All high schools are created equal, except for the small ones. Whenever the topic is brought up, people always wonder how I survived as one of 29 in my graduating class. While the size of your school may be a little more than mine, that doesn’t mean it’s not small. Hopefully at least some of these points relate to you current students or alumni who have survived the small high school.

Here's 17 reasons that only people who went to small high schools could understand:

1. You compare your graduating class size with others whenever high school gets brought up.

2. Lol what are football teams? Our soccer team played for our homecoming, and we generally lost.

3. You didn’t have tryouts for teams, you just signed up.

4. Plays and musicals drew more crowds than our sports did because our sports were so bad.

5. You knew every teacher’s first and last name and subject, even if they never taught you.

6. Don’t do anything you wouldn’t want the whole school knowing about, because they will all know by the next day.

7. But it could also get hilariously blown out of proportion and you would have to explain to everybody what actually happened.

8. Classes with 5 people were definitely a thing, and very common.

9. And you had every class with the same 3 people.

10. There were 5 kids who were in every class together because there were so few sections.

11. You knew everyone’s schedule.

12. Class rankings by percentage weren’t a thing because if you weren’t in the top 3, you weren’t in the top 10%.

13. One person could actually ruin it for everybody and, to make matters worse, everybody would know who that one person was.

14. There weren’t “popular” kids, there were kids you hung out with and kids you didn’t hang out with.

15. If you’re Greek, your chapter is bigger than your graduating class. In my case, my pledge class is bigger than my graduating class.

16. Your graduation took less than an hour and maybe 200 people were there.

17. You can’t imagine going to school anywhere else.