High
School
High School is a land of the unknown,
feared by many, and enjoyed by most. Going into High School, freshmen year,
every cake faced 8th grader already thinks they know what to expect.
People sitting at different lunch tables based on their social crowd, girls
pulling each other’s hair by the lockers because their boyfriend was, well both
of their boyfriends. I came to find out that none of that was real, and
apparently neither was freshmen Friday, something I had feared the entire
summer. One thing is true though; senior boys are much cuter than the brace
faced ones you've been surrounded by for the past 8 years of public
schooling. High school is a conceit of a roller coaster, and I know that is so cliche but High school itself is one big cliche.
One day you’re on top of the mountain, proud of what you've done to
accomplish that and the next day you could be falling off the side of the
cliff, at square one once again. It’s no wonder some people love it and some
don’t, because believe it or not, the people that stay at the top of the
mountain are at the top of the food chain and don’t have any plans off falling
off the side anytime soon. Its one big social ranking that you can’t take
yourself out of. High school
is one big mountain and people spend 4 years trying to get to the top.
Its kind of cool to think that you can become anyone you want to, create your own identity. But the not so cool thing is that that identity defines you for 4 whole years. One day I could accidentally walk into the boys bathroom, and that little mistake could mark me for the rest of my high school career. Or you let someone copy your homework once, and then twice and then soon later your known as "the girl in my class who always let me copy off of her".
It is especially hard for girls in High School because although guys are mean and physical, girls are catty and manipulative. Even some of your closest friends can turn on you any second. Or the girls you talk to and are nice but not really friends with outside of school are texting your boyfriend behind your back. Trust me it can happen. You learn not to be so naive anymore. Its every man for himself. Survival of the fittest, and you have to be fierce in order to fight back. I know by seeing TV shows and watching movies or hearing things about what you have to wear to be cool or fit in is hard to ignore, i wear yoga pants and sweatpants ALL THE TIME LADIES and you think anyone ever stopped talking to me for it? NO. Walk into the High School and be yourself, how else are you gonna know who your real friends are? or where you fit in? because the friends you make over the next 4 years are life long friends, unless there all fake and ditch you senior year (which doesnt usually happen). So ladies make sure you just do you and have fun and make the best of it because you will meet people, boys and girls, that will be with you forever and you don't want to miss out on the chance of meeting them.
P.S- Don't let this blog scare you High School is really fun, you just have to make it that way. It's just advice that can forewarn you for what to come :) But not all experiences are like that so you just do you and make some friends while your at it.
Its kind of cool to think that you can become anyone you want to, create your own identity. But the not so cool thing is that that identity defines you for 4 whole years. One day I could accidentally walk into the boys bathroom, and that little mistake could mark me for the rest of my high school career. Or you let someone copy your homework once, and then twice and then soon later your known as "the girl in my class who always let me copy off of her".
It is especially hard for girls in High School because although guys are mean and physical, girls are catty and manipulative. Even some of your closest friends can turn on you any second. Or the girls you talk to and are nice but not really friends with outside of school are texting your boyfriend behind your back. Trust me it can happen. You learn not to be so naive anymore. Its every man for himself. Survival of the fittest, and you have to be fierce in order to fight back. I know by seeing TV shows and watching movies or hearing things about what you have to wear to be cool or fit in is hard to ignore, i wear yoga pants and sweatpants ALL THE TIME LADIES and you think anyone ever stopped talking to me for it? NO. Walk into the High School and be yourself, how else are you gonna know who your real friends are? or where you fit in? because the friends you make over the next 4 years are life long friends, unless there all fake and ditch you senior year (which doesnt usually happen). So ladies make sure you just do you and have fun and make the best of it because you will meet people, boys and girls, that will be with you forever and you don't want to miss out on the chance of meeting them.
P.S- Don't let this blog scare you High School is really fun, you just have to make it that way. It's just advice that can forewarn you for what to come :) But not all experiences are like that so you just do you and make some friends while your at it.
Thousands of movies have been made that give
us a false and true version about what High School is like. Growing up we would
stay up late to watch a PG-13 movie while our parents were sleeping or lock our door so we could quickly change the channel when they knocked. Here are some movies that influenced me to think of High School a
certain way but really represent what to expect.
Mean girls
Mean
Girls, even the title gives you a little taste about what High School is like. If
you think about it, this is how we want to deal with problems, full force lion.
Girl world is like the animal world, we claw at each other until the other
cries mercy. I know when I’m pissed at one of my friends I just want to
jump on top of them and literally smack sense into them. In many
different, weird ways, girls are like animals, we stalk prey (boys) and if
we don’t get it we move onto the next one. We travel in packs and there is
always a leader. Real life High School may not be exactly like this, but
behind closed doors, it is.
“When
your young everything feels like the end of the world” and who better than Zac
Efron to describe how us teenagers feel from the age of 12 -18. Getting a bad
grade on a test worth 50% of your grade and you think “My parents are gonna
kill me, or worse there not going to let me go out this weekend” , or like in
this scene, your boyfriend dumps you and it feels like there is nothing left.
