I'm finally done with high school. I just got back from getting my cap, gown, and yearbook. I hated high school with a passion. It wasn't a good or bad experience. It was just boring as hell and I wasted what opportunities and abilities I have. I typed out this huge thing on what I would do different if I could do high school over again, but I decided to condense it. If I had to do high school over again, I wouldn't have been lazy and procrastinated when it came ot my grades, I would have been more involved with school activities and sport, I wouldn't have been such a wuss-*** when I started high school, and I would have taken all the opportunities that had presented themself, and I wouldn't have played it safe. That probably doesn't make much sense to you guys. I just wanted to vent. I want to go back in time and do high school all over again so I can correct the scores of retarded mistakes I made.

Now, I know I have to do some kind of "post your...." thing in order to keep some retard from coming in and going "Lame thread! We don't care! Die!" so do whatever the hell you want with this thread. Post your high school experience, current greivances, whatever the hell you want.

btw, whoever coined the phrase "No Regrets" is a ****ing idiot.

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The sooner you realize I'm right the better off you will be.

[This message has been edited by Kieran Horn (edited June 02, 2004).]

Very, very true.



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Lucky you... nine more ****-filled days for me.

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

I have another year left. My gpa is 4.3 and will rise again next year. The top 3 in our class this year graduated with 4.75, freaking insane...

what country are you in Hobbit? Our(America) GPA goes up to 4.0. I could have gotten one had I tried....god damn me.

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The sooner you realize I'm right the better off you will be.

I live in Kansas dude. It's called AP classes. Advanced Placement. A select few college courses also give AP credit.

Hobbit, many schools still don't give you higher than a 4.0, even if you've taken a lot of AP classes.

Are you talking about the grading scale for AP tests? Those go to 5(used to go to 9) but I've never seen them do decimals. btw, I was in an AP class.

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The sooner you realize I'm right the better off you will be.

I have a 5.27 >_> <_<... the top in our class has a 5.4something... scale must be different...


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Kieran, they have weighted averages, so your GPA can thus go above 4.0. The more intensive courses have added weight.

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And yeah, most classes give a 4.0 for an A. Honours classes give a 4.5, and AP give a 5.0.

Oh, and last year I don't know what the top GPA was, but one kid had a 4.83.

FOUR. POINT. EIGHT. THREE. It was insane.

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[This message has been edited by happydud (edited June 02, 2004).]

Yea, sorry for a lack of clarification.
The highest possible grade you can recieve taking AP courses at my school is 4.75.

AP courses give a student .075 added to their weight GPA for every two semesters or something similar. Non-weighted GPA is 4.0 like normal. I hope that was clear, sorry.

I just finished today too...I'm glad to be out, but now I need to work this entire summer to try to pay for college.

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gree gree.

Right. You're going to have a hard life if you thought high school was a *****.

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Wake up, rise and shine, Gotta take another pint, Dig heads and watch out for the night.

I live in the most stuck up town ever. I moved in to the town in 6th grade and I still have no idea what the hell is going on. Nobody tells you anything, they just assume you and your parents and their parents have lived here their whole lives and assume that your parents can tell you what to do. Thing is, my parents don't know anything either. I'm going into sophmore year and pretty much all I know is that I should take Algebra 2, and 10th grade World History!

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Ha! I have about 2 weeks until finals.

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Yes, there are several different systems for GPA depending on where you go to school. I'm taking all the honors/AP classes, and i have a 3.64. you can't get above a 4 in my school.

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I made many more 'retarted mistakes' in college than in high school. High school was fun by the end of it, college had its moments but was mostly a bore.

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I graduate on Saturday, classes have been over for a week or so. Cap(which apparently we aren't going to wear), gown, and yearbook are all in my posession.

I liked High School, as far as schools go, it has definitely been the best of them. College should be nice.

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[This message has been edited by Bounty Hunter 4 hire (edited June 02, 2004).]

College has been much better than high school. Just being able to have an intellectual conversation makes college ten times better.

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I never said it was hard. In fact, it was quite easy, even with my skating through. It was just boring as hell and I screwed myself over a few times.

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The sooner you realize I'm right the better off you will be.

*dances around* My college has a club where they watch anime(downside) and play Halo tournaments(upside). I'm want to join that club, the Independent Party club, and the Rock Climbing Club.

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The sooner you realize I'm right the better off you will be.

[This message has been edited by Kieran Horn (edited June 02, 2004).]

Same with me buddy. I could had so easily got at least a 3.5 if I tried and not goofed off.



Well... I didn't really care for sports but some school activities would have been nice. Would have made getting a year book something more worthwhile.



I wish I could had beaten up every butthole I ran into when I was in high school. Their blood on my hands would have been a nice memory.



I can't think of too many opportunities that I would had take. Only thing comes to mind was pursuing that girl that I had a thing for since the 6th grade.

-- SavageX

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Hmm, I never went to high school or anything. Hehehehehe.

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<landfish> FastGamerr > Satan

Heh, I have zero regrets about anything in high school. Slacked around and was lazy as hell, never bothered with school stuff at home, ended up getting into a great college anyway and not having to really pay anything.

Life's too short to have regrets about high school. It's in the past, what the hell are you going to do about it? And really, a few years from now, you'll realize how overblown the importance of the high school years really is.

Here's what important (high school related) when it comes to college:

-Forget your SAT score, your AP test score, and your high school GPA for anything that isn't official paperwork. They don't matter anymore, and no one cares.

-Put away your damn letter jacket. The only people who wear their letter jackets to anything but reunions after the graduate are people who peaked in high school.

