Experience, entering High School as a freshmen Options

[demolished]

So, what was/is your experience since you attend high school ( you were new and just graduate from middle school)


Mine .. it was quite wierd, different, and unsafe. I was kind of lost and couldnt find my classroom numbers and letters. I felt tired from walking just to look for it .. i'm not use to the classroom systems.

Yesterday, i saw a teen drop his paper w/ tobacco by accident( he pick it up .. after that.)

i'm like .. whoah (in my head)

i just start summer school in H.S since MOnday.

[*Azarel*]

The novelty of high school wears off after the first few days of freshman year. And then you hate it, despise it, loathe it.

[freeflow]

i just finished my freshman year but the begining of my freshman year i was soo scared. when ifirst went to the school i couldnt find my friends it was soo big people wre just all over the place i couldnt find some of my classes i was scared to death. but in the end it was great. its like alot more people and not just your grade in your classes so it was kind of freaky.

[The-Mach-Hare]

its not as bad as upperclassman make it out to be...yeah, im not a freshman anymore, but it's truly not that bad. i thought freshman year was the easiest.

[slipper]

i tried acting tough. then i let that go in a matter of months. :]

[yummy_delight]

The novelty of high school wears off after the first few days of freshman year. And then you hate it, despise it, loathe it.

agreed. i doubt i'll ever really enjoy all aspects of high school life.

My first year of high school were bleak. I had no friends, due to the fact that I was shepherded away from the high school I was supposed to go to at the command of my mother. I was forced to roam the hallways alone with my one and only best friend, a pastime that we still partake in although we are no longer freshmen. My one distinct advantage was that I didn't look anything like a freshman. Most people believed me to be a junior or sophomore. However, once I set them straight, I was goaded with taunts of "Stupid freshman!", "Shut up, freshman!", etc. daily. Although the work during my 9th grade year was by far the easiest, it was social hell. I was lost, I was confused, I had not help. My innocent idealistic freshman mind was destroyed. I am left with only an angry, anti-social, shell of myself.

I despise high school. *stabburndie*

[*lolita kitty*]

i havent gotten to high school yet
this year starts my 8th grade year, and then high school begins.
but starting middle school was pretty intimidating...... >_<

[*stephinika*]

well for me, it was from elementary school to high school (K-7 then 8-12) and i remember that my freshman year was kinda horrible...i got bullied a lot, went through a slightly depressed stage, etc...high school got somewhat better in grade 10 and onwards though. i just remember thinking i was so cool when really, i was not...

[Looow]

Hm. Well I'm starting high school in the fall. Kind of excited yet nervous at the same time.

[*danielle_x3*]

I liked it because it was my chance to start off new.
It was a time to meet new friends and get new teachers. I was nervous, though. I just finished my freshman year, and it went by fast. I had good experiences :D

[EmmalieV]

Highschools just like freakin middleschool , no change fo me everyone was just as obnoxious , I hang out with alot of the seniors though so its not a huge difference with me.

[*not_your_average*]

Well, I hope high school's OK for me.

[Janolam]

My school [School of the arts aka SOTA] is goth. So i suppose i won't get jumped or anything. Just sacrificed or tortured.
[jerry]

[Jorge]

I didn't know where the main office was so I decided to walk home.

[mz sneaky]

i'm starting high school this year too. i started having summer school this monday at the high school. it was hard finding my classes and to tell you the truth i went into the wrong class!! but yeah it's not that bad so far about how people say there's a lot of scary people. i thought it was be worst but it turned out to be okay. and i met a lot of cool people and you just have to decide to make the RIGHT friends and stay away from others.

[glit_gal]

Mine wasn't that bad. I was really clueless and immature though.

[xsweetxcandyx]

i wasn't thatr scared
i knew the campus pretty well and i knew a lot fo upperclassesmen
and i went to summer shcool and band camp there
plus i had my link crew leaders
i enjoyed it

[*jooleeah*]

Hm. Well I'm starting high school in the fall. Kind of excited yet nervous at the same time.

