reasons to hate high school.

- the teachers hated you, even the ones you got along with, and even now they probably can't care less about all those free periods you spent making jokes and having intellectual conversations. and teenagers weren't the only ones judging each other, because those teachers judged you too and that's almost more frustrating than being judged by your peers in the first place.

- everyone was part of a clique but you just floated around to so many groups that you never actually belonged even though it seemed like you did at the time, and now you only really truly like 3 or 4 of them and everyone else just bugs that crap out of you, but now that high school's over, it's not easy finding such close friends anymore.

- your best friend left you behind so you had to hang with druggies who asked your advice but never took it, people who tried too hard to look cool, and drama queens/kings who never shut up, all so she could get drunk and smoke and party with people who weren't nice to you and were shallow and used each other to look good and get smashed. but that's okay because you all know how that turned out, and high school is just an experiment anyway so obviously this just tested your friendship and you know better by now, sort of.

- the love triangle that almost ruined the aforementioned friendship for a boy who is just too different than either of you, and why did you waste all that time fighting over someone it could never have worked out with anyway, and who is just way too conservative, infuriating, close-minded, and just one of the hugest jerks you've ever met?

- your class hated everything and everyone and high school was obviously just about AP classes and drunken parties and smoking pot and dressing like posers and nobody had any school spirit or class unity and you all just really claimed to hate almaden even though almost no one even left it after graduation.

- there were no in-betweens: you were either a stupid pothead or slutty prep if you took normal classes, or over-achieving ivy leagues with 3490830 AP classes and witty remarks, and for the few people like you, you were just stuck looking arrogant when in normal classes, and stupid or quiet in advanced ones.

- you could never really be yourself in high school, even though everyone claimed that they were independent and didn't care what people thought but really everyone did.

- film and english classes were the best, but if you -- god forbid -- hated a movie or book that everyone else loved for some reason even though you were practically falling asleep the whole time, everyone would get all quiet and awkward, saying "oh..." but really they were just thinking about how stupid you were because you obviously didn't "get it" -- but in reality, you understand why it's great but you just don't like it despite it all, and what's wrong with having your own opinion?

- parents never trusted you just because you were a few months shy of 18 and they never let you stay up past 11 or go out at night or wear certain clothes or go on facebook for a few hours just because they believed you "shouldn't accept being like everyone else", but cmon people, there's nothing wrong with being a teenager while you have the chance, and now look: it's the last 9 months of being a teenager and now there's no excuse to do stupid things and have fun anymore.

- everyone says they hated high school because of drama and petty relationships, but it's not much different now anyway, and honestly, the real reason everyone hates high school is just because they're older and legal and in college so the idea of high school is just sooo immature and you all think you've grown but you're all just living through the same shit at a more advanced level.

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