It's funny, I don't miss school at all. Not even the social side. I had much more fun in the immediate years after school finished.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hursticon
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It's funny, I don't miss school at all. Not even the social side. I had much more fun in the immediate years after school finished.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hursticon
Yeah, I had the best time at TAFE.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trent
My 20th anniversary of finishing high school is this year... and I still don't miss it or the kids I went to school with.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hursticon
Someone actually asked me the other week 'Are you planning on going to the reunion?', to which I replied 'I had no desire to hang with anyone then, why would I want to meet up with them now?'
School reunions are just a big wank-fest comparing jobs, partners, and cars. I'm prefectly content with what I have now.
1AZRAEL1 & I actually have our 10th anniversary this year, to which I'd be lying if I didn't feel very similar to yourself dude. :oQuote:
Originally Posted by 5FDP
My original post was more so a reflection on the feeling I used to have after about 5 years post Year 12 (A vein attempt to try & cheer Bidoof up :o); 5 years on from that though I really could not be arsed to attend, because I get judged enough as it is without people I've not seen in years reminding me how I've wasted a decade (The handful of people I still do see do that now :()...
Ignore my earlier post Bidoof, just take each day as it comes. ;)
I'm into my 5th year out of year 12, couldn't give a rats arse about the people i went to highschool with, however i'm still friends with some of my closest mates from primary school and we didn't even go to the same highschool.
I'm really crushed that so many people left their school with a negative or neutral feeling. It also makes me feel lucky about where I went to school. I enjoyed my secondary years so much that in the end I decided to become a teacher, and moreso I now teach at the same school I went to as a student.
I do totally get it about reunions though. Next year will be 20 years since I finished (:eek:Pauses to realise that time has caught up with me and is really in charge!) but at our 10 year reunion, while it was good to see some of my old friends, mostly people fell into their old social cliques so extending past your old immediate circle of friends was just as difficult 10 years on as it was back in the day.
@Bidoofdude - school days really are what you make of them. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to that. You get out of school what you put into it. Too many cliches!! I've found the key to surviving school really does come down to developing a positive attitude towards whatever happens to you. It's so easy to hate things but it's often hard to see the bright side. While you're at school you won't have to deal with mortgage/rent, bills and other resposibilities. Relative freedom without responsibility is fantastic - enjoy it!Quote:
Originally Posted by Hursticon
@Hursti - what do ya mean noone misses homework!:eek: if I find myself with some spare time, there is nothing better than grabbing a maths text and doing some problems. And then there's Saturday night Calculus parties... The fun never stops!
I know, seek help :)
I have been out of 21yrs as I left in yr 11 and I don't miss it at all. Have had the invites to the reunions, but hey why would I go as stated in another post it is just to see who is better off. Who cares as long as you are happy.:D But i still occasionally run into people from school, but that is not really a part of my life anymore.So i tend to say hi and how's things and then see you later. Plus I see school as a practice run for later on in life as it gives us the skills to engage in social circles that we create for ourselves.:cool:
I guess I'm different to most here. I actually enjoyed school and have great friendships with people I grew up with. Happiest times of my life as a kid when I had no cares and no responsibilities. Some friendships are made for life. I'm godfather to some of my friends' kids. :)
Reunions for me are just times to catch up and see how they're all doing. I don't care about those comparing what others have in life. For those who knew me back then, I'm mostly still the same person. It's fun seeing the changes in everyone and catching up.
I was actually in charge of a few reunions. Guys are easier to invite than girls. The girls are afraid to show up because of how they look now or whatever excuses. Guys don't care so much how they have physically changed. :)
High school/primary friendships are stronger than those in Uni for me. That's because we only interacted in class mostly for uni. For those who knew me when we were younger, the interactions (playtime/funtimes :D) include before and after school, weekends and vacations almost all the time so some of them are like my brothers/family to me. I miss those guys cause we are all geographically apart.
I agree with this. School sucked for me. The late teens/early twenties were the best. Don't get me wrong I love my wife and kids but there are days when I'm at home and think "If you guys weren't around I could be playing Playstation all day".Quote:
Originally Posted by Trent
I don't miss school. But I really miss uni. I keep in touch with a small handful of people I knew from school, but I have way more university friends than school friends. A lot of the guys at my school were really immature. But I loved university. I loved the academic culture and more adult social interactions. I found uni people to be WAY more open minded and accepting than high schoolers! There was no pressure to be "cool" and conform with social norms, if anything, I felt that personal individualism was much more greatly encouraged.
When Transformers first came out, even as a primary school kid in the 1980s, I had other kids who would look at me playing with my TFs at school and go, "You play with Transformers? That's for babies!" Sadly I went to school with kids who were pretending to be teenagers, then later at high school with teens pretending to be adults -- and they were quick to tease you for not conforming. It wasn't until I was in Year 9 that the teasing stopped and it become more acceptable to be a TF fan. But when I was at university, I was made to feel so comfortable with being myself -- that was when I started carrying Transformers toys around and playing with them in public. I used to bring a different TF toy to campus every day, and people (students & staff :D) would marvel at them and sometimes ask to try transforming them. :D
I found that being a nerd at my school was shunned upon, and even after Year 9 while it was more acceptable, it wasn't openly embraced and encouraged like at university. I remember when Douglas Adams (author of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) passed away, 2 weeks later on May 11 there would be Towel Day where everyone was asked to carry a towel. So I came to uni with a towel, walked into my tut, and all these girls sitting there gave me a weird look as to why I had a towel on my shoulder. I told them it was Towel Day and explained it -- the girls and the tutor thought I was being a bit funny/eccentric... then a few seconds later another student walks in with a towel on his shoulder -- we immediately high fived each other and had a good laugh. :D Later that evening I met up with a PhD student friend of mine, who also had a towel on him. :)
I really miss uni... some people shake their heads at "professional students," but I can totally understand why some people never want to leave university! If I won Lotto, I'd seriously contemplate becoming a professional student. :D Part of me still regrets not staying a bit longer and doing my Honours Thesis... but I left after completing my Graduate Diploma to start working. My family felt that I'd been in university for 'long enough'. :p