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Middle School and all that not really jazz

Poll: Middle School and all that not really jazz (27 member(s) have cast votes)

What was middle school like for you?

  1. Absolute hell. With cliques in it. (13 votes [48.15%])

    Percentage of vote: 48.15%

  2. Okay, but I wouldn't go back in time to experience all that again. (11 votes [40.74%])

    Percentage of vote: 40.74%

  3. It was pretty fun! There were low points, but it was still great. (3 votes [11.11%])

    Percentage of vote: 11.11%

  4. Heaven! (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

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Making this topic purely because I'm curious, but what are some things that you've experienced, or are experiencing in middle school?

I know that so far it has not been too fun for me D: I mean, there were some moments, but my teen angst is kicking in and I'm going to say a certain... Uhh. Friend. Seems to most definitely make situations that kicks hilarious and great memories to the side far too often than ANYONE should. EVER. >:O

I mean, there was the telling everyone she could how I apparently broke down in front of her and melted into a sobbing puddle in sixth grade... Then getting a crush on the new Lithuanian jerk a week after he came, and then somehow dropping notes she passed between me and her, leading to me having to tell the guy I had liked for a year (and still like) that I don't give a single fuck about anything he does to settle down the apparently life-crushing drama that would affect everything she would do for the rest of her life. And oh yeah, she made a rumor that I had beat her up the week after.

But I guess I'm mainly going to talk about last Wednesday since its honestly bothering me more than it should (By the way, in Saudi, Wednesdays are the equivalent to Friday everywhere else). This might get long, so I'm putting a spoiler tag thingiemajigger here.
Spoiler


Anyways, any funny, embarrasing or just really anykind of story to tell meeeee?
  • #1

I'm about a month from graduating what I guess would be the Danish equivalent of middle school.
And I guess the most embarrasing thing would be...
That I have a crush on someone 2,5 years younger than me?
Yeah, that's probably the one.
  • #2

Nah.Felix might encounter this and spread all my stories to everyone else at Whitney. He's an asshole like that.
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  • #3

"Okay" gets my vote! I didn't enjoy school at all, but that was mostly my own fault.

I had no grasp of social normality back in my early teens. I didn't understand the difference between people joking around or purposely trying to provoke a hostile reaction out of someone. This has led to some pretty funny scenarios, looking back at it. (Cringe-worthy when it happened, though!)

For instance, I once punched a guy for lightly teasing me. The details are hazy, but I recall him having a cynical sense of humour, which didn't bode well with my social stupidity. I was too embarrassed to make eye contact with him for the rest of the year, and I didn't even apologize.
  • #4

Middle School for me was just one big emotional/social breakdown. I hated it with a burning passion. I just thought that my friends wouldnt leave me, and I was wrong on all accounts. It was a shitty two years.

This post has been edited by Shada: 20 April 2012 - 03:33 PM

  • #5

I avoided all drama because I was socially outcast. I got through it without getting in no more than 3 fights, considering it was one of the three worst middle schools in the city for violence. >:O

It was kind of a bummer because I had no friends to talk to about the work. Dem's the breaks I guess. :/

I have no funny stories. I do however, want to share that advanced math classes were awesome because of the pet rabbit the teacher had. :love:

This post has been edited by DLancer: 20 April 2012 - 03:52 PM

  • #6

Well I didn't have a middle school, I just went straight to high school out of elementary. And I enjoyed it, myself.

I think it was my art teacher who made it so fun. He was the guy who single handedly got me interested in expanding my art instead of drawing badly proportioned dragons all the time. No, I can't remember any stories from that time, but I found high school to be quite fun, myself. Sure, there was probably some drama here and there, but I was pretty exempt from it. Mostly because I spent my free time with the other nerds playing Magic and Yu-Gi-Oh. XD
  • #7

I had 3 middle schools, so i'll just write impressions of all 3.
1st[Maryland]: Good teachers, actually learning, library

2nd[Virginia]: This school I fucking hated, the only good thing was the physical science and maybe the computer classes, every other class I didn't learn jack shit, math class was the worst of it all and I hold it responsible for having the end up essentially taking the same fucking math class 3 times in a row.