Me too.

[heyyfrankie]

i just finished my freshman year and i am so excited about sophomore. anyways...

i was so scared on the first day of school. i couldn't find ANYONE i knew and, of course, i got lost many times. my high school is gigantic=home to over 4,000 people.
and i didn't have any of my old friends is any classes so i had to make new friends as well as losing some of my old ones. but it all worked out for the best...in a way.

[staircase wit]

first day of high school, i magically got to all of my classes at the right time!! i had moved like 2 weeks before school started with my best friend and freshman year has been really great to me. except for the grades, but whatever.

[aznxdreamer]

im gonna be a freshman wen school starts X_X im gonna get lost for sure and im gonna be late for all my classes which i prolly will go to the wrong ones.

[xbr0kensmil3]

i'm gonna be a freshman. i'm really excited about going to high school. i hope it don't suck.

[KMFDM_MDFMK]

i did not like my freshman year. I got kicked out back in november

[jaeman]

I loved my freshman year.
It was exciting being in high school and there were all these cool things happening that didn't happen before in my old schools.
I expirienced a lot of new things in my freshman year, like I actually went to my first homecoming.
And I finally went to a real graduation, not those stupid mock-up promotions you get when you go to eighth grade or something.
And no one messed around with me, like threatened to beat me up or anything, instead I just made a lot of friends.

[Skyline Drive]

I wish I would of known everything I know now but ah well.. the first day I totally got lost and too make it even weirder my first class was AP so everyone looked alot older than me so I felt like such a child. Freshmen year was definately a learning period. I'm just happy too be a senior now and I love the fact that I have so many advantages because of it. All the work and hard times are worth it.

[angelrevelation]

i'm going to 9th grade in september, but i dont change schools till 10th. i was a little nervous the first day of 7th (first day of JH for us... it's weird) but it all went surprisingly well i found all my old friends, and made some new ones and stuff. having lockers and a cafeteria was nice for a change

[s0_fLiPd]

I'm gonna be a freshman this upcoming school year. I think it's gonna be pretty crazy considering the fact that we (other soon-to-be freshman students) are gonna be the first group of freshmans there at the high school.

[jeSs1cA]

Hm. Well I'm starting high school in the fall. Kind of excited yet nervous at the same time.

same here.

[whomps]

Uhm let's see.. The first couple of days for Freshman year sucked. I mainly relied on my teachers to tell me where the my classes were, haha. And I asked this senior and she told me where my class was.. which was really cool. :] But yeah, I didn't know where any of my classes were, and I didn't know anybody at school.

[iheartsimba]

I'm starting HS early August..I'm very nervous. And very intimided..and scared. Because I have no idea if I'll even be liked..or if I'll be bullied...have friends...Idk. I'm just really nervous. I won't be in any classes with my friends. I'm in the...nerd...classes. I'm taking all the hardest ones, and I'm really scared. Inbewteen homework I'll have to deal with peer pressure and all that good stuff I'm guessing.

[jennyjenny]

I'm starting highschool in the fall. I am also very nervous.

But on the first day, it's like K-9 go a day before 10-12 because they let all the freshman go to school before everyone else goes in highschool. But yeah, I'm nervous that I'm gonna get lost and go to a different class or something because the high school is four times bigger than my middle school.

[eli5e]

NOT TAKING IT SERIOUSLY. ....i failed mor than 1/2 of my classes.. and catching up was the worst part..i still have to makeup some more sclasses.. and ima be a SENIOR this up coming year. =P ..

yeahh ...PLEASE don't do this ...freshman year is very important cause it sets a BASE for the rest of ur high school career.

[frenchaddict88]

Hm. Well I'm starting high school in the fall. Kind of excited yet nervous at the same time.

SAME HERE!

[sadolakced acid]

i was acclimated by taking 2 classes there in 8th grade.

the novelty of going to school in an old state penitentuary quickly wore off. as well as going to school in a nuclear bomb shelter.

having no windows sucks. a lot.

