... did you like highschool ?

[fallensaviour]

I was 13 in highschool

Youngest kid in my class

Same here I grew up in BC so high school was from grade 8-12 so I was 13 when I started.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Freshman year was rough, but that was more on my end than any outside influence. Looking back now, I think I was either clinically depressed, or I got my teen angst over in one year. My always good grades sagged, I was more withdrawn, and I started dating a girl I really had no interest in, just to do something, on the very last day of school. Luckily, this girl had been friends with Cindy, and that opened the door to us beginning to talk, and the rest is history. Grades 10-12 were great times.

I never had the bully problem a lot of my fellow geeks did. I kept my then looked-down-upon hobbies secret in middle and early high school. There were a few dregs who picked on me, verbally, but they picked on everyone. I was friends with one of the toughest kids in school, and very few people were stupid enough to mess with him or his friends. It was kind of like having a bodyguard actually. In my junior and senior years, I was working as a stockman at Wal-Mart and was rather stout, so I don't think anyone would want to try anything by that point.

Chris

[JediJaida]

I went to a single gender Catholic High School in the middle of New York City.

It sucked.

The uniforms were made in a sweatshop overseas and showed appropriate workmanship; the books were out of date; only seniors were allowed to use the elevator; you had five minutes to get to your next class, no matter what floor you were on. If you were in the basement, and had to be on the fifth floor for your next class, you really had to hoof it.

The gym was ALWAYS freezing, no matter what season it was. You could only use the pool if you had an 85 average and ONLY if you had a one hour study hall session. Even then, you needed to ask one of the teachers use their elevator key to get access to the bloody thing.

Nearly all of the girls there were synched up when it came to their fertility cycles; just imagine over three hundred girls from fourteen to eighteen, all going through PMS at ONCE!

I had teachers from when my sister was in the same school, and she is sixteen years older than I am!

I hated that school so much I didn't bother getting either my school ring, or my yearbook.

I had only ONE friend during that entire time, and we are STILL friends!

Our friendship has lasted longer than most marriages, and to this day, there's no one else I can really talk to about certain things, whether they be geeky or current events.

[FETT1]

Ohhhh yeah...best was my cousin was well liked by many guys so no one ever dared froshed moi ...had a ton of fun !!

Miss those younger days !

[EmergencyIan]

It wasn't bad for me, at all. It wasn't great, either, but no one gave me any problems.


- Ian

[kerowack]

Man, I though I'd have more people on my side of the fence who liked it. I was friends with a lot of people, did well and had fun. I regret a girlfriend I settled on, but not enough to dwell on it. And of course, wish I had oursued a few who I knew liked me. The fact that I teach at that high school is also keeping those memories fresher than they would've been if I hadn't been back in those same hallways.....

[madmarva]

High School was fine., but I wouldn't want to go back., lol. Football is what I enjoyed most, especially my junior year when we made it to the state title game. Good friends and a couple of good coaches. I became really good friends after high school with my history teacher. Very good friend and man. I worked a lot in my mom's catering buisness,which probably kept me out of a lot of trouble.

[Figuremod73]

Hated high school just because there was to many people trying to be a bigshot. I was more serious and did better in my school work so I guess that is the good part about it. My favorite place was the computer lab because it had Amiga computers and a photo lab.

[HardyGirl]

Nope...I was one of 5 black kids in a school of 2000 white kids, most of which were preppies and Valley Girls. Let's just say I could have done w/o the 80s.

[jwyblejr]

Considering I wound up with an ulcer in my sophomore year,I'd say no.

[phil]

No. Not at all.

[Donkey Hoatie]

It's always a bummer to hear when people didn't have a good time in high school. I enjoyed HS for the most part. I ended up at a small boarding school in suburban Philly with a graduating class of about 50. Essentially, up until senior year I was a ghost. My grades weren't good enough to be one of the "brains" even though, I was just as smart as the top students. I wasn't really a jock, even though I started varsity and lettered in 3 sports. I wasn't a drama kid, even though I had one of the biggest parts in the school musical. I wasn't an arty kid, even though I spent a couple of years excelling at creating stained glass pieces. I just sort of stayed out of everyone's way and quietly whiled away the classes lost inside the limitless boundaries of my head. As a massive introvert, that was how I coped with things.

As a small school, there weren't a ton of bullies. There were some, for sure, but I mostly escaped their wrath by being good enough at sports that I was cut an ample amount of slack. I have a few great friends from that time, a few OK friends, and a bunch of people that mean nothing to me to this day. One thing I noticed with Facebook is that the majority of people have mellowed out over the years. People get over themselves. While I have no desire to become friends with the vast majority who weren't my friends in HS, I also bear them no ill will. 4 years is just a tiny sliver of our lives. Some people showed the best of themselves during that time. Others showed the worst. But, for the most part, who we were back then are no reflection on who we are now.

Would I go back and do it all again? Absolutely. Would I sell my soul to do it? Absolutely not.

[Mikey]

I hate to paraphrase James T. Kirk, especially from Star Trek 5 --- but our pain made us who we are.

If it wasn't for those crappy years we would probably be totally different people today.

Sherry said she went to school with mostly white kids.

If she did the reverse she might be listening to Rick James instead of Rick Springfield today.

I know highschool had a big influence on my taste in music today.

Also I think going through crap as underdogs gave most of us a lot more empathy in adulthood.

[megojim]

Loved high school, still friends with many I grew up with . . . . a different time for sure with all the pressures of adolesence . . . . but i look back with more fond memories than i do bad ones

[Godzilla]

I thought high school as fine. I enjoyed doing stuff (theater, soccer, scouts, etc), and some friends, and managed to have some fun. But for me it was all about getting to college.