Discussion Zone: => General Chat => Topic started by: kinjo on August 25, 2009, 07:41:28 AM
Title: Plans after summer??
Post by: kinjo on August 25, 2009, 07:41:28 AM
My plans involve getting a job at one of the disney world parks. Specifically the animation academy would be really cool.
How about you? School? Couch Potatoness? Job? GF/BF? Beer?
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Wesker on August 25, 2009, 10:32:30 AM
I go back to school on the day after labor day and I'm basically prepared. HOWEVER the school is doing all scheduling ON THE [cen] ING INTERNET on a website that I lost my password to. I'm the only guy who doesn't know where the flying f*ck to go and I have to go to the office to find out today.
But when summer's over I plan on staying in shape and biting the bullet more. Whatever can better myself. That includes studying for math for once.
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Adelaide on August 25, 2009, 11:58:44 AM
Uhm.. plans after summer... o.o None of it is for sure yet... I'm SUPPOSED to be going to that private school, if my dad ever finishes the paperwork, my mom is SUPPOSED to be divorcing me dad but she always back out of it, and I am SUPPOSED to be getting a new job. Also, my brother said if I can get a new job, him and his fiance are moving, and if I can afford to split the rent, I could move in with them. That all depends on the new job however, and then of course papers signing guardianship over to him and the whole residence switchuroo deal... I dunno anymore x.X
=3 But whatever happens I plan on remaining optimistic about it all! Wheeeeeee! =D [chair]
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Flashwerewolf on August 25, 2009, 01:51:38 PM
I will be working out, going over my text books from college, and hanging out here.
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: kinjo on August 25, 2009, 02:41:41 PM
sounds like everyone has plans addy you shouldn't move in with anyone, get free living for as long as you can and save don't move out so young, you will regret it later
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Adelaide on August 25, 2009, 05:44:15 PM
If you knew my situation you would understand why I'm considering it.
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: ShinamoriAoshi on August 25, 2009, 07:29:26 PM
Nothing new, just school, I need to smack pilot in the face for Addy, reading, looking into philosophy and German classes and my girlfriend's birthday is in a month.
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Adelaide on August 25, 2009, 07:43:11 PM
=D Glad to see yew hasn't forgotten!
Also, Philosophy and German; excellent class choices!!
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: kinjo on August 25, 2009, 08:53:06 PM
If you knew my situation you would understand why I'm considering it.
i am sure i know your situation or atleast understand. But im telling you, better to ignore and deal then have to pay monthly. Enjoy being young while it lasts.
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Adelaide on August 25, 2009, 09:38:05 PM
o.o No Kinjo... >.> It's not the usual teenage crap about hating parents and stuff... I'm not like that. You really don't know my situation, you assume you know it... I wouldn't know if you understood it or not. =]
Ish fine ^^ I'll do whatever I think is best, which may or may not involve moving in with my brother.
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Kedzor on August 25, 2009, 09:59:54 PM
Evreyone has to choose between safety and freedom. She chose freedom.
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Red on August 25, 2009, 10:04:34 PM
My wealthy family pushes me to do whatever they want me to do. =_=
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: ShinamoriAoshi on August 25, 2009, 10:36:22 PM
I have school, I will attempt to get thrue school now. -_-
DONT DIE.
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: kinjo on August 27, 2009, 07:21:54 AM
Stop being a baby, school is so easy.
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Flashwerewolf on August 27, 2009, 10:54:03 AM
It really is, everything is set out and explained in a timely manner.
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Wesker on August 27, 2009, 11:59:34 AM
Times are different in the 2000's, fellas. But it does seem simple at times.
Another plan of mine is to reach 100 Marv's by February.
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Flashwerewolf on August 27, 2009, 12:48:28 PM
Well there are always challenges, its just that the challenges are really simple compared to things in the real world. There is a system to get what you want with school and it never fails. In life, nothing is as guaranteed.
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Wesker on August 27, 2009, 01:17:27 PM
I find embarassment to be a big factor.
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: black death on August 27, 2009, 03:47:10 PM
It really is, everything is set out and explained in a timely manner.
Ass
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Flashwerewolf on August 27, 2009, 05:20:11 PM
Yep, my job is done here.
