Did you enjoy your time in high school?

I loved summer school.
I loved playing the Origen (sp) Trail, where is Carmen Santiago, and Civilization one.
I skipped lots of school to ride on the light rail transit, and read on average a novel a day. Usually Forgotten Realms, and Dragonlance.

During school I would read the new computer encyclopedia for fun. Going from link to link.

I also liked the Choices computer career search program. It said that I should be an audiologist.

Not at all,disliked it greatly.
From 13 to early twenties I lived and breathed dirt bikes, then I started chasing women.

I loved high school, we moved from Los Angeles to Connecticut for my freshman year.

Made friends in new neighborhood, while we lived at a summer cottage on a lake. We’d come back to check on new house and hang out with neighbors. In school had lots of friends, played in Dance band and Orchestra. I was also in “Cast and Crew” the drama club. Played in several jazz and rock groups, got paid for playing music starting at 14 years old.

Still have several friends on FB.

I also loved the cafeterias mini pizza’s. They started as $0.75 each in grade 10 and went up to $3 each, in grade 12. I would buy four at lunch.

I loved human Biology, and statistics in Math.

Not so much. I was quiet, shy and into music and tinkering with stuff. I had a couple good friends but mostly, I just got through the day. It was like prison for me. Uninteresting, confining and in no way accommodating to introverts. After school was different, played in rock bands and was more able to be myself. If I could do it over, I would drop out ASAP, get a GED and go straight to college. It would have been a better use of my time.

Enjoyed it immensely and still friends with my high-school buds. 80s pop culture, music and movies are the best!

Most jellies know the thing I hated about high school the most was having to drag myself out of bed at 0’dark hundred. It really made my life miserable.

High school was a mixed bag. My high school was just 3 years, the 9th grade was in the Jr. High.

I had some great classes I enjoyed like biology, accounting, Algebra II, psychology, just to name a few. Some classes I hated, like history.

The social scene wasn’t great for me because I didn’t drink or get hi, and my closest friends from previous years were into all of that. In 11th and 12th grade I dated a guy who I mostly spent time with him after school, so I was even more removed from the high school social scene.

I was friends with almost everyone and luckily we didn’t have much mean girl attitude to speak of, I just wasn’t hanging out with my friends like I used to when we were younger.

I didn’t like to read either, and school likes to make you read. Lol.

I didn’t do any after school activities except working a few days a week.

I left high school mid senior year. Anything to not have to wake up so early.

I didn’t know until maybe fifteen years ago that some people love high school.

It was quite an experience, in many ways. Some of it was quite hard, in some ways. Other parts were fun and interesting. Overall, really positive, and I went to a great private school. I chafed and rebelled a lot at many aspects of the culture.

Only bad parts of highschool is waiting for the bus in freezing temperatures where I didn’t have proper winter clothes.

Also being teased because I smelled, and spit balled in grade 10 science class.

Turns out that the smell came from expired milk jugs being set aside for recycling. I was burning my self, in the shower, to get rid of the smell.

I really hated wind sprints, in gym class. I only took the one required class and never took anymore.

I loved it. Back then I was very interested in everything, soaking up knowledge, lots of friends from all income levels, and I thought everyone loved me.
But I grew up here so I knew most kids from junior high to hs. I was in many clubs, worked in the school office and was on the yearbook and newspaper.
My two besties dad’s owned a car lot so we always went to school in cool cars, it was fun, but none of us were rich or snotty or considered the ‘popular’ kids. All in all a great time.
My friends at private schools didnt have a good time and some transferred to public instead.

Rather than saying I hated high school I’ll say I simply was very mature and resented the authority those fools had over me. My grades were OK and I had a lot of friends. I’m sure I was the happiest graduate on graduation day. To this day I believe that most of the teachers I experienced were fools. I hear friends talk about how much they loved high school….I just smile. Looking back, I should have quit school after 10th grade and gone the GED/Community College for one year then transfer to university route. One of my daughters did that. She was happy and never regretted that decision.

HS was one of the best times in my life. I went to an all boys Catholic HS in New Orleans, which back then had a system of about 12 boys and girls Catholic schools (some are co-ed today). My class had a large group of achievers who were all friends, and we had similar girl friends and girlfriends from the girls’ schools. New Orleans is a family and party town, so there were lots of parties and dances—semi-formal and casual. During Mardi Gras, we’d get the week off from school and meet up with friends at the parades. Music was everywhere, and my friends and I played in a garage band my senior year, and we even played a couple of times at a known local club and snuck our friends in. I had tennis courts and a shopping mall down the street, basketball hoops in friends driveways, and computers games at other friends houses. I had a lot of freedom and drove my parents’ cars, so sometimes I just had to be back in time for my dad to go to work in the morning.

I’ve never been wistful about it, but I’ve only had one other time in my life (early 40s) that was happier.

I hated it. High school was the place that left me with trauma that I’m still recovering from. Isolation, discrimination, manipulation… Those were the kind of things I was repeatedly subjected to for 3 years. Also I didn’t do very well academically, which only worsened my insecurity. I had a lot of dark thought back then. I’m glad that I was out.