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[Jermies]

So...
Assuming a majority of everyone here has finished High School,
How was your High School experience? What was the most memorable time you had there?

For all you other members who are still in High School,
How's it going? Anything memorable happen so far?

I had a love/hate relationship with my High School.
First of all, I was fat. I had braces and my mom still picked out my clothing. Not saying my mother didn't have a good taste in fashion but...I looked ridiculous. My High School experience was anything but enjoyable.
Most memorable time: My best friend(whom I was in love with) danced with me at our prom. Even let me kiss her on the cheek.

[Anne-Marie]

http://www.emo-corner.com/forums/topic/56803-school-memories/

[Jermies]

http://www.emo-corne...chool-memories/

Jesus Fuck.
I searched and everything.
V.V

[Anne-Marie]

It's an old thread, don't worry about it

[Jermies]

It's an old thread, don't worry about it

Whew!
Still going to get locked though, right?

[Anne-Marie]

Yeah probably. But I'm not a mod, I never know what they'll do

[Jermies]

Yeah probably. But I'm not a mod, I never know what they'll do

Well...
It was worth a shot.
It's been up this long, MAYBE it won't be locked.

[Hyena.]

'High School'?

[Lavinia]

I had braces too and I wear glasses. It sucked. I got called 'brace face' and 'ugly betty' a lot, as a 'joke' but it was said in a cruel way. It's pretty much why I avoid smiling, wearing my glasses in public and have my picture taken now.

[Lightning.]

Pfft none of you walked into a classroom and were barked at. I had that everyday for four years. I also was sung the chorus of 'who let the dogs out'. I met a guy who used to do that to me last year, his words to me "damn Kate you got hot"

Even with that I loved school, I went swimming everyday, I spent time with my friends. Sadly I don't talk to them as much anymore because I've moved to England which saddens me quite a lot.

[Pretending to be Normal]

high school was balls.

parents picking out clothing, getting diagnosed with autism, addicted to self-harm (Still kinda), bullies picking on me (is it a good thing or a bad thing that these people went on to be my best friends towards the end of high school?), in love with the exchange student that was living with me, which made for very awkward dinner times. not to mention that literally every second of my day was planned out in advance.
dropped out year 12 (second to last year of high school, don't know how Americans put it) and went on to college instead, studying diploma in graphic design, second year.


most memorable moment was, well just a normal day.
being autistic i didnt really understand most things people talked about, so i tended to keep quiet. there were shit days where i would open my mouth and people would laugh at me and i wouldn't understand and get depressed, and then there were good days where i would understand what was happening, and could actually contribute to conversations. to anyone else, all it was was a day when i would not say anything stupid. but to me, it was a glorious day when i finally fitted in with everyone else. those are my favorite. there are few of them, but i will never forget.

i still keep in touch with one of my friends in high school, and we now go to the same college.
the exchange student is now back in Germany, and i went to see her for a week over the summer holidays (to me thats christmas time).

[Kane.]

I loved school.

[Lavinia]

most memorable moment was, well just a normal day.
being autistic i didnt really understand most things people talked about, so i tended to keep quiet. there were shit days where i would open my mouth and people would laugh at me and i wouldn't understand and get depressed, and then there were good days where i would understand what was happening, and could actually contribute to conversations. to anyone else, all it was was a day when i would not say anything stupid. but to me, it was a glorious day when i finally fitted in with everyone else. those are my favorite. there are few of them, but i will never forget.

This made me a little sad. My brother has been diagnosed with autism, and is going to start high school soon, originally they didn't think he'd be able to cope within a high school environment but he's shown signs of being able to. I'm incredibly nervous for him and I know for a fact that people are always hesitant, slightly stand offish and unnerved, especially if they don't know he's autistic, so it will be hard for him and even more so considering he's incredibly astute and smart in comparison to his peers.

[Two Headed Bro]

Oh God, that OP was so incredibly beta like even for EC.

[Jermies]

Pfft none of you walked into a classroom and were barked at. I had that everyday for four years. I also was sung the chorus of 'who let the dogs out'. I met a guy who used to do that to me last year, his words to me "damn Kate you got hot"

Even with that I loved school, I went swimming everyday, I spent time with my friends. Sadly I don't talk to them as much anymore because I've moved to England which saddens me quite a lot.

That is horrible. Though I didn't get barked at, guys in the change room use to moo at me.
They would do it especially when we were running track.

You don't keep in contact with your old school friends??

Oh God, that OP was so incredibly beta like even for EC.

V.V

[Fujoshi Otaku]

A few weeks ago I begged my mum (seriously) to fake my age and get me back into high school. I freaking loved it, and I miss it so much. I miss the classes most. I love learning and remembering interesting things. I know I could go to college, but it never works out, so I keep planning to go to the library and learn the Hell out of anything and everything I want.