3rd[Maryland]: Not too bad I suppose, wish i'd been allowed to use the library more but otherwise I suppose this one was fine,

I think the biggest thing I learned is that going south means worse education.

This post has been edited by stormthehouse: 20 April 2012 - 06:31 PM

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View PostmAceOfHearts, on 20 April 2012 - 02:10 PM, said:

And I guess the most embarrasing thing would be...
That I have a crush on someone 2,5 years younger than me?
Yeah, that's probably the one.

It's actually pretty funny though, how kids our age freak out with a one year difference, even though their parents are probably at least 2 years apart.


View PostShada, on 20 April 2012 - 03:31 PM, said:

Middle School for me was just one big emotional/social breakdown. I hated it with a burning passion. I just thought that my friends wouldnt leave me, and I was wrong on all accounts. It was a shitty two years.

At least it's over... And they weren't really friends >:T Just jerks. I guess a lot of people are in middle school though, aren't they...

View PostDLancer, on 20 April 2012 - 03:50 PM, said:

I avoided all drama because I was socially outcast. I got through it without getting in no more than 3 fights, considering it was one of the three worst middle schools in the city for violence. >:O

Here there are a lot of fights too, like a guy'll drop his phone and someone behind him will snigger, then after school you see them giving each other black eyes at the mini market in front of school. And I'm being totally serious about the dropping his phone thing! They just want more action, I guess :smirk:

View PostRakshiv, on 20 April 2012 - 03:55 PM, said:

I think it was my art teacher who made it so fun. He was the guy who single handedly got me interested in expanding my art instead of drawing badly proportioned dragons all the time. No, I can't remember any stories from that time, but I found high school to be quite fun, myself. Sure, there was probably some drama here and there, but I was pretty exempt from it. Mostly because I spent my free time with the other nerds playing Magic and Yu-Gi-Oh. XD

Wish I could say the same here :unsure: A lot of people's vocabulary exclude Pokemon, and revolve around Call of Duty.
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View Poststormthehouse, on 20 April 2012 - 06:30 PM, said:

2nd[Virginia]: This school I fucking hated, the only good thing was the physical science and maybe the computer classes, every other class I didn't learn jack shit, math class was the worst of it all and I hold it responsible for having the end up essentially taking the same fucking math class 3 times in a row.


You didn't happen to go to Shelburne, did you? D:

View PostFuzzWool, on 20 April 2012 - 02:58 PM, said:

"Okay" gets my vote! I didn't enjoy school at all, but that was mostly my own fault.

I had no grasp of social normality back in my early teens. I didn't understand the difference between people joking around or purposely trying to provoke a hostile reaction out of someone. This has led to some pretty funny scenarios, looking back at it. (Cringe-worthy when it happened, though!)

For instance, I once punched a guy for lightly teasing me. The details are hazy, but I recall him having a cynical sense of humour, which didn't bode well with my social stupidity. I was too embarrassed to make eye contact with him for the rest of the year, and I didn't even apologize.

Oh my lord, this was pretty much me straight up. To make it worse, my voice back then pretty much sounded like a 4th grader girl, and I really wish I was joking about that. Whenever people hear the ringtone of my house (which is from middle school, I'm a senior in high school now) they always ask "You have a sister?". Some aren't joking, lol. But yeah, I finally learned human emotions around 10th grade and since then, things have been a lot better, and a lot less awkward.

