Went to high school in freshman year for a semester, dropped out, got my GED instead. Best thing I could have done at the time.
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Walked two miles to school, didn’t do a damn thing the whole day, played games in college Pre-cal since I had a 100% in there(I was the only one who knew how to add fractions in the 11th grade), and graduated a year early.
Of course tons of bullying, but they’re still re-doing high school while I’m making WAY more money than they ever will – and I’m 19.
I basically never learned to study throughout my 12 years of basic schooling.
For the first half everything was so easy that I didn’t think of how to study, and we were given zero schooling on how to anyway(a bit of a backwaters country side school). During the third quarter of my school years when I began to notice that some effort was required, I focused on the easy parts and slipped by well enough again without really studying(signs of warning were significant over the last year, but grades held up well enough). Then over the fourth quarter of my schooling when shit got real, I had so much emotional issues from not keeping up and the usual teenage stuff that learning to study by then was kindof a joke. (math was probably the worst since it was one of my old fav subjects, but now there was not only math during math hours; but during physics and chemistry as well.)
Today as a grown-up I can somehow study and learn “boring stuff” better than I ever could during school.
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Hey thats pretty much what i currently do in my job, and last job i was paid to google stuff, well i cant complain,
-Fallen
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The day usually started at 5:45, getting up and trying to have breakfast. I often had this weird feeling where you just couldn’t eat anything at all.
I had to get out at 6:30 latest to catch the train at 6:45. Most of the time I had to leave 5 min earlier as one of our cats has the habbit of following you around the village (it’s really calm with almost no traffic so they spend lots of time outside). I had to catch her or leave when she was inside.
At the train station there was lots of students from 2 schools. we moved together as a group which was safer especially for the younger ones as the walk between station and schools wasn’t insured or something like that.
School then began at 7:30, I had lunch break in between and the day ended between 12:45 and 15:00. For the way home they provided several buses. When we met with friends we often also took their bus and drove directly with them (wasn’t officially allowed but the bus driver was usually the cool dude).
At home, it was a mix of everything, usually doing homework first, then a few chores. The rest was freetime for watching TV and playing videogames, often with friends.
I usually went to bed at 22:00 eventhough I couldn’t find any rest until midnight.
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****off!
My day typically started by waking up anytime from 6:30 - 6:45 in the morning, taking a shower, shaving, then proceeding to drink 3 glasses of water. I typically left my house around 7:15, in order to give me 30 minutes to not only get to my school, but also to situate myself in my first period for that day. After first period, there was always a 15 minute break. During this time, I would typically get a sandwich at the school’s cafeteria. The rest of the day was fairly typical for high school classes. I had 4 classes that would alternate every other day, all of which were an hour and a half in length. This alternating between “A” and “B” days resulted in having a large amount of time to do homework for each of my classes, easing any potential stress. However, during my Freshman year, I was a part of my town’s robotics team for the First FTC league.
Pretty much everyone on the team would stay over at our coach’s house working on our robot until 5:30 PM on weekdays, with the more important members of the team staying until 9 some days. On weekends, most of the team would stay from 1 PM until 10 or 11 PM. This made it rather challenging to allocate my homework to weekends, since time was so limited. While I was able to make it through freshman year with honors, doing so was challenging when it shouldn’t have been at all. This was because my schedule wasn’t well-suited to fit all of the time that I’d committed to robotics. On weekdays, this schedule typically consisted of me getting home, spending 2.5 hours watching Youtube videos and playing TF2, then proceeding to spend 1.5 - 3.5 hours on homework. On weekends, having to go to “meetings” for my robotics team left me with too little of time to comfortably do any homework I had over the weekend, yet I somehow managed to get away with it. This resulted in me staying up to 3 or 4 AM on some Sundays. Because of this, I rarely got enough sleep, which only made things harder for me.
I loved high-school. I only ever disliked a single teacher, and the social environment was nice. And in retrospect, my schedule wasn’t that special, making me somewhat normal, I suppose.
If anyone wants to know more about the team I was on/which challenge I competed in, here are the details:
Team name: Team Axis #7187
Level of advancement: won the control award at Worlds
Challenge:
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Im enjoying seeing that a lot of you have participated in robotics teams, I competed in the BEST Robotics challenge which was farm themed this year. This was my team’s first competition and first robot and we were competing with about 10 other teams that have each had a minimum of three years experience and we got 3rd place. The next competition we did later that year was the Air, Sea, and Land Challenge where we got first place solely based on our engineer’s notebook and other documentation which we were awarded points for, for some reason.
legit every millenial ever in the US. welcome to murica, the education is utter disgusting dysfunctional inefficient and pathetic garbage.
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literallly had developed insomnia due to the amount of mundane stretched out assignments and by the second week i was vividly hallucinating voices, light traces, footsteps and arachneds. i also remember how cancerous the social atmosphere was. when my parents asked me how my day was i said "interesting."
have you ever witnessed black gunk spill out the teachers eyeballs and into their throat?..
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i guess you did what i did. saved myself so much time lol.
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man i hated it but i still wish i could do it all over again differently
it began with stress and ended with happiness. i remember waking up to thoughts of getting an off for the day or missing out on the bus or making up excuses but always ended up going there. 
then i’d count my time till the recess and after that, the time when the final bell would ring. only the days when i’d do all my work and actually prepared for the test were the only decent ones but of course, i can count those days on my fingers
Same, now I have a job in desk staring. Well, a computer is involved, but I just stare at that too.
I failed Art. Yes, ya boi failed Art. Why? Cause I wanted 3 lunches. It got to the point my teachers thought I had third lunch (I had first) and I only showed up like 4-5 times total cause my Art teacher was a dick.
I’m sure I have plenty of other stories, but school was not the best parts of my life (I hated that shit) - after is when I started having fun (college), and living life.
The only thing I miss is the sheer amount of pranks and BS I pulled, from putting chairs in the ceiling tiles during a lecture, to superglue on lunch trays, windows, classroom doors, and bathrooms- to my all time best prank of stealing several rolls of thread from home ec and wrapping them around various things, walking all the way to my car and driving away with the spool on a pencil. My ‘invisible lines’ tripped several people, mostly administration. Fantastic.
Edit:
Perhaps the best part was rigging the stalls in the boy’s bathroom
I got my PhD in Crushing Puss™
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