Another one of my totally random polls! C:

Well, I am graduating this year (Class of '08, representttt!), and I was thinking back on how much better high school was for me than middle school. In junior high, I was totally awkward; I wasn't comfortable with my body, and I didn't care how I looked. My best friend (at the time) helped me come out of my shell, but I guess I also just matured and 'flourished' in high school.

My junior high only had about 1,000 students in it, but my high school has nearly 4,000 -- so there was so much more variety in terms of people I could hang out with, learn from, etc. I started taking care of myself and formed new interests and friendships. I'm much more comfortable with myself now, and overall it was just a much better experience. I always did well in intermediate school, though I got the occasional C in math.

I did pretty well in high school, except I got pretty consistent Cs in math... and just got EXTREMELY lazy. So I had some academic issues, but I'm still graduating in a good spot, with some honors, so woot. :]

Academically, I'm fine. I've been in honors and AP classes, and got a full ride to my first-choice school, despite my recent grade slips. High school has been rough for me though, so I chose "I was a little awkward"- I have a lot of really good friends, but I'm also a little elitist I think, and don't like many of the people I go to school with. I've also had health issues throughout high school so it's made relating to some people really hard.

For whatever reason, I've struggled socially up until the last few months (I'm going into my third year of college). I've always hated school, from my first memories of it to the present, so that probably has something to do with it. I never really tried, I just wanted to get out, so my grades were pretty spotty and luck of the draw. I got on honor roll ocassionally, took Honors/AP classes, was very active in the music department, and was friends exclusively with people who were top of the class because I actually had fun talking to them (one of my BF's was valedictorian), so it's not that I wasn't smart. I just couldn't stand school. Still can't. I'm so flipping ready to get out and live my life. Seriously, I've had to endure fifteen years of schooling! And there's still at least two more to go! :angry: *headdesk*

But anyways, HS was a struggle for me, mostly because I didn't want to be there. That and my introverted personality made socializing difficult. It's no wonder I had quirky, artsy, mad genius friends...


...twomoreyearsgoodgriefican'tbearthistortureanymore! :angry:

I was fine both socially and academically in high school (not that that's what they call it here). I'm lazy, but I managed to do all right. I was one of the annoying types that never studied, but got good grade anyhow. I suppose I was a little awkward. I got the whole "the only gay in the village" feeling throughout school, but I made a lot of friends with the girls. =P

University is where it got tough. First time I've ever failed a class. x.x

I picked socially, even though I myself was fine with who I was, just quite a few thought I was on the weird side. I flourished in my first year of university instead, where I met a ton of people with the same interest as me (and likewise, just as, if not more, crazy). I'm an artist who went to a high school that was allll about athletics, so of course I was a little strange. Never really affected me confidence-wise, though.

Still made friends in high school, but they were always so drama-oriented and I preferred to stay out of it. So I was a bit detached, you could say.

High School was pretty much hell, but I miss it. Haha! I used to blend okay with some people in freshman year, and grades weren't that much of a problem. However, I did have to undergo a bit of changes as to sectioning in my sophomore year, so blah... it got a bit awkward and I had to go make a few friends all over again.

I wasn't really good at making relations with new individuals, I realized, because my weirdness scares people sometimes. And due to this, I kind of got more than a little distracted, which caused a change to my grades. It turned out well enough towards the end though.

Um... right.

Awkward.

How I felt in highschool, and I how I feel right now.


(can an admin take care of that? *rolls eyes and shudders simultaneously*)

Wow, that was horrible. Hoorah for mod powers!

Well. Awkward. I had 'wanted' posters put up of me put around school, saying they wanted me dead. I had death threats. I gave my friend concussion after being hit in the head (and I've still got a lump) and going psycho.

You could say it was awkward.

Aiee... doesn't sound like much fun, Emma.

I was pretty backwards socially for most of it. But I found a group I fit in with, we sort of... found each other, and we're still pretty good mates three years past graduating. Which is amazing, seeing as we're scattered across the state now.