Anyway, as for middle school, I don't really have any big stories, but it was the time where I lost all of my elementary school friends, and found my friends whom I'm still friends with. That's really the only exciting thing that happened.
  • #10

Aside from meeting my best friend, all of middle school was uneventful
  • #11

Don't have middle schools where I live, it's K-8 and 9-12, that's just how it is.
  • #12

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I was hated as hell in 6th, suddenly loved by all in 7th and 8th.


still was a douche through it all.
  • #13

I was raised 'cross the Pond in London, so I had to be with the same year of drooling cromagnons for nearly six years in a state comprehensive. Thankfully, I went to a private senior school after that, so the torment was somewhat offset by the next six years being the best of my life.
  • #14

6th grade was very relaxing for me. 7th grade was pretty fun for me, until this whole drama thing kicked in and then the rest of the sucked. 8th grade so far has been really, really, terrible. What happened last year has followed me to this year, and the whole clique thing has kicked in too. I also have this bitchy girl(sounds a lot like your bitchy girl, MontykindofPython, except she doesn't really make fun of me quite as much) who just doesn't like me, but everyone in her clique seems to like me. I've just tried staying away from her.
But yeah, middle school mostly sucks. I'm kinda worried that high school will be the same, but maybe not. I'm just going to keep an open mind until the end of the year.
  • #15

I feel 50/50 about middle school. While I met some really great friends (one of which I still talk to and wa smy maid of honor), I had some pretty shitty experiences. If you already have low self-esteem and much modesty...Middle School is basically a field day for insecure kids of which I have a giant bullseye on for. Being picked on was an understatement.

I got so sick of being picked on by other girls and being pressured into having a boyfriend (which I most certainly did not want at the time) that I started dressing like a boy so they would leave me alone. I wore giant shirts (mostly South Park shirts lol) and baggy jeans with a hat. Then I got pressured into counseling due to my strange behavior (hooray!.....not). While the idea was nice, it turned out to be useless. The guy didn't like me...actually he got busted 3 years later for stealing kid's ADD medications but that's beside the point :).

In addition, I had constant run-ins with a specific girl. I felt bad for her deep down cause she was pretty messed up. Anyway, she would yell at me too (for whatever reason)of which resulted in me sort of just walking away hurt or offended. Well, there was an "activity night" (which I hated but my friends wanted me to go...yay peer pressure!). She was there and everyone was dancing to the Macarina (yes...im old!). Well, she kept stepping on me countless times. I told her to stop and she just wouldnt and started doing it on purpose...That was the breaking point. I had it. I threw quite the punch. Friends had to hold me back. It was great!...:/. detention ensued afterwards

The last situation that I'll bring up is with that of my History teacher. He was notoriously Conservative...and I mean to the max. He believed that girls really shouldn't be in school and should only take home ec-type classes. He would constantly be harder on me and my friend Megan in the class because he just didnt like us (mostly for being girls). I turned a cheek to most of his behavior but The worst bit was when he said to me: " It's ok to not be smart. Most women don't have the capacity to be. Just keep that in mind after highschool"

This phrase burned into my soul. Naturally I told my parents and I believe he got spoken to by the vice president of the school but I really don't know the repercussions he needed to face....anyway he can go fuck himself because in3 days I'll be defending my PhD and I will be a Doctor....oh it feels so nice to prove bastards like that wrong :)

aaanyway! akacatgirl: it gets exponentially better...and then even better after high school! way to keep up the spirit :)
  • #16

To be perfectly honest, I didn't hang out with the same crowd that I did from middle school to high school. Even less now in college--I can now count the amount of people that I still consider my friend since middle school with one hand. It's kind of sad, but so it is.

Also, my middle school was full of convicted pedophiles.
  • #17

View PostmAceOfHearts, on 20 April 2012 - 02:10 PM, said:

That I have a crush on someone 2,5 years younger than me?

the cutoff date for appropriateness is two years above and two years below in middle school. that's just what I heard, though. there was a whole discussion behind it. there was an eighth grader saying, "christ that is one hot twelve year old." so take that with a grain of salt.

for the record, when you date in college, ask to see some kind of ID with age on it. Play it off as a joke if you have to, but it's called jailbait for a reason.
  • #18

View Postakacatgirl, on 21 April 2012 - 12:57 AM, said:

I also have this bitchy girl(sounds a lot like your bitchy girl, MontykindofPython, except she doesn't really make fun of me quite as much) who just doesn't like me.

