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Crystal
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popularity contests are over rated
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There were many dues to pay after high school, so the experience was a long time ago. Well-meaning elders often speak very fondly of the HS years, and describe them as the best years that life offers. For some people maybe they were golden, indeed. Not so for others. The real drag about the whole growing-up thing is that some people are meant to go out and make their own achievements, at whatever cost. In the early years you are dependent on others. During the school years, you are too much defined by your God-given talents, or beauty, or good looks, or lack of such things. What you achieve and what you become in the years to follow is more reflective of your efforts, of which you can become justifiably proud. You get your identity.
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I miss the easiness of it, but other than that, im glad. I like the independence in college.
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Well for one thing at my current job I'm thrown in the locker less frequently... ;)
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Ugh. High school was awful. I was a boundary exception at the rich kids school, and didn't they let me know it. I didn't own Abercrombie clothes, or Tommy Hilfiger perfume. I didn't get a brand new car for my 16th, I got a beat up 94 Dodge Spirit that was both the bane of my existence, and my baby, as I had to purchase it myself. They let me know, not in words, but in constant actions, that I was not at their level, that I was not welcome. And it wasn't just the students, it was some of the teachers too, despite my being an exceptional student. Needless to say, I was thrilled when I graduated high school and joined the Navy. At the time, I was also thrilled to get away from the drama, the cattiness, the general cruelty of people in groups, then I realized that's everywhere, no matter where you go.
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If given the chance, and it SHOULD be legal, I would have dropped out at 16 and joined the military. More productive. When I went to enlist, I failed the physical, something that wouldn't have happened if I were allowed to join at 16 and leave that conformity factory behind.
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Because I would be a lot older that the other high schoolers!
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im still in high school :(
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Yes. I was bored out of my mind and the majority of my peers were annoying, immature and stupid.... not that University or office environments seem to change that...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjMLpL8fAPU
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjMLpL8fAPU
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I'm glad!! I'm sick of the cattiness, drama, short-lived romances I was supposed to keep track of, the baseless popularity, the artificiality of it all...I'm glad to be out of there.
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