I
just finished by
senior year (awwwww yeah!!).
Freshman year I was
isolated, I bit lonely and bored. I had
friends but they were trying to get
popular. Sophamore year I had
friends who were more like me.
Drama geeks,
band geeks,
art geeks, and most importantly,
Academic Decathlon geeks, or
AcaDorks. I met people
smarter than me, and that made me
think more. We had real
fun. Then i joined
Academic Decathlon junior year. Its the smartest thing I've ever done. The combination of having
friends with similar problems and the
support of the
team (we had a 40 member team) and the confidence from doing very
well changed
high school. Then there's this
year. I've been invited to
two parties today, but I'm too tired from going to
parties that are important to me to go. I
talk to the
class Vice President every day (the class President is usually too stoned). I was
nominated to be
class marshal but I wouldn't run. I was
voted a
school leader.
To make
high school tolerable do the following things.
- Find other geeks/nerds and make friends.
- Be confident. Everyone can tell if you are. If you can't, pretend you are confidant and it will come.
- For me the most important was...
Ignore the
teachers/
administration. Get
good grades if thats what you want (I didn't particularly but then I didn't do a scrap of
homework this year in
honors and
AP courses). Find out which
teachers give a
crap. In my school of 200
teachers, we found 15
good ones that we
respect and listen to. A few we'd do anything for. The
rest we don't listen to. We
are important enough] to our
school that we can. We
took over the
teachers lounge and none have been able to get it back. Be
confidant and a
geek and they won't touch you. Then you can go about being
happy.