Bluh, does the world need any more bitches? UUUUUUUUGH >:O

View PostIris, on 21 April 2012 - 03:13 AM, said:

I got so sick of being picked on by other girls and being pressured into having a boyfriend (which I most certainly did not want at the time) that I started dressing like a boy so they would leave me alone. I wore giant shirts (mostly South Park shirts lol) and baggy jeans with a hat. Then I got pressured into counseling due to my strange behavior (hooray!.....not). While the idea was nice, it turned out to be useless. The guy didn't like me...actually he got busted 3 years later for stealing kid's ADD medications but that's beside the point :).

In addition, I had constant run-ins with a specific girl. I felt bad for her deep down cause she was pretty messed up. Anyway, she would yell at me too (for whatever reason)of which resulted in me sort of just walking away hurt or offended. Well, there was an "activity night" (which I hated but my friends wanted me to go...yay peer pressure!). She was there and everyone was dancing to the Macarina (yes...im old!). Well, she kept stepping on me countless times. I told her to stop and she just wouldnt and started doing it on purpose...That was the breaking point. I had it. I threw quite the punch. Friends had to hold me back. It was great!...:/. detention ensued afterwards

The last situation that I'll bring up is with that of my History teacher. He was notoriously Conservative...and I mean to the max. He believed that girls really shouldn't be in school and should only take home ec-type classes. He would constantly be harder on me and my friend Megan in the class because he just didnt like us (mostly for being girls). I turned a cheek to most of his behavior but The worst bit was when he said to me: " It's ok to not be smart. Most women don't have the capacity to be. Just keep that in mind after highschool"

This phrase burned into my soul. Naturally I told my parents and I believe he got spoken to by the vice president of the school but I really don't know the repercussions he needed to face....anyway he can go fuck himself because in3 days I'll be defending my PhD and I will be a Doctor....oh it feels so nice to prove bastards like that wrong :)

Oh wow. That sounds like a lot of... Pressure. Also, how the heck did that ass get hired? And congrats on becoming a doctor :) Just curious, but what's it for?

View PostMoosack, on 21 April 2012 - 04:33 AM, said:

Also, my middle school was full of convicted pedophiles.

That's just... Ew. Did they ever cause trouble directly in the school? Or did they just... Creep around. And be creepy. But really, uuuuuuuuugh D:
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View PostJerk, on 21 April 2012 - 05:43 AM, said:

Play it off as a joke if you have to, but it's called jailbait for a reason.

Less worrisome in Canada where the age of consent is 16.

Middle school for me was indistinguishable from high school since in 90% of school up here they're just different wings of the same building. My first year (grade 7) was pretty lonely, but in my second year (grade 8) I found my group of friends which I stuck with until the end of high school (grade 11).
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View PostMiwAuturu, on 21 April 2012 - 02:36 PM, said:

View PostJerk, on 21 April 2012 - 05:43 AM, said:

Play it off as a joke if you have to, but it's called jailbait for a reason.

Less worrisome in Canada where the age of consent is 16.

15 in Denmark, though I don't know if that's a good thing or a troublesome one. Eh, whatever.

Oh, and I forgot to mention: My class is, if we are to trust the 2nd in command on our school, the worst class our school has ever had.
I'm completely serious when I say that there's been incidents with actual shit smeared on walls and hiding thrash in holes in walls.
Delightful, isn't it?
  • #21

If it's bad for school kids, imagine how embarrassing it must be to have university college students do the exact same thing. I can understand doing that in high school, but not when your parents are shelling out a small fortune for your education.
  • #22

View PostMontyKindofPython, on 21 April 2012 - 01:24 PM, said:

View PostMoosack, on 21 April 2012 - 04:33 AM, said:

Also, my middle school was full of convicted pedophiles.

That's just... Ew. Did they ever cause trouble directly in the school? Or did they just... Creep around. And be creepy. But really, uuuuuuuuugh D:

It sort of fell through during the end of my high school years. Two teachers were both arrested for child pornography and molestation, so it was never when I was in the school, and in fact, the few teachers that I truly thought were potential sex offenders are still teaching there, so I guess looks are deceiving.

