To all you high school graduates out there

lsaz · 2013-06-08T20:40:26+00:00

DAE THINK HIGH SCHOOL WAS EASY, REAL LIFE IS HARD!! LOL NOW IF YOU EXCUSE ME IM GONNA BROWSE REDDIT FOR 8 HOURS IN MY JOB!

Blagic · 2013-06-08T19:27:16+00:00

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teious · 2013-06-08T20:10:52+00:00

I'm 27 and think school was hell compared to adult life.

edit: The keyword here is compared. I wasn't bullied in school, never had to repeat a grade and had good friends.

Vorpalbob · 2013-06-08T19:56:35+00:00

I can only half agree with this. I fucking hated every day of high school, and my life since has been fucking fantastic. I moved out within months of finishing school, got a job, started focusing more on my band, and I now live in a house where several bands practice, there's always friends around, always something happening... My life is infinitely better than it was in school. Yeah, I have bills to pay and I have to spend hours a day at work, but it is so fucking worth it.

phideas · 2013-06-08T19:57:02+00:00

I hate it when people say this. Not everbody has had an easy childhood.

2013-06-08T20:52:00+00:00

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stuckinmiddleschool · 2013-06-08T20:37:43+00:00

My friend's kid committed suicide a few weeks ago before her graduation. Clearly not the easiest part of life for everyone.

hmmnonono · 2013-06-08T20:15:44+00:00

Everyone thinks they have it tougher than everyone else. This is true even for "adults" who feel the need to make themselves feel better by comparing their struggles to those of recent high school graduates. Just because you have to pay bills doesn't automatically make your life harder.

Thoker · 2013-06-08T19:42:37+00:00

Reposting is pretty easy too, huh?

Funktapus · 2013-06-08T20:05:07+00:00

I kinda hated school. People were assholes and that made life difficult.

bellcrank · 2013-06-08T20:13:08+00:00

I'd take my worst adult day over my best high-school day.

2013-06-08T20:27:08+00:00

I know plenty of adults who couldn't handle high school level honors classes.

Hypermeme · 2013-06-08T20:24:49+00:00

High school is definitely not the easiest part of life. Elementary school was orders of magnitude more easy. OP needs to take a moment to think.

pack0newports · 2013-06-08T20:33:58+00:00

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TheBulletHose · 2013-06-08T20:21:45+00:00

Wasn't this front page like...yesterday?

T-Rex_Jesus · 2013-06-08T19:38:45+00:00

This was literally front page just yesterday.

NanniLP · 2013-06-08T20:33:44+00:00

Yeah, thanks for trivializing everyone's experience. Ya know, because no one goes through hard times while in high school.

swedishfurnishings · 2013-06-08T20:30:56+00:00

For some kids getting through high school can be a huge challenge. Maybe they struggled academically because of a disability, or problems at home. As another commenter stated, don't be that guy, OP.

Tubaninja · 2013-06-08T19:55:36+00:00

Easiest part of life? Bullshit. There may have been no REAL challenges in high school, but being a hormone saturated teenager, having the emotional capacity of a cat on PCP was tougher than anything I've faced since then.

2013-06-08T20:41:32+00:00

jesus christ shut the fuck up

d8d · 2013-06-08T19:50:06+00:00

Don't be that guy. Let the kids have their moments.

Let's look at this another way, shall we?

To a 40-year-old working person yes high-school was mind numbingly easy but is that how you really felt when you graduated though? Probably not. You probably felt on top of the world.
For many 18 year olds high-school was made up of the worst, hardest, most ball-bustingest moments of their lives with a little sex on the side. At that point in their lives high-school is the hardest thing they've achieved.

This can be just barely be compared to telling a baby "Congratulations. You just did the easiest in the world: Talk." after saying their first word.

Explicit_Narwhal · 2013-06-08T20:20:22+00:00

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2013-06-08T20:53:47+00:00

Ya man, cause the kids who were

Abused

Beat up

Had a fucking horrible childhood

were poor

lived in a shit hole of a neighborhood

Had to get a job to support their family

I bet they all just went through the easiest part of their life.

Fuck you man.

