What was high school like for you?

[drf]

Now that I am in my early 30's I have found myself thinking more and more about how I got this far. I don't feel old and I don't really have any regrets but one. I don't feel old, quite the contary I feel like a an 18-year old kid.
Which got me to thinking about high scholl.
High school was... well it sucked to be honest. I went to high school in the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton area of NE Pennsylvania. It's an old coal mining area and most of the people there are of Irish, German, Italian, Jewish and eastern European decent and the atmosphere was very racist. (I am white and Irish)
I didn't enjoy high school at all. I have always been a solitary guy. I was the fat, quiet and polite kid with his head in either the clouds or in a book. My grades were mediocre at best but I did excell in my history and literature classes. In fact I think I learned more by reading on my own they anything a teacher ever taught me. I stopped playing football after my freshman year mostly because I was getting very little time on the field and I was also tired of the chest beating machismo that I have always found ridiculous. And yes you quessed correctly, I had no luck with girls and after awhile I convinced myself that a girl would never be interested in me. (Boo-hoo poor me haha)
Dispite being quiet I would jump at the chance to get into an arguement with any ignorant asshole that would make racist or homophobic remarks.
I hate when people open their mouths and don't now what the fuck they are talking about.
Theres more of course but I have bored everyone enough with my piffle.
So...what was your high school experiences like?

 

[24788]

Boring and really didn't get much out of it. It was always the same old shit. High schools really don't help that much though since many kids don't really want to learn that. Your better off going out into the real world and getting experience if you want to make a nice amount of cash.

 

[Jack Davenport]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWiYphJUS7Q

 

[Legzman]

sucked for me. Wasn't fat, but was shy as hell around the girls. Still am somewhat, but not nearly as bad. Then I became a complete asshole and suddenly girls responded to me. What the fuck is that about? :dunno:

by respond meaning I started to actually get pussy! The female mind is a fucked up thing...

 

[drf]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWiYphJUS7Q

Hahahaha! Gotta love Jeff Spicoli! :rofl: Unfortunately I didn't start smoking contraband until I was 21. If I did when I was in high school I think it would have been easier to take.:thumbsup:

 

[meesterperfect]

It was a great time for me. It was similar to Fast Times, just wish i knew a few things then that i know now.
I think if i was in high school today I'd probably be making fun of a lot of people.

 

[drf]

sucked for me. Wasn't fat, but was shy as hell around the girls. Still am somewhat, but not nearly as bad. Then I became a complete asshole and suddenly girls responded to me. What the fuck is that about? :dunno:

by respond meaning I started to actually get pussy! The female mind is a fucked up thing...

Still fat, not as shy as I once was. With most of the girls I knew then if I knew it wasn't going to go anywhere, I would settle into the friendship role.
Funny...the more things change the more things stay the same.:dunno:

 

[rob41493]

Sucked. High school was probably the most depressing years of my life. I didn't have many friends and i felt like it was just a giant waste of time.

 

[dooney]

High School was fun. Lots of fun and girls was cool. Now that I graduated all the girls that I wanted to smash are freaks.

 

[YumiYumi_1988]

I loved high school. No worries, young n ignorant. Enjoyed it more than I enjoy college.

 

[DJCowboy]

High school was like...
well...
I guess the best way to put it would be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_eTV4lRJYU
(only in 2003)



In other words it was a blast and would do it all over again. Loved college too though but when you get around to your senior year in college, you gotta be serious instead of like senior year in high school

 

[TheAdmiral]

Now that I graduated all the girls that I wanted to smash are freaks.

The good kind?

 

[Trident1]

Sucked. My senior year was '85-'86. I spent the last half of 12th grade having a serious crush on a girl.......................i admired her from afar. I never told her how I felt. My days would be good or bad based on how receptive she was to me. Complete suckiness.

 

[DJCowboy]

Sucked. My senior year was '85-'86. I spent the last half of 12th grade having a serious crush on a girl.......................i admired her from afar. I never told her how I felt. My days would be good or bad based on how receptive she was to me. Complete suckiness.

So it sucked because the last 1/4 of your high school you had a crush on your girl?

 

[meesterperfect]

So it sucked because the last 1/4 of your high school you had a crush on your girl?

I believe that would be 1/8 dj

 

[somebadlemonade]

for me, it was a whole lot of boring, and me not showing up so i ended up getting kicked out of 2 schools, left the 3 willingly and finally just dropped out of the 4th, i ended up getting my GED and getting on with my life

 

[Facetious]

I think that the public school curriculum these days is much more ideological / theoretical - (lefty think) political today, more so than it used to be, at least that's the consensus among a public school principal and two public school teachers that I know personally.

Ever since the US dept of education was formed, (FU Jimmy Kottah !) education in this country has gone in the shitter, go fig-r. :dunno: Many claim that the individual teachers are the problem, however, I take exception with that ... they're just following the orders coming from the top.


fwiw
I loved my h.s. days, even the bad ones :banger:

 

[PirateKing]

Boring and really didn't get much out of it. It was always the same old shit. High schools really don't help that much though since many kids don't really want to learn that. Your better off going out into the real world and getting experience if you want to make a nice amount of cash.

sucked for me. Wasn't fat, but was shy as hell around the girls. Still am somewhat, but not nearly as bad. Then I became a complete asshole and suddenly girls responded to me. What the fuck is that about? :dunno:

by respond meaning I started to actually get pussy! The female mind is a fucked up thing...

Still fat, not as shy as I once was. With most of the girls I knew then if I knew it wasn't going to go anywhere, I would settle into the friendship role.
Funny...the more things change the more things stay the same.:dunno:

Sucked. High school was probably the most depressing years of my life. I didn't have many friends and i felt like it was just a giant waste of time.

Sucked. My senior year was '85-'86. I spent the last half of 12th grade having a serious crush on a girl.......................i admired her from afar. I never told her how I felt. My days would be good or bad based on how receptive she was to me. Complete suckiness.

same boat as these guys. glad im done with it. I hated that whole scene. Im still in college so it wasnt that long ago but my life got alot better. From freshman orientation to graduation i was just waiting for it to be over. Couldnt stand most people at my high school and only had a few friends. If I ever step foot in my high school again it would be too soon.

 

[STDiva]

I hated high school. I made a couple friends there, everybody else was just kind of there. We would talk/hang out on breaks, but after school they didn't exist. Most of my friends came from work or stuck around since grade school. I played basketball but the team was full of poseur, "macho" assholes who only played sports for the popularity or the girls and couldn't ball if their life depended on it, but they still tried to be all stars. I ended up getting kicked off the team for fighting a couple teammates and arguing with the coach for not benching these shitheads. After that I was pretty much an outcast amongst the students and teachers. I think my younger brother might have even suffered from it as well. The same coach wouldn't let him on the team. Fuck I hated high school. HS is probably the main influence on me becoming an alcoholic.

 

[Embryoyo]

It helped develop my love for hallucinogenic drugs (namely acid) for the next decade after... And I met my best friend there. Otherwise, it was pretty fuck all. I had a small (less than 2 dozen) group of friends and we always had each others back, but it was mostly about 6 of us that ALWAYS stuck together. I generally went to classes (alot of times high) and never really paid attention, but still managed to scrape by. Can't say I ever really cared much.