TheMusketMan said
Word of advice. DON'T MISS DAYS IN HIGH SCHOOL... or in middle school. But especially high school, the shit you gotta do piles on so fast that it makes you wanna puke. Keep absences to a minimum. I'm serious. I learned it the hard way, don't make the same mistake. What grade are you in, by the way?

TheMusketMan said
Word of advice. DON'T MISS DAYS IN HIGH SCHOOL... or in middle school. But especially high school, the shit you gotta do piles on so fast that it makes you wanna puke. Keep absences to a minimum. I'm serious. I learned it the hard way, don't make the same mistake. What grade are you in, by the way?

Dervish said
While good advice, I always found high school's work load to be pretty manageable. It's when I got to college that I got hammered with homework that I had no idea how the heck I was going to get completed.But it is a good habit to not skip school, in general. The most important thing high school teaches you is to be accountable for your responsibilities and how to interact with people - especially the ones you don't like. It's kind of like training wheels for the real world.

TheMusketMan said
Good luck dude, I go back in a week. Sophomore year of High school....yay?

pitwhousedtodopokemon said
...If you know that, why do you ask about me going into highschool?Sarcasm?

Kaga said
Apparently I'm one of the older folks in Spam now.This feels weird, not only because I'm more used to being of the younger crowd, but also because the thought that I've been in Spam long enough to have been of the younger crowd and now I'm not is... wow. @_@

Doivid said
how old are you?

Kaga said
Almost 18. Granted, now that I think about it, the age gap between myself and those younger than me in this thread probably isn't quite as wide as it could be. But still, I remember first stepping into Spam when I was only 15 (or maybe 14?) and I felt like such a kid awkwardly sitting at the adult table. Lol.

Doivid said
Yeah you're still on the younger side.

Azarthes said
That's only three years

Smiral said
Weird, I thought you were around my age.Look at the babby.

Kaga said
I felt like such a kid awkwardly sitting at the adult table. Lol.

Dervish said
The most important thing high school teaches you is to be accountable for your responsibilities and how to interact with people - especially the ones you don't like. It's kind of like training the real world.

pitwhousedtodopokemon said
To be completely honest, I really don't feel like that.

Marik said
Canadian High School sounds nice. They did nothing like that here. It was more or less teachers trying to fill a quota so they didn't get fired. And the one's that did care about what they taught always got harassed by complaining students. They’d always say that the work was too much when it really wasn’t. Hell, when I gave a shit I was able to get most of it done in class. Now that I think about it, I had some really shitty kids in my classes.

Kaga said
I never accused you of being as awkward as 15-year-old me.I don't think it's a Canadian school thing. I'm American, but I still totally agree with Dervish about the "training wheels for life" thing. Sure, high school was shitty, but, life is shitty. High school teaches you how to accept responsibility and get work done like an adult, all while forcing you to work with superiors and peers that you hate, thus teaching you to how to handle these things - just like you'll have to in the real world.I really wish that sort of thing was brought to more people's attention. All through high school, I heard people constantly complaining about how the work was "too much" (when really it wasn't and they'd face much bigger work loads in their futures), that the content they were learning "wouldn't even help them in the real world" (when that's not the point; learning how to handle the work is the point), and just how much their teachers sucked (when they'd undoubtedly have to deal with bosses they don't like in the future, and it's probably best they just learn how to get along with or at the very least tolerate those above them). I saw my view on all this as a sort of success formula that I only wished it was easier to share. While I diligently worked along on things - keeping my grades high, preparing myself for what college will be like, and doing it all while remaining fairly positive about it all - so many students around me just seemed to spend their time developing bad habits and complaining about teachers' attempts to give them the skills they'd need to do well in college or at the very least, dealing with real people as adults.It's kind of sad, really.