What do you think of your time in Junior High?

7th grade wasn't all that bad, socially. grades were another thing. during the summer between 7th and 8th grade, i moved in with my dad and transferred schools. i made the flip to start doing my homework. my grades were spectacular. socially, however, it was a different story. to this very day, 15 1/2 years later, i absolutely loathe each and every one of my former classmates from the 8th grade. most of the bullshit was a result of a central california/so-cal rivalry that i didn't know existed at the time. i was the new kid from so-cal living and attending school in central california.

That's grades 7-9 right? Those three years were weird for me.

@Milkman said:

I fucking hated junior high. High school was much better for me.

This. Junior high was the fucking worst.

It was cool, but short. I liked it. 2 years isn't a very long time, though. What sucked is that after middle school, there were 4 nearby high schools for us all to go to, so all my close friends went to other schools and I lost touch with all of them until recently. I made new friends in high school, and towards the end of high school, I realized I really did enjoy it.

Middle school was the worst. I had no friends, was awkward and going through puberty, and was overworked with eight classes a day. High school was freakin' sweet though, four classes a day, one of them being either gym or band. College is meh so far.

Probably the most forgettable period of my life thus far.

My music taste was garbage.

@timlump: Depending on your school, Elementary School either goes from your first year (Kindergarten) to your sixth year (5th grade) or your seventh year (6th grade). Depending on this, Middle School is either from your seventh year (6th grade) to your ninth year (8th grade) or from your eighth year (7th grade) to your ninth year (8th grade).

It was Hell on Earth. You're stuck between feeling like a kid and a teenager/adult and it leads to some awkward and irritating moments. Plenty of fights and bullying and all that too. I don't think I was ever as depressed and angry as I was when I was in middle school.

Mine was nothing special. It taught me how to hate people though.

Was alright I guess, miss it when I think about it, last time I actually could just fuck around all day not doing anything, once I started high school I had to start doing homework and shit.

It was probably the worst and most forgettable period of my life so far. Everyone seemed either continuously pissed off, caught up in some bullshit nonsense drama, or going through the awkwardness of growing up. I pretty much just trudged through it the best I could with a core group of friends I enjoyed hanging out with and could rely on. Luckily high school dropped two of the three and just ended up being people caught up in a lot of nonsense drama, so that was much better by comparison. A lot of the stuff before college just seems silly now.

Junior High (we called it middle school) was the best part of school, everything else has fucking sucked.

@beeftothetaco said:

Mine was nothing special. It taught me how to hate people though.

This.

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You know what's worse than high school kids going through puberty?  Middle school kids pretending they're going through puberty.  I didn't hate it, but Middle School was the shittiest stage of public schools for me.  High school on the other hand was great.  Everyone was a nerd.

I enjoyed a lot of it but hated a lot of it, too. It was nice having zero responsibilities.

@chrismafuchris If junior high school is Secondary School (11 to 16) then it sucked. It was one of the worst and most oppressive times of my life. Children are quite often dicks, especially teenagers. I doubt anybody enjoys being bullied, and almost everybody, certainly everybody I know considers themselves to have been bullied at school, to varying degrees.

Were I to go back as the person I am now, oh man it would be sweet.

It sucked.

Then the Junior high was disbanded and reorganized into a middle school, and it sucked even more.

Been there, not going back

It was kind of alright I guess. Better than High School because my friends went to the same school as me the whole time. People were kind of dicks, I went to a private school, and this one asshole poked me with a pencil several times every day until the teacher finally saw it (most of the class period was spent with the class taking notes off the board while the teacher shopped for purses and shit online) and believed me, then gave him a week of detention.

High school was shit for the most part, especially after I transferred to a school in the next county after my grandma died. I went to a private high school 9th-10th grade, then public school 11th and 12th grade. Some people were cool, mostly the ones in classes I took like tech classes and German. I'm not great at getting to know new people, and most people I know well went to my old school and I hardly see them any more. I don't hear from them a whole lot either.

