How did you feel upon leaving school?

I really liked high school, I had a lot of friends, went to dances, football games and had a few boyfriends. I missed that after graduating but still had the same friends. I went away to college and then moved back home. I married my husband a couple of years later.
 

My high school was the summer school hub for many towns. Just out of 8th grade I took classes with a few friends to get a jump on high school. Many others were preparing for college. So many rich kids with cars and boats. It was a summer to remember. School in the morning, beach in the afternoon.
Things settled down by fall but many remained my friends for years. When I graduated I poked around NYC and took some classes. Others went off to college but I made out OK.
 
I'd moved counties just as I started High S - so that brought its challenges but all went well. Leaving school for the last time at that level was somewhat bizzare and confusing - emotionally - I knew what had to be done and did - find a job - easy - vacancies always. Old friendships hung in for 6mths or so and then slipped away. Sis and Bro had left home I think so it felt strange being alone with Ma and Pa - weird?

In the end I left and moved 300 kms south and never returned permanently again? It created some traumas in our family but they declined eventually. Would I do it again ; could I do it again? - I would have to really seems part of the evolutionary process!! How does that song go ? " Regrets I've had a few.....? - God I need my shrink again!
 

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I graduated from 8th grade in a K through 8 system. I was scared right away in high school, and didn't get the hang of it until my senior year, but I was happy to get it behind me. I adapted to college easily like a duck to water. Finally, adults! Well, OK, not quite adults, but compared to high school, there was a maturity level I could begin to feel comfortable with. Even when college age students were screwing around, it was often done in a clever more intelligent way. Making fart sounds with your arm pit was not longer the apex of humor. And bullying was considered crass and pointless.
 
I took the SAT test in my senior year and I didn't get the results. Even asking for them, I didn't get an answer. I guess they were lost in the shuffle. I might not have been suited for college but I was accepted by UCLA.
 
Grades 1-8 in a 4 room rural school taught by 4 teachers each teaching 2 grades.
Thought I was smartest kid.

When I got to high school I still thought I was really smart.

Well when I got to the University I learned I had been a "big fish in little pond" in grade and high school. Nearly flunked out,
 
Relief, Most of my friends & ones I associated with were friends from grade school. They kept changing resident lines of our grade schools. I attended 3 the last 3 years of grade school. Made very few friends in HS, none were lasting. Vietnam War was just getting started. Joined service within one week of graduation, went on to school after service.
 

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