Today is my last day of high school.

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I'm not exactly sure how to feel.

So let's discuss it.

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Thursday, 20 May 2004 10:50 (twenty-two years ago)

All the people touting this is the best time of my life are just dumb jocks, right? Right?

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Thursday, 20 May 2004 10:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I think when ppl say 'it's the best time of your life' is that it's when you seem to have the least amount of worries & troubles.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 20 May 2004 10:52 (twenty-two years ago)

The best time of your life will probably be in your mid-twenties or so.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 20 May 2004 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Of course it could also be the shittiest time ever, so you know, take it with a grain, kid.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 20 May 2004 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

but it doesn't apply to everyone really. there's every chance are you will be happier 10-15 years from now. i think i am.

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 20 May 2004 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

See, that's what I assumed, but everyone around here is very steadfast on this point. Bastids.

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Thursday, 20 May 2004 10:57 (twenty-two years ago)

agreed. leaving high school means an end to the idiots and teachers who make your life a misery every day (these get replaced by bosses and co-workers who can be annoying but you can probably escape). I think I'm certainly happier as a 23 year old than as a 16 year old.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 20 May 2004 10:59 (twenty-two years ago)

as you get older people start to push you around less. it's great.

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 20 May 2004 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Just be happy. You're getting ready to have a vacation and then enter a time in your life in which you will drink alcohol and have sex a lot. Don't try to attach meaning to it, just take it as it comes. Oh, and if it really is your last day, smooch somebody you fancy. Don't look back.

xpost, steve otm

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 20 May 2004 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

and then enter a time in your life in which you will drink alcohol and have sex a lot

what? i thought this was your 40s, fuck

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 20 May 2004 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)

roxy on the money as well. I have far less worry and drama in my life ten years after high school, wouldn't go back for anything.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 20 May 2004 11:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Congrats. You should have fun this summer, the summer after senior year is always fun.

― 24 hours with the King of Snake. (SNAKE!) (ex machina), Thursday, 20 May 2004 11:29 (twenty-two years ago)

The best time of your life will probably be in your mid-twenties or so.

So you're saying I should just kill myself now, huh?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Though not for that reason.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

the best time of your life will probably only have something to do with a waterslide, a midget, a goat, and tons of cocaine and jello, so you're correct it's not now.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I had a wonderful time my senior year of high school (socially) not so much at home though. But enjoy it. Take a dump on the gym floor before you leave.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

What everyone else said. Just regard it as something now past and only keep in touch specifically with the ones you want to keep in touch with.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Your second post is essentially correct Stephen.

college is better than high school by a long shot

and even when you take a job, it's not like you have to go home and do math problems and write an essay about Millard Fillmore at the end of the day. Unless you come to ILX when you get home....

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, college is the time for ass.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

college is the best time.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

your own room, beer, hackysack, beating up 'townies', what more do you need?

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

this makes me want to be 18 and ready to go off to college.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

When I think about high school, which was only five years ago for me, I can barely remember most of it because it was just that boring, even though I guess I thought it was kinda fun at the time.
The one thing I'll say is that drinking lost a small fraction of its fabulousness for me once procuring alcohol no longer involved a long string of phone calls leading to a seedy, rather slow-witted 26-year-old college freshman who would buy schnapps for my friend and me, who had to meet him in a cemetery with duffel bags and towels and Little Debbie snack cakes and probably 25% more cash than the schnapps actually cost. That was my first year of college, though. And drinking is still great. So yeah, just have fun.

― kirsten (kirsten), Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

god i feel old

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

*Giant Gong Sound*
Right now is the only time in your life. Ever. Enjoy.

p.s. Do not become a 26 year old freshman.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

hey im trying to make babies here...i am old. sex now actually has a meaning and purpose, in college it meant nothing. Use that line on all the girls.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

these days i honestly feel like the best part of my 20s are now far far FAR behind me, and i'm only fucking 26.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

wait til you start pushing 30.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Or 40.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I might be having the most consistent fun I've had so far. I don't think this means I will have less fun in the future. Fun is weird.

