Congrats! It's scary, but this is when you finally have the freedom to live your unique life. Stay in touch with your close friends, everyone else will fade away. And remember, wear sunscreen.
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Seriously. I was young and thought I was invincible.
Now 5x suspicious mole removals later (no cancer, yet) I regret going shirtless so much.
You reading the latest on US vs. foreign sunscreen?
When I graduated, I had no clue what I was going to do with my life. Still don't. It's been 15 years.
I'm not sure how I feel.
same here, no ambitions or anything.
I had the same problem and spent 15 years in shitty customer service jobs before quitting and going to trade school.
It's worked out really well.
I ended up joining the trades. It wasn't fun but I got to a position I can tolerate.
"Here we stand, on the precipice of the unknown. As we all prepare to cross the Rubicon from school responsibilities to taxes and jobs, one thing holds true. We must be the best. Thousands of ancestors put us here to make the world better for the next generation, every time. And while some may have forgotten that, it comes down to each of us to take the wheel at some point and make the same hard decisions, even when they dress up as different problems. For this next graduating class, make the most. Shape it to be the Better Place you want to see.
now go make money!!!!!!!!!
Forrreeeevvvvveerrrr
And no summer breaks or whatever. :(
Well retirement if lucky
Yeah my last day was beautiful for about 4 hours. Then i had to start working.
We called it senioritis. That sudden change of excitement to dread as seniors realize they are going to be separated from the peer group they’re mostly been with for years at their local school and now have to go out and make something of themselves on a new, unfamiliar environment.
"Senioritis" usually describes people who have checked out because they have a short amount of time left and have already received college admissions, so their grades don't matter much.
You can always take more courses
Worst part is is still dream about it. Hate it so much. When will this ghost leave!?
traumatizing people as kids to be productive members of the capitalist system
Way into my thirties, I'm still dreaming about school many nights.
I hate it. I asked a senior once, he's like yeah still happening. I'm like f^$#@! The trauma never ends.
Lol sad
For me it's less often, but otherwise same.
"oh fuck theres that class ive been avoiding all semester and totally forgot about and now I need to turn in my paper and take my final but I can't find my car!"
The fact that this is universal trauma truly shows how unnatural we approach education. We need a better way.
Right, I graduated college 10 years ago, oh god its been 10 years
I'm in my 40s and I still regularly have dreams that I somehow didn't really graduate high school.
In my fifties and still have that dream, but it's worse.
I went to boarding school, so my dreams involve fifty something year old me having to go back to live in the dorm with a bunch of kids.
welcome to the rest of your life. Find something you're good at (liking what you're doing is optional) and figure out how to get paid while doing it.
School might be over, but your education never stops.
When I graduated highschool, we didn't have the resources we have today. You can freely learn a language anytime you want. Find out interesting maths they didn't teach you in school, details about the world you live in you might not know (architecture, history, of just why things are one way in one nation vs another).
There are so many fantastic YouTube channels. Here's a list of channel I've subscribed to that I think are with it. There a few programming ones in there too. And this doesn't even cover the channels that showed me how to repair my AC unit, or how to repair my washing machine.
If this lost is to long, than 3 channels I recommend highest is Tom Scott, SmarterEveryDay, and Steve Mould.
https://youtube.com/@computerphile?si=N4wqFbRRJH79m9Uw
https://youtube.com/@numberphile?si=KLV2sEsb_oXT3vHA
https://youtube.com/@becausescience?si=3UKGGQO3Ivnk7FHr
https://youtube.com/@captaindisillusion?si=MYqmVyin_iQqXwyi
https://youtube.com/@cgpgrey?si=y84jiNN4-zbL9hbT
https://youtube.com/@dadhowdoi?si=gLNC6Yk_2RzyJmFj
https://youtube.com/@eevblog?si=Ej5QDeqxh3np_dEV
https://youtube.com/@electroboom?si=30NjdydKFdKVTog2
https://youtube.com/@engineerguyvideo?si=czyQNDIvcTKzybJt
https://youtube.com/@freecodecamp?si=Sdhi-DpO6dzbDCo4
https://youtube.com/@gaminghistorian?si=LA3yRw4d9z8pY-qi
https://youtube.com/@kylehill?si=QH1hSpxfXwuJfO5i
https://youtube.com/@toddmcleod-learn-to-code?si=AeXB5aXAC1YaXpaG
https://youtube.com/@lostinthepond?si=0vGE1Wzaiygm8H4t
https://youtube.com/@markrober?si=_hY4UZqBCJBRxPSH
https://youtube.com/@powerm1985?si=leB3iPwMGNE9_ClH
https://youtube.com/@periodicvideos?si=7oJLqK0cG2fs-A95
https://youtube.com/@professorleonard?si=YeUom4rZIKJTuCBW
https://youtube.com/@smartereveryday?si=F2cNiCjHxgUpL8ze
https://youtube.com/@stevemould?si=_TKVE-hf9__3wh5W
https://youtube.com/@technologyconnections?si=WOpCUlgRf1Ep9deI
https://youtube.com/@tomscottgo?si=FIjBNTQ5G5fIxi-m
Crash Course too!
https://www.youtube.com/@crashcourse
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9 - Crash Course World History was one of my favourites.
I'll add 'Connections' an old BBC series covering the history of technology. The creator shows how one change in one place can affect the world. For instance, Napoleon's armies needed to be fed on the march and eventually we got modern food processing.
I also want to add Branch Education. They explain(in detail) how computers work: piped.video/channel/UCdp4_l1vPmpN-gDbUwhaRUQ
Enjoy freedom! Keep in touch with your friends, if you had any/liked them.
One of my favourite part of trades apprenticeships is going back to school every now and then
Congrats. :)
I was soooo happy to finish with high school. Maybe it's because I knew that I was about to leave home and become independent, but I hated the grind of high school. Going to school everyday for 8 hours then having homework seems unhelpful and even counterintuitive.
The military was worse in regards to the amount of work and grind, but I learned lots of valuable skills and actually made practical contributions rather than what I saw was busy work with no real product. It also made me value proper education since I saw the benefits of being able to contribute to a team using my capacities and training.
Once I got to college, I was able to focus on the subjects that I naturally enjoyed. The class schedule in college was also less consuming and I had some control over it since I was able to select which classes to register for.
There were some things I did miss from high school. One, we were all innocent and had few legitimate concerns when it came to surviving. I didn't have to worry about getting fired or paying rent. My concerns were adolescent social issues mostly. Two, all my peers were from the same area and we grew up there, so we understood each other in a way that I never found elsewhere. Three, we were all put together, so it was like a community where you were forced to interact with all sorts of capacities but were treated as equals. This also happened in the military, but after that, my social opportunities were limited to my exposure to others based on my career and income. There has been much less diversity and more inequality based on power and financial situations.