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Why High School Sucked1/21/2018 I recently waxed poetic about all the things I miss and treasure from my college years. So now I’m here to tell you all the reasons I will never miss the institutional hellhole of public high school. As someone who spent most of high school crying into an AP Bio book, I do not share the dramatic renderings of high school such as Hilary Duff making out with Chad Michael Murray in the rain at a football game in A Cinderella Story, but maybe you do, idk. 1. Academic CompetitivenessIf there was a dating app exclusively for high school students, it would filter your matches by ACT score because that is all high school kids care about. I would also liken the level of competitiveness with grades and class rank amongst the AP kids circle to getting into the top sorority at a southern university, but with more cargo shorts. 2. Having Like 15 Obligations Every Night After School Is OverThe best part about post-grad life is getting home from work and really having no other obligations other than making dinner, working out and occasionally doing laundry. If I want to come home after work and watch One Direction music videos until my sensible bedtime (I don’t actually do that, haha… ha ha ha…), it is my own damn prerogative to do so. But in high school, after being restrained in captivity for eight hours, THE DAY WAS ONLY JUST BEGINNING. If you have ever talked to me for more than five minutes, I have probably brought up the flagship of my high school extracurricular career: the m—f—n’ speech and debate team. Why I chose to willingly participate in the most time consuming extracurricular activity that also involves wearing a suit and waking up at 5am every Saturday is truly beyond me. (Sorry if you’re reading this, Ms. Muhlbach… love u). Editorial diversion: A gentleman in college once introduced himself at the bar because he recognized me from class. When I didn’t recognize him, I was like “are you sure?” and he was like, “yeah, you told me were on the debate team” and I was like, “Ok ya that was me.” #debatepulls But anyways, this long-winded point is basically just that free time in high school doesn’t exist, and as a result, neither does sanity. 3. Being Routinely Lied To About What College Will Be LikeThere is nothing high school educators love more than telling their students what will and will not fly when they’re in college. If you are fifteen seconds late to class, it turns into, “you know, if you were late to class in college, your professor would lock the door and you’d be out of luck and probably fail the class and then you won’t graduate or get a job and the economy and housing market will collapse as a result.” In reality, you usually sit around in college lectures for ten minutes before some professor in jeans shows up and curves your exam 30 percentage points.4. Being Tired Literally All The TimeDo you ever think that maybe high school students are brooding, feral pieces of garbage because they are so frickin’ tired??? I debunked the myth that college is a bunch of sleepless nights in my last post, and I firmly stand by that statement as someone who cried into my AP History notes at 1am with startling regularity. This boils down to the fact that in college, you have so much free time to study and do other things and you’re taking probably, at most, three classes a day. In high school, you have to deal with five or six classes on a daily basis, 65 hours of homework, 36 extracurricular activities, helping the elderly cross the street and still trying to sleep for at least forty minutes a night.  5. Begrudgingly Attending School-Sanctioned Activities Or Feeling Like A Loser If You Don’tHigh school was a time before we knew the term “FOMO,” or fear of missing out, but I cannot think of a better way to describe my personal high school experience. I forced myself to do the things that my peers were doing and deemed “fun” and then I would realize how “awful” it is to stand in the dirty bleachers during a high school football game while people around you drink warm Smirnoff vodka out of collapsed water bottle or how ridiculous it is to spend money on a dress, flowers, hair appointment, dinner, A LIMO, and other ludicrous expenses to go grind in a gym for three hours at high school dances. I vividly remember nervously sitting on the curb outside a ~cool kid’s~ house party with my friend deciding whether or not we wanted to go in but the decision was made for us when the cops pulled up. So, we went home to watch The Office and order pizza. Stay true to yourself, kids. Bonus: Please enjoy the below audition photo for the Real Housewives of New Jersey, or my prom picture, I'm not sure which.  6. Everyone Took Hella SelfiesThis was before everyone had iPhones so all of this era’s artifacts are on a digital camera or even worse, on a blurry laptop in Photobooth. All the selfies I took during this period are so blurry, that if they were ever used in a police sketch or something, people wouldn’t even know it was me. But anyways, it’s generally so cringe-worthy to think about how girls use to put on a ton of makeup and a cute top (probably with sweatpants) to sit in the corner of their bedrooms and taking selfies to upload to Facebook with like, a Paramore lyric as the caption.  Luv this pic of me :) 7. Not Being Able To Do Anything Cool Or IndependentBeing in high school is nothing more than clinging desperately to any small shreds of independence. You are under your parents’ roof and therefore have to abide by their rules. You have to go to school and listen to teachers and do homework. You can’t have nice things. Driving is probably the greatest privilege you are afforded during this time as you no longer have to deal with the social humiliation of coordinating whose parents will pick you up from the mall or the movies anymore. The first time I was allowed to take the car by myself—inevitably wearing Soffe shorts to a basement dance party— I was ONE MINUTE, honestly maybe 30 seconds, late of my curfew. My father then administered unto my friends and me what I would liken to something between a Supreme Court hearing and a workplace ethics seminar. After we got chewed out, the crazyyyy memz of soberly dancing to “Money Maker” by Ludacris had all but faded and we were humbly reminded that we were sixteen and powerless.  8. Poor Fashion DecisionsEvery morning when I wake up, I must reckon with the burden of knowing that I once earnestly wore a yellow Victoria’s Secret PINK sweatsuit and Uggs on a regular basis. This is my cross to bear and I am sure it is a trauma shared with others of my demographic as 2010s high school girls. I guess maybe we were just pioneers of the athleisure trend? Seriously, y’all—everyone looked like trash in high school. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the peak of Jersey Shore’s popularity correlated with some of the awful trends of the time, including but not limited to: the bump hairstyle—I was briefly estranged from my mother during this time because I chose to wear my hair like this, Miss Me jeans, neon v-necks layered over neon sports bras, cutting the necks out of t-shirts to wear off the shoulder, denim shorts the size of boyshort-style underwear and SO. MUCH. Victoria’s Secret. I also went through a period of inexplicably wearing a large, bedazzled cross necklace which is even more perplexing when you consider that I have been to church exactly twice in my lifetime.  9. 2010s Music Was Equally TerribleI’ve already contended that high school was a trying time for fashion choices, but it was also a disastrous time for music. Early 2010’s music is CANCELLED.
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