[toodlepops.]

It was normal for me. No big deal, seriously. =)

[Winter]

Starting high school was pretty normal for me. I had a few friends from middle school and I immediately made new friends. It's fun and exciting. But it kinda sucks being at the bottom again.

[angel-roh]

This Monday?!?! Wow. sucks for you.

Anyways, my first time. It was scary, but I handled it out well because I met lotta new people in my first day. Anyways, my classes weren't that hard to find either. Except one class actually. But it wasn't my fault. The teacher changed its room, so my schedule was saying the teacher's old room. So I was late and I opened this door and she looked at my schedule and she said, "I knew it. You're teacher is Ms. Kim... she's in right front of us. It's okay. Many students were coming in here to looking for Ms. Kim" So yeah. And it was kinda scary going inside the cafeteria thinking that there'll be a lot of mean students there, tripping another. But I handled it out well --- Because I prayed :]

[mouse_3k]

Everything was fine. A junior liked me -_- we tight though, hes my older white brother lol. I became friends with alot of juniors and other freshmens. Nothing really happened to me.

[Mizz Rizza]

omigosh im jus going into high school....im scared :[

[YourSuperior]

Don't worry. It will lighten up. This year I will be a sophmore. I just finished my freshman year. I was SO SCARED! I knew like 10 people that were already there. I couldn't find my classes for anything. I ended up have more friends than I had before. It was fun.

[demolished]

lol, i see most of you guys are nervous and excited. Thats me, also.

[jr0h]

it was no big deal. it's like entering 8th grade in middle school. you see the same people and you just learn different stuff. but yeah not that it was surprising, i knew it was coming. a lot of people changed. that always happens in high school.

[ANG33ZY]

I thought it was going to be a big deal entering high school. but it wasn't.. it was just same ol " new school year " type of thing for me. MAD BORING.

[andriaalazing*]

The novelty of high school wears off after the first few days of freshman year. And then you hate it, despise it, loathe it.

exactly. at first you're all, WHOA HIGHSCHOOL IS SO FUN AND DIFFERENT. then it sort of hits you that its harder..more dramatic, and just plain tiring.

[EddieV]

Freshman year was terrible for me, I got stuffed in a locker for 4 periods....

yeah, but I moved schools the next year, and got a lot bigger, two, then came back for my sweet revenge tee hee hee...

[PinkTrash]

im scared.
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starting high school in september.. and my lifelong friends are going to a different high school {im going to this geeky IB programm..} and im deathly scared of making new friends since i never really had to, and i feel like its going to SUCKK so much ><"

[Fallen Fairy]

Oh man i remember when i was a freshmen. Gosh my heart was pounding every all day. But highschool was great. I just graduated in may. Now I'm off to college.

fallen fairy

[emo_in_urpanties]

After summer, i'm a senior. High School? not so bad...haha, who am i kiddin, it had its HORRIBLE times. yet, i also had sum killer sweet times. HS basically defines who u r, it gives u a second chance from goofen it up in middle school.

[largosama]

what I thought when I walked in to high school

"-Yay I'm in high school.......
-Crap I'm a freshmen
-I don't know where room 308 is"

[so0o_contagious]

i went to a small private school for 9 years. so going to a big public highschool was so different. when i came. i had no friends at all. i didnt knwo anyone sicne my mom told me i HAD to go there. i didnt even know it exhisted. i just wanted to be with my friends. i walked outside and theres just a bunch of kids smoking pot and what not. no one is very well mannered either. and i guess this is good for me. i WANT to be exposed to these kinds of things. its different. kind of diverse. im like one of the 5 asian people there. so thats really different because my old school had 3875753457 asians ad like 1 white person in eachclass. but i got to learn more about american culture. things i didnt really know people do. anyways. im gonna be a soph. next year. and i realise now that the friends i used to have, were no good. they lie and talk shit about you behind your back and then they tell you oh i miss you. gosh your so pretty.. wow. ANYWAYS. haha. =] yepp. you kinda start to find yourselfthough. i guess.

