... did you like highschool ?

[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 !

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The uniforms were made in a sweatshop overseas and showed appropriate workmanship; the books were out of date; only seniors were allowed to use the elevator; you had five minutes to get to your next class, no matter what floor you were on.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

[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 My always good grades sagged, I was more withdrawn, and I started dating a girl I really had no interest in, just to do something, on the very last day of school.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

[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.

[Mikey]

Went to gradeschool with this kid in my class (a boy)

Was decent friends with him thoughout.

In highschool he must have decided he wanted to be in the in-crowd.

He picked a fight with me for absolutely no reason in the hall in front of a million kids.

At the time I had never fought anyone before but didn't want to be his b_tch in front of the whole school.

He started punching me in the face (like boxing style).

I've always been afraid to punch in fear of I might hurt somebody.

I recalled my love for professional wresting and did some classic moves.

Surprised they actually worked in real life.

In the end I guess I won without landing a blow.

To this day I still half hate, and half feel sorry for the guy.

He took his chance and blew it thanks to me watching Superstar Billy Graham and Bob Backlund

[Gorn Captain]

Hated it.
I was short and still looked like a kid.
When my friends and I tried to sneak into an R-rated movie (like Halloween), they all got through without being asked some ID, but not me. I could go home alone...

Also never had a girlfriend, was not athletic, actually liked books. A perfect combination for celibacy...

Man, I'm depressed just thinking about it....

[Rallygirl]

My most vivid memory of high school is running down the hall with a bunch of classmates behind me barking and pelting me with dog biscuits. I think that memory speaks for itself when it comes to my feelings about high school. And don't ever tell me that those people change. I have met up with with enough of them later in life to see that they do not change.

[TomStrong]

I was 13 in highschool

Youngest kid in my class

I was also young like that. Graduated at 17 too. Back in those days you could start kids early. My mom started me early because there weren't any other kids where we lived. I think she thought it would be good for me.

[Mikey]

I was 13 in highschool

Youngest kid in my class

[palitoy]

Not at first, I was 13, didn't know anybody and was in a fairly rough school.

By the end it was a real laugh, I was at or having a party every weekend it seemed but I never saw it as anything but a way point to something better. I had a sibling 5 years my senior, so I always saw the fun that laid two steps ahead.

I remember my room mate telling me how important high school was to him. I always kind of felt sorry for him, we were 23, drinking beer in a house that was ours, had tons of money, zero responsibility save for our dog and both of us had women in our lives who slept over for weeks at time. And he was waxing nostalgic? I think of those times more fondly than high school.

[jimsmegos]

I went just enough to graduate. I was far more into the ladies, partying, the band I was playing in, the not in my high school ladies, and the radio stations I worked for. How on God's green earth they let me graduate I'll never know, outside of just wanting to not have to deal with me So the years were a great time but actually being IN high school was a total drag that didn't offer me much and hence why I went on my merry way to find other things to stimulate me (music, job,ladies and party's).

[Grimjohn]

I also hated it with a passion. The most abysmal three years of my life. I can relate to some of fallensaviour's sentiments, I often protected the weaker kids from the bullies and was mostly a loner. Most of the teachers at my high school at that point in time were reaching the end of their tenures so, with retirement and a fat pension awaiting them they weren't as engaged with the students as they should have been. Graduation day felt like finally being freed from prison.

[apes3978]

Hated it with a passion...

[TomStrong]

I liked the school I went to, I was a third generation student so I liked the tradition but my friends were a bunch of idiots and I never under stood them. I guess that's why I've never gone to a reunion or kept in touch with any of my old mates. I certainly preferred college. I teach in a small school now and love my students. Next week is teacher appreciation week and I look forward to it every year. Makes me feel great.

[fallensaviour]

Grades eight to ten I'd compare to being in prison.there were a few years where my fists did more talking than I did.
Kids are cruel and I hate bullies.
I was a loner most of the time.
Grades eleven and twelve were great!!
If I had to label myself I'd say head banger/football player so I could hang in either circle if I chose to by then.
Really glad it's over...lol