Okay, so my school starts back next week.=( I hate it with a passion, and it seems like summer really flew by this year. Since most of us seem to be starting back to school soon, I decided to make a thread dedicated to complaining about (or praising, if you wish) the whole education experience. You can also post stuff about college, tech school, grad school, or your Wednesday night sculpting class if you want.

So basically, whine about your homework, put off doing your homework, talk about teachers (good and bad), and about how you never have time to do anything anymore.

May I rub it in that I’m finished now?

Sure. I’m sure in a few years I’ll want out too.

Honestly, I wouldn’t mind that much if I had to go back for another year, since I’m supposed to get a job now, and I could defer paying off my mountain of loans for another year, and I could take more English classes, since I didn’t start until my last year. It’d just be embarrassing as hell to tell people I needed 6 years to graduate. Admitting it took 5.25 is already embarrassing as it is.

Now all I need to do is move closer, and my life will be complete.

I heavily recommend this. It makes things far more bearable when you do get stuck with that inevitable gap between a 10am class and a 2pm class.

I think I go back to college the Monday after the next one. Not too nervous about it to be honest, as most of my classes (with the exception of Calculus) won’t be too hard.

I’m going to die.

:D

Read where you first brought up college. I believe plenty of my sympathy was dished out, thank you. Its just I felt the same way, but it just washes over you and you get used to it.

I probably should have mentioned that earlier.

I wish I was going to college. High school is such bullshit.

I wish I was in the sort of college where you live in a building with tons of people your own age. That would be so fun. But instead I’m still at home alone not doing much. Lame…

Yeah me too.

Taking AP Calculus, AP Chem (oh yes, that’s going to be very fun), World History, Honors Humanities, and choir.

On a closer note, my trig final’s tomorrow and I’m going to die.

IMO getting a single is the way to go if you can swing it, but most of them at my school were all suites.

Haha, you crazy Americans and your sharing-a-room dealio.

I’ve only ever encountered them at the beginning of semester, when there’s been a hiccough and they’re trying to get people a room.

How well do you know Phantom of the Opera?
It has a number of excellent songs.

Maybe you could be Meg Giry?

Just stopping by to whine that now, even though I’m back, I have to cram all my summer projects into a week of intense writing. DO NOT WANT!

Ick, school starts on the 27th and I’ve already started to complain… Oh well! Teachers suck, a lot of my good friends have moved away… Meh, I’m not looking forward to school.

Sebben Crudele

I’ve sung that song! Lovely.

Oh yeah, that too.

I wish I was going to college. High school is such bullshit.

Yes it is. But it’s my last year, so yay! That’s about the only good thing about going back: It’s the last time I have to go back, until college that is, but that’s different.

Previously I had been highly anti-social (I HATED high school….)

That’s how I am. I have, however, stopped using the word antisocial because I found out it’s similar to being psychotic. But my classmates are very annoying and immature. Is college much better?

My college has three thousand less people than my high school did. I like the general population of my college much better than the general population of my high school.

^^Well, okay then. Hopefully the idiots will go somewhere else or skip college altogether.

...sitting next to you and copying off your notes and chewing gum loudly in your ear when you’re trying to pay attention.

Our classes are 20 or less, so trying that would get you yelled at.

I’m a senior that can’t afford to catch senioritis. It sucks much.

Lucky…

I’m a senior that can’t afford to catch senioritis

Yeah, that really sucks. I had senioritis until I became a senior… er, the second year I was a senior, I mean. In any case, the people who actually plan efficiently and perform well enough to slack as a senior are a bunch of jerks, and we can all agree on that.

Sansa, if it makes you feel any better, as a high school senior I had a crapload of work to do.

Very true. And my high school was intense, so I was well prepared.

Whoa, I arrived super late.

Ok, I’ll make this fast.

1. I didn’t die.
2. Sorry about your sight-reading troubles, Spanny. (I suck at it too. XP)

There are a few very obnoxious people that just so happen to be in my smaller classes.

There’s this really irritating, rude, loud, kid who swears in my maths class.

“educated idiots”

That is totally my AP Calc class, other than maybe ten or twelve people.

I’m in the wrong math class this year because last year, I should’ve been a level ahead. Now, I’m stuck in a class that I basically know but haven’t mastered and I’m going to be mathematically crippled from last year onward because I’m basically a year behind.

I know exactly how you feel. No, I mean it, that happened to me. Not to pour salt on the wounds, but it seriously, seriously sucks. Try to ace out of it as soon as you can.

I have an after-school club every day! And two AP classes this semester! And a language! And a play! And HOMEWORK! And college visitations! And a relationship!

WHAT HAVE I DONE?

I know exactly how you feel. No, I mean it, that happened to me. Not to pour salt on the wounds, but it seriously, seriously sucks. Try to ace out of it as soon as you can.