@MentalDisruption said:

It was probably the worst and most forgettable period of my life so far. Everyone seemed either continuously pissed off, caught up in some bullshit nonsense drama, or going through the awkwardness of growing up. I pretty much just trudged through it the best I could with a core group of friends I enjoyed hanging out with and could rely on. Luckily high school dropped two of the three and just ended up being people caught up in a lot of nonsense drama, so that was much better by comparison. A lot of the stuff before college just seems silly now.

Yup

@chrismafuchris:

I went to an Israeli private school for those years, and here were some of the highlights from my peer pressured years: I smoked cigarettes in the staircases, ran a wannabe blackjack ring with a bunch of kids who used to cut all of the religious classes with me, wandered around the building and broke things with other people (such as new computer equipment...we actually took the cardboard boxes and made a backyard wrestling thing out of them having locked the room from the inside), and had an altercation with a Rabbi (which he provoked) that led to a three week removal from his class. That guy and I really threw down, and he completely screwed me. They took away my graduation awards and gave them to someone else last minute, and I was denied by every private high school I applied to afterward despite phenomenal entrance grades; and the little bitch gave me Cs for my final report card out of spite. This was all after, by the way, a sincere apology that he said he accepted by way of the Torah's teachings on forgiveness. I'd kick his ass if I ever saw him again, for lack of a better expression.

@FunExplosions said:

I have almost no memory of junior high. Is that bad?

Not at all. I really don't either. Maybe it's because I never really got settled in due to going to three different middle schools and moving 4 different times.

As far as how I enjoyed them? I met some pretty amazing people during those years that I'm still in contact with, and one of them was the guy that eventually lead me to this site.

Also, I was probably the shittiest student in existence. I was quiet and I got along with everyone, but looking back on journal entries & such (I journaled avidly back then), I was just as much of an ego-maniacal douche as I am now. Just more insecure about myself.

@N7 said:

I never went to high-school. I was sitting there all warm and snug, literally had my entire life before my eyes. I was so excited and anxious for the world and to see mommy and daddy. But you see, I was aborted; murdered in the fetus. So I never got a chance to go to high-school. I never got a chance to do anything.

33 million. That's the number of babies aborted daily in the United States. Say "no" to Abortion, and "yes" to the lives of unborn babies today!

I'm generally a Pro-Lifer but... this... oh God the laughter...

I enjoyed it, although it was the beginning of the end for myself academic career. Started doing stupid things and my grades never bounced back. But it was good times all around.

Worst year of my life happened in junior high. Leader of my first real social group committed assault & battery on school grounds at the end of seventh grade, lost all my friends as a result, then started hanging out with a depressive who turned me into a racist asshole for most of eighth. Only reason I got out of that shit was because the cops got called on him and I making a prank call to a kid it turned out he'd been harassing for six months. Seeing as I'd never done anything to the kid before in my life, nothing serious happened, but needless to say it was "uncomfortable."

High school, though, was great.

My time in junior high was good, like all the other years. I had alot of fun teachers and was generally well liked. I really enjoyed watching all the "drama" people were having during that time. I also saw the most hilarious fight in my homeroom, that was fun. Simpler times....

It was fucking awful. I literally had about three friends, and we were the biggest losers in the school.

Also, we called it Middle School like civilized people.

I was severely "uncool" through middle school. Always tried to force myself into any group of friends I could muster, was severely disliked, had rampant dandruff (which is super rad if your name is Dan, YOU PUT THE DAN IN DANDRUFF never got old).

Then I decided I would go to High School in another city, clean up my act, and just be me. And suddenly I was super well-liked, friends with the majority of my classmates, and genuinely popular.

tl;dr middle school was dildos, high school was wonderful

I didn't have a problem. School was easy without even having to stduy, I could talk to literally anyone "though if I wanted to is an entierly different question" and I never had a problem with bullies.
I never thought it was fun though, I was pretty well liked, I just didn't like them back, too big of a interest gap.

I was pretty popular in school, so it wasn't that bad.

I enjoyed my time at primary school, it seems crazy now because that was the time when games like MGS1 had just come out, CRAZY!

Meh. Spent most of junior high drunk and skipped classes so much that I almost didn't graduate (despite doing well on tests - mandatory attendance and all that).