[gOODpIRATE]

when i first entered high school, it was just like middle school, accept there was older people. oh, open camups lunch...and er--more crap to do.

[islandkiss]

I just graduated from Jr High and I am pretty excited to go to high school. I'm looking forward to meeting more people and joining as many fun clubs as possible

[Gypsy Eyes]

I'm starting highschool for the first time as a soph next year. (freshman is in the juinor high)

ahh the thought is exciting yet scary.

[x-klutzibabi-x]

My freshman year just ended. At first I was all scared....it was weird having upperclassmen mixed in with other grades. After a while, I got used to it and was able to have more friends. The first few months of freshman year......my friend and I were pretty hyper and weird... We would do the chicken dance in the middle of the hallway during lunch. Fortunally (sp?), I don't have the guts to do that or do anything else silly like that anymore.

[demolished]

i went to a small private school for 9 years. so going to a big public highschool was so different. when i came. i had no friends at all. i didnt knwo anyone sicne my mom told me i HAD to go there. i didnt even know it exhisted. i just wanted to be with my friends. i walked outside and theres just a bunch of kids smoking pot and what not. no one is very well mannered either. and i guess this is good for me. i WANT to be exposed to these kinds of things. its different. kind of diverse. im like one of the 5 asian people there. so thats really different because my old school had 3875753457 asians ad like 1 white person in eachclass. but i got to learn more about american culture. things i didnt really know people do. anyways. im gonna be a soph. next year. and i realise now that the friends i used to have, were no good. they lie and talk shit about you behind your back and then they tell you oh i miss you. gosh your so pretty.. wow. ANYWAYS. haha. =] yepp. you kinda start to find yourselfthough. i guess.

Wow. It's really a great experienced. i have 90% shit friends too.

[EriaNight]

I think it may depend on what kind of school you go to...

I'm now a senior in high school at an all girls, private school in Nashville, TN (same one reese witherspoon went to if you recognize the name "harpeth hall") but even though some people dont like it---I find that it's actually quite nice because as you get older in my school all the cliques start to dissolve and everyone (by the time you reach senior year) like knows everybody and its nice. Nashville is a big town, but as you get older it gets better. Almost everyone's parent is like in the music business so like saying "my dad works with so and so in country" really is no big deal.

I donno 9th grade was a little awful because we hadn't grown out of the whole clique deal yet, but like i said...just wait a little.

It might be different if you go to a public school cause my public school friends say they still deal with *groups* that tend to exclude people or whatever.

Wow TANGENTS. I don't even think i answered your question right.

[lKVNiiKINKYl]

Lonely alienated bored hated it x.x
Lunch was the worst because I couldn't find anyone to sit with so I sat alone. After that though, like 5 minutes later all senior asians came over to me...I felt cool =)

[Heathasm]

well, i had just been hazed, i felt weird and i couldnt find my friend cause the school was so big. the schedules and classes were confusing...it actually just got worse after i was a freshman T_T;.

[lilliannnn]

Its funny how most of us up coming freshman feel the same way- nervous and excited. That's me, too, but, I really CAN'T WAIT to see my friends again.

[Teesa]

I wish I would of known everything I know now but ah well.. the first day I totally got lost and too make it even weirder my first class was AP so everyone looked alot older than me so I felt like such a child. Freshmen year was definately a learning period. I'm just happy too be a senior now and I love the fact that I have so many advantages because of it. All the work and hard times are worth it.

Couldn't agree with you more, dearest. Yeah, I felt awkward and lost when I first entered high school. I also had the deepest desire to become a part of that infamous "popular" crowd. But I was glad to realize throughout the year, that there weren't an of those cliques at my school. Everyone kind of just accepts you. But, as Lilly said, it was a learning period, no doubt.