Academically, I guess I was fine until I found said friends. I do think that sometimes there's a tradeoff, and I wouldn't give them up for all the academic success in the world. That said, I could have handled less days where I cried in maths...

But on the flip side, at least there were people to care I was unhappy! And they were great. They didn't even demand to know why I was upset, just sat and waited for me to talk of my own accord... which I appreciated greatly.

Emma - that sounds horrible. Really puts things in perspective. I had a pretty rough time years 7-11 with a lot of internal bullying within my group of 'friends'. In year 11 I was lucky enough to meet my now-best mate and a couple of girls who I became good friends with.

I had a tendency to be the butt of jokes with guys in our classes as well but they were all the ghetto scum who dropped out in year 10 :p

Finding that group of friends was pretty amazing since it broke a rather vicious cycle of being bullied since I was in Kindy (got buried up to my face in sand by two boys) so in a way High School was hard but also one of the best times of my life for friends. I know at least a few of the friends I made there are going to last for some time.

Socially, I was awkward for pretty much all of grade 9, but once Grade 10 hit, I suddenly found myself with TONS of friends, so that's pretty sweet.

But oh yes, I have totally had problems academically. I despise, despise, DESPISE and otherwise loathe any sort of homework. I skip out on doing a lot of the smaller assignments, and I don't EVER study for tests. Even after failing math last year, I didn't do any homework in summer school either...I think it's gone a little bit beyond laziness by this point, and it's full on aversion.

Thank God my future doesn't include university, that would be an absolute travesty for me xD

High school has really not been bad at all, I've had a very good time, mostly, except most of the work being rather unchallenging. Primary school was my hell, junior high was great fun with an insane group of friends. Now, graduating from high school, I am comfortable in my own skin, have wonderful friends and acquintances and have gotten to know myself much better. But, good grief, the final years of primary school were awful.

The only downside to high school has been the people, I have landed in a place of dunderheads.

School was pretty crap if you ask me, had no problems really, some people liked me, some people didn't same where ever you go but now that I think back to it, it wasn't as good as I use to think it was.

I had a few highs and lows in my high school days, im still in them right now. LOL

i had a little academic problem, eww math. xD

I guess I was a little awkward when I was in upper secondary (the Norwegian 'equivalent' to high school). I had my group of friends, but I wasn't popular. I wouldn't say I had problems socially though. I mean, I wasn't unhappy or anything, but looking back, I wish I had been more outgoing and made more friends.

Academics. Math and science were extremely hard for me. And history about the state I live in= which is boring. My grades weren't the best, but luckily I graduated that awful place.

Academically, high school was a breeze. Socially...well, I didn't really care much for fitting in with the in crowd. I found all of that to be a little overrated. But in senior year, I guess all of that changed because I was like, 'dude, I'm probably never going to see half these people again'. So, I started living it up, getting to know people, blah blah blah...

So far, I am doing well academically - mostly because, as of now, I haven't been challenged much in that area.

I had a slight problem socially because I moved two weeks before freshman year started and most of the kids came from three different middle schools in the area so most people at least knew someone and I did not know anyone.

It took me a few months to get into stride and to make some friends (with the Asians... they have more or less dubbed me an honorary one despite the blonde-hair, blue-eyes syndrome), but since then I've been doing fine socially. I think the reason it took me so long was because I was getting used to living in a completely different place and a new school and everything else...

High school was really stressful for me. I went to a pretty big school, ~800 kids in my graduating class, and we were the smallest class in the school by far (our freshman that year were pushing 1,000). I've been dealing with social anxiety since I was about twelve or thirteen, so that many people in one place didn't sit too well with me. It got better as I made more friends but I tended to get separated from most of them a lot because of the classes we took. Grades were totally not an issue, though, save for Biology in my freshman year, ugh. It would have been easier if my teacher hadn't been so boring.