High School For Nerds Was Games And Work
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High School For Nerds Was Games And Work

It may be all fun and games to some, but to others it's games and work.

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High School For Nerds Was Games And Work
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How long does average high school experience last?

Four years and on that fourth year we are supposed to be grown up enough to move on? Yeah, that's what they tell us at least. Let's grow up and be adults.

What about the kids who weren't out there partying? What about the ones who sit at school, work hard and study- only to go home to our best friends on video games and play our digital lives away night after night.

So did we enjoy high school, well, kinda. I'm not saying that it was the absolute worst, but I wasn't all that into it.

Every person has their own story behind high school. It's the jocks who get the initial reputation and the nerds who get the final reputation. Just because it isn't like the movies where people are given huge wedgies, doesn't mean it wasn't awkward and terrible.

Normally for nerds (including myself), we start out as being genuinely smart and slightly talented in other fields, like sports or video games. After freshman and sophomore year, some students like us are luckily able to graduate early or go to college sooner than others and we jump at the chance to leave high school.

In my case, I was offered to be in a program where I started college my junior year of high school. So yes, like any other nerdy kid I left high school and all my sentimental values with my old school, and now it's my senior year and I could care less about the fact that I'm leaving high school.

Like any other nerd, I think we all jump at the chance to get out of high school and we cringe at graduation as everyone acts like it's a huge deal.

Maybe, it's the intellect we have or the fact that we only have a very select group of friends, but that's the way we nerds survive. We live in pacts throughout school and we hold the same aspirations. Graduating is the tip of the iceberg for us because we live a life of choices and now we get to choose our school and our friends.

Our senior year is just another year of awkward gaming and college decisions, most of us fight through our high school years and decide to go to a major college and live on to become your next doctor, lawyer, or engineer.

We may not be the people that you call for a party or the kids that you want on your sports team, but we are the people you will turn to in twenty years when you need a basic check-up or civil lawyer and that's when we'll help with a smile and let you realize that we are needed to make the world go round.

So, no, senior year isn't important to us. We have a lot of our life left and way better experiences to live through. Senior year hasn't been all it's cracked up to be, but it's been very useful in determining my life goals and finding out who I am. I'm thankful for my high school life but I'll happily move on to a better more realistic life in college.

Goodbye high school, you won't be missed!

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