Join clubs, make more friends that share your hobbies. Soon you'll make friends with their friends and so on. Soon you'll be going out with them outside of High School and having even more fun! Joining clubs doesn't have tob solely in school, join clubs outside of school. You never know, you might befriend someone that is friends with other people at your school that you aren't already friends with.

Was it really that bad? surely, you had some good times. if so, dwell on those good times, only. there are a lot of jerks and bullies in high school, all wanting attention. In your mind, try to remember where these people will be, ten years from now. prison? divorced? homeless? Go grab your annual. find a magic marker. for each person that mistreated you or shamed you in some way, XXXXX their face out. out of sight-out of mind. This may make your school annual look terrible, but what price can you pay for.......PAYBACK!!!!!

I would love to tell you that if you join clubs it would always help, like I did when I moved here and was all alone because no one liked me. Apparently I'm 'stuck up' because I didn't swear and spit and stuff. Anyway, I learned to play the clarinet, and do you know what? It sucks. Now I can't get out of doing it either. Anyway, back to the point. I like school a bit because I found friends, but that's not to everyone's taste. The only thing I really enjoy is doing anything (at least semi-legal) to get out of school. It becomes kind of a sport. And of course the tequila, tequila helps all. Just remember, people are gits, and if you don't like them, resort to violence. Violence may not solve everything, but it's damn satissfying

Perhaps you could ask your parents if you could be home schooled. If they say they have no time to supervise you (like if they both work), you could promise to be responsible enough to do it on your own. But you will really have to show them that you can do it. Also if you are being bullied or picked on you should see the guidance councellor or the principal. It's their job to take care of stuff like that.

Hmm... anyone who says high school is anything but hell was probably a bully. The truth is some of us don't particularly thrive in a school environment, its cruel, competitive and petty. I hated every minute of it. However I can tell you something you may like to use to cheer yourself up. Once out of high school, what went on there doesn't mean a thing. Your popularity and respect as an adult is generally inversely proportional to the popularity you had in high school. The popular kids from my high school, ten years on are now mostly still living in the same naff little town, earning a poittance in rubbish jobs, in unrewarding relationships- most had unplanned kids and rely mostly on benefits. By contrast the "nerdy" kids who got bullied all seem to be earning a fortune, driving fancy cars and generally living a great lifestyle. Its a truth that those who get given the worst time in high school are those who are less inclined towards following the crowd and playing the popularity game- people like that tend to make more satisfying longer lasting relationships, enjoy their lives more, have more interesting and well-planned suitable careers- and generally have a better time in adulthood. The amount of eminent rock stars who detested school is unreal. So my answer is- think of the future. Daydream. Smile smuggly. Remember how rich Bill Gates is.

rofl :) Hell sounds right to me

You can't. The modern high school is devoted to standardized, mass-production of Model Corporate Citizens. Anyone with an iota of creativity who devotes more than a bit of thought to the pure ridiculous, vile, putrescent cesspool that is high school is going to be miserable.

1. Choose your friends, carefully, 2. Be an influence on others instead of being influenced by them. 3. Know this: Regarding all those things that seem so overwhelming to you now, you REALLY WILL look back on them and realize that they only mattered in high school. 4. Please, please, please remember that what other students think of you or say about you does not define who you are. Only you can decide that. 5. Don't compromise yourself or your standards to please others. Once you're out of school, you will not care what they think about you. You will, however, want to be proud of who you see in the mirror.

You know, I agree with andersrb on all points except two. the "you can't" and the foregone conclusion that you have to be miserable. I hated High school too. And I don't think much of the public school system even today with three of my own kids well on their way into it. But the worst thing in the world you can do is keep telling yourself there is nothing good about it. If you tell your self you can't be happy in school, you WON'T BE! If you keep telling yourself (no mater how much you may not believe it) "there has GOT to be something worthwhile for me here". If you keep telling yourself this, your mind will begin to look for something worthwhile, and you will find it IF you don't give up. "Seek and you shall find" is a principle that can be applied to just about anything. Why? Because if you don't seek you don't find anything. If you seek gold, you will find gold, IF you don't give up. If you seek something worthwhile in your education, you will find something worthwhile in it, IF you don't give up. THESE, unfortunately, are some of the basic principles that are missing in the public schools. Kids are not taught the principles of thinking, acting and speaking positely to themselves. If you truly want it to be less like hell, then start by telling yourself it isn't. Start by telling yourself there IS something better to be had than what you are currently getting out of it. Then start looking for it. It's there. They just arent' teaching you how to find it. As Henry Ford once said: "Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right." He never made it past eighth grade. You CAN get something postive out of high school. But you have to want it bad enough to look for it before you will find it.