How much do you think about school

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I've been thinking about this a bit. We go to school from 5-18, that's a long time, we see our fellow classmates at their weakest and highest moments, we see the tears, fears, rumours, relationships and successes, and then you hit 18 and "BAM" it's all over in a second. Your sent out packing into the world to earn your living and you have to leave 13 years of school just like that. Being somebody who is pretty personalised, still years later on i think about school and how leaving was almost a dramatic event and how i wish i had done a lot of things different, particularly work harder.

I suppose it's sentimentality, some people seemed to adjust much more naturally to leaving. Would you go to your school reunion if there was one?
 
I hated school and was glad it was over, I went straight into work after school with day release for college and it was a massive relief. :)

And no, most of the people in my school were ****-holes. :)
 
Didn't particularly like school. Rarely does school cross my mind but I did leave a considerable time ago. I do find it interesting hearing how school friends lives have panned out, what they are doing and where they ended up. I don't think I'd go to a reunion however if the opportunity arose as anyone that was important to me back then I have a fairly good idea of what they are at and could probably meet up with them if I needed to.
 
didn't mind school, don't really care about leaving a year before my peers. I had decided not to take part in the Scottish 6th year 'who can make friends with the (obviously slightly perverted, and never spent a day in the real world) teachers' waste of a year. I drifted apart from people after that and have absolutely no interest in attending any reunion. As has already been said if I have a desperate urge to find anyone in particular from my school ( or vice versa) then Facebook will do the trick
 
Hated school, 99% of people there were complete spoons, including staff. Managed to get decent results and still best mates with some of my only mates so wasnt all bad, but being a geek and listening to heavy metal in my school really didnt help :p
 
I don't tend to think about school all that often, I'm not in touch with most of the people I went to school with although a few have added me on Facebook. I'd have no particular problems with seeing anyone I went to school with again or going to a school reunion but I'm not desperate to do so by any means.
 
I think about it often and wish I could do it all over again. I'd be damn sure to try harder. Been miserable ever since I left.
 
Weirdly, quite often! Particuarly whenever I think about playing music, it's more often at school than at wembley stadium. School was a long time ago. Maybe that's just where I was most self-conscious in my life or something?!

Strange!
 
I think more often about leaving the town I grew up in and knew everyone. Still see everyone though every now and then but it will never be the same again. Just one of many chapters in your life.
 
I struggled with the social aspects of school - too many unstable(teenage) people in one place. So I couldn't wait for it to be over. I actually passed a trainee programmer exam (for graduates) when I was 15, so I strongly considered bailing at 16 and doing that. But decided to tolerate A levels and then go to uni.

Uni was a good transition from being spoon-fed to the real world. Some of my uni friends I have kept - but I have no intention of speaking to any of my school friends again - we weren't friends, we were just socially grouped by sportiness or music taste.
 
I feel the same as OP really.

I miss being genuinely happy day in day out, and not even knowing it. It's my aim to feel like that again.

I adjusted terribly. One moment my life has meaning and a defined structure, the next there is nothing and I need to make my own decisions.

Part of growing up I suppose!
 
I didn’t think much about it after I left. Had a couple of friends but drifted apart after our worlds went in opposite directions. These days not at all as it is a dim and distant memory not worth remembering.
 
oh god here come the socially awkward people again. I suppose its expected here now.

School was great. I cant really remember much of it but in hindsight with the rose tinted glasses it was awesome.

I remember one time I "forgot" my PE kit and was punished by having to sit in the gym with all the girls doing an aerobics type class, whilst i drew my Art homework that had to be in next lesson. Happy days.
 
Tachyon said:
Didn't particularly like school. Rarely does school cross my mind but I did leave a considerable time ago. I do find it interesting hearing how school friends lives have panned out, what they are doing and where they ended up. I don't think I'd go to a reunion however if the opportunity arose as anyone that was important to me back then I have a fairly good idea of what they are at and could probably meet up with them if I needed to.
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Pretty much sums it up for me also.

Still mates with the two lads I used to hang around with back then, I guess I could have worked harder etc but I'm a qualified electrician so I didn't do too bad really. All I miss is the lack of little troubles like German home work being replaced by bigger troubles like how am I going to pay for that? :eek: :)
 
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Well I am at college and it's nearly the end :O, I only have about 4 weeks of lessons left.
The one thing that I will miss is having hardly any work, I won't be able to get away with doing this amount of work on my degree :(. My degree is going to be a massive jump from A level, not going to be easy.
 