This post has been edited by Moosack: 21 April 2012 - 09:19 PM

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View PostMontyKindofPython, on 20 April 2012 - 02:04 PM, said:

Anyways, any funny, embarrasing or just really anykind of story to tell meeeee?

I know this comment comes as unsolicited, but relax (I'm talking of your experiences with your "friends," here). Just learn not to care what people like that do. If they act like that towards you, they're not worth your time, patience, or however much kindness you may or may not possess.

Anyway, middle school was a funny time for me. I mean, I'd been sheltered in an elementary school up until I was twelve. When I say sheltered, I mean that the school was a private one, composed of 200 students, spread out between infancy and grade 6. When I was a 6th grader, there were only four people in my grade, including myself. But once that grade ended, I went to middle school.

I was up for a kind of rude awakening. My attitude was very facetious and nonchalant (although I was still prone to introspection in a limited way), and I was weird. In a way people liked, at least in my old school, and with my other three friends--everyone at my elementary school liked us. But I only knew two people when I went into my middle school. And being weird wasn't really welcomed. I had to learn how to grow up, and even then, silly rumors about me circulated: people thought I was gay (because up until 7 1/2 grade I'd never liked a girl), people were dramatic and relationships weren't relationships per se, and we were all attempting to be mature when we, well, weren't.

Middle school was a bridge. A bridge to high school. I learned how to be truly social in my own way there (I was still shy), and it taught me what I needed to know.

But I'm going to go ahead and say high school years are more worthwhile (coming from a junior (almost senior) perspective) in terms of learning material and learning about yourself. Of course, I'm probably not all that mature, so I'm not going to say so. Because there's always more growing up to do. But it's enjoyable to deal with people who are a tad more mature (generally!) than how they were like say... three years ago.

I could talk about my high school years, but, that's another topic.
  • #24

@The comment about gay rumors:
Oh good, I thought I was the only one with that problem.
(Quoting a post takes ages on cellphone.)
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@Above: Of course not. People in middle school have such a black and white perspective about things, generally: if I don't like a girl, then I must like a guy. That was their logic.

Back then I thought being gay was a bad thing (because people seemed to make it out to be), but now I know better and wouldn't give a fuck if someone thought I was.
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View PostSmashFiles, on 20 April 2012 - 07:41 PM, said:

View Poststormthehouse, on 20 April 2012 - 06:30 PM, said:

-quote-
You didn't happen to go to Shelburne, did you? D:

Nope,"Essex Intermediate School"
Grading scale also meant anything 69% or below was an F, which is the only school system I've ever heard of to do that.

This post has been edited by stormthehouse: 22 April 2012 - 01:34 AM

  • #27

The middle school years for me were about punk rock and playstation. I dont remember much else besides awkward relationships and the administration at school hating my guts. Probably because I had a bright orange afro.
  • #28

I detested Middle School. Everyone is extremely dumb, including yourself, and so grotesquely cliche in their efforts to ascend to popularity that it isn't even funny. One of the most drama-ridden hellholes I have ever had the displeasure to spend three years in.

I honestly couldn't of hated it more. Between the almost pointless academic studies that are just repeated as soon as you enter High School and being surrounded by a bunch of preteen kids, it is honestly the one part of my life I would never chose to redo.

This post has been edited by Rex: 22 April 2012 - 04:38 AM

  • #29

I have mentally blocked out 2 1/2 years of my middle school life for a reason, and the fact that most of my friends who I met in middle school don't even remember from that time makes me believe that some kind of time warp happened and I actually skipped it.

In all serious it was a horrible time that I don't really want to ever relive nor remember.
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View PostCaptainBaconMan, on 22 April 2012 - 04:02 AM, said:

The middle school years for me were about punk rock and playstation. I dont remember much else besides awkward relationships and the administration at school hating my guts. Probably because I had a bright orange afro.