[HIMsHeartagram]

So, what was/is your experience since you attend high school ( you were new and just graduate from middle school)
Mine .. it was quite wierd, different, and unsafe. I was kind of lost and couldnt find my classroom numbers and letters. I felt tired from walking just to look for it .. i'm not use to the classroom systems.

Yesterday, i saw a teen drop his paper w/ tobacco by accident( he pick it up .. after that.) 

i'm like .. whoah (in my head)

i just start summer school in H.S since MOnday.

I was really afraid of what could happen during my freshman year. Uh-hmm, i was afraid of getting picked one because the style i was into. I was afraid that no one would become my friend, and i would get lost by trying to find my classes. It all turned out that i got boyfriend in September [we started in August] and then i had a bunch of great friends, and then now that 2005 is over. I lost most of the people i loved, and especially lost my boyfriend. I have no idea how i am going to survive this year, going to be a soph.

[`SWTWiNKLE3YES]

eh im starting high school next year this year is 8th grade year :] but i hope freshman year isnt as bad as people say it is.

[short_stop08]

I knew a good bit of people since my sister had just graduated when I was becoming a freshman. It was ok. My whole year was stressed out though because people kept on starting rumors and being messy like they always do. I had fun though.

[shawty_redd]

freshmen year wasnt bad for me
i made a lot of friends
and no teasing

yep
i'd say it was a pretty good year

[katssso]

Thats exactly how i felt when i was about to enter high school but it didnt turn out the way i expected it to it was better than i thought

[*incoherent*]

youll get used to it. dont sweat it. its not as hard as some make it out to be.

[sheddingtears]

hm well i remember this one time when this one dude came up to a freshman girl and said "hey he (his friend) wants to lick your p_ssy"... but they were just joking.


well for me freshman year was just basically finding that group i belonged in [with my friends]. it was pretty much easy finding where classes were since the school's not so big. you realize the lunch line is neverending and so vending machines are your best friends. then you find out PE girl teachers are such bitches. everyone's quite tall. and yeah thats pretty much it.

[sadolakced acid]

it's always fun to give a piece of paper from a teacher to a freshie on the first day and tell them to take it to a nonexistant room.

[elmogurly]

it just felt like going to a new school. nothing really exciting, it was just difficult not knowing how things ran. thank goodness that's over!

[Blank-OuT]

My freshman year was pretty cool, although it went by fast. I had some people come with me from my old school, but none of them I was close with...all my close friends went to different highschools. I also didn't know any of the upper classmen, so yeah. It was pretty fun making new friends in every class tho.

Sophomore year kinda sucked..I hope my junior year isn't gonna be bad. The only good thing about my sophomore year was that I made some new friends too.

I just wish the years wouldn't go by so fast...next thing I know I'm gonna be graduating, ahh.

[*salcha*]

Actually, to tell you the truth. I never really liked it. I have moved schools all my life, never staying for more than three years. When my parents wanted me to go to Milpitas High, I knew I had no choice. I didn't like it, but I went anyway. The first day of school was...okay. I didn't know anyone, and people were already in their small groups and clusters from the middle school across the street from the high school. (I went to a middle school two cities away...). Anyway, people were nice, sometimes. And others were just plain rude.
People don't really mind your business in high school. If you drop your books, no one helps you pick them up. Pranks, hurt feelings. Yeah, I guess you learn to deal with them as well.
High school was never easy for me. I'm going to be a sophomore this fall, but freshman year was torture. High school is cruel. It's hard to fit into small groups if you weren't there middle school.
Homework loads are heavy if you're taking heavy classes. But it really depends on your school.

I hate high school, I miss the comfort of my friends back at junior high. ):

[yukichan]

I'm looking foward to my freshman year..
(I'll be a freshman in the fall...)

[datgurlnanci3]

I'm going to be a freshman starting august 15th.
I'm excited, yet loathesome.
I'm starting at a high school where I will know no one, and no one will know me.
It sure is killing me.

[*liquidize*]

avoid people like sumaki :)

[Sumiaki]

avoid people like sumaki :)

Who is SUMAKI?

