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 (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.

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Enjoy your time there whilst it lasts dude, it may seem crap now but in the time afterwards you'll miss it (The socialising that is, nobody misses home/school work).
@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!

@Hursti - what do ya mean noone misses homework! 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!

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