I was told that my moving up was “never gonna happen.”

So I’m trapped in this class for a year. I would have cried when I found out, but I don’t ever cry.

It’s raining, sansafro.

I was told that my moving up was “never gonna happen.”

That’s… I’m sorry, but that’s effing ridiculous. I had to pull several strings, call my parents (AKA The Calvary) in, and I’m still behind the “smart” tier of students, but I still aced out of it. That it’s not even a possibility… I’m sorry, this is the time for nerds to break out the big guns.

It’s raining, sansafro.

♫I’m not crying/It’s just been raining on my face.♫

“If we’d known you were this smart…” Seriously. That’s as close to a real quote as I can get.

Had I gone to normal public school, I would have been in that class. Instead, I went to private school, and so after taking a ridiculously easy test I was stuck in normal level. But had they known… headdesk

The private school was out-of-district, so I had to test in. Funnily enough, they gave us out-of-districters a test I remembered from middle school.

Ah, well, at least I didn’t have to test into English.

I have three weeks to complete 6000 words in 4 different subjects, which includes a 2500 word analysis of The Satanic Verses within a particular theoretical framework.

I’m taking two AP classes with difficult teachers (I mean… they aren’t difficult people, but their classes are very, very challenging) as well as a dual enrollment college course… so much homework! whiiiiine

I’m the sort of person who never has homework because I get it all done while the teacher is explaining something basic to the other numbskulls, but this year unfortunately I’m taking enough advanced classes (with nobody from lower grades in them) that I actually have to pay attention to keep up… it sucks. I want to go back to the easy classes where I could write half a novel in a couple of weeks due to abject boredom.

There’s a guy in it who asked me out and hasn’t spoken to me since I said no.

Probably embarrassed?

I’m taking two AP classes with difficult teachers (I mean… they aren’t difficult people, but their classes are very, very challenging)

Same. What grade are you in, Swenson?

I’m taking two AP classes with difficult teachers (I mean… they aren’t difficult people, but their classes are very, very challenging)

Same here. I’m going to take a wild an educated guess and say Swenson is a junior.

Here’s a question for you: What exactly can embarrass a guy after he’s already asked you out knowing that you’re a minor and he’s six years older? Seemingly he has little shame.

What’s he doing in your dance class? Also, while in the real world that’s vaguely creepy, sometimes being six years older can be sexy.

I only now found this thread and boy, is it at an opportune time, seeing as it is about to start in a few weeks (my uni is funny like that:P), but I am currently studying hard for I flunked some finals I have to make up for:( But let me just say:

I HATE it. H.A.T.E. Despise with the burning passion of millions of billions exploding supernovas, the kind of loathing that is so strong it actually pollutes the moods of people around you. I would set it on fire if I were not such a spineless coward. I hate every second, every single breath I take inside that gods – forsaken building. Nobody will ever give me that time back.

It’s a community college.

You’ll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

I like school because my life is awesome.

The only thing I have to wank about is that the suppliers have yet to deliver us our psychology textbooks and it is ridiculous trying to concentrate without one in that class.

You’ll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

You’ve never said a truer word.

I hate you. Mine is wonderful, but expensive. Really academically rigorous though- I had over one hundred pages of reading in four different books for one class for this weekend. And it’s thick, dull stuff. Sigh And my dorm is cold!

I don’t actually get all that much homework, so I wouldn’t mind at all if I didn’t have bloody uni apps to do on top of trying to keep good grades.

Aaargh.

Elanor…

...I did mention the You. Will. Be. Fine. thing before, right?

But…but…the Asian-ness.

Also if I don’t stress I’ll stop working. Not good. Glargh.

Aaaand dammit hassle of applying to a different system = having to actually talk to Extremely Intimidating Teacher.

Asians by law must overachieve. Asians who do not overachieve are branded and made outcasts of society.

Don’t you watch Discovery?

Me, I love my school. It took a lot of fighting, test-taking, very long bus rides and angry guidance counselors, but I got into a magnet program and escaped the horrors of American education.

But the writing/English/etc teacher is a condescending, unwarrantedly self-important idiot who could probably take tips from most of the people here. She is under the impression that all of her students are idiot five year olds who only got into the program by applying for the easiest courses. Her favorite activity is wasting out time by having us annotate paragraphs so obvious in their intent that annotation would be little more than banal redundancy (see what I did thar?). If somebody makes a mistake that was a product of her own inadequacy (and I've got some concrete examples. *waves examples around daring anybody to enquire about them*), she acts as if she's absolutely not at fault and that the student is just a moron. She does it so blatantly she might as well have outright said it.

What are you studying for?

Oh, ha. So you’re just taking some random college courses?