My class started out with I think 330 or so kids at the beginning of the year, but under 300 graduated. Sometimes people ask if I grew up in a small town as well, but no. Around here, there are just a lot a lot of high schools close together
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My class started out with I think 330 or so kids at the beginning of the year, but under 300 graduated. Sometimes people ask if I grew up in a small town as well, but no. Around here, there are just a lot a lot of high schools close together
Wow, one of our local high schools has 5000 students. Your schools sound like the size of our Jr. High schools.
Yeah, but are there a dozen other high schools within a 5 minute drive from that one?
Nope. Our two closest high school are about 2 1/2-3 miles apart. Traffic makes it take longer than 5 minutes to get back and forth.
The city schools are pretty much the wild west, you wonder if any amount of the zoning for school districts take this into consideration
On a side note, it pisses me off how the people in the inner city complain about how their schools suck. It's not the schools fault, the teachers there already get paid more than twice what they would in a suburban school. Maybe if the parents actually fed and clothed their kids properly and didn't sell them drugs their schools wouldn't suck
Some people wanted to haul kids from the inner city schools to the suburbs, which would have been a horrible idea because then the suburban schools would have even MORE problems. The school isn't the problem, it's the people going to the school and their home problems
I don't know where most of you find this college excitement. For me it was: Park on the parking lot, go to class(hopefully not late but most likely, do my shit and listen(but distracted most likely), walk to parking lot(most exciting part of my college experience), get in car and drive home. That was my college experience.
It's COMPLETELY different if you live on campus. My dad did the same thing as you, he lived close enough to college that it was about a 10 minute drive. Dorms were crazy on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights of freshman year. A lot of sex and alcohol, although I only got the alcohol, lol
WTF! I miss out on everything!. How the hell did you not get any sex in all that craziness?Quote:
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See how much high school sucked? I can't remember how many graduated in my class. In my freshman year roll, I think we had over 350 students so I would guess that my graduating class was really between 200-450, considering transfers and dropouts. My whole school had a population of near 1200-2000??? I really cannot remember. We were small. It's much bigger now I am sure. We do have schools near each other.Quote:
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My university experience is like that now Only-virgins. I park, go to class/work, then get the crap out of there as fast as I can. I have never been to the cafes, or student life unless required. I lived in the dorms my whole undergrad years. And its campus was like family. I really got the college experience there. Now, it's feels like work and pays like a poor job with the stipend.Quote:
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I was in a graduating class of 26 :D
Exactly.Quote:
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Working trades.
I was fortunate enough to go to a really nice high school.
They had loads of electives, plenty of room for the dedicated students to excel, and they had a department dedicated to volunteer service.
I think children ought to be taught how to use unix-based computers in school, instead of relearning every year how to use microshaft word. Teach them how to use the terminal shells, and introduce them to programming; show them how programming can be used to automate processes and stuff.
I do think that high school education is okay. It introduces you to all kinds of subjects very early in life. If it weren't for high school, I would have never been able to find my true interests, and it would have been a helluva lot harder to choose a major.
I know life in my country is different but right now I wish I lived in dorms as well. Mostly my college day consists of walking to school, wasting my time, maybe having some small talk and lots of boredoms, and then walks home. But some people are quite interesting and I have made some nice friends.Quote:
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When I went to elementary school, it was a complete surprise to me. Before school I was so worried about marks and that I fail. But elementary school was too easy. The hard part was people. I just didn't understand many people there, some behaviors seemed completely alien to me. Lots of pointless and accusing behaviors. people yelling at each other all the time, something which I did not understand at the time. However, I had some nice time, at least the first years...
Then things started to go a bit downfall. Although I communicated with people, I still didn't understood them. Then I begun to adapt their behavior, just thinking that maybe I could fit in better. Some people teased girls all the time, in a gross and pointless way, which I thought. Anyway, everything seemed to be quite dirty and gross in school. I was used to my home cleanness and comfort. Finally I started to fade away from them.
Some people I trusted my friends, only to discover they stole from me. I had other good friends also, but mostly all the playings and hang outs were their things, what they wanted, i was still somewhat alone.
At middle school, hormons started to grow in people. There were many quarrels in class. And I was picked on at the beginning. So once I had enough and gave a surprise fist blow to ones face. Surprisingly I felt very bad after this, but it felt a lot better after few days, seeing that the person was ok and I actually got myself some recognition. However, after some time, I still felt same as before.
I could tell some girls liked me. Middle school is the time where children make their first kissings you know. But that never happened to me. I grew outsider and never went to parties. People felt boring and so did the girls to who I liked. Finally I felt I have nothing to talk about with people. There were days i didn't speak a word in school. Found myself often talking to myself on a way home as I was going through my thoughts.
High school, however, was better. But still boring as hell. I didn't do very good marks, just like in the end of middle school, but I got on better than many else. Our class was failure anyway. people felt interesting and very friendly at the beginning. But after a few hangouts we distanced. This is the time where I developed my crush about who I had a thread recently. She seemed the kind of girl who you could have some meaningful talk with. But eventually I was too nervous and ****ed up on the day I though about asking her out when I saw her.
So days went by, boring talk at school, got nothing to do. Some people surprisingly came to me and talked about themselves all day. It didn't move me at all. So months went and I graduated.
I am a cold person. I have constant shit to think about. Feel regret too often, can't kill a bug. Often I think if people have any idea about what they actually do or where they live. They live, go from place to place, shit, eat, but they don't realize the connections between things. Today i had a discussion with my friend about life. I asked him what does he feel when he kills a bug. He said its a nasty beast to which I responded it wanted to live just like you. People don't have sense of reality, about what they do to each other with their smallest actions. When killing a bug, you think its a nasty beast, but not actually that you killed him.
OV and Lesa you two aren't taking advantage of all that campus life offers.
Yes, classes are important. But there's LOTS of interesting clubs, pubs, volunteer opportunities... not all of them are full of boneheads either. I volunteered at the medical centre, worked in a lab, took ballroom dancing and martial arts, played music, went to local art performances, pub events. You two are missing out. Work hard & play hard, kids.
Boobaa, you should move to the US