does life really get better after high school?

**lagunagirl** · 05-13-2008 11:47 PM

first adults tell us that it does get better after high school, then they turn around and tell us to enjoy school because it's the best time of our life.

EDIT: gah I dont know how to edit the polls. typo on really

**CoLd BlooDed** · 05-13-2008 11:51 PM

Pretty sure life is what you make it after high school. Actually, pretty sure life is what you make it period.

**tkdyo** · 05-13-2008 11:54 PM

Life is what you make it...but I love life outside of hs. College is so much better with all the freedom and only 4 classes a semester

**NightLife** · 05-14-2008 01:25 AM

I thought college was the best time, not high school...

**Xaqaria** · 05-14-2008 02:19 AM

The only people who think high school was the best time of their lives are those people who dicked off all through highschool; partying drinking and having sex, and didn't learn anything. The rest of their lives are worse in comparison because they have spent the following years making up for those early mistakes.

In conclusion, the rest of your life has the potential to be leaps and bounds better than high school, as long as you don't have too much fun before you get out.

edit; same goes for college.

**Dreamworld** · 05-14-2008 02:25 AM

Some good results.. Life is pretty good in highschool. At least in the summer.

**LucidFlanders** · 05-14-2008 02:26 AM

No, life sucks.

**ninja9578** · 05-14-2008 02:51 AM

Yes, college is better than high school

**NightLife** · 05-14-2008 03:19 AM

Originally Posted by LucidFlanders

No, life sucks.

It has some good moments and some good people... Music and lucid dreaming keep me going...

**skunk** · 05-14-2008 03:21 AM

it depends on how you look at it really. . . i was talking about this with a friend, and high school was awesome, just being in class dicking around and not really having anything to worry about. you had homework but diddn't really need to do it and all dya after class was dedicated to hanging out with friends.
however once you get to college you have a LOT more time to hang out with friends, but responsibilities start to come because you're older... you need to get a job so you can get money... school is more serious... stuff like that.

just think about your life as ALWAYS being awesome.

**Replicon** · 05-14-2008 03:24 AM

High school was a waste of time, and it wasn't any fun. People who say high school was the best time of their lives just never made anything of themselves after... or something. I feel sorry for them, because they're basically saying the remaining 60 years are all downhill.

My view is that expressed in the movie, Pump Up the Volume (all high schoolers should watch that, btw): High school is the pits, and getting through it is what it's all about. Then, things basically get better.

**CoLd BlooDed** · 05-14-2008 03:31 AM

Originally Posted by Replicon

High school was a waste of time, and it wasn't any fun. People who say high school was the best time of their lives just never made anything of themselves after... or something. I feel sorry for them, because they're basically saying the remaining 60 years are all downhill.

Wow, what a major generalization. Sounds more to me like you're just bitter about your lack of optimism of the high school atmosphere.

**Spartiate** · 05-14-2008 06:30 AM

General rule of life is that things will get better but not before they get much much worse.

**Bearsy** · 05-14-2008 06:47 AM

I agree, Spart... that's why I voted no.

Life right after high school sucks, but once you settle into the swing of things, college pwns HS.

I can't answer after that, cause I'm still in college.

One thing about college, IDK if this goes for everyone, but I have less friends than HS, but they're much more close, loyal and fun to hang with so I like that better... it seems that HS friends were really superficial(not all, by any means, but many) friends, and the ones that stuck around are awesome.

**skunk** · 05-14-2008 06:52 AM

Originally Posted by Elis D.

I agree, Spart... that's why I voted no.

Life right after high school sucks, but once you settle into the swing of things, college pwns HS.

I can't answer after that, cause I'm still in college.

One thing about college, IDK if this goes for everyone, but I have less friends than HS, but they're much more close, loyal and fun to hang with so I like that better... it seems that HS friends were really superficial(not all, by any means, but many) friends, and the ones that stuck around are awesome.

word.. your college friends are the ones you keep for life usually. i've definitely drifted apart from my friends that went away, but i'm happy with the way things are

**MrBeelzy** · 05-14-2008 07:47 AM

My outlook on life has never changed, it's been a blast all the way through. High school was a lot of fun, but it's not like after I graduated everything changed. People never change (individuals have the capacity, but people in general never do), and you're going to face the same bullshit, and meet the same type of cool people in more or less the same frequency throughout life.

You gain some freedoms, but also responsibilities, but it's all the same. As it's been said, life is what you make it, it doesn't matter what 'stage' you are in.

**zekobu** · 05-14-2008 07:57 AM

wow i did that badly.

**AlexLou** · 05-14-2008 08:04 AM

Drop out now.

Get your GED and go to community college then whatever college you really want to go to. That's what I wish I did. High school is a waste of time and the diploma is worthless. My friend who dropped out got his baccalaureate at a younger age than I did, and I only spent the usual four years in college.

**Replicon** · 05-15-2008 05:08 AM

Originally Posted by CoLd BlooDed

Wow, what a major generalization. Sounds more to me like you're just bitter about your lack of optimism of the high school atmosphere.

It's true that it's a generalization. I'm not bitter at all, just didn't really have a fun time. I've met a few great friends and all, but to think that that's as good as it gets is kind of depressing. And hey, I think every post-high school chapter of my life so far has been better than high school, so I ain't lyin'.

**Dannon Oneironaut** · 05-19-2008 09:00 AM

Originally Posted by AlexLou

Drop out now.

Get your GED and go to community college then whatever college you really want to go to. That's what I wish I did. High school is a waste of time and the diploma is worthless. My friend who dropped out got his baccalaureate at a younger age than I did, and I only spent the usual four years in college.

I agree with this. I dropped out of high school and went searching for adventure. I haven't looked back and my life has been great. I have had ups and downs. When you are twenty-seven you have to go through your Saturn Return and that lasts till you are around Thirty. It is like a secind puberty. That is why so many rock stars have died at that age.
At the risk of sounding like an 'age-ist' high school is just the beginning. You are still kids. Not children, but kids. Being in your twenties is a lot of fun if you say no to drama. There is a lot of growing, learning, finding out who you are, partying. Saturn return is hard because before you know it you are 30 and maybe you have some children and you are in between again, like puberty. You don't relate with the twenty-somethings anymore and you don't want to grow up into being thirty-something. But then in your thirties you don't have to go through all the soul-searching and figuring yourself out that you had to do in your teens and twenties.
Just take good care of your health, never say no to love, and travel and meet people and your life will be better and better. really, high school SUCKS !

**Kael Seoras** · 05-20-2008 04:58 AM

Well one would hope so, it's a long life after high school. High school is like the end of life's morning, if the rest of the day isn't better than the morning, that's a pretty crappy day.

More freedom after high school for sure

**AmazeO XD** · 05-21-2008 12:18 AM

Yes, it relaly does get better.

**lagunagirl** · 05-21-2008 03:15 AM

Originally Posted by AmazeO XD

Yes, it relaly does get better.

gah I know about the typo! I dont know how to edit polls

**one3rd** · 05-21-2008 03:47 AM

The way I see it, anyone who tells you high school is the best time of your life probably works for Jostens and sells class rings for a living.
The time after high school is your chance to really make something of yourself, have some adventure, really challenge yourself beyond what you though you were capable of. Go to college, get a job, join the military, seek out something new...or do all four in any order you want. By age 18, you've got about seven decades (give or take) to do whatever you want. Don't let four years of drudgery and puberty be the highlight of your life.