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Adelaide on August 27, 2009, 05:51:48 PM
o.o I think that the real world is definitely harder, but older guys enjoy to belittle it into something it isn't.
I can't tell you how many times I've heard people say: "You're in high school! These are the best years of your life!" The fact is, psychologically, all throughout high school you are unstable, because you are pushing away from dependence on your parental figures and forcing yourself into a lost confused state where you try to define yourself as a separate entity from your parents. Fact is, and I've had grown adults tell me this too, high school is not the best years of your life; they suck.
I like to explain everything in medical terms, so from physical changes, to psychological changes, along with family life and dealing with people at school, all of which are maturing at different rates, it's more difficult then it seems.
Not to mention, this is the time when a lot of serious medical problems are identified, in younger people. It's when my medical issues came to be, along with many many others. In elementary and middle school, you don't have memorial days to a student who died of cancer because they are so rare and unheard of. Now, we are faced with dealing with death. Even if you were faced with death as a young child, it's not the same as now, because now you are given a better understanding of it.
Teens are also very susceptible to depression around this time, especially if it runs in the family, and this causes immense anxiety and gives way to suicidal thoughts, which I can almost promise you, at least 80% of us have thought of at one point in our lives. Now we are introduced to not only death and sorrow, but heavy amounts of anger, regret, and several other emotions.
We've felt these same emotions as young children, but not on such a large scale, and so dealing with emotions this strong, becomes a huge internal struggle.
Besides that, peer pressure is at its most when you are in high school. Girls get sexually harassed by guys on a daily basis; guys are pressured by other guys to have sex, these guys being pressured into make the virgin males feel terrible about themselves, and then these guys go and try and pressure their girlfriends into it. Teens are being introduced to drugs, alcohol, sex, sometimes teenage pregnancy, and because these factors are all now in their lives, adults around them tend to become even more protective from such things, which can be taken as a lack of trust or the parents "babying" their children.
Also as children, you tend not to consider your physical appearance as much, its whatever mommy dresses you in or however mommy does your hair, and then its off to school with a bagged lunch with a juice box and a pudding. Weight isn't concern to the child, the way they dress, the makeup they wear, the way they do their hair, these things don't matter as much until you are a teenager and feel the pressure of judgment. Enter eating disorders and stress from self image.
Teenagers are also most vulnerable now to rape, abuse, and other such things. Teenagers have hit puberty, so in the eyes of predators, they are now attractive and sexually appealing, as well as weaker and less knowledgeable about what to do when faced with this sort of situation. Almost makes them the perfect victim. Abuse, from parents, significant others, and other people in their lives makes them afraid of others, and makes them struggle to conceal an identity of them they don't want others to know about, by any means necessary.
Now all these things are going on, we are aware all these things are going on, and because our minds are trying to become self reliant, we try to work through these problems ourselves, and sometimes rely on a close friend to help to; a lot of us won't go to our parents, because that would mean giving up part of our newly found independence. Trying to solve a problem to big for you to solve on you own, only causes further stress.
Basically, we are being introduced to A LOT of things we don't know how to handle, and are trying to handle more than we know how to, while trying to please the people that mean the most to us. Overwhelming amounts of emotion bottle up inside, we don't know who we can and can't trust, we are dealing with the knowledge that us ourselves, or people close to us have been raped, abused, does drugs, drinks, is depressed and suicidal, has a life-threatening illness, are having babies, or are just victims to the judgment of peers and parents.
All this is going on, the adults in our lives belittle the amount of stress we are enduring, and belittle who we are, and we don't know how to handle all these new changes we are being faced with. =3 Thanks Flash and Kinjo! for supporting those adults who belittle us... =]
Even you two have to admit high school is damn difficult to get through. Well... I'm done ranting.. Did any one even read all that? [burst]
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: black death on August 27, 2009, 06:03:17 PM
These are the things I mean, they may not think of it like that because eather they forgot, or just never really had too many problems.
Thank you addy for your extremely large post not many will read. o.o
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Adelaide on August 27, 2009, 06:08:26 PM
=D YOU ARE WELCOME!
