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High School Was Not The Best Four Years Of My Life

People say that high school is the best four years of your life, and this is why I completely disagree.

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High School Was Not The Best Four Years Of My Life
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Many people say that high school is the best four years of their lives. And I think that those people were either delusional or have not experienced anything else in their lives. High school was far from the best four years of my life. I hated it all, especially my senior year.

I was forced to succumb to the learning of everyone else around me and I had little chances to further my education in the things that I was really interested in. Yes, I had the chance to take harder classes and to take college classes but they were mostly in the same courses that I would take through my high school, and finding time for them was very hard. In college, if I want to take a class over the myth buster experience, I can. I can take any language I want or literally almost anything I could want to study I have the chance to just by being in college.

Also, the people you are stuck with are usually there because they are forced to be there and not because they want to be there, whereas in college, mostly everyone is there because that's what they want to do and they aren't forced by the government to be there.

The drama is just completely different, I have yet to experience any drama while being in college, whereas I was sucked into so much drama while in high school. It was ridiculous. I have no idea how people can make it out of high school without some sort of horror story about getting bullied or getting into some sort of awful drama.

Also, the teachers in high school all want so much from you and expect that you put their class above everything else in your life. In college, it's not as bad as it was for me in high school. I'm not forced to take classes that mean nothing to me today. I can also, get involved in so many different clubs and activities that I never dreamed of being in from high school. I'm in a low brass ensamble, ASL club, club softball, marching band, and so many other opportunities that I would have never had, or been able to do in high school.

So, all in all I believe that I have yet to live the best years of my life and maybe it'll be in college, or maybe it'll be if I decide to travel the world in the Peace Corp. or maybe it won't be until I have kids. But I just know that with these next few years I am taking every chance I can to be able to further my knowledge and make sure I can sit down and say that those were the best years of my life and that I had a blast doing it and that I wouldn't change it for anything in the world. All I know right now is that I deffinately can not say that about my high school expeerience.

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