SCHOOL IS WAR!

[self_savior]

I'm kinda bored so I'll write in here today. School is closed today! I was sooo excited! But it rained/snowed/hailed out a little bit, it was a mess! So, no kids are out today, everyone is inside (like me!) I was telling some of my friends to get livejournals too, so hopefully I will see them on here soon. It seems like you are NEVER good

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[cailleachbheurr]

Considering how many other things get equated to war, this very perceptive list equating war to school shouldn't surprise anyone. But! Perhaps life is war, or at least conflict, in the sense of the classic literary devices of man vs man, man vs society, man vs nature...High school is still stamped into my memory as hell, but thankfully, people usually cannot recall information unless they are in the same emotional state in which it was encoded. That's the quasi-good news. Put another way; if you manage to make it to college, everything changes, and you'll likely stash all the dark memories in a corner while you whoop it up with people of your own intellectual, emotional and spritual calibur. Ah, college. *sigh* If they let me stay there forever, i would. lol. A beautiful bubble surrounds every campus, like a protective film. Each one is an island unto itself, a little like "survivor" or something, except the dumbasses dont get voted off, they just flunk. (grin)
happy, happy!
pick a major you're good at; you can always change later. :D

[self_savior]

i really hope high school isnt going to be sooo bad. what did you like more...middle school or high school? Middle school would be more tolerable to me if it werent for the bullies, the girls who only like bullies, and everyone being so concerned and placing soooo much pressure on being cool or fitting in.
-Ronnie

[cailleachbheurr]

Honestly, high school, rough as it was, kicked the crap out of middle school. But then, i hailed from an era when girls putting out (in any way shape or form) in middle school was an ACTUAL scandal. I hope/fear that middle school is still the rougher of the two. If only because of the fact that everybody is transitioning from child to young adult, and the hormones are driving everyone nuts. Truly, insanely, nazi-esque-ly nuts.

I hope desperately that your high school experience is in the ballpark to the one i knew; mainly, your age-old enemies are suddenly the BOTTOM of a bully food chain, and disappear into obscurity, with their tails between their legs. And really, to bully a 9th grader was considered so grotesquely beneath all upper-classmen, that anyone who did so was signing their own uncoolness warrant. Freshmen (then) had this sort of pet-like, dewy innocence, in the upper classmen's eyes; which made them cute and almost collectable, whereas anyone younger in middle school might as well have had "BAIT" written on their forehead.

Im rambling, im sorry. I imagine in some ways, all schools are alike, in that clique-ishness and pressure to succeed. And in some sense, all middle schools are going to suck worse in light of their cramped, light-speed acceleration in a peapod feeling. But in high school, there's typically so much variation, so many different niches and clubs and specialties and ways to either distinguish yourself or disappear...you'll find like minds, without even trying. Middle school was a piranha tank. High school was like a clothes dryer, where pretty much everybody was tossed together and fell away again over and over, until you found people who you could really STICK with. It is (psychologically) easier, in my humble opinion. By a mile.

PS-if there's anything you'd like to change about yourself, the summer in between middle school and high school is the most perfect time in your entire life to do that. Everyone else will be doing the same thing. Out with the old, in with the new :}