I loved school. I didn't work very hard but had a great time and many of my friends now were school friends. We have pretty regular reunions of one sort or another (ski/snowboard weekends, nights out) as we live all over the place. It was boarding school so may be the bonds are a bit different. I'm 37.
 
I don't think much or primary school, but I have a lot of respect for my senior school and the teachers there. I must say, it took until after school for this to happen...

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Most of my school career was spent at one school, with a primary and secondary and sixth form all on one site. I think I started when I was 7, and left when I was 18. My core social group remained reasonably constant throughout that time, and only evolved very slowly, and school really became my life. All of my activities (Orchestra, cadets, rowing, etc) were school run activities (apart from a couple of years of Beavers/Cubs when I was younger, and going to church Sunday school for a number of years). Pretty much all the people I knew were from school for all that time, and I think I was encased in such a bubble that it never really seemed apparent to me that there was anything beyond the school life I knew...


ajones32 said:
I think about it often and wish I could do it all over again. I'd be damn sure to try harder. Been miserable ever since I left.
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I think about it a fair lot now, and I've been at uni for nearly a year (academic year that is)... I wish I could do it all again, but for different reasons - I feel like I worked reasonably hard and got good grades and stuff, but never really developed socially there, and never really did much outside school with my friends, and I don't remember an awful lot of it. If I could do it again, I would work less, play around more in lessons, make a much greater effort to be confident (I was ludicrously shy for most of my time at school), and also write a diary every day so I could remember more of it - I'm sure that every day something funny happened, and I wish I could remember all o those moments...


EdGey said:
I feel the same as OP really.

I miss being genuinely happy day in day out, and not even knowing it. It's my aim to feel like that again.

I adjusted terribly. One moment my life has meaning and a defined structure, the next there is nothing and I need to make my own decisions.

Part of growing up I suppose!
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I feel the same - I was quite miserable a lot of the time at school, but there were so many times when I was just content, didn't have any worries, and everything just seemed constant, and I liked it that way. Since coming out, there has been so much more to worry about... Take me back! (Although there were many instances at the time I wished I could just leave school, in hindsight it was really great, for much of the time I really was genuinely happy - I never seem to appreciate things at the time).


A big gripe for me is that I think I could have been so much more socially successful, engineered a much better social group, and had much more fun if only I hadn't been so desperate to please everyone else and tag along, and had instead forged my own path and been much more confident... Opportunities lost.
 
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Most of my school career was spent at one school, with a primary and secondary and sixth form all on one site. I think I started when I was 7, and left when I was 18. My core social group remained reasonably constant throughout that time, and only evolved very slowly, and school really became my life. All of my activities (Orchestra, cadets, rowing, etc) were school run activities (apart from a couple of years of Beavers/Cubs when I was younger, and going to church Sunday school for a number of years). Pretty much all the people I knew were from school for all that time, and I think I was encased in such a bubble that it never really seemed apparent to me that there was anything beyond the school life I knew...



I think about it a fair lot now, and I've been at uni for nearly a year (academic year that is)... I wish I could do it all again, but for different reasons - I feel like I worked reasonably hard and got good grades and stuff, but never really developed socially there, and never really did much outside school with my friends, and I don't remember an awful lot of it. If I could do it again, I would work less, play around more in lessons, make a much greater effort to be confident (I was ludicrously shy for most of my time at school), and also write a diary every day so I could remember more of it - I'm sure that every day something funny happened, and I wish I could remember all o those moments...



I feel the same - I was quite miserable a lot of the time at school, but there were so many times when I was just content, didn't have any worries, and everything just seemed constant, and I liked it that way. Since coming out, there has been so much more to worry about... Take me back! (Although there were many instances at the time I wished I could just leave school, in hindsight it was really great, for much of the time I really was genuinely happy - I never seem to appreciate things at the time).


A big gripe for me is that I think I could have been so much more socially successful, engineered a much better social group, and had much more fun if only I hadn't been so desperate to please everyone else and tag along, and had instead forged my own path and been much more confident... Opportunities lost.
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Yes a diary would have been a good idea, i suppose nowadays you can film anything on your phone, so strange to think. I sometimes wish we had cameras back then, it would be amusing to look over the footage as all you have is your memory which fades away, there are only yearbooks also to remind, it's like another world really, a dream. Did i really go to school at all?
 
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