― kirsten (kirsten), Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

When I was in my late teens and early 20s, I wanted to be older and cooler. When I was in my early 30s, I wanted to be 26 again. Now I don't give a fuck. I'm glad I'm still alive and I just want to have a good time.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 20 May 2004 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

(xp) For some of us, our 30s are (hopefully maybe) going to be the best time in our lives. I'm saying this, of course, because I haven't yet been in a situation involving a waterslide, a midget, a goat, jello, and lots of cocaine (am I remembering that right?) and naturally I take what hstencil has to say very seriously.

The best thing about high school is the end of it. Have fun.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 20 May 2004 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Man that goat could put away the blow, though, huh?

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 20 May 2004 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

be sure to go around and thank your teachers.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 20 May 2004 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

If they deserve thanking.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 20 May 2004 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

they all do. this is a thankless job.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 20 May 2004 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

"Thanks, Mr. Johnson. Thanks FOR NOTHING!!! Gabba gabba HEY nyuk nyuk!!....seriously though, thanks for copping that feel, yo"

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 20 May 2004 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't agree Sam. I had pervy teachers and teachers who went out of their way to be mean to me and I didn't (and don't care)how thankless their jobs were. I was legally obliged to go and I didn't feel any obligation to any of them unless they endeared themsleves to me. Most of them did, btw.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 20 May 2004 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha Michael, I'm sure you don't mean "endeared themselves to me" in the sense of "PANDER TO ME OR BE SMITED BY MY TEENAGE PRANKDOM WTF LOL" but that's kind of how it's coming across.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 20 May 2004 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

micheal, I'm sure you do as I expect many others to but I stand by my statement.

amazing how ones' persepective can change when you age. . .

(see also: human falliability)

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 20 May 2004 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha Michael, I'm sure you don't mean "endeared themselves to me" in the sense of "PANDER TO ME OR BE SMITED BY MY TEENAGE PRANKDOM WTF LOL" but that's kind of how it's coming across.

Of course not, Dan. Four years of school with largely the same teachers and you get to know them as humans, if you're paying attention, that is. I just felt no need to thank the ones for whom teaching was their job but not their real vocation and who knew or should have known it for years and yet still inflicted themselves on generation after generation. The Algebra teacher leering over 17 yr. old cleavage day after day I might have excused had he been discreet but he was not only indiscreet but couldn't teach us the subject at hand. The stoner, radical English teacher who refused to make sophomores read the prescribed books, instead choosing to make everybody, including the semi-illiterates, indulge in creative writing. The agony of listening to their shy voices as they read the pointless stories they devised to try and make him happy is something I remember all too well. The agony of listening to him read his writing to us is still with me too. I have the utmost respect for teachers, both for the importance and breadth of their charge and the paucity of resources afforded them to accomplish it, but I will not and did not thank those who were really just taking the piss, human fallibility notwithstanding.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 20 May 2004 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

'enter a time in your life in which you will drink alcohol and have sex a lot'

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how is this different than high school? i drink less alcohol and have about the same amount of sex now than i did when i was 14.

i dont remember my last day, i think i was absent, i went to several high schools and didnt really care much for the people i left with.

― cedric hendrix, Thursday, 20 May 2004 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Graduating high school is for SUCKAZ!!! GED all the way!

― adam (adam), Thursday, 20 May 2004 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

the one thing i regret most about graduating high school is that i spent the following summer almost exclusively working and reading. i shouldve partied more.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Thursday, 20 May 2004 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

My day ended with one of my incredibly nerdy classmates pogo'ing to a t.A.t.u CD he brought in. Ah, I will miss it.

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I was so glad when high school ended because I had been moving around with my parents (went to four high schools in four years) and was really looking forward to settling down in one place for four years of college.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

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