Overall it wasn't very fun and I was glad when it was over - but I did experience so much in those 3 years that I guess it was worth it, in the end. Making dastardly escape from the fuzz on my crappy moped while drunk, without a license or a helmet after doing brodies in the police station parking lot. Rescuing my friend from a drunk trucker by threatening him with a billhook. Waking up at a friends cabin and deciding to walk few dozen miles back to town while having no idea where I actually was and being terrified that I would get attacked by bears. Ahh, the good times.

And of course, EverQuest.

Really hated middle school because:

• Grade 6: I got some old 200 year old cranky bitch of a teacher that used to pick on me constantly. Up until this point I loved coming to school, despite the constant bullying, because I loved learning. She destroyed that love of coming to school to learn and from that point on my grades started doing bad and I could never get that love for learning that I used to have back. If it wasn't for that fucking cunt I know I would have had a much different life.
• Grade 7: A girl moved to our school and she was my first "love". We became best friends almost instantly, but without going into detail she ended up breaking my heart and we never really got along after.
• Grade 8: For the first time in my life I made friends in grade 7, and we were inseparable. Then grade 8 happened and they all moved away. One of them had to move out west because their dad got transferred there, and the other two just moved into the city. Was never aware of why though. However this was the year I got into playing Magic Cards, which would lead me to making new friends in Grade 9 and give me a few years of feeling like I had friends until grade 11 when we all drifted away. They all decided to put hoes before bros. One of them ended up knocking one of them up after High School and is now living in a trailer park with like 6 kids with her. So I feel kind of better about it in some twisted, dirty, evil way.

BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE . I just needed to stress that out because it really was . High school is when hell broke loose as I got an anxiety disorder which pretty much ruined highschool , college and marriage . Damn it's been a decade .

@Dunchad said:

Meh. Spent most of junior high drunk and skipped classes so much that I almost didn't graduate (despite doing well on tests - mandatory attendance and all that).

Overall it wasn't very fun and I was glad when it was over - but I did experience so much in those 3 years that I guess it was worth it, in the end. Making dastardly escape from the fuzz on my crappy moped while drunk, without a license or a helmet after doing brodies in the police station parking lot. Rescuing my friend from a drunk trucker by threatening him with a billhook. Waking up at a friends cabin and deciding to walk few dozen miles back to town while having no idea where I actually was and being terrified that I would get attacked by bears. Ahh, the good times.

And of course, EverQuest.

Jesus really? You were getting drunk and skipping school in grades 6-8? That's like 12 years old.

It was fine. Not memorable but not miserable. I do miss High school though.

I have nothing against my days in junior high school. I first began playing computer games while there. The school's library had a computer lab which had some Apple 2's and we'd get in the back and play Oregon Trail, Lemmings and a few other semi-educational games. I met one of the best friends I ever had in junior high and he remained my closest friend through college. Sadly, we drifted apart after that, but I still look back on those days with great fondness. If I had to choose between high school and junior high, I'd say I had a better time in high school, though. Junior high is all about puberty and pimples while high school is a bit more certain than what to make of our changing bodies.

@crusader8463:

Junior high here is grades 7-9, so 13-15 for me. First time was indeed back in 6th grade, but junior high was when most of us started drinking and by 8th grade it was pretty much every weekend kind of thing.

But thanks to getting an early start, by the time I could legally buy alcohol (18), I had grown bored of it. These days I rarely go out drinking and if I do, I always stop few beers short of drunk.

@Dunchad said:

@crusader8463:

Junior high here is grades 7-9, so 13-15 for me. First time was indeed back in 6th grade, but junior high was when most of us started drinking and by 8th grade it was pretty much every weekend kind of thing.

But thanks to getting an early start, by the time I could legally buy alcohol (18), I had grown bored of it. These days I rarely go out drinking and if I do, I always stop few beers short of drunk.

I see. That makes more sense. Around grade 8-9 was my first time drunk as well, and by the time I graduated High School I too was kind of over the whole drinking thing. I was never a weekend drunk, but I did it enough times to have regrets and learn a few life lessons and know that it's not a thing for me.