Senior year of high school often comes with a pair of rose-colored glasses. Once you have college looming in your future, every moment becomes precious. You realize how much your teachers care and how wonderful your friends are. You savor the taste of cafeteria food, caress your worn-out hall pass and cling to your test-taking No. 2 pencil.
Wait a minute! Yes, saying goodbye to your friends is sad, but remember that leaving high school has its perks. Here are some issues you’ll never have to deal with again once you get your diploma.
1. Having to wake up early to go to homeroom.
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2. Realizing you forgot something important but not being able to leave school to get it yourself.
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3. Failing a pop quiz on the first day because you didn’t do the summer reading.
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4. Getting caught hanging out in the hall without a pass…
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…and having to smooth-talk your way out of detention.
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5. Teachers who try to act like teenagers…
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…in an attempt to “relate” to you.
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6. A gym class requirement.
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7. Not being old enough to drive and needing your mom to drop you off everywhere.
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8. Sitting through sex ed…
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…for an entire year.
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9. Needing a doctor’s note to get out of class.
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10. Finding the perfect prom dress…
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…before realizing the price is way out of your budget.
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11. That obnoxious bell that signals the end of class.
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12. Having your cell phone taken away until the end of the day.
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13. Being assigned to a study hall with people you don’t know.
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14. Having to go through the bureaucratic nurse’s office just to get one Tylenol.
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15. High school boys who think they’re all that.
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16. Finding out your parents volunteered to chaperone the school dance.
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17. Fending off the underclassmen who try to take your table in the cafeteria.
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18. Awkward prom photos.
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19. Standardized testing.
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20. Your mom asking you if you had fun at school…
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…every single day.
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21. Being told you’re immature when you complain about these things.
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The good news is that once you get through four years of these minor catastrophes, you get to find out firsthand why college is much better than high school. Of course, you’ll run into problems in college, too. But if you survived high school, you can survive anything!