I can’t really say highschool was bad to me…. But I can say this for college. Ever since freshman year all my friends have dropped out or just let me out of their life. Not many people have to go an entire semester talking to absolutely no one. I had to…..
Ha Ha that is funny stuff. Yeah they often tell you that your high school years are the best years of your life. >>What a bunch of Bullshit that is. LOL Its a flat out lie.
I graduated high school like 26 years ago. I have never been to a High school reunion and never will go to one. I couldn’t stand high school when I was there and cant see ever wanting to go back or to try and relive the misery. LOL
I don’t even own a high school class yearbook.
as far as I am concerned it was just a part of my life I had to endure but its over and done with.
I like your post. LOL
I went to exactly one high school reunion… just enough to remind me why I had been so glad to get away from all of that.
I do have all my yearbooks (somewhere around here, anyway).
It’s odd how people will be distant throughout most of the semester and will forget you exist, yet suddenly at yearbook time they sign your yearbook as if you were the best of buddies, all mushy and wishing you great luck and a good life and all that crap. If you were to read my yearbook notes from people, you’d swear I had tons of awesome fun with tons of friends. Reality was the exact opposite.
Note: “Remember that time I saw you coming out of the bathroom and I couldn’t say HI because I didn’t know your name? WELL HAPPY GRADUATION TO MY BEST FRIEND JEAN!” (And your name might be ‘Joan’)
I was home schooled after middle school so when my siblings and I so called graduated we went back to bed then I got married .. my reunion is when ever I would go home for dinner .
I knew people who studied through online courses at home for their high school years, and they were accepted into university or college. It didn’t seem like a difficult process, they just had to provide their grades from those courses and maybe take a English Language Proficiency Exam or something like that (but everyone is required to take that in my country).
it was not that great I had to pay my tutor and my family is fucked up and none of my siblings went to college we all got married ….SMART *extremely sarcastic tone *
If you had the chance to do it all over again, would you still have gotten home-schooled?
I’m guessing (after reading your posts) that you would have chosen to remain single (or at least waited for a different person). It seems like most of your problems are from your in-laws and spouse. 🙁
nah not really I hated going to school and all the kids there also my sister would get serious social and normal anxiety which almost caused breakdown ..I was an outcast with no friends *who would of thought that would stick*and just well odd… my brother he did really well he was liked popular and had a lot of friends and really smart to good at math …..we used to joke that he took half of my sister and I brains because his head was soo big .
while being home schooled I used to make money cook cook clean have fun sleep in and get an education not that I can do much with it tho ..
I wish I had been home schooled. High school wasn’t that bad for me. Middle school was hell. I sure don’t miss those days. The only thing is miss is choir class. That was my favorite. Art class was good too but I didn’t get into that until my senior year. Missed out on a lot there. I don’t beat myself up over it though. Plenty of time now for art projects in my spare time.
Though if I was forced to re-live it, knowing what I know now, I’d certainly handle a few situations differently.
I’m sliiiiiiiiiightly more assertive now than I was then, sliiiiiiiiightly more confident, and muuuuucchh less willing to put up with crap from people in authority.
I remember my teacher telling us that we should treasure our high school times, and we should cherish our friends, because those are the ones we would keep for life, cuz college friends are all competing with you, and they’re never honest. So much bs.
The only thing that made high school tolerable was that I was positive that I would get to college far far away and would never have to see those people again.
Later on, I bumped on a high school acquaintance in my calculus class, and had a very awkward conversation. He told me I had changed so much. I was told the same by many other people as well. Only then I realized that I was deeply miserable during high school and that I had changed because I felt carefree and happy for the first time in years.
I hope this little comic is true. Middle school was the absolute worst, but now that I’m in high school, I keep my head down and stay out of drama, so I don’t have to deal with that stuff. At least, not to quite the extent I had to before.
I feel like “real life” will be so much worse. (If I ever get there.) I hate uncertainty. And that’s all being an adult is about. From what I hear.
Although some amount of uncertainty exists throughout life, I think adulthood (“real life”, whatever) still allows a person to set up a familiar routine that feels safe and predictable.
Sometimes it’s so predictable that people become unhappy about feeling like they’re “stuck in a rut”.
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I’m still at the beginning of it and I can’t wait for it to be over. If I make it through the rest, that is.
Me, too!
Nice cartoon, by the way. 🙂
I loved it when I saw it; I thought “ME too!!”
The cartoon series is called “Sarah’s Scribbles”.
I found it on GoComics dot com.
*looking it up*
I can’t really say highschool was bad to me…. But I can say this for college. Ever since freshman year all my friends have dropped out or just let me out of their life. Not many people have to go an entire semester talking to absolutely no one. I had to…..
For me at least, high school was hell, and college was a welcome chance for a fresh start.
I still had to deal with social issues, but I got a little better at it.
Still had suicidal times, but lived anyway somehow.
Well as long as you improved you didn’t completely lose 🙂
Some days I wonder. 🙂
Ha Ha that is funny stuff. Yeah they often tell you that your high school years are the best years of your life. >>What a bunch of Bullshit that is. LOL Its a flat out lie.