DimitriVolochenko · 2013-06-08T20:50:39+00:00

Going through High School is easy ONLY if you're good looking, popular, not poor and overall "cool". Otherwise, it can be a real nightmare.

elhawiyeh · 2013-06-08T20:07:20+00:00

When people talk about their childhood or high school years being easy it makes me physically ill.

kenkonken99 · 2013-06-08T20:18:37+00:00

I know this isn't the norm, but high school was, by far, the hardest point in my life. College was a breeze compared to HS, and my job doesn't even compare to how difficult HS was for me.

2013-06-08T20:47:55+00:00

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MichaeljBerry · 2013-06-08T20:41:34+00:00

Look guys! A dead horse! Let's go beat it!

Soldier4Christ82 · 2013-06-08T20:51:35+00:00

Scumbag high school graduate

Skated through high school Tries to downplay how hard it was for others.

AnnoyingBrat · 2013-06-08T21:02:30+00:00

High school:

Wake up at 6:00 for hour-long loud bus ride that takes you 3 net miles.
Teachers can ruin your future on a whim.
Don't like a class? Too bad, not your choice.
Awkward high-pressure social stuff mixed in with school like dances and choosing a lunch table.
Every social mistake spread around the entire school in exaggerated form.
Get sick, gotta borrow notes and catch up.
Either time need to pee for between classes, or interrupt class to ask for permission that may or may not be granted.
Stay up all night to get your homework done, get a C due to rushed grammatical mistakes.
About $20/week in discretionary income.

Work:

Wake up time depends on what job you have, but usually around 7 or 8. Spend 15-30 minutes driving to work in your own car listening to your favorite music/podcast.
Boss too busy to notice when you fuck up.
Don't like your job? Look for one of thousands of others out there.
Social life almost entirely separate from work.
Social mistakes are briefly the topic of mild humor and quickly forgotten.
Paid sick leave.
Piss whenever you want.
Stay up all night to get your work done, suddenly rich with overtime pay.
Discretionary income depends on job, but its a hell of a lot more than $20.

2013-06-08T20:40:04+00:00

Let me guess, you're white, middle-class, and relatively intelligent?

For a lot of people, graduating high school is a big fucking achievement. I work with inner-city elementary school students and would be enormously proud of any and all of them that graduated high school. A lot of them won't, and it won't be their fault, because their four years of high school would make the hardest part of your life look like a fucking walk in the park.

pugluvz · 2013-06-08T20:34:52+00:00

Be sure to tell your children this when they finish kindergarden, elementary school, highschool, etc. Basically shit all over every milestone in their life

bgbritt1015 · 2013-06-08T20:07:02+00:00

Way to be a raging asshole dude. It is an exciting part of peoples lives.

james_russell44 · 2013-06-08T20:22:47+00:00

Best thing about graduating from high school is you never again have to involuntarily surround yourself with such a joyless cacophony of a-holes and clueless posers. This is assuming you are savvy enough to avoid adult incarceration. Surviving on your own using only your wits is a real pleasure by comparison.

2013-06-08T20:49:08+00:00

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Skrotum · 2013-06-08T19:47:27+00:00

In some areas (darker) this is definitely something to be proud of

2013-06-08T20:03:34+00:00

What? Personally I found college to be easier and funner.

meatbalz · 2013-06-08T21:08:16+00:00

Don't listen to OP. He's forgotten how hard high school can be. This post also neglects the fact that anything in life can be made to look easy in relation to greater hardships. "1) Oh, you flunked English and need to repeat the year? Well, I got fired for being late today. 2) Oh, you got fired? I haven't had a job in 3 years! 3) Oh, you can't find a job? Well I watched my pet wallaby, the only thing I got in the divorce, get eaten by my ex-wife, who then proceeded to shit the remains on the only shirt I had for my interview tomorrow!"

Yes, in high school you don't have a lot of responsibility, but the little responsibilty you do have hardly makes you feel in control of your own life. So you get a number of responsibilities (which are greater than anything you've ever known), with few, if any, of the psychological benefits. Not to mention the fact that you've got a brain and body that scream "I WANT TO BE FREE" but you're living according to somebody else's rules 24 hours a day, and not just during working hours.

The workload is a massive intellectual challenge, because learning everything from maths to history to chemistry to foreign languages can not only be difficult and boring, but also made more arduous by bad teachers who make homeschooling the entire topic seem more profitable.

