r/highschool 10h ago

Question How was yalls first day in high school?

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ngl my day was pretty bad, i dont know anyone from my class and half of them seem to know each other quite well (even have a "class" group chat without a couple of people including me i guess) i feel like im gonna get either bullied or isolated (because im basically the shortest man in the class not counting girls), hope it went well for yall


r/highschool 3h ago

School Related Last first day of school! Can't wait to be done with this crap

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r/highschool 44m ago

Share Grades/Classes My schedule as a freshmen

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i would rly appreciate it if anyone could give me advice/tips btw!! ❤️ i’m hoping to go into law


r/highschool 7m ago

General Advice Needed/Given Being a freshman is really hard

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sorry for the long paragraph

Yesterday I woke up, excited for my first day of high school. but, everything went so wrong. I was originally a loner and I wanted to make new friends this school year. But everyone is just so hard to talk to. I want to talk to the popular girls and be like them. They are so nice and outgoing and I’m a nobody. Today, I started small and started making small talk with other people without friends. I was honestly hoping to becoming someone’s first friend but they have other friends outside their classes. It’s literally just me who doesn’t have friends in this entire school. Today I sat alone in the cafeteria with no one. But, I did meet this girl who is really nice and I’m going to sit at her table tomorrow. But everything else is stressing me out. And also, on my bus literally every seat in the middle was taken. So I had to sit all by myself in the back. And when it got to my stop, I had to walk down so many aisles. I even tripped on something on my way to the front. I saw some people who were alone sitting on the bus so I’m going to ask them if I can sit next to them next time. But I’m scared because my social battery drains fast. I wonder if I’m better of as a loner or making new friends. It’s so stressful, what do I do? How do I keep my social battery up?? I am genuinely stressing out.


r/highschool 6h ago

General Advice Needed/Given School is giving me anger issues

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So normally I am a very happy person. But when a school year starts I get more pissed off and more hateful towards anything. I crash out at the slightest things, get incredibly pissed at slight inconveniences that I normally wouldn't mind. I was even hateful enough to want to see my teacher gutted, I cried out of anger at home and right now even thinking about starting my second year is enough to ruin my mood and make me mad enough to cry. How do i fix or prevent ts? I don't want to have anger issues this year


r/highschool 2h ago

School Related I don’t get what this question is asking me to do.

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I don’t understand this question. Am I supposed to be trying to get the highest possible answer with 7’s or am I trying to use combinations of 7 to equal the number on the left?


r/highschool 15h ago

School Related MY FIRST DAY IN HIGH SCHOOL!!

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I went with my 2 friends, in car, yeah, in a car with their 2 moms (my was at work) anddd we just came on the yard, the principal did his job and just said "hi" more profesionally.

We went into our NEWWW Classes, honestly i liked it but there was this old lady that kept pushing me and i didnt have enough place, my wholeee body hurted entire 30 minutes i was standing there, others were standing but there wasnt enough chairs and tables so we were like 10 kids standing, some girl was also standing and no one let her sit (idek why im saying this)

anddd SOME 17 YEARS OLD GRILLSSS SAID I GOT GOOD JEANS AND IM CUTEEE OMDOSMDOSM LIKE, I WAS JUST PASSING BY THEM I HEARD IT I DIDNT REACT I JS SMILED A LITTLE TO NOT MAKE IT OBVIOUS BUT OMGGG BRO I LOVE GIRLSS

Overall it was fine, kids my age were looking wayy older than me, they were sooo tall and hairy and just yeah, like the enviorement, our class teacher (idk how to say it) was funny, nice, old, shes something like below principal but above other teachers if i explained it right, she kinda reminds me of our old teacher in middle school.

BUTTT YEAHH I LOVE COMPLIMENTS I LOVE THOSE GIRLS THANKS SO MUCH IT WAS NICE YAYAYAY


r/highschool 3h ago

Rant Poetry is the worst topic I have ever had compared to all the topics and all subjects I ever had in my school (I accept opinions against this)

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Look, I know poetry would be interesting to learn, but me and my classmates just don't get on it.

  1. The language in poems is way too confusing, and we usually don't get it when we read it at the 1st time. We have it on English literature, and English is not my native language. The teacher explains what is trying to say, and I sometimes understand, but still, is confusing.

  2. The literary devices. They make the text richer, but in practice they just feel like a list to memorize.

  3. PEAs. If you don't know what it is, is Point, Evidence and Analysis. It's a paragraph that their structure is obligatory that you should follow, but that only cuts creativity, and every single answer just ends to be too repetitive, even if the poem changes.

I might know some people like poetry, but this just doesn't connect with me and my classmates. What is your opinion on poetry? And what do you think I am saying? You agree or disagree?


r/highschool 14m ago

College Advice Needed/Given Starting high school, don't play an instrument. If I start now, can I get good enough for a (partial) scholarship in time?

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Only played 2 years of various different instruments in 5th and 6th grade. Is there any hope for me getting a scholarship if I start a new instrument?

