Stereotypes In High School

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Who ever said high school will be the best four years of your life was lying. In all reality high school for some people are the worst four years of their life. From not being able to make friends to suicide and depression to peer pressure, high school is nothing short of great. In fact, high school is most teenagers worst nightmare that they can't wake up from. I thought high school would be a time where everyone is happy go lucky and school was easy but I learned quick that it is nothing like the movies. In the movies they show everyone singing and dancing together in the cafeteria like they have no care in the world and everyone are best friends. In all reality they is so not true! In real life the high school cafeteria is most kids worst fear. Trying to find a place to sit amongst all the different social groups is a scary thing. There are the jocks, band geeks, the popular, the people who do drugs and then a jumble of everyone who doesn't belong in any of those groups. …show more content…
During your freshman year you enter this new territory where you don't know where anything is and you feel intimidated by all the upper classmen. They don't give you much homework, but it feels like a thousand times more that what you got in middle school. Then you move on to sophomore year and when it's getting easier you start to feel a little more relaxed and then BAM stressed again. Even though sophomore year seems stressful at the time you come to realize it is nothing compared to junior year. During junior year you are planning your future, trying to get good grades and earn money for college all at the same time, while also trying to keep up on the load of homework you have to do once you come home from work. I still have yet to experience senior year but if what they say is true and it gets less stressful then I'm looking forward to

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