Graduating from High school

[Deleted member 84247]

Congratulations. Are you planning college? Be a proper Zoomer and rack up student loans that are impossible to pay back in one lifetime. The government needs your debt because they don't get enough taxes!

I think OP is not from the United States.

 

[SternenklarenRitter]

I can barely even imagine a country that isn't mostly funded by interest on student loan debt.

 

[Nhatduongg]

I think OP is not from the United States.

I can barely even imagine a country that isn't mostly funded by interest on student loan debt.

Well I did get accepted into several US universities with high scholarship, but I won't go because of political issues (you know). Universities in my country is pretty affordable, about middle class income for the most expensive ones.

 

[Hans.Trondheim]

Pretty much just writing what I'm thinking without organizing so bear with the messiness.

So I just finished the national graduation exam in my country this morning. The results still need to be graded and stuff and the diploma needs to be handed, but as long as I get above 1, I'll graduate. Which means, effectively, I'm done with any studies relating to high school.

In the grand scheme of things, it's not that big of a deal. Seeing how everyone has, are, or will be experiencing high school graduation the same as I am. Nonetheless, it's an event worth celebrating and any student has the right to be happy with crossing this milestone.

I joined Scribblehub when I was in the middle of 9th grade, and it has been a wild ride through high school until now that has left my soul hanging by a thread. The education requirements of my school were particularly tough and studying was intense. The extra classes I took pretty much deplete me of my time to pursue any hobby aside from entertaining myself (writing for example), so every day was a cycle of going to school, going to extra classes, going home, eat, game, and sleeping (at 2 AM). I became less and less caring about the happenings of the world each day, and I just go through the days not for living, but for completing the exams.

The lessons and exams were tough, but there was one redeeming feature about my experience in High school, and that is the friends that I made. I regularly hang out and go to lunch together with several classmates, and we have fun talks together outside of class or in the middle of class (except for one who turned out to be a horrible person and we fell out). By the end of this year, the four of us truly felt like we belonged with each other and that we had each other's backs.

So, with everything said, how do I feel about graduating? Well, I guess not much. At this moment, I have nothing to say about it. I don't feel the intense exhilaration like many I saw on the news do. I don't feel disappointed or regret that I cannot do the tests. I'm just... tired, and glad that it's finally over. And I guess right now I feel a little bit lost too, haha.

This morning, before taking the test, I planned to say something grand on here after I'm done, but I guess I can't really do it after all, so you guys are left with this mess of a rant. Here's hoping for at least ten more years of Scribble Hub! And I'll consider picking up my stories again after abandoning them for three years.

Congratulations!

Here's what I can say, from the POV of an educator. Take a breather first. Decide whatever you want to do in your life, as long as you'll be happy with it. I always tell my students that if they choose whatever it is they'll be happy in doing, they'll 'never work' for the rest of their work lives.

As for me, I graduated high school in 2004. Went to college from 2005-2009, but realized I love teaching when I was already IN education as a teacher (2013). Lesson learned? Tis never too late to search for a place where you belong.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

It's a good thing you used the term "finished" and not "graduated" because I got suspended hours before the ceremony.

 

[CheertheSecond]

I asked my Vietnamese friend for the curriculum of students in Vietnam before. From what he told me and what I saw in the materials, I have to grimace. Most of the things covered in the materials as explained by my friend looks very unnecessary to me. There are just too many this to learn which is a major red flag for me. That was not the amount of information a normal people can digest without sacrificing majority of other developments. I am even more flabbergasted when he told me how not even 40% of these materials was of any use to him. Just to explain, that friend of mine is an info whore. He took everything to make a perfect world-building (according to him) so the fact that he could only make use of 40% means Vietnamese students would not even need a quarter of those for their adulthood.

Many in the materials were also very strangely being allowed to exist in there. I mean those stuffs are only used in college. Normal people not attending those college's majors should have no need for it to live a normal life. WTF, man? Why wasting people's time and effort in learning those things? And why 12 years just to learn those things? You can let it stop at year 10 and let them enter college early. That would greatly increase your national workforce immensely! Dafak? Is Vietnam so rich they can afford to let students wander aimlessly learning these things and delay their time before employment?

I do not deny that more school time means more schoolmate connection but there are ways to do this with better efficiency.

Anyway, since it can not be changed, let stop it here. Congrats to your graduation!

I hope that you have a new life now that you're out of prison. Not my joke. That's how he described his younger years in school. :3

Go and grow other parts of your life. You wasted a few years of your best time. Don't miss out the rest! :)