yea im graduating in one month also... advantages in high school:

have classes in certain days (MWF for example)

better classes to offer

no more tardies in class and less classes to take.

if you have left over money from your finacle aid, you can use the rest!

and more independent!

disadvantage from high school:

your ride is over, which means barely any parent support from now on

you might be in debt for a while until you graduate college

you will have to cram your whole schedule in one day, if you want to be a full time student, theres a certain amount of units and more units you take, more money

tuition fees to pay (god i hate them)

if your an average student, classes might be harder and stay in your class for nearly 2 hours (depends what class your taking...)

and thats all i can think of...

I'd love to relive my high school days.

So far college has been a much better experience than high school.

One thing I could not stand in high school, in difference to my college, is group-categorization that just about every teenager undergoes in high school. Back then people were more often than not labeled flat-out and grouped, gossiped that they were apart of that group, and as a result falsely represented and disrespected. Unfortunately, at that time period, I had a pretty terrible sense of clothing style. One day I would wear a polo, grouped as being a prep, and so on and so forth. The next day I would wear baggy pants, grouped as being a punk, and so on and so forth. However, now that I'm in college, people could careless how you choose to dress and represent yourself. It's the student body collectively got tried of that high school trend, so we're all on the same level. Also, perhaps in addition to that statement, I find it so much easier to converse with people. Instead of being recognized for being something you're not, people just are more mature. That is definitely a side of years back that was ready for that kind of maturity. There are a number of other reasons, but this whole fitting aspect or what have you really dug into my skin in those high school years. College has been a great experience so far.

At least they were part of a group instead of nothing at all.

That's the point, though. I would rather be looked upon as a person feelings and opinions apart what people tend to categorize me as. And personally, it was a real burden to my overall image being called an emo one day and a prep the next. This is not one of those scenarios where you can say: "Well, at least you got something out of it". Because I didn't want to be grouped as being something I'm not. That's like me grouping moderators as power-hungry individuals even though a mass number of them are not. So, if I called you, ScoobyDoo, a moderator, a power-hungry individual whose only intentions to apply as a moderator were to cause as much mayhem in your forums as possible, would that be a valid representation of what you stand for? Obviously not, or you would have been removed by now. It's the same case with high school categorization, whereas in college, or in mine at least, there is less drama and all that HS BS everyone talks about.

Sometimes being alone can get the better of ya ;)

College is very different... It's almost difficult to compare to high school. Honestly, having just finished my freshman year in college, I miss high school. Having a close group of friends and a regular schedule and things made everything more... Comfortable. In college, at least in big colleges, you'll only see people more than once if you go out of your way to, usually. I miss college already, too. College is so much more open, and you are free to do things the way you want. But it can be a very rough transition if you're not careful about it.

Having a close group of friends and a regular schedule and things made everything more... Comfortable

My point exactly.

Rereading my reply, it makes it sound like I pretty much hate college. That's not true. I miss high school, but I miss college already more. College kicks the tar out of high school, because of the maturity and lack of drama that Staryu003 spoke of. You CAN just strike up a conversation with anyone, and not have to worry so much about the things they've already assumed about you. Everyone IS even. It's much nicer like that, you know?

High school is more comfortable... And college is more level and open. If you aren't socially outgoing (like I wasn't at first), then the transition from comfortable to open is very stressful and lonely. That's all I meant. It's definitely a better experience than high school, once you've overcome the initial lack of comfort. *thumbs up*

What Narrwald means to say is that life, and college, is horrible.

Only at first. 8P

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