[*liquidize*]

i meant sumiaki >_> DAMN RIGHT!

[crazeegirl411]

i meant sumiaki >_> DAMN RIGHT!

Pwned.

[Sumiaki]

i meant sumiaki >_> DAMN RIGHT!

You pwned me, want a cookie or something?

[espressive]

Meh, I'm starting HS in a few weeks so I'll see how that goes. I'm mostly excited - not nervous. I wasn't nervous entering JHS either. *shrugs* Weird.

What the heck does pwned mean?

[*mipadi*]

What the heck does pwned mean?

"Owned", or to "best someone in a competitive activity".

[jue]

i havent attended highschool yet. going on to 8 grade (:

[swtvi3tlynn]

wow high skol uhmm will when i was a freeshmen i was goin to a new skol bc mah mom wanted me to go to a diff skol so i duno anyone i was lik uhhh and i duno where anything was =[ i was a mess also the rules were diff. so i got in troble alot =/

[shortiiex]

i am going to become freashamn this year in HS...but it is true that your old friends will fade away?

[miss barnes]

high school is no big deal to me. the same people from middle school were there..not really a big difference..new teachers...more kids...4 lunches

[pyrochick19770]

Wow, my first day seems not so long ago but it was 2 years ago!
It was... weird because my campus is pretty big. It's on a hill.
We've got 3 levels..then a LOOOONG stairway up the hill.
And then the gym and another 2 levels. The people weren't too mean [esp since its an all girl school] but there were some snobs.
It took a little while to get adjusted but it was all good. Just don't act like a typical freshman.

i am going to become freashamn this year in HS...but it is true that your old friends will fade away?

Sadly, that is what happened for me.
Even now, some of my friends that were really close to me as freshmen aren't as close now that we're Juniors. But it's OK, you'll find REAL, TRUE friends.

[*Azarel*]

"Owned", or to "best someone in a competitive activity".

... You are so formal. And the period goes inside the quotation mark, according to MLA format.

[HoodieObsessed]

I'm going into grade 10 highschool this year, I've homeschooled all my life before this and needless to say I'm completely freaked out. But my brother went into grade 11 last year, and he'd homeschooled all his life before that as well, and he said it's not bad at all, he actually enjoys it alright I just hope it's hte same for me...

[Eryi]

I haven't entered high school yet, but I'd be nervous. I'd probably hate the school, I hardly care about school.

[ktsou11]

i had the same friends from junior high and all i did was just walk across the street cause the HS is right across from our middle school. but i remember i used to cuss and stuff and i was really loud cause i sorta liked the attention.

now, i've found God and i'm actually quite serene. :D

[monxcheri]

upcoming freshman here and i'm nervous as ever

[Aestuarium]

tobaco is very common here... you see it on junior high too

[FilipinoFaShow]

my freshman yr was kinda great besides tha fact that i knew alotta pplz there already

[demolished]

i am going to become freashamn this year in HS...but it is true that your old friends will fade away?

Yep. Everyone live in a different location and there's a chance that everyone will move to a different/same school.

[lbjshaq2345]

i dont have to worry bout bein new my middle school goes straight into high school hehe im goin into my freshman year we start monday

[demolished]

Good luck in H.S ! =D

[gvoxford]

I still remember my first day of high school. It was insane. There were so many people everywhere and I was definetely overwhelmed but yes within a week I loathed the place... but I gotta tell ya freshman year was the best year.

[arara]

It's not that bad. Just more drama. Galore.

[*xcaitlinx*]

i don't really want to start highschool...because i don't want to grow up. =( oh well...i hope it's not as bad as i'm suspecting.

[demolished]

Nah, it's not that bad after a few days unless someone is hunting you.

[inlonelinessidie]

First day of high school the bells weren't working so I was really late to every class and got yelled at multiple times. Haha, talk about first impressions, but I didn't care I mean it's just school. Plus I got to see my old friends so it was cool.