(And yes I'm only doing this for a scholarship, I don't care for music)


r/highschool 28m ago

School Related Really hard decision coming in about a month—thoughts?

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Hi all, I am a sophomore in high school and my school offers this very cool thing to sophomores. So basically, if you qualify (which I do) you can go to college early at community college for only $500 a year, everything outside of food covered. So it would be during junior and senior year. I would take stats and college algebra for math, some sort of English, biology, Spanish, and the other requirements. I would be only taking bio and Spanish at the college, and the rest at my high school. Which brings me to what it actually is. For junior year, I get to go to the community college from 1st to 4th period, and then I go back to high school during lunch for 5th-8th period. Then senior year, I only go to Harper but I can still participate in activities at the high school. It would be from 8am to 12:15 pm, so much shorter which would be great. My worries are that I will miss out on high school, and I will miss my friends and won’t get to see them as often, given that I’ll be taking college classes in college and high school. I’m a good student, so I would be fine grade wise, but once you commit to it, there’s no going back. If yall need more info to get a better opinion on this please ask, but I am just so stuck on what to choose. I am also very blessed my school does this and that it’s very inexpensive for my associates degree. Also, I am indecisive on a major I would like to take later on. All the help is appreciated!


r/highschool 11h ago

Rant Year 12 National Exam Results: 34% Pass Rate Following Curriculum Changes and War Disruptions

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We just got our Year 12 national exam results back, and the pass rate is completely insane: only 40,000 out of 117,000 students passed.

For context, our school year was completely disrupted. We lost 2 to 3 months of classes because of the US-Iran conflict and the threat of drones flying over us, on top of about two weeks of normal holidays. Expecting students to pass a national exam after missing months of school due to a literal security crisis is crazy. Did anyone else’s year group get hit this hard?

To make matters worse, this was the exact year they decided to change the entire system. They announced that Arabic and our native language exams would now directly impact our overall GPA. Knowing full well that most of us don't speak fluent Arabic, they handed us an Arabic exam that absolutely whooped our ass

Expecting us to adapt to a brand new grading system and pass a brutal exam in a language we barely know after losing months of school to a security crisis is crazy.

Plus online school is a 10/10 fail.


r/highschool 31m ago

Friend Advice Needed/Given First year of high school (sophomore) and I have no idea how I’m supposed to find friends

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I am in a new school and in a small class of 10 kids. i don’t really like any of them and I don’t think we have anything in common. My first day was terrible and I just wanted to get home already..


r/highschool 31m ago

General Advice Needed/Given just some quick advice needed to those knowledgeable! (seniors maybe?)

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I just need a bit of advice. so I’m taking 4 aps sophomore year, (sem, apes, art history, and gov)

my gpa is a 4.4 and im 7% in the top of the class

I want to major in bio (patent law) so I’m lowkey worried tis like off, but line my extracurriculars are art and I love history.

but by the time I finish highschool I have done calc ab, ap bio, and ap chem, so idk if this is like evening it out. they just don’t let sophomores start doing aps until they take honors chem so I am doing two sciences this year.

Also a bit worried about my extracurriculars, I’m apart of a mental health union club of my school, vice prez of the creative writing club, joining science olympiad, and assistant stage manager is the award winning musicals and play— (but I’ll be head in like a year)

im also writing a two novels, one on poetry and another fantasy one. and building a website for teen writers.. and writing research to cold email to professors. Submitting to the scholastic writing award as well.

additionally, I may start playing violin, idk if I’ll join orchestra bc it may look random. or do vocal lessons so I can do caberet (musical theatre festival)..

Idk if this all looks random for a bio major lol, what should I drop and any advice on what to add?


r/highschool 42m ago

General Advice Needed/Given I’m so fucking scared Yall

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Kinda a rant sorry if this isn’t allowed

I’m an alternative and queer teen. In about 12 hours I will be on my way to school. I’m terrified. It’s a tech high school so maybe it won’t be horrible. But so many bad kids got in.

I also really struggle with mental health. Ive been struggling since 4th grade but in recent years it’s gotten worse

So uh any tips/recommendations for me? Anyone can answer but other queer/alt people would probably be more helpful


r/highschool 4h ago

Rant im just running away from a club because it feels so suffocating

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I'm a senior and have no friends, I talk w couple of ppl but they're not friends.

