I finally graduated from High School.....

Next stop, college! But for now, it is time for a celebration!

 

Already? Aren't you, like, 16?

 

Graduating high school was the best thing that ever happened to me. Hope it'll be the same for you~

Not really but my life has gone significantly upwards since.

 

15 actually. And the educational system is different here in my country. At least it was before the additions of Grade 11 and 12. At least My batch is the last one to not follow the new educational system. (Search K-12 Philippines on Google.)

 

My advice to you for the next 2-3 (maybe even 4) years of your life: Make damn sure you know where you want to be before you take that first step.

If you know what you want to get into and you've enrolled in a program that accommodates that choice, that's fine. Just keep in mind that College is a good time to experiment with your academic interests and learn more about yourself as a thinking being, but only so long as you allow it. F***ing up is easy if you intend to just breeze through it effortlessly. Forget that noise. Work for what you want and embrace the time you have to sharpen your mind and become more familiar with your field.

Just think about it, you'll get it.

 

Isn't it liberating?

I don't want to be all negative and say that high school was the worst time of my life, but... high school was the worst time of my life.

Don't get me wrong, there were good times, but that week of graduation practice and graduation and all that bs I was absolutely elated.

 

This is extremely good advice. Listen to it.

Right there with you. High school sucked.

 

Ew High School, grats on making it out of that hell hole. :D

 

good job. high school was the biggest hell in life (well for me anyways) and now you can take off your training wheels.

 

It still sucks, we're just not in it anymore.

 

Congrats, though it's one more year til I graduate from high school. I hate being one of the older people in the batch since I'm 17. Anyway good luck with college.

 

Think of it this way: at least you'll (probably) be more prepared than your peers for life outside of secondary education. Graduating prematurely generally entails extra challenges for the individual involved, such as adapting to a system that is geared toward a later stage in development; possessing the necessary prerequisites, skills or intellect is not always enough. A graduate at sixteen is more susceptible to exploitation than one at eighteen, or nineteen. Precociousness is not a saving grace.