Well, Friday night, I graduated from high school, and I feel GREAT. It feels so good to be free of all classes, homework, annoying teachers, annoying people, etc.

And project graduation was equally GREAT. I got a Game Boy Advance SP, a NICE digital camera, a blue chanelle afghan, and at least 500 bucks from family, friends, teachers, etc.

To make this thread worthwhile, if you're graduating, or graduated recently from high school, post your plans for the future.

I'm going to college for four years, where I'll major in marketing, and minor in small business. I hope to own my own record company.

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Wow, I'll probably get $2 dollars for my graduation.

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"I'd rather be hated for who I am rather than loved for who I pretend to be." -Janis Joplin

It feels great to be free, I remember my graduation.




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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

i graduate on saturday, so far i've gotten like $60 and a brand sapnking new computer. i gotta find me a job this summer dang.

in the next copule years i hope to study at Spartianburg Methodist Collage, and focus on art. maby enen get a major in that feild.

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Heh, my graduation was nothing special. "woo, I passed the tests" was about it, though I wasn't really worried. I'm more eager to -return- to school after this in-between year now. =P

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Friday was my last day of classes, but I have finals the next three days and then we graduate next Sunday. It doesn't feel different or special at all - I'm just done with one school and moving to the next. I don't really get why everyone makes such a big deal about graduating - an insane amount of kids graduate from high school every single year.

Your teachers gave you money...?

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I'm graduating sometime early June...I don't even know the exact date. IMO, high school graduation isn't a big deal. I mean, you graduate, and all you have is a high school diploma. If you have one, you can go on to college, if you don't have one, you're stuck at a factory your whole life. But until you go to college you're not going to do much these days.

As for my plans, I'm working lots this summer and then going to school next year at UW Madison.

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gree gree.

I'm graduating Friday, but I'm done with classes and it feels goooood.

Next year I'm going to Rose-Hulman, (hopefully) majoring in physics and computer science.

I'm grauduating June 5th, I think. After that I'll be going to Villanova in August for Mechanical Engineering. I'll probably try for a Masters.

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Steal my dreams and sell them back to me.....

My actual leaving time is soon. What I'll get? About £150 if everything goes to plan and I get 8 As or so. Although I'm not leaving my school for another two years, since I'm staying on for A-Levels.

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I graduated 2 years ago.

So there!

I'm graduating next year, and going to take a trip to london . Not sure if i'm getting anything else.

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I have you beat by 2 years

High school graduation was great, but you don't leave the classes, homewrok and annoying teachers behind. The show themselves in a different light once you get to college. The best part is that yoy're out from your parents' roof.

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

My last day of classes was Tuesday, and I'm graduating next weekend. I've gotten about $25 so far. This summer I'm gonna work at my old elementary school and hopefully get enough money with what I earned last summer to buy myself a nice laptop to use at Georgia Tech.

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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right." -Isaac Asimov

Yeah, 50 bucks, but it was the faculty as a whole. I go to a tiny school, so everyone is really close. We only had 21 graduates. What's cool about that though, is that I can say I was 15th in my class, and people automatically assume 7 out of 150+, so it makes me look really smart.

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ofc u'll probably get classes in college but let me tell ya something, classes in college are alots more interesting because you get to choice in general when you take the class and who teaches them which is an huge benefit.

btw today is 1st year after gradulation in highschool.... and heh i and 10 other kids got booted off the gradulation because of drinking on senior trip, but then again `11 out of 32 kids is alots in my hometown of 600 peoples

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Echoman: If I can create energy from stupidity, the world's power supply will never end...

Up here in Norway, high school graduates have this crazy ritual of dressing up in red suits for 17 days and doing crazy things like:

* Running around in town naked
* Camping and having breakfast in roundabouts
* Spraying people with water guns
* Drinking a lot of beer at once
* Screaming
* Walking around with a fish on a leash (or a vaccuum cleaner)
* Drinking a lot of beer while in a phone booth
* Hanging the red suit in the flag pole and run naked around it
* Jump up and down 20 times at a crossing in front of a bus
* Crawl through the back seat of a car waiting for the traffic light to turn green

Hey, at least can't say we're not having fun. Oh, and for each crazy thing you do, you get to hang a small item in the cap which comes with the red suit. The graduate with the most items gets fame and glory. I think there are about 150 things on the "crazy things to do" list in Bergen. You can read it here (in Norwegian though, but it should give you an idea)

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and i don't graduate for 2 years, but i have to play music with the orchestra for graduation, which means i miss the last 15-20 minutes of the coolest teacher i've had this year to go to rehearsal for it... commie principal

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You have two whole years to get out of it!!!!

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Run Away!!

My brother just graduated. He got like $350 and thats just from our relatives!!!

Later this week he is having some big party at the beach.

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I finished in January, awesome to be free

I start college for Police Foundations in September.. Ima enjoy no school while i can lol

Although College will kick *** more then HS did

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High school kicked ***?

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I won't be graduating for another 5 years or so. It'll take me about two years to get my GE classes out of the way before I can consider going to the Arts Institute to try to get a BA degree in Game Art and Design which would take about 3 years. With the amount of GE courses I have to complete, I'll probably get a graduation at least for acquiring credits from those classes before I transfer over to AI. That's still a long way off from now

BTW... for my HS graduation... all I got was a copy of JO.

-- SavageX

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Damn them! I just found out i'm not going because my sister is going on a mediteranean cruise with a few friends.

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-DX:IW
A Knight's Tail
Exile: A Tale of Light in Dark
Scions of Light[/i]
The Never Ending Story²[/i]

How does the American school system work?

What do you need to graduate and what happens if you don't? Do you just not get any qualifications or do you have to retake the year?

Also, I take it compulsory schooling is up to the age of 18?

I don't really know. They just gave me the diploma.

Just kidding. To graduate, at least in Kentucky, you need to pass all your classes from 9th grade to 12th grade. Passing involves getting more than a grade of 69/100 in your classes.

If you don't graduate, you have to retake the entire school year over. In certain situations, however, certain classes are offered during the summer to ensure graduation for certain students.

For your last question, the age of the average senior is 17-18. I turn 18 in two days.

Jeez. I use too many smilies.


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Ahah. How many classes do you take, and do you choose them?
Also, is getting 69/100 particularly difficult? Is it the equivilant of a C grade or what?

Class of 2000! Is where it's at.

Mort-Hog: That's for one particular state. In California, all graduates must pass a competency test at the end of the year. Don't pass, don't graduate...ideally that's the case. But I'm sure some softy of a teacher will allow them to graduate. When I graduated H.S. it was a min GPA of 1.5. I believe it has been raised to a 2.0 (C avg)

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I graduated last year... it was cool

What, it's totally different from state to state? That's confusing.

Actually, I just think my state's weird.
In response to your other question, in my state, a score of:
0-69 constitutes an F, or, failing grade
70-77 constitutes a D
78-86 constitutes a C
87-93 constitutes a B
94+ constitutes an A

I think.


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ROFL @ Gandalv the Gray...

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