RANTS

Pretty Much How High School Works.

I feel like not a lot of people who have moved on from high school really remember how bad it actually was, and maybe it got even worse. I say worse because of drugs, people being very open about their sex lives, and learning bull crap from the crack of dawn to about 3 or 4 p.m.

Basically you go to school for 8 or more hours a day, and of course you are expected to pay attention to every single small detail for those 8 hours. You learn things like how to find the missing leg of a 45-45-90 triangle, and how to properly stay quiet in study hall for 54 minutes or you all get yelled at. To top everything off you don't really learn how to do anything for the fundamentals of living, and the people that you're surrounded by are generally the worst.

You don't learn how to balance a checkbook, apply for a job, check your car's oil or tires, but thank god I know that if a girl wheres something too short that she is such a terrible and disgusting human being. I am so glad that as a junior in Illinois my high school is no longer giving the ACT because of state testing and I have to take time out of my life to take a test that determines my possible college acceptance.

Now about the people. High schoolers are stupid. Sure there are smart ones, but generally the smart ones are in one of three groups. One they are die hard bible lovers, I have nothing against them of course I just don't have the same obligations as them I guess; then there are the quiet genius type people who everyone is obviously envious of, and the last group is the group that is probably the worst in my point of view... its those people who are popular, and always get the person they want, most of the time their parents have money, and they can go to parties then cheat off some poor sucker the next day for homework or a test.

God, high school is full of just bad people as whole. I almost bet that 95% of my current school are not virgins. Poor freshmen girls get picked off by stupid and ruthless high school guys because the guys do not care and the girls are too naive to listen. Some girls get the deed done and go freaking nuts and sleep with anything and everything. Mostly this happens at parties, and to this day i still haven't been to one or been invited to one. From what I know about parties I do not feel any need to go to them either. Girl get drunk and the guys get even friendlier, or the girls and guys all get high off of weed because thats whats just "sooooo cool" to do.

People always warn you about people asking you to do drugs. I never took them seriously until now. I have lost so many good friends to weed or sex. Some of those friends are so different now. It's honestly like they have just given up on life and school all together. It terrible to see how they used to be and how they are now. Maybe I am foolish to think about them still. To almost pity them, and feel sorry for them. Maybe I need to let them all go and do their own thing, but in my mind I just can't ever get over how behind doing drugs has made them in life and in school. Some of them won't graduate on time, or at all. These people used to be my friends and honestly it hurts to see them like this.

For me high school right now is just about surviving. I have no real friends right now because of everything I just said. I haven't had real friends since freshmen year. There are times when I feel like I'm losing my mind and I feel like I can't make it, but I will. I graduate early next December, and it feels like it's taking ages to get here.