Having a boyfriend myself, and being a 16 year old girl, I would probably feel
the same way Maggie did in the beginning, it’s just how we are. Since High
School is so important, everything seems 10 times worse than it actually is,
and although your world may have stopped spinning, the rest of it is still
rotating around the axis, trying to do its thing.
The Breakfast Club
This scene in the Breakfast Club represents 5 of the main social classes that lurk every hallway of every school. The popular girl who takes advantage of retail therapy and eats sushi for lunch. Who is so caught up in herself and her life she disregards everyone else around her, especially the people below her. The there’s the nerd, who hides in his books and thinks lab reports are fun, who let the jocks copy his homework and then expect to be invited to the next after football game party and then sit home on a Friday night to study instead. The jock, pressured by his parents and his reputation to keep playing. Playing a sport has much more expectation than everyone thinks. When you play football or basketball or even wrestle, you are a jock, and you copy homework and go to practice everyday. Then there’s the weird girl who everyone ignores because she’s different. She sits in the back corner of the room and just observes, doesn’t talk, just listens. Her own self being is not like the others, so she shuts her self away, not even hoping to be noticed. Lastly, you have the bad ass who walks around with clothes way too big for him and really long hair, sometimes even a piercing here and there. He thinks his own life sucks so bad he wants to make it worse because honestly, what does he have to loose. He doesn’t care what anyone thinks because all he cares about is himself, which is all he has ever known. He is the lone rider and likes it that way. These 5 “stereotypes” are NOT stereotypes and you see that when you watch people walk through the hallway, same grade, same class, different lives.
This scene in the Breakfast Club represents 5 of the main social classes that lurk every hallway of every school. The popular girl who takes advantage of retail therapy and eats sushi for lunch. Who is so caught up in herself and her life she disregards everyone else around her, especially the people below her. The there’s the nerd, who hides in his books and thinks lab reports are fun, who let the jocks copy his homework and then expect to be invited to the next after football game party and then sit home on a Friday night to study instead. The jock, pressured by his parents and his reputation to keep playing. Playing a sport has much more expectation than everyone thinks. When you play football or basketball or even wrestle, you are a jock, and you copy homework and go to practice everyday. Then there’s the weird girl who everyone ignores because she’s different. She sits in the back corner of the room and just observes, doesn’t talk, just listens. Her own self being is not like the others, so she shuts her self away, not even hoping to be noticed. Lastly, you have the bad ass who walks around with clothes way too big for him and really long hair, sometimes even a piercing here and there. He thinks his own life sucks so bad he wants to make it worse because honestly, what does he have to loose. He doesn’t care what anyone thinks because all he cares about is himself, which is all he has ever known. He is the lone rider and likes it that way. These 5 “stereotypes” are NOT stereotypes and you see that when you watch people walk through the hallway, same grade, same class, different lives.
Can’t Buy me love
High School in a nut shell. Trying to fit in. Sides. Separation. Now its not as overdramatic as this but the point across is that we all are in the same class, 7 years ago all used to be friends and now were all divided by what we do, what we like and who we hangout with. In reality, people don’t get beaten up for sitting on certain sides of the lunch room but when you sit down next to people you don’t normally associate yourself with you will get a look that feels like you got punched in the face. Just like this, people think there so much better then other people who are the same age as them, and this arrogant confidence comes from your social ranking in high school, that is what divides us and that is true.
High School in a nut shell. Trying to fit in. Sides. Separation. Now its not as overdramatic as this but the point across is that we all are in the same class, 7 years ago all used to be friends and now were all divided by what we do, what we like and who we hangout with. In reality, people don’t get beaten up for sitting on certain sides of the lunch room but when you sit down next to people you don’t normally associate yourself with you will get a look that feels like you got punched in the face. Just like this, people think there so much better then other people who are the same age as them, and this arrogant confidence comes from your social ranking in high school, that is what divides us and that is true.
High School realistically and non realistically in a nut shell. Some things are true and some are not, but those things don't mean a thing if you don't let them. Just remember have fun and yeah there will be some bumps along the way but you will get through them and 5 years from now, you won't even remember them. Never forget who you really are because that is whats gonna matter most 5 years from now
I like this blog because I think it could actually be very helpful in relieving the stresses of a middle schooler who is worried about going into high school. I liked how you used specific examples of movies to set the truth straight about what high school is really like.
ReplyDeleteI like your idea behind this blog post and that you describe high school in comparison to the chick flick classics that we all know and love. That being said, I would watch out with your generalization and maybe read it over once or twice just to work out any grammatical errors. All in all, good job! :)
ReplyDeleteThis blog effectively adivses incoming freshmen. The examples you provided reinforced your position, and the films you chose to disect were quality. Also, I enjoyed the casual tone of the piece. However, there were quite a few grammar errors; but aside from that, this blog was prestine. Nice!
ReplyDeleteI personally enjoyed this blog entry. Particularly because when a group of seniors came into my pod in eighth grade the lied to us about high-school. Literally lied to us our teachers had to talk to us the day after about how the were wrong. What they told us was essentially what this blog post stats that it might not be all that fabulous but it not a total piece of horrendous sludge. My only advice would be to look over it before publishing. Because there were a few grammatical errors and the mean girls paragraph has a diagonal split down the middle.
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