Do you miss high school?

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I will be very excited when that day comes. I wonder what it will be like.

I'm in high school now and I kind of hate it. So, I'm glad to see that I'm not wrong for not being nostalgic at all and just wanting it to finish. I don't get it - I feel like I just float from place to place aimlessly gathering credits that may or may not have anything to do with the job that I may or may not have as an adult. There's so much emphasis on socializing and the future.

What I miss is elementary school. Those were good times - you could do whatever you want, with a good variety of plain subjects, and you were pretty much shoved into a pretty narrow clique and it just kind of worked because you were so very green. But I was in the Gifted program and was lucky enough to be in one of those classes where everyone has complementary eccentricities.

I'm done derailing the thread now. :)

I'm glad those days are over. I've been being myself, for 17 years.

I don't miss it at all -- the only good things that came out of high school for me were:

A) getting a girlfriend (and thus boosting my confidence)

B) having a couple of good teachers, and doing well in some AP classes, also rebuilding my confidence.

...but both would have happened anyways in college, even if I had gotten a GED and just gone straight on to junior college.

In high school I was largely ignored, poorer than a lot of my peers, not part of any big social group, and pretty much bored.

College was so much more interesting, had so much more freedom, and socially was more accepting and free in terms of meeting people with different interests who might want to be my friend.

High school is just a pond -- college is a lake/ocean.

I'm still in high school. 12th grade I think. I just have serious learning disabilities that held me back so much. Since I am homeschooled, there is no social pressure and my teacher is my mum and she isn't a b***h like my public school teachers were.

God no. University , IMHO, is like AS heaven.

Ok, ok, you have to deal with all this social crap, but the actual school part of it beats the hell out of high school.

As of yet I'm still in school,
though I likely won't miss it particularly much when I leave...

University's actual learning bit is Awesome! But since you have to do a lot less (in my opinion), I prefer high school. I did have the fortitude of a very small highschool class, plus it was VWO, so everyone was pretty clever. The school was not that big, so I knew all the staff anyway, which made high school for me a kind of safety zone. I had more classes than I had to, so my school hours were long, which I loved. It was after school, when people wanted to go out when the down side started. University has a lot more social things going on, unfortionately.

Not even a little, high school at times was a hell hole and after three years, I still feel nothing.

The only thing I miss about High School, is the fact my classmates were easier to stay in contact. Also because I was pretty much the only one with perfect attendance.

A resounding no.

Unfortunately, I did not fair much better in college and only made it through one semester.

I managed to get through trade school but that was also an unpleasant experience for me.

Hell no. Even my teachers bullied me. Plus I was sexually abused. A DEFINITE NO.

Yes and No for me.

Yes, because I just miss the comfort of being in the same place and seeing the friends I had...I miss gym class and study halls where I would play ping pong or video games. I do miss the people, even though some were unkind to me.

No, because I was picked on constantly...Freshman year was the worst, but it got better. I was more ignored instead of bullied in the later years, usually someone would say something verbally to put me down, it seemed like it was someone different everyday. I never got the balls to ask a girl out or to the senior ball and had a hard time listening to everyone being all excited for the ball, while I sat in the back of the room and just listened trying not to get upset.

I did good in school, had a 90 GPA but it didn't matter as I didn't get into state college...Another kid who didn't try, got an 82 GPA got accepted and I never understood why. I felt like anything I did didn't matter in high school. I just wanted everyone to know me, I wanted to be liked by everyone, and I wanted to feel important, but the reality is if something were to happen to me, only 10% of my class (~165) would care, with the majority being friends that I already had.

So I do and I don't...I miss the comfort but hate when I was miserable

Nope, not in the slightest.

Except for the few friends I had in school there was literally nothing I liked about it, after I left school I went to college which is better in every possible way and deciding to not carry on at school with 6th form was probably the best decision i've ever done.

Good riddance to it to be honest...

Overall, no. I had a few friends in HS that made things fun as we were a group of misfits. The main reasoning for the no comes from being assigned courses I could really care less about. WIth the misfits, during course periods we all didn't like (PE and Math) would be the daily trip to our smoking spot. I preferred college. There I could have more freedom to study topics of interest and by then had matured enough to where I could be expressive and not get into as much trouble. Being there on your own dime does help in that too since I am not one to be wasteful with money .