I feel pretty lonely loser as society has established everyone who cannot socialize as losers


r/highschool 21h ago

Rant Genuinely got mortified on my first day of high school

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Here is the story. (I have been homeschooled since I was in 3rd so my only concept of school was elementary and I go to a magnet school so I have programs) So I get on the bus and immediately overhear that the high school prom queen who is a senior dated a freshman, got pregnant, put it up for adoption, and finally cheated on him with his friend. (Mind you this is within 10 minutes btw.) Then we finally get to my new school and I find my new locker and put my combination in. After that, I got to my auto program (the school has two full auto shops and the school is basically a trade school) and we did some preliminary stuff like shop rules. Then I went to pre algebra and they gave out the worst quiz of all time and gave us a calculator and then gave us a quiz about her. The first question was how old is she (if you mess up you will basically be calling her old) and the rest of the questions were easy. Went to english and realized that I'm not supposed to be in english and quickly went to French. During French everyone was pretty nice but after French and I was going to english, I saw another freshman victim to the "my friend likes you" and mourned him knowing he wouldn't survive. I went to english for 30 minutes and then we had our lunch break. When I picked what I want the cafeteria worker SLAMMED my food onto the tray and said "eat before you starve" then I went to pay and got met with a old lunch lady who was impatient as hell and I was trying to log onto Myschoolbucks and it finally went through. Now since I was homeschooled I didn't exactly have friends that go to my school so I picked a table and ate. Now my locker is extremely tiny and can barely fit my backpack (no backpacks outside of the lockers) and I only had 5 minutes to get from class to class so over time since I didn't have time to put stuff in my locker, it all piled up and finally I put it in my locker when I finally had the time. And finally I had my last subject. Auto again. So when I was fixing my backpack I realized that one of the straps got caught into someone else's locker so they had to open it and it finally got fixed. Went to auto and there were only two girls there and all boys like me and the two girls both looked like they want to shank me. During auto they constantly talked about how cute the new freshman are (I'm a freshman) and when we were discussing safety glasses and how you can put safety goggles over your glasses people realized I was the ONLY person with glasses on so EVERYONE in the class stared at me INCLUDING the girls that looked like they wanted to shank me. Finally got done and I went home. The end.


r/highschool 1h ago

School Related Need help with getting to school in japan

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I am planning on becoming a lawyer in japan ik rough right, but I have been wanting this since I was a child, but enough about me, I was wondering how someone could do that if they were in the US? Is there any programs that could be done online or something to help prepare I really dont know how to get to there and my guidance counselor doesn't get paid enough for me to think I should ask.


r/highschool 1h ago

General Advice Needed/Given Drop AP Physics 1?

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Junior year of high school and im very busy, I'm doing a lot of clubs and im also doing EMT school which is twice a week from 6-10pm after school. Now I've heard ALOT about stuff from AP Physics and how terrible it is, but at the same time I want the course rigor, should I drop it? I've heard from smart people who are rising juniors who told me to drop it, and the class itself only has 16 people out of a really large grade, compared to other classes which have way higher student counts, and she literately stated that she expects their to be less then 16 people by the end of the month. From your experiences do you guys think its worth taking it? Or should I just drop it already? Or wait and drop it during the first quarter since it won't show up in my transcript that I dropped the class in the first quarter BUT the grade I had when I drop it will carry.


r/highschool 1h ago

School Related College application season

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Hey everyone, I’ve been around this sub for a long time and know exactly how brutal college application season is. Seeing my younger friends and family members completely drown in essays, deadlines, and anxiety broke me. Most trackers just pile on more to-do lists, but they ignore the mental toll. So, I spent the last few months building a free, private wellness tracker and daily affirmation space just to help them cope. I realized it might help some of you out, too. Not dropping any links out of respect for sub rules, but drop a comment or shoot me a DM if you want to try it out. Hang in there.


r/highschool 1h ago

Question Where can I find internships/ programs for the summer?

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I genuinely don’t know where or how people find internships or programs that happen in the summer for high school students. Does anyone know where to find them? Also I would prefer if they were business related and not a 10k for seven days at a university thing.


r/highschool 1h ago

Survey Mental health survey for a psych project

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I need 30 people to fill out this form and this is my last idea please if you have the time just fill it out


r/highschool 2h ago

College Advice Needed/Given What should I do?

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I’m kind of conflicted right now. I’m a sophomore this year, and it just hit me that I should start thinking about what colleges I want to go to. I would really love to go to a T20 school (doesn’t have to be Ivy League) and my dream school is either MIT or Stanford. I already have a really good GPA and take as much AP’s and Honors as possible. I also play the piano competitively and joined a club at school to volunteer for kids in need.

I keep seeing videos of these high school students doing some major research work or starting a massive nationwide nonprofits just to get accepted to their t20 or Ivy League schools. I’ve been thinking about contacting a local professor for their help on a research project I want to start, but I don’t think that’ll be enough for me to stand out. What should I do?


r/highschool 2h ago

Share Grades/Classes How's my sophomore schedule? Am I chilling, fried, or is alright?

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Chem 1 is just like the first half of AP CHEM


r/highschool 1d ago

Rant My school only allows 19 Parking Spots for entire Grade…

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Over 150 students btw in senior year.
ig I won’t get my chr this year… will have to wait…


r/highschool 2h ago

Friend Advice Needed/Given how to move on from past friends

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hey so none of my friends bothered to contact/talk to me for the past few months, at this point i've kind of just given up. i WANT to move on. I WANT to forget. but why is it so hard? every time i walk past them in the halls, they don't even bother to look at me or say hi to me anymore. it's gotten to a point where i feel like i want to cry every time i see them. when i try to really forget about them, they appear back in my mind and i just feel miserable all over again. please help.