Thanks to the landlord, I've decided to write a high school entry.
Phew, it's gone by so fast. I've accumulated so much. I've changed so much. I missed the good ol' days of middle school; the days when I didn't care about how many friends I had, when I didn't care thta girls weren't interested in me, when grades weren't important and class wasn't hard in the first place. Back then, I had EQ1 and that's all I needed to have fun. That's when I met my best friend, Josh. It started with far side comics in arithmitic class, progressed when I moved closer to him. We became good friends over EQ1. And we spent time at the fire hydrant talking. Together we decided to go to SST. He, I and russel embarked, (without Jason) to make one of the best choices heretofore. I've doubted my decision many, many times. I miss the abundance of people, the feeling of intellectual superiority, and the choices that I could have had for classed. But what I got back from SST is amazing. I met some of the best people my age, I met some very wonerful teachers, I learned lots of useful knowledge, and I think it helped shape me morally and conciously into the Me that I enjoy about myself. Also, I'm glad that josh spent four years at SST; I think it helped him become more social than he was.
When we started, it was an old aquarium and we were the new batch of fish. I had josh, russel, and "mister concede" as friends. It seemed that josh found a new group of friends, but after a bit, I was accepted as one of them too, though I've always felt less included than josh has been. Freshman year... that was a tough year. It was mostly the adjusting part that threw me off. Other than that, I don't remember much. Month off of EQ to play D2.
Sophomore year was much easier, I put in more effort, and I got much better grades. It was a good year all together. At the end of the year, I started my geek metamoorphosis. It started with anime. I liked japanese too, so I tried learning some after josh. I'm still not very good at it, but I have almost a year's worth of vocab and half a year of grammer just by self-study. I also gained my interest for D&D. Before then I thought that playing a game based off of written down characters was a waste of time, because you could just rewrite them whenever you wanted. Now, D&D is the most important game to me. Also, I started making female friends at the end of my 10th grade year. I miss those days of talking to Rachel, Lia, and Briita.
Junior year was almost as tough as freshman year, because we had ritter classes and morales classes. Green and winikka had nap time for classes, but morales and ritter actually had criteria for getting an A, other than looking like you tried. My biggest pitfall for english clases has been my inability to bullshit through uninteresting topics. And my ability to bend has barely gotten me through. (tangent)I still hate forced symbolism. "how doesn't this poem reflect the attributes we see in america today?" You mean like how people might see america based on the actions of it's representative and from the infamous villany that constitutes 75% of our media coverage. (end-tangent.) Oh pre-calc, I'll miss you. Junior year was also the only year I really had a girlfriend in. (emo)
Senior year was much easier, in the sense that my classes got progressively simpler. If I count strut as half a class, then my quarter's credits were 6, 5, 4, 2, respectivly. Chem was pretty good fun. Much more than physics. Calc was more fun than it sounded. I also realized how much of a gap there is between me and the people I consider my friends. We've all drifted apart.
This year, I've found my sight in life. I have goals, and I have guidelines, but I have blurry means and a lot of faith to leap. (rant) The biggest life-lesson I learned this year is that People will lie. They lie because they are ignorant, they will lie because they have no honor, and they will tell the lies they have been told. Fact isn't fact if you read it from a book, hear it from the radio, or if the government tells so. Truth only comes from living and learning. My example is marijuana. I don't do it and I don't want to use it for fun. The problem is that it isn't half as bad as every authority figure says it is. Government and "educational organizations" make it out to be suicide and raping your family. If someone says drugs are bad, and alcohol and tobacco aren't, then they are damn dirty hypocritical liars. Restating the point differently, assurance, guarentees, and facts are overrated and undermined in this society. (/rant)
I'll miss the D&D sessions, LAN parties, magic during lunch, StRUT hijinks, rearranging Momo's room when he left, getting punched by gardner, long bouts of MMO playing, my binders full of D&D monsters, visiting CP every weekend, and being taken care of by my parents.
I hope there'll be people in my future that think like me, live like me, and can respect like I do. fake edit: and goons and ladies. I hope they'll be there too.