To all the 18 year olds, or soon to be 18
year olds standing at the threshold of life, your state of ambivalence is
probably shared by fresh high school graduates all around the world.
Daydreaming of stepping into a new exciting life sounds about just as fun as
the idea of having to live a life without mom and dad cleaning up your mess
sounds miserable. But hey! We won’t
begin with the cheesy old cliché- “Oh! High school comprises the best years of
your life! I wish those years never ended!”
No.
Certainly, though, this phase of life will
be missed. Texting during classes, doodling on notebooks, inane talks with our
best friends or imitating teachers at every chance we get will surely be
missed. Having said that, however, we definitely would want to grow out of this
phase of our life of embarrassing fangirling, which we have already begun to
will later regret (I’m seriously concerned that my obsession with Darren Criss
will one day ruin my love life), correlating all of Taylor Swift songs with our
life and crushes, or sleepless nights before the exam when we are desperately
trying to finish our syllabus.
Yes, school is hard.
It’s not even remotely similar to High School Musical where you can break into
dance numbers in the middle of the cafeteria, randomly start singing in unison
or put sports and relationships ahead of school work.
This is why we do not mind a time where the
“cool kids” or the nerds, both have to start afresh their own lives. Hence
justice prevails!
So here we are, with our own list of why
high school WON’T be missed.
1. Math Classes
“I LOVE Math!”- said no one ever. If
they did, they are probably sent by evil forces from outer space to study and
destroy mankind. Because high school Math is no fun and games. Occult like
symbols behind every number or studying a topic like Algebra which funnily
enough has nothing to do with numbers- yes, Math is THAT annoying. And you say
Math is required in everyday life? Yeah right! Because that’s what EVERYONE
does in their daily life, solve ridiculous inequalities or integrate stupid
numbers or find the vertical angle of a cone in a hemisphere circumscribed in a
sphere inscribed in a cylinder. I would rather summon the Grim Reaper! This is why bidding farewell to school also implies bidding farewell to Math
classes that I have deeply detested for so long. I’m unable to recall ONE Math
class which I sat through without doodling/not paying attention/not wishing for
the bell to ring/not wanting to tear the pages of my book/pull out my hair or
plant a nuclear bomb in the class. So yes, I’m a Matheist, and if you’re not and you actually enjoy
differentiating this 78xy2e9+48yzelog(xyz8)=4790xyex,
then I just feel sorry for you.
2. Waking Up At An Insanely Early
Hour In The Morning
If your school starts at 8am and your bus reaches the
bus stop at 7am, then your life is doomed. Getting up early every day for
school had rendered me lifeless and frail. Because even if you’re a morning
person, the fact that you have school and the first period starts with you
scribbling down to finish your incomplete homework and taking tests is enough
to put you to sleep the entire day.
If there is one thing I would deeply cherish doing after school,
it would be catching up on my long lost sleep.
3. Morning Announcements
*BEEP**BEEP**BEEP*
Good morning, children. Please maintain silence as I
read to you the meeting timings for a bunch of clubs you don’t care about. The
auditions for the Drama Society will be held in the Basketball
court-cum-area-we-use-for-every-other-school-activity during recess. The last
day to submit your application forms for the quiz no one is going to attend is
Tuesday.
Then Mrs. Mukharji will tell you how much you’re being
overcharged for the school trip this year. We would also like to inform you how
badly our school’s Basketball team lost in a match last week. Now, the Sports
Captain will tell you the importance of team spirit because she likes to hear
herself talk. And since we’re celebrating Christmas week in our school, we’ll
all sing a song about Santa and his sleigh. Thank you.
*BEEP**BEEP**BEEP*
4. Homework
I’m pretty sure homework was invented by some teachers
attempting to explode their students’ minds even when they’re at home. Homework
is supposed to be a reinforcement of the concepts and information that we’re
taught in school and I’m actually happy to do it if it’s mentally stimulating.
But sadly, most of the work given as homework involves writing down the same
things written in our textbooks in another notebook in a good handwriting. The
real problem begins when you spend more time doing homework after school than
the time you spend -in- school. Never ending projects, crazy long assignments
and finding time to study for the class tests is the reason why we end up
sleeping during class.
Teachers: “Why do you look so tired?”
Oh, I don’t know, maybe because I stayed
up all night trying to finish the assignments you gave me!
Homework can not only be a waste of time, but it also takes away
from the time we actually STUDY at home. And to be honest, I’d rather throw
myself in an eel pond than write pages about why “management is called an
inexact science”.
There are plenty of other things that I won’t
miss like the obsessive checking for uniform defaulters (how does it matter if
my hair clip is black or brown?!), the terrible canteen food, that girl in my
class who is only capable of talking about the latest Vogue cover, and the fact
that the world “love” is tossed around like a hacky-sack no matter whom you
talk to, but rant’s over for now. Ciao.
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