What was your least favorite part of growing up?

[ybbor]

After discussion in the last thread about discrimination against individuals, I thought it interesting that some pople tlaked about high school, others elementary school, and others Jr. High. So what part of School did you find least enjoyable? I included college as part of "growing up" because it's still part of the educational process. Also: do you think that you are better off or worse off because of the teasing/harrasment you recieved?

Note: the poll is mostly talking about being teased and all that, but I'm leaving the option open to take it in a different direction.

Myself, the most difficult time was elementary school. I was picked on a lot for being annoyingand self-centered which I was. Ever since, I've gotten along with people much better as I realized that a lot of what I was doing was annoying. Although I didn't appreciate it at the time, I think the teasing I recieved made me a better person. I think the setting of elementary school was good as it left plenty of time for improvment.

 

[North King]

So far, high school, but I will not take that as an accurate result as I have the bias of problems now seeming much larger than problems of an earlier time.

 

[puglover]

Haven't endured college yet. But thus far, last month has been the worst, because of the constant pain, and best, because of my growth as a man, month of my life.

High school is the hardest.

 

[Pyrite]

Growing up is for chumps. Elementary school forever.

 

[Perfection]

Middle School.

It sucked.

 

[Shylock]

All things considered, I hated middle school the most.
I'd like to se the offices there bulldozed (they would be empty of course), burn the rubble and grow weed on it. Not so much I that like pot, it is more irony. Such places eminated such horror and evil is replaced with something that makes people happy, as the fact that one the office's many jobs was to make sure the place was devoid of the stuff (to no avail of course).

And the gym would be delt with in the same way (and empty too). The athelitic field is sown again with weed to make one big love forest. Or perhaps a foodstuff, better than the pointless activities it usually had go on it.

I like high school better. The administrators tend to leave people alone and the students don't feel the urge to either shun me or tease me for no reason at all.

 

[azzaman333]

I'm not really sure how American school groups compare to Australian School. Here we have Primary School (Prep, Grade 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) and Secondary School (Year 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12).

My most hated years were Grades 5 (second half) and 6. I had no friends, the teachers didnt like me, i was constantly teased, i was the most unpopular kid in the year level and my best friend was a digimon.

 

[CaptainF]

Well, right now I still have a lot of growing up to do.

I confess that I am kind of an @sshole to people, and lack many social graces. Also, even though i'm a good looking guy according to many people, I lack the capacity to have a girlfriend. On top of that my grades have been slipping a tid bit, and the jobs i've applied for haven't amounted to squat yet.

As crappy as it may feel now, it pales in comparison to 5th grade in Middle School. Boy, what a dystopia that was.:suicide:

I really kinda hate school in general. Kids there have always pigeonholded me as either one thing or another. Either the nerdy smart kid, or the psycho. I know who I really am, and so do my friends, to a lesser extent.

 

[silver 2039]

I hated elementry school espically 5 th grade. I was really atrocious at amth and plagerized occasionally and got caught and stuf like that. Yah elemntary school was the worst. Middle School and High School were and are both much bettter.

 

[bhsup]

Probably junior high school. It was 7th-9th grade when I started going, so for 7th and 8th grade, my class were the underlings always being picked on. Just when we were preparing to become the big dogs of the school, the district revamped everything and made 7-8 the junior high. 9th grade became a part of the high school, which set us right back at the bottom of the heap again.

 

[amadeus]

High school.

All of the teachers supposedly support independent and creative thinking, but don't ever try and practice it around them.

 

[shortguy]

Definitely middle school. Everyone, I mean everyone, was extremely smug and self-centered in middle school. Myself included. I'd hate to see the way I was then...

 

[CaptainF]

High school.

All of the teachers supposedly support independent and creative thinking, but don't ever try and practice it around them.

EXACTLY!

High School is second only to the DMV for bureaucratic idiocy.

 

[MjM]

Im not done growing up yet.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

High school.
The worst was to fall in love for the first time.
It was my best friend's girlriend

 

[Godwynn]

Jr. High, except 8th grade.

6th + 7th grade blew.

 

[general_kill]

Thus far, High School. There's not anything wrong with my school, I think that most people in it are pretty cool. It's mostly myself, and this really f-ed up phase I was going through. It was impossible for me to concentrate on anything. I felt like I had ADD where I can't sit still for 5 minutes to read something or do some work.

This really affected me negatively because I hate going to school unprepared. I would stay up until 2-3 AM thinking I would come around to my senses and do some work. Obviously, I couldn't do the work at 3 in the morning, so the next day I would go to school tired, then I would come home and do the same thing again. By Wednesday, I usually just don't goto school to catch up on sleep, only to do no work and have to catch up even more work the next day, which I wouldn't do. So it's a really bad cycle, and with all the work built up, I started cracking. Sleep depreviation is very serious because 1, you begin building a tolerance to it, and 2, it causes chemical imbalance and depression.

I was experiencing both. I stay up late everyday because it became the norm. I got really depressed for a while where I became anti social. Everyday after school, all I can think about is getting home as fast as I can so I can sleep. I snapped at some people at times because I get very cranky when I'm sleepy. My friends started to ditch me, my teachers started to "worry" about me, my mom and I fought, and I hated how my life was turning out.

Things started to turn around when I just stopped caring about school. I slept earlier, had more energy to fool around with friends, I could carry a conversation without stopping in the middle to think, and things just became a lot more healthy. Of course, the damage done to my academic record can never be reversed, but I think I learned a more important lesson about the importance of sleep.

My tip to anyone going through a hard time at my age? Get your sleep. Sleep helps your life in so many ways. It lets you think faster, accomplish goals more effectively, it rejuvenates your body, your skin glows a healthier tone, your eyes, posture, your immune system, and everything.

 

[The Last Conformist]

Elementary. One word: Mobbing.

 

[Mr Moron]

I'd say the period of time between 4th-11th grade. Just terrible. I just could not make it socially. Getting beat up was a regular occurance until hitting high school, after that it was just plain isolation. The couple of friends I did manage to make moved away, came out of the whole thing with 1 friend who wound up living like few states away. Let's not forget that whole puberty thing either, if ever there was anything in life with 0 redeeming features it was that.

 

[steviejay]

high school, couldn't get laid despite numberous attempts

but seriously, boring, BORING years. High school was probably my least favourite time. When you go to Uni and see the environment there and the general mood of the place ytou see how bad High School really was. In High School you're almost an adult so you're aware you should be treated differently than to when you did when you were younger but the teachers insist on holding onto the old ways.

When you're in Uni the lecturers treat you as an equal(ish) they can talk to you personally and er go, you can do the same to them. I actually had times in Uni where if I done something wrong then I actually got dissed by the lecturer, I mean, they made fun of me. you just can't get that with the painfully formal structure of high school (ie. teachers are Gods, respect them) The air is less formal. sure if you go out of line you'll get a mouthful in the same ways as high school , but if you do step out of line then you tend to expect to get that.

Another thing, at high school all woman were my 'friend',
'oh Steven you're so funny'
'you're really special, i'm glad I can talk to you'

who wants to talk when you can roll about for a while? High school owned