High School is a weird period of your life filled with social anxiety, drama, raging hormones, youthful rebellion, and strange, short-lived trends. While everyone's high school experience is a little bit different, there are some common themes that run throughout this teenage wasteland, particularly when it comes to attending a private school. Grab your blazers and bowties kids, because here are just a few of the little lessons you might learn after attending a private high school.

1. The cafeteria is called the "dining hall" and is probably named after someone in your biology class.

2. Actually, most of the buildings on campus are named after someone in at least one of your classes.

3. You own inordinate amounts of summer clothes, because that is the only time you can wear your own clothing.

4. Your uniform looked like a bad take on a 90's hip-hop music video.

5. "Free" dress days (which you definitely had to pay a dollar for), caused you endless anxiety, because this is probably the only time you'll get to show everyone at school how great your sense of fashion has become.

6. When you did wear your uniform, you rebelled against it in the subtlest ways you could.

7. For a girl, this meant wearing zany spandex that were visible even when you were wearing that fashionable khaki skort.

8. For guys, this meant "forgetting" your uniform-standard shoes and wearing sneakers or sperry's to class (my god, you rebels).

9. On graduation day, you had all your friends sign your uniform because you were finally free! No more polos for you!

10. You know every single person in the school because at a maximum there are 100 kids in your grade.

11. Your teachers will constantly scold you for not living up to the school's expectations, and threaten you with a visit to the Headmaster's office, which makes you immediately think of Harry Potter.

12. There was a fight one time, someone pushed someone else. It was scary.

13. You had to play a sport, but not because the school wanted everyone to be healthy - more likely because they couldn't field a team without mandatory participation.

14. Everyone who was actually "athletic" wore compression socks. All. The. Time.

15. Every time someone asks you "Is it just like Gossip Girl?" you tell them no, sigh, and wish to yourself that it was, because no senior looked like Chase Crawford.

16. For some reason, your school mascot was really, really bizarre.

17. There was an inch marker at the door of your homeroom so your teacher could check the length of your skirt.

18. Somewhere in the building, there was an eccentric teacher that you never saw anywhere except their own classroom.

19. There was also a teacher so ancient that he taught your classmates' parents when they went there.

20. Sneaking off campus to get food during your free period sent your adrenaline through the roof.

21. Homecoming was held in your small dining hall, and it was...weird. You could never quite reconcile with the idea of watching people grind in the same place you ate peanut butter sandwiches.

22. The same guys you saw starring in the school play were also on the basketball team, a Troy Bolton situation for sure, but again, this was mostly because of a lack of bodies than true passion for theater and athleticism.

23. There was always that one teacher who was super lenient with the dress code.

24. Special ceremony days were the worst, because that meant you had to wear the most ridiculously formal version of your uniform the school offered.

25. You thank yourself everyday for only popping your collar for that one week freshman year.