Poll of the Day > Did you think high school was more fun or college?

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which

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Probably college for having more freedom and the ability to do stuff, although high school could be a more fun environment and a lot of the really fun people from HS never made it to college.

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College, by a fucking OCEAN

High school was miserable.
College was some of the best time of my life. And I'm not even a drinker/party person / etc...

why do you think h.s. was so bad?

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Both were awesome.

UT1999 posted...

why do you think h.s. was so bad?

Stuck in stupid pre-set cliques (in my case, loner/nerd)
Starting to reach adulthood but still have all the limitations and restrictions you had when you were younger.

Like...it was better than middle school. But I still hated it. Had to wait till college to "start over" and have freedom.

College, instead of the regimented classes of high school, it was a giant mixing bowl of picking your own classes and more "everyone for themselves". I could go to gaming club and anime club and have friends there, then go to martial arts and have a totally different group of friends there, and so on...
Just way more fringe interests available to cater to weirdos like me, and ironically the much larger body of students made it much easier to not be "part of the crowd" because there's so many people and you're constantly around completely different groups from one class to the next or one hobby/activity to the next.

EDIT: Also had very overbearing parents, so living away from them made ....other things... much easier, too...

Both were fun in different ways, both were lame in different ways.

Basically, you know, life.

The only school years I actively disliked was middle school, and that only lasted like 3 years. And it was mostly because it was an awkward adjustment from elementary school because of how our school system worked. But even that wasn't total hell or anything.

I know it's the stereotype that most Internet nerds hate school because all they have are memories of getting stuffed into lockers by the cool kids or just picked on constantly, but that was never really a thing for me. I was probably the bully more often than I was the one getting bullied.
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College by a million miles. In high school, I was unpopular and bullied. I didn't have a car or a driver's license until the very end of my senior year. My parents wouldn't let me participate in any extracurricular activities because they either didn't want to pick me up late from school, or didn't want to pay extra money for them. I had maybe a handful of friends tops, and most of those "friends" would pretend they didn't know me while around more popular kids.

In college, I still lived at home, but I had a car. I could go out and spend time after school and participate in things outside of class. I still wasn't super popular, but at least I had some actual friends and freedom.


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I had 0 friends in high school and parents who would smell my clothes whenever I interacted with kids my age and accused me of smoking, hoping to get a confession out of me, even though they never actually smelled smoke

and in college I lived away from that

so the answer is obvious

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I had a mental breakdown in high school which I never recovered from, and therefore I haven't been to college.

I think I would have enjoyed college, though.

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high school was such a fucking drag on my time with homework + hours of classes a day. college was great because if i understood the material i could just skip reading and even leave class if i wanted

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Highschool because my parents refused to send me to a normal college and told me I would have to pay for it and there was no way I was going to try to rack up student debt so I just went to community college which takes out most of the social aspect of college.

The super nice college they WOULD pay for was super JESUS college. Like literally the nicest campus ever with a rollerblade rink, waterpark, wallball rooms, bowling alleys, the workkssss BUT....it was ultra conservative. Like there were literally different sidewalks for men and women and different swim times for boys and girls. You betcha that the opposite sex wasnt allowed in your dorm.

Highschool and the people in it nearly drove me to "you know what" and years later I still actively struggle to try to forget what happened in it, didn't help I met an old ex from it and she made my life even more miserable last year.

I didn't go to college though.

College had more memorable times for sure. First year was kind of awkward trying to make friends and get used to things, but once I did I really enjoyed it. High school was for the most part forgettable outside of a few notable experiences.

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Community College was nothing fun

Both were fun.

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teddy241 posted...

Community College was nothing fun

But Greendale looked awesome!

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Both suck ass, but highschool was more fun. I've never gone to a college where I felt as if I was 'part of a community'. Even though there were a lot of turds in my highschool, I still grew up with them and it felt like a community.

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Neither. There were too many stupid kids in high school, and college felt like nonstop homework.

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This topic again?

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Wtf is middle school

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High school by far is more fun.

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Both were pretty great.

Then again, I was fortunate enough to have both occur before the internet was a thing.

In my case I had a good group of friends for high school, but that didn't really develop in college. Plus it seemed to me there were more activity options available in high school. I went to a large state urban college and, while there was "city stuff" to do, it never felt to me that the college itself did much to try and engage students. (Which is why I ignore their mailings asking for more money from me)

College was fine and good and interesting (and better than now!) but I vote high school.

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High school was for me although I actually enjoyed the classes more at university. I was more serious about school in university and I didn't like the idea of sororities and fraternities. It seemed like there people based their friendships on which one of those groups you were in. My older sister was heavily into the top sorority, was a cheerleader and in beauty pageants. I was heavily recruited by many but it seemed so childish. So I stayed out of all of them.
I did make some lifelong friends there but not as close as my high school ones. And again, I loved the freedom of classes and learning. I had some professors that I really respected and were very helpful in getting me pointed in the right direction.

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high school was a constant nightmare. college was much kinder but also much more boring

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High School was fun, but College was just better

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High school by a mile.

Lunch break was better at college and thats about it. It doesnt help that i never wanted to go to begin with but i dropped out and will not be returning.

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TheFalseDeity posted...

Lunch break was better at college

I mean, you kinda don't really have "lunch breaks," because the scheduling of classes works differently. High schools break the days into uniform blocks, where lunch is its own period. In college, "lunch" is just whenever you have time between classes, which might be 15 minutes while walking to your next class. Or if you just schedule night classes for a semester, it's not even a thing you have to worry about (although then your job decides the lunch break)

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VioletMassacre posted...

The one in the middle.

Middle of what

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FatalAccident posted...

Wtf is middle school

I had Elementary school from Kindergarten to Grade 5.

Middle school grades 6-8.

Highschool was 9-12.

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oh, and middle school was hell. absolute hell.

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ReturnOfFa posted...

oh, and middle school was hell. absolute hell.

why do you say that?

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middle > high = elementary > college
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College was more fun for me academically. I took online classes so not having to commute or anything was amazing

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Zeus posted...

I mean, you kinda don't really have "lunch breaks," because the scheduling of classes works differently. High schools break the days into uniform blocks, where lunch is its own period. In college, "lunch" is just whenever you have time between classes, which might be 15 minutes while walking to your next class. Or if you just schedule night classes for a semester, it's not even a thing you have to worry about (although then your job decides the lunch break)

Depends entirely upon the college.

State / Public schools - this is true.
My wife went to a private school where the classes were scheduled very much like high school with a lunch break.

High school was a lot easier compared to college because at college, you're on your own and you have to manage your time far better than in high school and in college I played football so I had to juggle class time and practice but I managed.

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I've done the odd college course but they didn't last more than 8 weeks still as we were all adults on the course it felt more easy to avoid people I don't like much and going to the pub after with some of them was fun. That's how some of them are now my acquaintances. In secondary school I was bullied a lot and it was much harder to avoid idiots.

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Zeus posted...

I mean, you kinda don't really have "lunch breaks," because the scheduling of classes works differently. High schools break the days into uniform blocks, where lunch is its own period. In college, "lunch" is just whenever you have time between classes, which might be 15 minutes while walking to your next class. Or if you just schedule night classes for a semester, it's not even a thing you have to worry about (although then your job decides the lunch break)

No official ones true. But my schedule was set up that the biggest break came at 12 so it ended up being near the same for me as in HS. Just with options for food rather than a school cafeteria.

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