You know that one kid in every year everyone hates? That was me. ^w^ I brought it on myself, I guess, telling everyone I was a witch in year seven, and beating the life out of people who irritated me slightly. I did calm down though, but after I got the reputation. People also seemed to find the fact that I had two mothers amusing, but they never got anywhere with that. Them: XDDDDDDDDDDD "Is your mum a lesbian?????" Me: "Yes." *Conversation ends.* I think they did try to bully me sometimes, and I got into a few fights/big arguments/etc. but I was never bothered by any of it in any way.
Everything about it was just awesome fun. And by the end, one of the guys who used to try starting fights with me said I was cool...I don't know if he was being serious, but I think it had something to do with one art lesson when the old tables were being taken out, and the new ones taken in. They were the BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG heavy looking ones. The girls were told to take cardboard off the new ones, and the boys were told to carry the tables in/out. So, me being me, the little tiny doll like thing with a bow in my hair, decided I was carrying the tables, because my stubborn brain heard the words 'girls' and 'boys'. >:] *Lifted the Hell out of those tables.* I guess that was one of the highlights.....Others...I have WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY too many highlights to list them all. X333

Freaking loved school.
At least I get to see my friends. We've all known each other over half our lives. X3

[finality]

The other thread was a good while ago, I'm pro-life for this thread.

One thing, some of you guys had parents picking out clothes for you in high school? When does it begin/end for you? Because here the equivalent is for roughly 12-18 year olds, and I definitely started picking out my own clothes years before that.

My first 3 years were pretty awful. In first year I was just horribly shy and there were entire days when I didn't speak to anyone. I was even afraid to say "here" when a teacher would take the roll for the first few weeks.

Theeen I was emo for a while in second year, I don't like thinking about that period in my life. I think in third year I started to be depressed. I kind of withdrew from people and didn't speak much, didn't really enjoy things anymore. That was when I started to really become close to my boyfriend, so that's a pretty dominant memory for me. Used to talk to him for most of the night most school nights.

My last three years of school were much better. I got to know my friends better, started seeing my boyfriend, liked my subjects and teachers more... I was never happy in school, and that kind of restrictive environment never suited me, but the last 3 years were definitely better.

I was never bullied or teased really, I think that's because it's kind of impossible to get to me like that. Maybe some people tried to tease me ages ago, in retrospect, but I was always oblivious to it. I mostly got on with everyone in a distant sort of way, which I was totally cool with. I realised early enough that I didn't need to stand out or fit in, I could just coast along, and that was great. Academically I never needed to do much, and still got on relatively well. That was lucky, I'm not generally likely to do much work unless something really interests me. I think my teachers thought I was much more diligent than I am, they may be a little disappointed when I get my final school exam results next week and don't entirely manage the grades I was predicted. Haha. (By the way, omg my results are in exactly one week)

But yeah! School was a bad experience but just because I need more freedom and independence. Nothing overwhelmingly negative or positive about it.

Oh yeah, did I ever tell EC the story of my dead dog? A couple of years ago my friends decided to tell my entire year that I'd had a pet dog and killed it by throwing it out a window. I thought it was funny that they were so gullible so I elaborated, gradually adding details until I was a religious fanatic who'd killed my dog Muhammad and treated its dead body as if it were alive for weeks afterwards. It's more believable that they fell for it when you take into account that I'm a very distant, quiet person and none of them knew me very well. People were genuinely afraid of me for months. The story spread past my school too, and I gained a reputation as "the dog killer". There are still some people who know me as "the one who killed the dog" (or cat, I think I added a cat to the story at some point). That's one of my funniest school-related memories, just because of how completely ridiculous the whole thing was. Also, real life trolling.

[Lightning.]

You don't keep in contact with your old school friends??

I used to live in Ireland, I now live in England

[Rellik San]

I was at secondary school (I guess it would be Junior High - High in 'mercan terms) for just over 2 years.... IT WAS HELL!

Seriously, Secondary school for me, the system consistently failed me, I never got the point of 'homework' (because why would someone ever be so incompetent at their job they had to take their work home? and what? The teachers couldn't actually get through what was needed in class time? Man they must've sucked and whats the point if all the answers are in the back of the text book we were using anyway?), my classes were never challenging, I was bullied and beaten regularly, but because it was a school that valued it's athletes, the solution was to segregate me, I had several psychotic breakdowns... all of which led to me eventually being withdrawn and entered into a non-standard education.

But here's the thing, I don't know how it is in America, but in England, yeah, Secondary blows and even sixth form if your school has one, but College... OH MAN, College is the BEST time you will ever have, because for the first time in being there everyone is just as big a loser as you were and you far out number the assholes, as part of getting accepted into College is how you are as a person, not just academic achievements. College was wonderful, it was brilliant, the best time of your life.

Secondary and High School right now seem like the worst time of your life, but believe me... that's exactly what they are and as soon as they are over, it gets a hell of a lot better.
So stick it out.

[Kane.]

Am I the only one that just had a ballin' time the whole way through school D:?