The "Oh My God I Start Freshman Year of High School Tomorrow!" Thread

[AlFrankenFan]

Yes, it's official, my summer end tomorrow at approximately 7:10 AM. So does whatever middle school innocence I may have left. I am going to be a high school student! :cry:

My schedule is as follows: 0 - Latin; 1 - Concert Band; 2 - Biology; 3 - Marching Band; 4 - English Acc.; 5 - Alg.II/Trig. Acc. Since I got zero period, I get to wake up at 6 AM, go to class at 7:10, and get out early at 1:25 PM. On regular days.

Unfortunately I've figured out I've already made two mistakes - asking for zero period (ask I shall receive, and I did) and joining marching band (which is turning out to be extremely time consuming, but is only a semester long). Also another potential problem is my political shirts that consist of my school wardrobe. I hope I won't get in trouble for having them!

But you'd always figure your old friends would be there to suffer through with you, right? Nope. I have one or zero classes with any of my friends, pushing me into the cold pool of having to make new friends. Which is fine, but I really would like to stay with my old friends!

Another problem - I went to a program called "Link Crew" yesterday, which was supposed to show freshmen around the school and get them comfortable in a new environment. Ha! We spent maybe a brisk 10 minutes looking around the school and the other 2 hours and 14 minutes doing mindless activities such as watching girls and boys pop balloons by hugging their partner. :eyes: So I'm not sure if I really know the school that well.

Overall I really hope everything goes well tomorrow, and I'll report back on how it was when I get home. For some reason John Mellencamp's, "Days of Farewell" keeps on playing in my head. Maybe it's reminding me I won't be able to post on DU as much anymore :cry:

Wish me luck!!!

[pagerbear]

1. Oh yeah, life goes on

...long after the thrill of livin' is gone!

(Since you brought up John Mellencamp)

[AlFrankenFan]

2. :D

Which is the funniest thing because I was listening to that song when I saw your post! :o

"The Best That I Could Do" is a great CD :D

But that's right, life goes on.

[LastKnight]

3. jeez, latin isnt even offered at my HS...

im graduated now... but i wish it was offered... dont worry about the political shirts, unless they contain profanity they cant touch you, but if you have any staunch republican teachers they may be a bit tougher on you. but not to worry.

its not a big deal, youll find your way around easier than you'd think... i was all scared i wouldnt be able to find anything and by the second day i threw away my map and schedule and everything was alright...

in a few days you can expect a post like htis from me... cept for college, uugh, thats gonna be a change... lol

enjoy it as much as you can... weather you like it or hate it, the 4 years go faster than you think. and good luck.

-LK

[AlFrankenFan]

10. good, they have no profanity on them

I know there is a major fundy at school, but he teaches history, and I don't have that until next year. I just hope I don't have him, or i'll be bringing a jacket everyday.

Where are you going to college?

[LastKnight]

18. Concordia, Moorhead MN nt

[AlFrankenFan]

34. Wow, have fun!

My goal is to go to college in Minnesota. :D

[Fenris]

4. Good luck!

Highschool blows for the most part, and little changes when you get to college.:D It's the people that suck, really. Find some cool art punks to hang around with.

[matcom]

your still not over that wedgie thing are you?

how many time do i have to tell you I'M SORRY! x(

[Fenris]

7. Bastard!

:D

[AlFrankenFan]

6. I can already tell from band camp

that the people are pretty awful. Mostly because there's a hive of Republicans...after all, it's Orange County. There should be a rule here - if you didn't buy your home at a price of $1 million dollars or more, you're not welcome here. Wish my parents had known that.

[Fenris]

9. I went to high school in a 95% Republican town in Texas

BELIEVE ME, I know what it feels like. Rich, white, and zealous.

[redqueen]

13. Plano? Highland Park?

Nevermind... whatever it was... I feel for you! :(

[Fenris]

16. Nu-uh, honey. The Woodlands.

:scared:

[redqueen]

20. That around Houston?

Never lived in that area, not familiar with it... but if it's anything like those other two... yeah... :scared:

[Fenris]

23. North side of Houston.

It's like Sugarland, only with more trees and more money.

[politicat]

21. Outsider chic.... that's the solution.

I went to HS in a community similar but different (similar in effect and attitude, but totally different in concept - a small Mormon town (with the largest anti-abortion publishing house in the nation smack dab in downtown) where everyone was related to everyone else - so much so that sometimes they had to check the bloodlines, you know? - and we were not related, not Mormon and not conservative... )

The outsider krewes are what kept me from walking in to Snowflake High School with a couple of illegal hunting rifles... The goths, the freaks, the other few non-mormons, and the Native Americans who were bussed in from the res.