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Flashwerewolf on August 27, 2009, 06:30:21 PM
Well yeah our choices make high school hard.
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Adelaide on August 27, 2009, 06:43:05 PM
o.o Those aren't all based on choices.... no one says "I CHOICE TO HAVE CANCER!" or "I CHOICE TO HAVE GOTTEN RAPED!" ._.
Most of what I mentioned were just uncontrollable twists in fate.
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Flashwerewolf on August 27, 2009, 06:48:53 PM
Well that doesn't happen to most kids. Having cancer is different than the difficulties of high school. I was talking about school itself without outside forces, just your mind.
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Adelaide on August 27, 2009, 07:26:59 PM
But when someone in the school gets cancer, everyone knows, and everyone close to that person is effected. Its not just one person effected, its a large amount of people. Maybe things are different from what you remember, but the last time a girl died of cancer at me school, they called in all these therapists, none of the teachers would teach or they'd get all teary eyed, and the students just gave no effort what so ever for quite a while before the depression wore off. It effected the entire school. In 2007 the valedictorian of the school was killed when some 42 year old woman caused an accident that lead to a head on collision. The school was closed for a day after that happened o.o Was sad; he was a friend of my brothers and he just cried and cried about it..
We are all effected by this stuff, not just one person.
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Flashwerewolf on August 27, 2009, 09:20:09 PM
Thats still besides the point of the discussion. High school isn't hard the academic challenges arn't that bad compared to challenges in the real world where you do things with unknown rewards.
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Wesker on August 27, 2009, 09:23:02 PM
Peer pressure isn't an easy topic, fellas. Neither was being a freshman.
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Adelaide on August 27, 2009, 10:19:33 PM
Well I never had the freshman struggle =P But yeah.... academically it's easy, depending on the teachers and classes, along with how much pressure you exert on to yourself, and how much pressure others exert onto you (which also causes stress). But considering EVERYTHING, I think teenagers are belittle too much, too often.
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Wesker on August 27, 2009, 10:45:03 PM
Well put, madame.
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Flashwerewolf on August 27, 2009, 10:59:50 PM
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Adelaide on August 28, 2009, 12:33:02 AM
>.> You really have a way with words fw...
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Flashwerewolf on August 28, 2009, 02:57:55 AM
I just speak from experience. I mostly tell people how I think now regardless of how I thought when I was your ages.
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Adelaide on August 28, 2009, 05:30:45 AM
I just think you grown ups like to give us less credit then we deserve (http://www.naijadiscussion.com/naijaforum/images/smilies/tongue1.gif)
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Wesker on August 28, 2009, 10:20:07 AM
I get credit aplenty just for bein' the Andy-man.
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Flashwerewolf on August 28, 2009, 02:34:38 PM
Well its a social cycle. When we were kids we were looked down upon, and since then we have achieved things and earned reputation. When you are a kid still in your parents house, theres not much you can do without being a dependent. I dont know how school is on the east coast but school on the west coast sucks. Its under funded everything is broken, and there is a feeling of getting prodded along thru the system.
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Adelaide on August 28, 2009, 02:43:28 PM
=3 White house in on our side, our schools has to be gewd to impress Obama. =P Haha, I'm kidding... It varies depending on the school you go to. My high school as it stands is one second corrective action, standardized test scores haven't been to state standards in many years, and within a few years, if scores don't increase, the state comes in and takes over. Whee fun... I've also gone to a few good schools... really it depends on the area...
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Wesker on August 28, 2009, 08:08:16 PM
My district is pretty simple and very clean, although there are so many groups of kids that it makes your head spin.
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Flashwerewolf on August 28, 2009, 09:00:51 PM
Thats most highschools :OP
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Wesker on August 28, 2009, 11:52:45 PM
GRRRREAT NEWS! The friendship with the girl from Giant is still running and she really wants to hang out again soon! She used the word "definitely"!! WOOHOO! There's my mother-effing post-summer plans!!!
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Adelaide on August 29, 2009, 02:17:49 AM
KEEP IT UP! ;D Gewd luck Whisker!
Title: Re: Plans after summer??
Post by: Wesker on August 29, 2009, 09:08:56 AM