I graduated high school like 26 years ago. I have never been to a High school reunion and never will go to one. I couldn’t stand high school when I was there and cant see ever wanting to go back or to try and relive the misery. LOL
I don’t even own a high school class yearbook.
as far as I am concerned it was just a part of my life I had to endure but its over and done with.
I like your post. LOL
HIgh School sucks. LOL
I went to exactly one high school reunion… just enough to remind me why I had been so glad to get away from all of that.
I do have all my yearbooks (somewhere around here, anyway).
It’s odd how people will be distant throughout most of the semester and will forget you exist, yet suddenly at yearbook time they sign your yearbook as if you were the best of buddies, all mushy and wishing you great luck and a good life and all that crap. If you were to read my yearbook notes from people, you’d swear I had tons of awesome fun with tons of friends. Reality was the exact opposite.
Note: “Remember that time I saw you coming out of the bathroom and I couldn’t say HI because I didn’t know your name? WELL HAPPY GRADUATION TO MY BEST FRIEND JEAN!” (And your name might be ‘Joan’)
Exactly!
Everybody in my high school wrote the same thing in each others’ yearbooks…..and I don’t remember what it was.
I was home schooled after middle school so when my siblings and I so called graduated we went back to bed then I got married .. my reunion is when ever I would go home for dinner .
Are you glad you were home-schooled, or do you wish you had gone to a traditional high school?
Just curious.
I realize there are pros and cons either way.
I would imagine home school is a hell of alot better, the only downside being you can’t really get into college with an HSD (Home-school degree).
Really? I wasn’t aware of that.
I thought colleges had to accept it as a valid diploma.
*Insert shaking head emoji* lololol
I guess home-schooling wasn’t really that big of a thing back in the 1980’s when I was in school. I didn’t (and still don’t) know much about it.
I knew people who studied through online courses at home for their high school years, and they were accepted into university or college. It didn’t seem like a difficult process, they just had to provide their grades from those courses and maybe take a English Language Proficiency Exam or something like that (but everyone is required to take that in my country).
it was not that great I had to pay my tutor and my family is fucked up and none of my siblings went to college we all got married ….SMART *extremely sarcastic tone *
If you had the chance to do it all over again, would you still have gotten home-schooled?
I’m guessing (after reading your posts) that you would have chosen to remain single (or at least waited for a different person). It seems like most of your problems are from your in-laws and spouse. 🙁
I found high school to be incredibly pointless.
In many ways, yes.
nah not really I hated going to school and all the kids there also my sister would get serious social and normal anxiety which almost caused breakdown ..I was an outcast with no friends *who would of thought that would stick*and just well odd… my brother he did really well he was liked popular and had a lot of friends and really smart to good at math …..we used to joke that he took half of my sister and I brains because his head was soo big .
while being home schooled I used to make money cook cook clean have fun sleep in and get an education not that I can do much with it tho ..
It’s nice that you can look back on it (home-schooling) with mostly good memories.
I would especially have loved the part about sleeping in. 🙂
I wish I had been home schooled. High school wasn’t that bad for me. Middle school was hell. I sure don’t miss those days. The only thing is miss is choir class. That was my favorite. Art class was good too but I didn’t get into that until my senior year. Missed out on a lot there. I don’t beat myself up over it though. Plenty of time now for art projects in my spare time.
Music and art were my favorites too. 🙂
I still have awful dreams about high school. You can’t pay me enough money to relive that 8th level of hell.
I agree completely.
Though if I was forced to re-live it, knowing what I know now, I’d certainly handle a few situations differently.
I’m sliiiiiiiiiightly more assertive now than I was then, sliiiiiiiiightly more confident, and muuuuucchh less willing to put up with crap from people in authority.
I remember my teacher telling us that we should treasure our high school times, and we should cherish our friends, because those are the ones we would keep for life, cuz college friends are all competing with you, and they’re never honest. So much bs.
The only thing that made high school tolerable was that I was positive that I would get to college far far away and would never have to see those people again.
Later on, I bumped on a high school acquaintance in my calculus class, and had a very awkward conversation. He told me I had changed so much. I was told the same by many other people as well. Only then I realized that I was deeply miserable during high school and that I had changed because I felt carefree and happy for the first time in years.
I hope this little comic is true. Middle school was the absolute worst, but now that I’m in high school, I keep my head down and stay out of drama, so I don’t have to deal with that stuff. At least, not to quite the extent I had to before.
I feel like “real life” will be so much worse. (If I ever get there.) I hate uncertainty. And that’s all being an adult is about. From what I hear.
Although individual circumstances vary, the VAST majority of people I have spoken to say that they are very glad high school is finally over.
College (at least for me) was a lot better than high school.
Fresh start.
Clean page.
New people.
Fresh air.
Although some amount of uncertainty exists throughout life, I think adulthood (“real life”, whatever) still allows a person to set up a familiar routine that feels safe and predictable.
Sometimes it’s so predictable that people become unhappy about feeling like they’re “stuck in a rut”.
Cordless,
I remember we were using a abacus as a calculator in elementary school how fucked up is that? 🙂
At least you were able to outrun the Pterodactyls.
(Those things are FAST).
So, did you close the account with those people who were rude to you at work?