High school is calculated hell, designed to teach you to conform to the system to prove that you do indeed play well with others. It sucks, but it's better than flipping burgers.

Hang in there, and best wishes. You will survive it. What looks insurmountable at 14 becomes nothing at 18 and lost to memory at 24. It seems big because you've never encountered it before....

Pcat

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

33. I think that's an unwritten rule.

[flamingyouth]

11. College is way better than high school

Let's just say I didn't attend the most intellectually stimulating high school in America; going to the university was a breath of fresh air.

[Fenris]

17. Why must you lie?

;)

[flamingyouth]

22. Hey, I got to take classes in witchcraft and Icelandic sagas!

And they didn't make me take math! Don't blame me! ;)

[Fenris]

26. Lucky wench!

[JohnKleeb]

27. this college thing sounds fun

No math. That sounds heavenly because math is a satanic plan devised by worshipers of the devil to make me suffer.
BTW this was meant for what I edited.

[flamingyouth]

28. Go to the University of Washington :)

They let me slide by taking a class in Logic to fulfill my math credit. Of course, I was a political science and journalism major, so that may have helped.

I am not good at math (understatement of the millennium).

[JohnKleeb]

30. ooh UWA

Yeah I suck at math too, well basic math I kick ass in now other math.

[dancing kali]

36. One of those alternative school kids, eh.

A friend's daughter went to one because she didn't like the public school environment - spent a year there and then asked her mother to let her return to the public school because she wasn't being challenged enough in the alternative school. I think she's now doing AP classes and is much happier. What can I say... I would have done anything to get sent to one of the alternative schools when I was in high-school. I envy you the experience. All I can say about my public high-school experience is that it made me the cold, cynical, jaded bitch I am today.

[flamingyouth]

37. No - it was the University of Washington

And seriously, when I was there, I took a great course on the History of Witchcraft in Europe and the US. And the UW has the top Scandinavian studies department in the country, so there were plenty of great opportunities to study the Icelandic eddas.

I went to a very sub-par public high school in Seattle. We were ripped off on AP classes, but I took everything I could get my hands on. I look back on my high school days and don't see them as that much different from the real world. I wish I could have had more advanced and interesting classes, though.

[flamingyouth]

5. Good luck to you

You're lucky you get to take Latin. Reading your post, I'm getting a weird flashback to my own high school experience. :)

[JohnKleeb]

25. wrong response sorry

[DrWeird]

8. My advice:

I don't know, maybe four years seems like a long time to you now. But it's not, and in four years it won't seem long.

So don't worry too much about any social bullshit. All that clique, he said she said, popularity stuff doesn't amount to a hill of beans, because in four years you'll likely never see any of those people again. So high school is just practice, because in four years you get to wipe the slate completely clean.

So have fun, dammit.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

12. Good luck and

I'm sure glad I'm not that age anymore :)

[burythehatchet]

14. to see someone well engaged at a young age is really refreshing

You have a bright future

[JohnKleeb]

15. it wont be so bad

Think about it this way, you'll be a senior before you know it. Also don't let upperclassmen know youre a senior, well they dont hit girls so I guess its all right, though I remember being nervous that I would be beat up on freshman beatup day. Have fun too, I have a lot of regrets for not being more social and stuff.

[redqueen]

19. Good luck!

I hear college is much better - so try to work hard so you can go to a good one. Wish I had!

High school really sucked for me - now, four years seems like nothing... back then it was an eternity. Although I must say my freshman year was the best... for a while, anyway.

[Book Lover]

24. That's OK - learning Latin bonds people

You'll find friends in your Latin class; it's a bonding experience. Ave, atque vale!

[GOPFighter]

29. Don't believe 'em...

High school will seem to drag on forever, unless you like most of your classes. I didn't, so my high school years seemed to never end. You seem to have it pretty well together, so maybe it will go better for you. The good news is that the freedom of college is a breath of fresh air compared to the rigidity of high school. Whatever you do, learn as much as possible. I'm constantly amazed at how often things I learned years ago suddenly come back into focus and help explain a mystery of life.

Anyway, high school sure beats an 8/5/52-week job....but the pay sucks.

Good Luck!

[MAlibdem]

31. As a recent hs grad all I can say is...

hs blows middle school out of the water both socially and academically.

and latin rules

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

32. Don't fret about high school.

Most high schools are so large than no keeps tabs on what anyone else is doing. You should be able to blend in just fine. It will go by fast.

Do you go to one of those weird high schools were school gets out earlier on Wednesdays? Is that what you mean by "most regular days"?

[AlFrankenFan]

35. We have block days and regular days (0-6)

But I mean get out early because I don't have a sixth period. The days there is two hours of 5 at the end i stay full day. I know, confusing as hell.