mom and my ex-stepmonster were in the middle of their fucked up relationship (we were a backstreet family for him for years...)

When I chose a college, I picked Denton-- as far away from the whole mess as I could get without being in Oklahoma (mom wouldn't pay out-of-state tuition)

If I had it to do over again, I'd probably shoot myself in the head first.

[PVnRT]

24. Suck-ola

Too intelligent, too ugly, too fat, too shy to make it in high school. Or the real world, for that matter.

[Shrek]

25. Absolutely loved it.

Junior high was almost as good.

Elementary school and college, no so great but not horrible.

[BigMcLargehuge]

26. I had to choose other

but HS were the best four years of my public education. I abandoned the local Schools in Dartmouth, Ma. at the end of Middle School to spend the last 4 years of my public ed at Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School. What I found was that I suddenly had NONE of the residual crap (shortest guy in class let's beat his ass) I suffered through for eight years in Dartmouth. I loved my shop and everyone who learned with me. I studied "machine shop" and learned to be a pretty competent machinist. I excelled in the academic side too. We had a two weeks class/two weeks shop schedule and worked four weeks of academic work into a two week cycle. It was challenging but I loved it.

The challenges of the Voke environment prepared me well for college, where I excelled again. I think I wouldn't have completed college without my time at Voke.

I still maintain close friendships with a few of my old shopmates.

And in answer to any upcoming "would you relive those years..." questions. I would. Without a second's notice.

So, any old Vokies here?

Class of 87! Go Artisan Bears!!!!

[eyesroll]

27. Eh

Anyone ever see "Freaks and Geeks?" Lindsey could have been based on me (although I was in high school in the early 90s instead of the 80s).

[underpants]

28. I played sports-smart a** in class- brother has a dope smoker

"freak" we called them then so I fit in with everyone but didn't get pigeon holed with one group. All I had to do was show up and I got a diploma. Honestly it was a waste of time....but a waste of time with GIRLS!!!!!!!!!!

[supernova]

29. Survivable is all it was.

At least I had drama and band to look forward too. And the novels we read in English class. And I had a couple of pretty good friends so we hung out sometimes. But really I just survived it until I could graduate.

Jr High was the worse torment for me for a couple of reasons:

1) My mother taught at the same school, so I could do absolute squat without her knowing about it. Not that I would have done anything bad per se, just that I had the feeling of no privacy, always being watched.

2) I was recovering from back surgery which left me wearing a torso cast for most of 9th grade. I endured lots of reaming about it. To this day I feel immmense anger whenever anyone tries to blame a person for an illness.

Having said all that, college was really a blast. That was the time of my life that I always heard your youth should be. ;-)

[bif]

30. Good and bad

I came from a catholic grade school, so I basically didn't know anyone. I was sort of an outcast and didn't participate in anything until my senior year. Then I made up for lost time and was involved in everything. Had a blast then and made some lifelong friends. It was "freaks" and "jocks" when I was in H.S. in the early 70s. Plus, I lived in a pretty wealthy community and it was to cool kids vs the nerdy types. Pretty hard to take.

[HEyHEY]

31. regretful

I was like...scared of girls. And at the time three beautiful, smart, horny (for lack of a better word) girls were interested. But alas, I had no stugats.

Other than that I had fun.

[catmandu57]

32. Actually, I only attended high school for about six months

never really went to class just when I couldn't find anyone to hang out with, or wasn't in the library burning through the stacks. I was a hippie freak more interested in altered states of conscienous, than going to class.

I got purged the same day as a hundred other freaks, came home at the time when everyone was supposed to get home, my mother says how was school? me okay.
Well, she says they called today, said you hadn't been in class for two months so don't bother coming back this year.

The next year we moved back to the country, a little town where my parents came from, so I was going to go back to school. The first day, I come into the kitchen dressed for schoool. Holey, faded blue jeans, shoot a redneck tee, nam boots, army jacket, hair to my shoulders, ready to be edjumacated.

My stepfather freaked out, wanted me to change clothes, so I told him and school to fuck off, got my GED instead.
So, I really don't have any high school memories.

[MrSlayer]

33. Great! Got laid, played in bands, did drugs, naked parties.....

So much fun back in the day.

[Mountainman]

34. Sucked, I went to an all boys Catholic high school

It was the same high school Martin Sheen went to. He was 4 yrs ahead of me. I was in class with his brother.

[mvd]

35. Liked it more than college

But in the college I went to, it was impossible to get into the social scene as a commuter student. Plus, it was hard to get a high GPA as a commuter student there. Fortnuately, I persisted and did better academically as college went on. In high school, I was always on the honor roll (often 1st honors,) and I knew some of the more popular kids well. The popular kids tended to be nice. I enjoyed the control of a Catholic school, too.

[Whitacre D_WI]

36. I was drunk and high half the time.

So I don't remember the good times.

The bad times sucked ass.

[Dees]

37. Sports, girls, parties, beer, little better

than average grades, cars, some zits and clueless. I went to three different high schools. Didn't have too many problems adjusting. That world of less than zero sum values changed shortly after high school for me.

[geniph]

38. At the time, I thought it sucked. In retrospect,

there were some pretty good times. The having-to-live-with-my-abusive-drunken-stepfather stuff definitely sucked, though.

There were things in school that were such transcendant joy (applause for a stage performance) and things that were such existential despair (having one of the other newspaper editors, who HATED me, submit my staff photo, ah, EDITED CREATIVELY and printed in the school paper that way). That's being a teenager, though - everything is life or death.

Calling the gym teacher an unprintable word in front of the other girls and getting applauded for it by all except her pet jockettes: Priceless
Getting a failing grade in gym class and almost not graduating because of that one credit: Very expensive lesson

[MrSandman]

39. Eh...

When sober

[Slice]

40. Eh

It wasn't that good and it wasn't that bad. It was just mediocre.

[TrogL]

41. Damn wanted to vote for hell on earth

I was so clueless I didn't even figure out I was being gay bashed until years later. The spitting should have been a clue.

[Burma Jones]

42. I had a great time, but not as great as College

And I'm having a pretty good time now