-Forget anything you think you know about social classes. It will make life at college a lot more enjoyable and a lot easier for you, and a lot less annoying for those around you. There are no right and wrong people to talk to. No one gives a damn if you were the most popular/coolest/angstiest guy in high school, and neither should you. I just finished my junior year, and there's nothing us upper classmen get more laughs out of than seeing freshmen who were hot **** in high school come in and try to act all big and bad. It's pathetic.

-This one hits some people like a sledge hammer, but most women at college (save for sluts and sorority girls...synonyms) aren't impressed by any of the crap you used to impress girls with in high school. You get this especially from the guys who peaked in high school..."Why are all the nerds getting the girls?" Women have dated those guys already, they're bored with them. They want intelligence and social skills, not athletic ability, cool cars or the ability to consume the most alcohol.

-Forget everything about grade-level distinctions. That goes both ways. When you're a freshman, feel free to talk to whoever. Afterwards, don't try to act all tough by picking on the frosh.

-People will get seriously pissed off if you are disruptive in class. This isn't like high school where everyone will laugh and think you're brilliantly comedic if you interrupt the instructor. Most college students realize how much they're paying to be there, and actually want to learn. Unless you want to look like a complete idiot in front of your peers and the professors, do what you're there to do.

-The pinnacle of humor is no longer: Fart jokes, calling things 'gay', pretending to be gay, dirty jokes where the only funny aspect is that you said a dirty word. This doesn't mean you need to find only New Yorker comics funny from now on, but make your jokes witty, not just crass.

-Not a single one of your excuses will cut it anymore. Be honest with your profs, they respond much better to that.

Basically, it all boils down to this: Leave all the bull**** that you've (the inclusive 'you've'...everyone, top to bottom of the social ladder, whether they admit it or not, did/does this in high school) crafted for the last four years behind. The only people that that still flies with are the brain-dead frat guys and more-time-on-their-backs-than-coma-patients sorority girls, and even then, it only flies with other frat guys and sorority girls.

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Dark, Darker, Darko

RIP Madaventor: God bless you.

If you don't think high school is important then you probably just flunked out, because it is. High school is essential so that you can take on increasingly complicated work loads to prepare yourself for college. You have to learn time management, organization, and more before you start paying schools or you are going to end up wasting a ton of money learning what you should have learned before.

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The sooner you realize I'm right the better off you will be.

[This message has been edited by Kieran Horn (edited June 03, 2004).]

I've grown bored with college. General ed really blows b/c i think its totally asinine that i have to waste my time learning more of the same kind of stuff that I learned in HS. I think it's a big scam that they pull on lower division college students to earn more money by making people pay for more classes.

The sole purpose of college should be to give you what you need to get a good job. In my field, Graphic design, I'm way ahead of the game b/c I spent the past 8 years of my life learning what the other people in my clesses are just starting to learn. I'm ready. I just want them to give me my damn diploma, b/c I've earned it. I've spent 8 years of my life earning it, ever since the beginning of middle school in late 1996 /early 1997.

I want my career to start now, not in another 4 years. I taught myself web/graphic design, and the principles of running my own business, and I was also a sort of apprentice to someone that taught me even more.

I'm sick of the prerequisites and other red tape I have to sit through before I can get to the good stuff.

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[This message has been edited by Pagewizard_YKS (edited June 03, 2004).]

Social skills are defined quite a bit differently in college than in high school.

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Dark, Darker, Darko

RIP Madaventor: God bless you.

Then there are lot of people(jocks mainly) at my school that are royally screwed

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The sooner you realize I'm right the better off you will be.

I couldn't agree more. I plan to study chemistry, yet I need to go through about a year's worth of psychology/history/art classes as pre-reqs at my local college. Despite the Honors English classes I had during high school, I (as well as every other new college student) was required to go through a quarter of English 111 - the basic "college level" English composition course in which the professor reminds the students daily to use puctuation and capitalize the first letter of a sentence...

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[This message has been edited by Katt (edited June 04, 2004).]

I don't think that is completely true because, to be quite honest, most people FORGET what they learned in HS and have to get it back buy going through GE courses. I know for me, when I took Algerbra back last fall, I couldn't remember a damn thing when I had to take a pretest in the first week of class. It is good that you take GE courses again so you can remember all that you might have forgetten, not to mention that the education you are learning in the GE courses is more up to date than what you learned in HS.

BTW, Darko pretty nailed it on the head about the contrast between College and HS. HS is just a big joke compared to College. Unlike HS students, College students go because they want to LEARN (obviously because they are PAYING for it), not because they think it's a great place to hang out with friends and mess around.

-- SavageX

-- SavageX

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I still think it's a amazing that only 15% of high school graduates(I think) go to college. That seems way to low to me.

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The sooner you realize I'm right the better off you will be.

[This message has been edited by Kieran Horn (edited June 04, 2004).]

You seem to forget that many jobs require other education than college, all labor jobs for once, requires some sort of specialized education, that's not given in college. See, I'm going to study to become an Electrician, a year and half, and I'm ready to go on the field and start at salaries well above 20-25$ an hour, and increasing and increasing, and there's a craving for these kinds of jobs because everyone's going to college, and then there's going to be an overload, it's always like that. People flock to college, and then they all flock to labor schools, all at once.

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Wake up, rise and shine, Gotta take another pint, Dig heads and watch out for the night.

Worst part? Your first year of college is JUST LIKE HIGH SCHOOL. Algebra, English, Government, P.E., all that crap. It sucks.

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Uhh, yeah, dunno any college that requires you to start with algebra or requires any kind of PE.

Actually most colleges have PE requirements for everyone. Fortunately they usually have fun and/or interesting PE classes (swimming, archery, karate, kendo, even bowling sometimes)

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Dark, Darker, Darko

RIP Madaventor: God bless you.