I'm a senior in high school right now and although it is plenty of fun I'm more excited for university than anything else.
Best time if your life.....is in highschool?
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Load of bollox. I was in a boarding school as well. The only thing it taught me is that a crowd of more than 50 has an IQ of the square root of the number of people in it.
That and maths.
That and maths.
University > College (High School)
Yea its harder, but you're more free to do whatever the hell you want. Plus Booze.
Yea its harder, but you're more free to do whatever the hell you want. Plus Booze.
It's something I tell people. University* is great, but around the time of 13th grade (yeah, we had 13 grades in Germany) and graduation was probably the most fun and exciting time of my life so far - and I spent a year in China since.
I would not have admitted it at the time, of course, because of all the little stressful things you get to deal with, but honestly - relationship stuff, partying 'til 6 AM, acing exams without studying at all - in retrospect, that was F U N. I did enjoy that time, plus, I got to live on my parents' bank account, without having to worry too much about money. Went out to town one evening? One parent or another gave me 50 bucks to spend. And boy, did I spend them.
Just before graduation, I got together with my current girlfriend (that was 3 and a half years ago), and then went off to university, at which point my daily life got cluttered up with a huge amount of chores you just need to do when trying to survive living alone. Like, grocery shopping.
Sure, there were fun times in university as well, but I think that last year of high school beats most of them.
*- also, as someone growing up in a different educational system: what's the difference between "University" and "College"?
I would not have admitted it at the time, of course, because of all the little stressful things you get to deal with, but honestly - relationship stuff, partying 'til 6 AM, acing exams without studying at all - in retrospect, that was F U N. I did enjoy that time, plus, I got to live on my parents' bank account, without having to worry too much about money. Went out to town one evening? One parent or another gave me 50 bucks to spend. And boy, did I spend them.
Just before graduation, I got together with my current girlfriend (that was 3 and a half years ago), and then went off to university, at which point my daily life got cluttered up with a huge amount of chores you just need to do when trying to survive living alone. Like, grocery shopping.
Sure, there were fun times in university as well, but I think that last year of high school beats most of them.
*- also, as someone growing up in a different educational system: what's the difference between "University" and "College"?
Maybe "best part" is not the right term. More like "most consistently entertaining part".Island said:
College was nice. My current life, while having ups and downs, it's nice.
High School was AWESOME! I had a great circle of friends and we had the time of our lives (parties, love, intrigue, drama ... fun
). I've also had a couple of great teachers that taught me the basics of math/programming and then pointed me in the right direction (to learn by myself).
So, bottom line, no responsibilities, immense personal growth, "discovering" the ... "interesting" ... stuff that you can do with the other gender, the best time of my life.
Also, this Bowling for Soup song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrxI_euTX4A
P.S.: Being a computer nerd doesn't always translate into high school misery and "outcastness", at least not in my home town.
High School was AWESOME! I had a great circle of friends and we had the time of our lives (parties, love, intrigue, drama ... fun
). I've also had a couple of great teachers that taught me the basics of math/programming and then pointed me in the right direction (to learn by myself). So, bottom line, no responsibilities, immense personal growth, "discovering" the ... "interesting" ... stuff that you can do with the other gender, the best time of my life.
Also, this Bowling for Soup song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrxI_euTX4A
P.S.: Being a computer nerd doesn't always translate into high school misery and "outcastness", at least not in my home town.
nope, I live in a shithole, we were told when we went to university it'd be the best time of our life.
Lol I was never told Secondary would be the best time of my life. And if I was, they were lieing, it was infact one of the worst times of my life, I hated Wheelers
been out for a year and half nowaDuck said:
no fucking way I want to go back, ok its different for me because I was in a fachist Catholic prison a well respecting boarding school where you had to go to mass every sunday, plus the school was all girls meaning if I went back I would never be able to interact with a member of the oposite sex (save that one time in year 10 when we had dancing lessing with the other boys private school...my god that was hell)
oh and ALL GIRLS, now who the hell would want to go back to that?
anyway to be serious I supose its different for everyperson, I however hate the Idea of beliving one time of your life was the best ever I dont like to live in the past
I'm in fifth form at the moment (grade 10, year 11 for you us/us pplz) and highschool is the best period of my life so far, but I'm pretty sure uni will be the best overall. Derp.
Highschool < Uni/College < Young/single/with job & disposable income < married with kids
That's as far as I have gotten so far - but each stage in life seems better than the last
That's as far as I have gotten so far - but each stage in life seems better than the last