Okay. I have a huge decision to make.

I'm currently a freshman at a VERY small Christian school. I just got accepted to a HUGE magnet school. Do I go?

For the first time in a LONG time I suddenly have REALLY close freinds this year, and I'm really popular and such at school. I'm president of the student council, and everyone in the school (even the little kids) call me "Mr. President" when I pass them in the hall. I'm huge.

If I went to this new school I'd be just another face in the crowd.
Why leave?
The new school offers computer science classes that my small Christian school doesn't offer.

The way I see it, if I stay where I am now, I'll be able to keep my newly made freinds, keep my social position in the school, and enjoy the rest of my highschool days in an extremely comfortable Christian environment. Over the summer I'm pondering teaching myself VB or something of the sort just from getting a book. Everything I know about computers I've taught myself, and I think I should be able to.


If I go?

I leave a school I've gone to since 1st grade. It'd going to a school of 200 all my life and then to a school of 2,000. I'm a little worried about that.
All for the "computer science" classes they offer.

My question to you is this: Do you think I should go or stay?

Someone told me yesterday that she regrets going through highschool and not having any freinds. She regrets being a loner/outcast. She has NO fond memories of her highschool years. I don't think I want that, but it is likely I'll make new freinds at a new school. It's really been on my mind a LOT.

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personally, unless the edu you will recieve at your current school is lacking, i wouldent swich to somewhere that you know no one. Dont trade your good friends for anythign in the world.

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Stay, going though High-school with no freinds is just bad..

Stay/go to whatever school will offer you the best education. Sentiment is well and good for the movies but passing up educational opportunities can be hard to recover from in the long run.

Oh and people really call you Mr. President? It must be the Aussie in me cause I think that is very amusing (I mean that in a good way)

[This message has been edited by Run (edited April 05, 2004).]

agreed, particularly because Magnet schools often have collegic courses available.

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I'm not really sure how this "magnet" school works, but I would stay in the small highschool. You'll have plenty of time for Computer Science in college. Believe me, the beginning CS courses(I'm speaking for Mizzou, but I'm sure it's similar everywhere) a blind monkey who is considered legally deaf could pass. Well, if you don't count the trick questions our retarded professor puts on his tests.

I speak from personal experience here. My highschool had no computer science courses whatsoever. The most advanced course was either AutoCAD, or Internet and Web Page Design with Frontpage(which I got credit for without actually doing anything. But that's another story for another time). During highschool, I picked up one book on C++, and I never finished it past pointers and references, and I'm bored to tears in my CS courses so far.

So I say stay.

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CS isn't easy here at Cal. Start hard, gets harder. I'm glad I don't do that sort of stuff. I'm sure there are other alternatives for the computer classes, like summer programs at the local JC or something like that if you want to stay.

Also, you're going to have to break out of your comfort zone at some point in your life and the sooner you do it, the easier such things are down the line.

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I agree with Run. Yes in my expierence, friends are great and all, try to keep them, but it's only a passing thing. I've been a loner most of my life, and to me a good education is just way to hard to give up. I think it will be more benificial in the long run.



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Stay. Definately stay.

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Yeah, stay. Big high schools suck... I've been going to mine for 13 years, and I've seen it grow from a relatively small environment to nearly the size of a small college, and trust me it was a heck of a lot better when it was much smaller.

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I had to go through something like this when I graduated from a small Lutheran school.

I went from a class of 20 to a class of 760, school of 350 to school of 2000. It sucked. Just one of my friends went to the same school as me...and he was in none of my classes anyway.

I am starting to get used to it but the small schools are much better. Stay!

From the sounds of it your pretty keen on staying as it is, You seem to of made your decision already, you just haven't realised it yet. Hearing it from other people does help a lot, so it's good to ask.

I'd say that you should definently stay, if your computer skills are as good as you claim you'll have no problem learning VB, i'm actually in a class for it right now.. it's not that hard at all,


Good luck to you!

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Computer science is boring, you do some programming, which is OK, but you have to do really doring stuff like machine code, stacks, registers, arrays, hashing algorithms, memory addressing and database managment.

All of which are a blight on education.

However its a very necessary qualification to have, and its easy.

I went from a school which had about 30 people in my year to a school with about 200 people in my year, so I sympathise with you.

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[This message has been edited by Unsealed_knat (edited April 06, 2004).]

stay - i wouldn't trade my friends for anything.

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Sweet irony...

I say go. Friends wise, it's a huge school, so you're bound to make new friends, and you wouldn't be moving, correct? So you could still visit and be with your old friends two.

I haven't gone to the same school as my two best friends for 2 years, and we still see each other pretty often.

I went to a school with a class of 60 for 9 years, and then I went to a high school with 1600. I found that it has been a great experience, meeting all sorts of new people that I like, and ones that I hate.. (But hey. You have to deal with them eventually.)

At the small school, especially a christian school (NO OFFENSE INTENDED) you're most likely sheilded and sheltered from the rest of the world. At this larger school, you're less sheltered. You learn to handle and deal with problems yourself, because people won't do it for you.

I say go for it. It most likely has a more diverse class list, in Comp. Sci as well as all sorts of other classes. After high school, no one cares how popular you were in it. You could be the most unpopular kid in school, but ten years after you gradguate, you could walk out of your 500k/year paying job into the supermarket, and see Jimmy, the big football star, most popular guy in high school, bagging groceries. High school popularity stops when you hit the real world, go with whatever school gives you the best education.

[edit- Haha. Happydud likes to make sense... *stabs self* Fixed some mistakes]
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[This message has been edited by happydud (edited April 06, 2004).]

Stay. If it's just for one class, then don't go.

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