Hah, was your administration also inconsistent yet strict?
I got suspended for "changing my name" during black history month, but only received an ISS for fighting.
The only reason why I wasn't very well known by the disciplinary dean was because they seemed to switch annually.
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View PostLux Aeterna, on 21 April 2012 - 09:37 PM, said:

View PostMontyKindofPython, on 20 April 2012 - 02:04 PM, said:

Anyways, any funny, embarrasing or just really anykind of story to tell meeeee?

I know this comment comes as unsolicited, but relax (I'm talking of your experiences with your "friends," here). Just learn not to care what people like that do. If they act like that towards you, they're not worth your time, patience, or however much kindness you may or may not possess.

Yeah, thanks for the advice :). I guess I'll be able to apply that over in another school though... ( I just found out I'm moving this thursday. )
  • #32

I fucking hated middle school, because it's not innocent bullying and stuff like in elementary school, or where more(not all) people are mature like in high school, in middle school people are mean and immature. If I had took a guess it would be that life as an adult would be better but harder.
  • #33

I was always pretty quiet. Never really played sports, or wore popular clothes. I never had any friends, and I was considered weird by pretty much everyone.

People didn't like that. Not one bit.

Middle school was beyond hellish for me, and not just because I had quite literally no friends. It was more along the lines of people seeing how much they could pull and get away with. They managed to push the boundaries way too far.

I was thrown down the stairs at one point. I was held down, had my shoes removed and then beaten with them. I was shoved against lockers on an almost daily basis.

The kids I had to deal with weren't just mean, they were flat out vicious, cruel, and borderline criminal. If I had to go and do anything like that again, I would attempt to get myself expelled as quickly as possible. I never want to deal with anything like that again.
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I had a nice time in the equivalent that we have over here. Of course, there was everything you get when there are large groups of children (and, indeed, humans at all), but the teachers were exceedingly kind and able. I did answer that I would not want to go back in time to experience it, but that is because I believe in the complete futility of changing the past. There are too many paradoxes for the modern me to still persist if any changes were made, and I am quite happy where I am right now.

Besides, there were bad times. However, mostly, I remember those days fondly.
  • #35

I'm just ending my first year of High School, so Middle School is fresh in my memory.

My middle school wasn't bad. I got a bad start in the whole social hierarchy thing since I didn't even really notice it until my two best friends got sucked in in early 7th grade. At that point I cleaned up my "record" and dropped into a bit of a corner considering social action. I made a few half-friends and inserted my opinion on drama matters, but never got involved. I was and still am a pretty quiet kid in school. In 7th grade, one of my best friends moved to another school and I had no classes with the other, so we were set back to only hanging out outside of school (which we still do). Other than that, I've remained in the same silent social position. I got made fun of a lot in early 7th grade, but it also helped me grow a backbone in situations of verbal assault.

Anyway, since that was a bit of a boring paragraph and probably tl;dr to a lot of people, to sum it up:
Stay out of the center of drama, but don't avoid it completely. Find some middle ground and hold on. And get some good friends who'll stick by you that you hang out with outside of school.

You've read my piece. Hope I helped.
  • #36

Going to far and pissing off a guy that happens to have a lot of friends that are girls and then getting cornered by them?
I really have to watch myself. This has happened a second time.

This post has been edited by falconboy99: 28 September 2012 - 03:18 AM

  • #37

The community I lived in was too small for middle school. So it was up to grade 7 in elementary, and then straight to high school XD
I don't remember much about the "middle school years" though. Too busy having every inch of self-worth torn down by an asshole named Zach. He threw Goldfish crackers at me :(
  • #38

Ah, middle school. The time of the only fight in my entire scholastic career. Fun times. :/ Won, though. Guess that's something.
  • #39

The only classes that didn't tax the hell outta me was music and gym, pretty much hated every other class I had.
  • #40

Middle School is where I learned that if aren't keeping your mouth shut, you're fucking dead. Seriously, you couldn't walk anywhere without anyone witnessing a fight. I'm glad I'm in High School, less fights. Not only that, but everyone there is a horny little rabbit. God damn, it was unberable. Sure there's PDA in Highschool, but it's everywhere in Middle School. The making out even happened in the classrooms, that's how bad it was.
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