Gr. 9? wat was ur experience?

Question

i'm going to a different high school than all my friends which means i need to make lots of new friends to be with. it's just gonna be a weird experience for me and i sorta wanna hear people's experience that'll make me feel better and maybe some advice.

thanks

Answer 1

i had the exact same situation as you! i didn't go to the same highschool school with my friends from elementary. my mom wouldn't let me (because the school wasn't very nice or clean...) so she sent me to a different school.

at first i didn't want to! i went into grade 9 not knowing anyone, literally! not even one person. but surprisingly, i made a ton of friends - even in the first day!

all you have to do is be as confident as you can be, introduce yourselfs to people, compliment people... and smile! just be nice.

i thought it was going to be really hard, being away from my old friends, making new ones... but it's actually not bad at all! now i have friends from my old elementary school AND new friends at my highscool.

you're going to do just fine .. promise :)

Answer 2

your situation is gonna be pretty difficult with all your friends off to different schools.  don't worry though, if you're not a shy person you should be fine.  no worries :)  here's some advice to follow though...i don't care if your counselors and such have already said these a million times, but honestly, follow them.

--get involved with school. join some club you're interested in, or join a sport.  I was really bored as a freshman because i wasn't involved at all.

--if your school has the Link Crew program, keep in touch with your Link Crew leader. He/she will help you with frosh year.  

--keep your grades up.  don't listen to people who say that frosh year doesn't count toward college...frosh year is easy, so don't blow it.

--be careful of the friends you make. this is what my 8th grade counselor told me: "your friends in middle school will be your enemies in high school." i never believed it until it happened. no, i didn't become exact enemies, but my "best friends" changed, and i'm sure i did too. things weren't the same.  don't be friends with the people on drugs...there are a lot of them who get hooked as freshmen and it ruins their whole life.

--don't get caught up in drama. it ruins EVERYTHING. trust me....any kind of drama..especially boy drama.

--there's no such thing as freshmen getting trash canned. i have NO idea where that came from.  

--dont' get a perception of high school from movies ("mean girls" for example). those always show bratty girls who try this and that...it's not true.  just be yourself and you'll do fine.

--it's seriously not a huge transition form 8th to 9th grade.  just wait until you get to 11th grade. not much of a difference, except for a bigger campus (usually).

--be careful with boyfriends.  i've known people who have had to drop out because they got pregnant.

--DON'T drink. seriously.  bad things happen.

Now here's what my experience was like:

*my friends changed. so did i.

*i was only in 1 club frosh year, and it was a boring one too.

*i got a 4.0  that year; easy-schmeezy stuff.  oh, btw, take advanced classes. they help

*i took school seriously! of my freshman class of 1000 people; now, going into junior year there are about 850 left.  what happened to the rest?

*no drama for me ;)

*i was freakishly bored the whole year...i had no sports, and the club i joined took like no time at all.

*you never know what you'll be interested in.  i took tv production cuz my counselor put me in it, and now i think i might major in it in college.

no, i'm not saying frosh year is boring. I was the boring person. lol. but as a sophomore, here's what i did: got a 4.1, was in ASB (and got most inspirational leader), was in the National Honor Society, was vice prez of TV prod. club,....etc. haha. i was SUPER involved, which is definitely good!

so, take high school seriously. make good choices!! go to college! it's rare for someone to make a fortune and not even go to college.

thanks for reading!