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Your best school years.
Jast
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When did everyone have the most fun in school? Was it college because you were free to do what you wanted? Was it middle school because it's middle school? 
Or maybe elementary school when there was no such thing as a GPA and everything was simple. I'm still in high school, where I'm having a good time, but for me it was elementary school. Everything was simple back then, class was easy, math was easy(curse you algebra I for being so hard and curse whoever came up with algebra II!), lunch was good, I was part of band, the safety patrol, sports. Then my family moved and everything got messed up, which is a whole other story which I don't want to get into right now. I still miss the simple good old days. Now everything is getting complicated.
Or maybe elementary school when there was no such thing as a GPA and everything was simple. I'm still in high school, where I'm having a good time, but for me it was elementary school. Everything was simple back then, class was easy, math was easy(curse you algebra I for being so hard and curse whoever came up with algebra II!), lunch was good, I was part of band, the safety patrol, sports. Then my family moved and everything got messed up, which is a whole other story which I don't want to get into right now. I still miss the simple good old days. Now everything is getting complicated. 
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My first year was 10th grade because next year id be in a new school in a new state so i didnt care what i did social wise.
Same thing senior year hell it was my last year of school.
Then my first year of college because no parents I was free to live how i wanted to live, and i met awsome people.
For the most part I was one of the people who did the shattering, so my high-school years were sunshine and rainbows.
And now university, I don't really enjoy the program I am in that much, so that's kind of a drag. But I'm doing well in it and I'm planning to go to law school after, so it's all good.
Plus I had a lot of awesome teachers that would joke around with me.
I start college on Monday, and I hope it's enjoyable.
Grade 12 was the best overall because half of my courses were complete cakewalks. I got 95% in Graphics for showing up, surfing the internet, and occasionally fixing computer problems that the school district IT people wouldn't touch because we were using Macs. My French teacher had a rather... unique teaching style which fostered class behaviour that a substitute once described as "like being in someone's living room". Stagecraft was a blast, because work almost always meant climbing tall, unstable, death-defying ladders, crawling around in confined spaces, playing with things that had buttons and blinkling lights all over them, playing with nailguns, breaking stuff, and swearing a lot. As for Infotech, all that needs to be said is my instructor was in my World of Warcraft guild. If it weren't for these four courses my average would be somewhere around 60% and I would never have gotten into university.
My worst years would definitely be middle school/junior high.
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You're starting college in the middle of July? What school do you go to if you don't mind me asking.
But really, 9-11th grade was great. Great friends, good grades, good family. I still remember how fuckawesome excited I was when one of my friends first got his car. And Theater Tech class was all kinds of badass. You want me to take these two by fours and use the scarily expensive equipment to make four stage stands? How big? I have a week?
Lets do this.
Also, nailguns are pretty cool.
Then it all went to shit.
/life
I'm pretty sure law school is the worst. It is the most miserable thing ever.
Fifth Grade- Awesome, totally got into porn (actually that happened the summer before fifth grade, bless Penthouse magazine and those porn cards my friend brought to school..)
Eighth Grade- It seemed that all the animosity between everyone in sixth and seventh grade faded, and we were all kind of becoming one. That, and the racism was at least hidden.
Ninth Grade- Freshman year, I was living in Japan and everything was mellow. Then I discovered the joys of masturbation.
Also, I'm in Cambridge doing a 5 week study abroad. So yea -- having access to penny-arcade makes me feel less homesick (homesick, a little, but having a blast!).
i know a lot of people have a lot of angst about high school, but senior year was like 8 hours of hilarity and insanity every single day. i was homecoming king, had a much better GPA than i had had previously, got my first girlfriend and at then end of the year got my second (which lasted two and a half pretty awesome years), made tons of really good friends, and pulled so many pranks and got into so many stupid situations that i lost count. it was fun as hell.
don't get me wrong, college was AMAZING (the two snow days last year were probably two of the best five days of my life) and graduate school is turning out a lot like high school in that i get to hang out with the same cool kids in virtually every class, but that last year of high school was just tits.
oh yeah, i also got to drive around in a totally ballin' 1979 baby blue pontiac lemans.
edit: now that i think about it, senior year of college was almost as awesome as senior year of high school. ALMOST.
Plus, lots of great things happened those two years. Our football team went to the state semi-finals and we played in the Astrodome (which, in Texas, is quite a big deal), I made first chair tenor in our Area choir, and our band took a ski-trip to Colorado, among other things. And the friends I became close to during that time are people I still keep in contact with as much as possible.
Of course now I'm in college, but I'm also married and have a kid, so I probably am not quite getting the usual college experience. Which is okay - I wouldn't trade it.
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What? Did people throw you against lockers and take your money?
No. But you don't think the "fit in" culture isn't really the smartest thing at that point in life? College isn't like that.
High school was a blast. I'm not sure I've ever felt as close to someone as I did to my swim team, and all the other people I met in high school, from students to teachers, were completely awesome.
My first year of college was pretty good. Okay people, definitely some good times, and I appreciate the sense of freedom. So far, I'm not sure it holds up to high school though.
I thoroughly enjoyed my last years in high school for the most part. Pretty good memories.
I also saw more wang that semester than I have ever seen or have yet to see.
college I definitely enjoy because every day I go to class I feel like I am among people who really want to be there... but until I start actually working towards something it's just going to feel like a waste of time - even though it's my own fault.
Between winning debate tournaments, to travelling to the states for marching band tour, to heading off to Quebec to experience bilingualism, I think I just had a pretty good run of it all.
College, though, is shaping up to be a blast. This latest drag ain't so great, what with all the complications that go along with transferring from one uni to another, and all the bullshit that comes with it ("No I'm sorry sir these credits don't transfer"). But the next academic year looks like it's going to fucking rock for me.
My senior year of high school wasn't bad, I had finally made a solid group of friends and had plenty to do. Of course, I was also only on campus for half the day - a definite plus
high school sucked ass.
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You know what also helps you appreciate things? Being virtually broke for 3 years. I would kill for a scooter.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
Not sure if that's really the best year though- I've got nothing to complain about regarding my last two years in high school and first two years in college. It certainly did stand out at the time.
I realised who my friends were and stuck to them rather than tagging the "cool" kids.
But on with highschool. It's great. It's like.. you're still learning lots of good information (I took AP calc, AP english, and AP art) so you feel productive, but you also meet your best friends there. Hang out and talk between classes and after school. Go to lunch and have awesome hilarious moments. Join clubs. Have the best teachers who make fun of you cuz you're foreign (for me anyway. it was awesome). Get your first girlfriend. All that jazz.