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Congratulations all you graduates! I don't know how many of you there are, but applause is in order. It's really tough to make it through high school when you're stuck with high amounts of boredom, senioritis, and "My God.. this is pointless". Good luck wherever you decide to go to college (if you go).

College > High school

What was your favorite thing about high school? The most pointless?

Best part of high school were the friendships and band. The most pointless was pretty much everything else. Classes that you have to attend even though you're doing the same thing day in and out. ESPECIALLY Government.

Thanks, Moony! I graduated back on the 2nd. It was great, but very hot.

I'm actually going to miss high school. I agree with you when you say that the friendships were the best part. There are so many people I'm going to miss next year. A bunch of us would always just chill during our free periods (which were numerous in our very lackadaisical senior year schedules). Our school had a senior lounge, so going in there to watch a movie or just sit around lazily was so great. Another great location was in the band president's office. He brought in a TV and Nintendo 64. We'd always come down and play some Mario Kart. We even had some teachers join us on occasion.

Most of my classes this year were good as well. Here's the breakdown of my classes:

• AP Biology was easy, and most of my close friends were in it.
  
• Web Design was ridiculously easy.
  
• Calculus wasn't bad at all. I like the subject.
  
• AP English was such a chill class. We'd get off the subject easily, and my teacher was really smart.
  
• Italian 4H consisted of a teacher with no control over our class. I hated the class, but seeing everyone out of control was hilarious.
  
• Psychology was interesting and chill.
  
• My religion courses were pointless, but ridiculously easy.

This year was really cool, and I'm looking forward to college. The only thing about college that worries me is starting my social life over again. It's going to be an adjustment, as I will be in a different state and surrounded by all new people. I think I can handle it though.

Oddly enough, I've run into no fewer than four people I went to high school with this week, none of whom I had spoken to since 2003, and one of whom I should have asked out but didn't because I'm me (as an aside to the world at large, if anybody ever wants to get involved with ol' Pufer, ######ing ask me, I'm apperantly incapable of forming an acceptable segue into that conversation under any circumstances). All of them are graduating from college and are either hopelessly looking at the job market for liberal arts majors or are preparing for grad school. Without exception, they all begin to look bemused when I say that I have another year left to go, but then they remember who they're talking to and ask me what my angle is (everybody seems to be relatively impressed with my triple major thus far).

In any event, I wouldn't worry about your social life at college. At high school you generally have a group of friends selected from a small pool of, at most, a couple thousand, but once you get to college you tumble into the pool that consists, roughly, of all people between 18 and 35 within a 100 mile radius. You not only can wind up with more friends, but more diverse friends. In my primary social group, we have folks who range from 19 to around 32, who either are majoring in or have degrees in just about every subject out there, and are at just about every level of life. We're roughly brought together by association with the government, UNM, or the mountaineering community, but that doesn't describe everybody. However, four branches of the military (Air Force, Marines, Army, National Guard), three national defense contractors (Lockheed, Northrop, Boeing), and two National Lab systems (Sandia, AFRL) are represented; we have undergrads, graduates, grad students, PhD candidates, and professors from UNM; and we also have folks at all levels of rock climbing ability (I have none, in case anyone was curious, but fit in the other two categories nicely). This bunch is certainly a lot better than any group I belonged to in high school because we don't associate primarily because of proximity (your friends in HS are you're friends because they're the best guys you happen to have in your English class, not necessarily because they're the best guys out there), but rather because of shared backgrounds/interests/outlooks. I will caution everyone against insulating yourself into a set group. Simply because you all share a dorm building doesn't mean that you should draw all your friends from there, you're not advancing past the HS mentality. Get the hell out and start meeting people!

-Pufer

Congrats to all!

Get ready for the real world! BILLS!


That is right! No longer can you come home after school and play video games! Time to get a job...Then come home and play video games!

Favorite thing about highschool was laughing and making people laugh. The pointless part was all the drama that I watched all my friends go through, seriously... Teens are dumb in highschool, they let stuff get to them too easily.

I'm set to graduate from my junior college. All I have left is a basic computer course. I won't be able to test out of it, because I lack the skill with the various office programs Microsoft uses. Oh, well... distance learning works wonders.

My "senior year" wasn't exactly a senior year. I had taken junior English in night school during my sophomore year, and filled my schedule in my "senior" year.

Thanks Moony and Matt,
Graduated back on the 22 of May, Plan to attend University of Southern Mississippi in the fall.

My favorite thing about High School was seeing friends every day. The most pointless thing was my engilsh and history classes. Aside from english and history all my classes were: zoolgy, physics, and marine biology were all great.

This post has been edited by Manta: 10 June 2007 - 01:40 PM

My brother graduated from high school, and my sister graduated from college.

And now I'm a sophomore. So I can be an arrogant prick now, right?

No. That's the Freshman job.

Wait.. Sophomores too.

And Juniors.. and Seniors.

thanks eva. it's going to be tough, though, leaving high school-- no more 80% free ride from the parents-- they're covering school, but now i gotta get a job and take care of myself.... :/

I haven't graduated, but have recently been feeling like I regret not going to University. I think I'm a little late doing anything about it though, would take a year to get in, three years for the course, be 26 by the time I leave...

Lektor, on Jun 13 2007, 01:42 PM, said:

It'd be equivelent, although not as expensive, as a friend of mine who took about 8 years to get the whole thing finished.

I'll be 26 by the time I get out of law school.

-Pufer

It really isn't that bad. You'll have a good job waiting for you and probably be ready to get married. Sounds like a good plan to me.

I guess the other problem is that I don't like doing work!

Part of me thinks I'd love Uni, another disagrees. Plus I prefer earning money, truth be told...

TMBassassin, on Jun 13 2007, 09:17 AM, said:

It sounds like it sucks, but it's awesome. You lose a certain level of stability, but the independence you gain is pretty delicious.
Seriously though, congratulations to all you graduates Im proud of you .

This post has been edited by 3vil L337: 14 June 2007 - 10:24 AM

Lektor, on Jun 14 2007, 07:12 AM, said:

Then the solution is obvious, you get someone to pay you to go to school…

Good plan, how much you going to give me?

I get paid $10,000 for four years. Pretty stupendous no?

Nice. Who's giving you that?

I'm going to suppose the state of Nevada with all of its gambling money. I know that most of my education (to the tune of around $16,000 at the already heavily subsidized UNM) is being paid for by New Mexico state lottery proceeds.

-Pufer

Right you are Pufer! We all love Governor Guinn. (Former Gov. Guinn)

i still have 4+ years of college if i intend on continuing school here in china (since i dropped out basically right after i got here).
hopefully i'll get into Beijing Film Academy next year. if not, i'll probably go home and major in english, got a lot of running start/ap on that in highschool, so i'll probably be able to graduate in two and a half years if i go home.