What's your say on teenage pressures? - 5

optimuswhat · 11-25-2013

I love having stress.
It's my favourite hobby other than doing homework, and studying.
Yay
#sarcasm

GOAT · 11-26-2013

Posted by optimuswhat

I love having stress.
It's my favourite hobby other than doing homework, and studying.
Yay
#sarcasm

I love smoking stress.
Its my favorite hobby other than doing homework, and studying.
woop woop

Kiwi · 11-26-2013

I think it's important to remember that any pressures are proportionate to what we've experienced before and what kind of environment we live in. The "pressures" we experience are likely going to be completely different to our peers than they are for us. I've always thought it's unfair to shrug off what affects other people as trivial.

For example, when I was younger I could never decide what dinosaur to play with because I always wanted to treat them equally; deciding was a pressure for me, and I honestly spent hours sitting there trying to decide. Now, the pressure I experience is more along the lines of "this presentation needs to be completed by tomorrow, but I also need to write the last few thousand words for this essay that's due at the same time", and I know it will change again in the next few years.

Crono · 11-26-2013

The only grades that matter (atleast in the system I was in) are your final 12th grade scores. Nothing before that even mattered, all those A's and B's didn't mean **** when I flopped on my last two years of high school.

Pazx · 11-28-2013

Posted by Talon

i agree with your flawless reasoning

you realise... that school performance... has real life consequences... right?

Talon · 11-28-2013

Posted by Pazx

you realise... that school performance... has real life consequences... right?

Everything in real life has real life consequences, hell of a wake-up call. I'd hardly call high school performance - let alone middle school performance - anything more than trivial. Honestly, at least in America, the first three years of high school just simply don't mean much when considering future progress in universities if you're heading that path, and even if you do, community college transfers to universities are a very viable option if you're just looking to get by in life, which most people are. Performance in high school, and especially middle school, aren't pivotal at all except for the final year of high school and standardized testing (ACT/SAT).

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optimuswhat Speed Demon Join Date: Jan 2013 Posts: 1,288	I love having stress. It's my favourite hobby other than doing homework, and studying. Yay #sarcasm

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Kiwi Registered User Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: New Zealand Posts: 2,956	I think it's important to remember that any pressures are proportionate to what we've experienced before and what kind of environment we live in. The "pressures" we experience are likely going to be completely different to our peers than they are for us. I've always thought it's unfair to shrug off what affects other people as trivial. For example, when I was younger I could never decide what dinosaur to play with because I always wanted to treat them equally; deciding was a pressure for me, and I honestly spent hours sitting there trying to decide. Now, the pressure I experience is more along the lines of "this presentation needs to be completed by tomorrow, but I also need to write the last few thousand words for this essay that's due at the same time", and I know it will change again in the next few years.

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Crono :pluffy: Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Sweden Posts: 5,945	The only grades that matter (atleast in the system I was in) are your final 12th grade scores. Nothing before that even mattered, all those A's and B's didn't mean **** when I flopped on my last two years of high school.