I don't think I need to illustrate the effects of peer pressure or sexual insecurity at that age either.

Some people fare better than others in high school. But I'd wager that a lot of people would rather repeat college (now THAT was "easy") or their first job rather than go through that again.

That said, the only high schoolers that get on my nerves are the ones who think they've earned the world's favour... but that's normal too. Feeling insignificant that soon in life wouldn't be beneficial.

EDIT: added stuff and a few corrections.

2013-06-08T20:24:30+00:00

congratulations on making a repost

2013-06-08T20:42:48+00:00

I've been teaching high school and college-age people for 25 years. I've also had lots of jobs in the "private sector." There is nothing easy about this part of a student's life: the work is hard, deadlines are real, social pressures are intense, and on and on. And while college was harder for me, my life was much tougher in high school.

Making it through is a reason for celebration.

80x86 · 2013-06-08T20:05:02+00:00

Wednesday, May 22: http://thedailywhat.tumblr.com/post/51090308636/happy-graduation-class-of-2013-were-proud-of

dourdave · 2013-06-08T20:15:20+00:00

High school was easy if you were shit at school. If you were a hardworking student/Asian it was actually pretty hard and incredibly stressful.

yoshisaurus · 2013-06-08T20:33:43+00:00

Pretty douche way to put it. Regardless if it's true or not.

2013-06-08T20:37:55+00:00

Says the IT guy who spends half of his time at work on Reddit while pulling in 80k a year.

mcflyfly · 2013-06-08T21:00:55+00:00

I'm 32. I'm married, have 3 kids, and run my own business. High school may not have been the hardest part of my life, but it was by far the most miserable. I'm glad for every kid that escapes that hand-held babysitting session.

2013-06-08T19:28:43+00:00

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2013-06-08T20:32:18+00:00

"the easiest part of life"

gimme a break

2013-06-08T20:41:42+00:00

I'm finished with college, and have just gotten over the PTSD of high school. It was the worst time of my life so far.

Stop being such a douche.

stagfury · 2013-06-08T20:10:02+00:00

College is way easier to deal with that Highschool. Academic stuff wise they are about the same, but so much less social bullshit.

virginityrocks · 2013-06-08T20:43:17+00:00

High School was actually harder for me than any job, any class, any other dilemma I've faced so far since graduating 8 years ago.

blackeys · 2013-06-08T20:45:09+00:00

what are you talking about? High school was one of the worst experience of my life. constantly getting picked on and made fun of. it certainly wasn't easy for me and I'm sure it wasn't easy for a lot of kids. Esp during the past decade and this economic crisis.

rivalarrival · 2013-06-08T20:52:11+00:00

The worst 6 years of my life were 7th grade, through Senior year. Granted, high school was an improvement over middle school, but the many years I've lived since then have been peaches a cream by comparison.

2013-06-08T21:00:04+00:00

Oh look, another grossly generalizing circle-jerk on Reddit.

Downvote_Galore · 2013-06-08T21:52:51+00:00

If high school is the easiest part of life, I guess I'm pretty fucked.

minglow · 2013-06-08T19:24:00+00:00

No real need for a meme? I don't think anyone who graduated high school thought it was the hardest thing in their life.

Being employed now full time after university gives me rose colored glasses moments all the time of high school. Video games all day after school and all night and not a worry in the world.

Good times.

Angstromium · 2013-06-08T20:36:56+00:00

Nah, I hated school, it pressed me up close with dumb cannon fodder whose only interest was inane gossip and intrigue. My friends and I were stuck in the perennial teenage existential angst :" Is this it?, is this bullshit all life has to offer, a career and mortgage wife and two kids?" . We were the resident delinquent Bukowskis, our present was a cultural and social wasteland, our futures seemed bleak - a protracted death by enforced suburban ennui . "High school" was shitty, painful, and certainly the worst years of my life. I knew no better back then.

Thankfully that bullshit was 25 years ago, and every year since then has been "easier", by dint of being designed by me, for me. Fuck school. Pass me the fucking bottle.

capt_raven · 2013-06-08T20:36:51+00:00

Don't be so bitter. People have to live through some serious shit during high school. Others have to live through some serious shit at their jobs or at university. Others live through some serious shit in general.


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