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suzzer99 20 hours ago

High school is truly fun for maybe 15% of the students, is an utter nightmare for 15%, and has its moments but still generally sucks for everyone else.

tonyedgecombe 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It’s probably the same ratios when working in a large corporation.

andreykocevski 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

High school is pretty fun in europe, especially where I am from. First year of high school is when you start drinking alcohol, smoking, going out, parties, girls, really all the cool stuff. Its the period when you step into the world of adolescence. But of course american high school experience is nothing like this and its rather depressing, considering I lived in the US and have known few high schoolers that were family friends of mine. They all were just drowned in homework, stayed at home, and played video games nonstop.

suzzer99 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Euro teens seem a lot more comfortable in their own skin than American teens.

fsckboy 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

maybe it's being 15 that sucks for 85%, and has nothing to do with high school at all.

close04 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's probably both because you're 15ish in a herd of many other 15ish year olds. Maybe the fun factor is amplified, but so is the suck factor. Even a few traumas can leave a lifetime of scarring.

suzzer99 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

15 is definitely a rough age.

shafyy 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Maybe it's also being 15 in today's modern society that sucks.

sokoloff 12 hours ago | parent [-]

Being 15 four decades ago wasn’t a live-action Disney movie either.

starluz 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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drewcoo 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What percent of students learn to pull stats out of thin air?

Everyone I knew then, even the "cool kids," thought high school was some bleak hell punctuated with moments of extraordinary joy. I have no idea whether that's due to hormones or school or what.

suzzer99 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I know a few people who had the time of their lives in high school. Maybe 15% is high, I was just proxying the popular kids. I'm sure some of them were miserable. But some non-popular kids probably had a decent time.