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[cvxfreak]

It rained semi-heavily during the graduation ceremony. Everyone's asses were freezing. My cap got ruined. I lost my tassal. My diploma cover got spared, thank God. There was no time for pictures as everyone wanted to get the hell home. Goodbyes and hugs were cut short in favor of getting home.

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My senior class was responsible for the highest AP pass rates in a few years, victors in various sports and events, and raising the school's test score rating from a 6 to an 8/10.

=(

We deserved a nice graduation. The gym was supposed to be the backup but it wasn't raining at the beginning, so administration took its chance... and took the wrong chance.

Oh well, that's life I guess.

 

[Johnas]

It rained semi-heavily during the graduation ceremony. Everyone's asses were freezing. My cap got ruined. I lost my tassal. My diploma cover got spared, thank God. There was no time for pictures as everyone wanted to get the hell home. Goodbyes and hugs were cut short in favor of getting home.

=/

My senior class was responsible for the highest AP pass rates in a few years, victors in various sports and events, and raising the school's test score rating from a 6 to an 8/10.

=(

We deserved a nice graduation. The gym was supposed to be the backup but it wasn't raining at the beginning, so administration took its chance... and took the wrong chance.

Oh well, that's life I guess.

Wanna trade problems?

 

[StoOgE]

I would feel bad for you, if I allready didnt know that you are going to lose touch with 99% of those people and generally not care about them within 12 months.

Seriously, right now you think highschool is the most important thing ever and you will never have this much fun again, and you are all going to be lifelong friends.. then you get out in the real world where you choose your friends instead of picking the least objectionable out of a group of a few hundred that you were forced into the same classroom with for 12 years.

 

[Agent Dormer]

Congratulations on graduating! What will you be doing now?

 

[SlickWilly223]

Wanna trade problems?

Haha

 

[hXc_thugg]

Go get drunk! Mmm, graduation night!

 

[cvxfreak]

Going to university after this.

Unlike seemingly a lot of GAF folk, I enjoyed HS because of the people. I knew who to hang out with and I hung out with the right crowd. They were all smart, and got into the best colleges in California. So I feel disappointed that I couldn't take pictures, couldn't give as many hugs and handshakes as I could, couldn't say my goodbyes and to savor the moment of being out of school like most kids - instead, I had to avoid getting pneumonia.

So yeah, it did suck. =(

 

[StoOgE]

dont get me wrong, I had alot of fun in high school, loved it at the time... in hindsight, almost everyone I knew there was a dipshit.

and for what its worth, my high school graduation was supposed to be outside, it rained and the graduation was actually split into two smaller gyms, so I didnt actually graduate with half of my class.

 

[slayn]

I would feel bad for you, if I allready didnt know that you are going to lose touch with 99% of those people and generally not care about them within 12 months.

Seriously, right now you think highschool is the most important thing ever and you will never have this much fun again, and you are all going to be lifelong friends.. then you get out in the real world where you choose your friends instead of picking the least objectionable out of a group of a few hundred that you were forced into the same classroom with for 12 years.

I'm out of college now and all my friends are the people I have been friends with since first grade...

 

[Smiles and Cries]

My senior class was responsible for the highest AP pass rates in a few years, victors in various sports and events, and raising the school's test score rating from a 6 to an 8/10.

=(

did you get laid? in the end those other things are secondary.

 

[cvxfreak]

did you get laid? in the end those other things are secondary.

Hah, no. Not up my alley.

 

[newsguy]

did you get laid? in the end those other things are secondary.

:lol It's funny cause it's TRUE.

 

[Boogie9IGN]

My mom said it's considered good luck if it rains on your graduation

 

[theREBELins]

Hah, no. Not up my alley.

WTF??????!!!!!!

 

[tetsuoxb]

Hah, no. Not up my alley.

Dude, the not my alley thing needs to edited. Even if you are waiting for marriage, or if you arent interested in a relationship, or you are a priest (well, especially if you are a priest), sex is up everyone's alley.

 

[john tv]

Dude, the not my alley thing needs to edited. Even if you are waiting for marriage, or if you arent interested in a relationship, or you are a priest (well, especially if you are a priest), sex is up everyone's alley.

Especially if you're gay. Then it's quite literally up your alley.

 

[Bebpo]

Dude, the not my alley thing needs to edited. Even if you are waiting for marriage, or if you arent interested in a relationship, or you are a priest (well, especially if you are a priest), sex is up everyone's alley.

Well I dunno, people's first reaction when typing or talking often leads to this train of thought. For instance in my classes yesterday my students asked my Japanese fellow female Japanese teacher if she liked sex. To avoid the question she turns and asks me if I like sex, now at first I said "I dunno, hmm...." just out of reaction like the Japanese bimyou kids. But then after thinking I turned around and gave an astounding thumbs up and an enthusiastic "Yes I do!".

So I think CVX just replied too fast and his initial reaction was a basic brain function of avoiding a concrete yes/no answer when regarding sex.

 

[Ghost]

Turns out people dont disapear into the ether after Graduation, we have his thing called Summer now.

So theres plenty of time for all those 'hugs' you want.

 

[FortNinety]

I thought this was gonna be about how everyone has been murdered in thier sleep or something involving a serial killer. But year, rain can suck sometimes too.

 

[distantmantra]

It rained semi-heavily during the graduation ceremony. Everyone's asses were freezing. My cap got ruined. I lost my tassal. My diploma cover got spared, thank God. There was no time for pictures as everyone wanted to get the hell home. Goodbyes and hugs were cut short in favor of getting home.

That happened at my HS graduation as well. We weren't allowed to use umbrellas, so we all sat in the freezing cold soaked by the downpour. At least all the people in the stands were under cover.

As for the future (I graduated in 1999), I'm still very close with six of my core friends from high school. We all went to separate colleges but kept in contact and we're now all back in the Seattle area. I made some good friends in college, like my fiancee and my roommate from sophomore year, but the bulk are from high school.

edit: Rain does not equal being cursed. I too was expecting a horrific bus accident involving students or something equally tragic.

 

[Vargas]

Congratualtions on graduating CVX. Sucks about the rain.

 

[Squirrel Killer]

RAIN? I CLICKED ON THIS THREAD FOR RAIN?

No cancer-stricken students that died right before graduation? No car filled to the brim with partying graduates flip on a back road incinerating all but the drunk driver who's left with third degree burns over 95% of his body, one arm, no legs, and half a scorched penis? No salmonella outbreak on the last day of school lunches because the juniors decided that rotten eggs in the egg salad would be a fun prank to play on the seniors? No massive bleacher failure? No "Whoops, the school lost it's certification, so now you'll all have to retake your senior year at a real school."? No WMD?

Son, if rain makes you draws the conclusion that your class is cursed, your vagina is going to get seriously twisted once you hit the real world. That's life, indeed.

 

[Aruarian Reflection]

I don't know you, but you sound pretty sheltered. Wait until you go out into the real world. Prepare for an awakening

 

[cvxfreak]

Well a day later, and half the class is hit with colds. I heard a rumor that one of the parents is gonna sue because the school promised to move things into the gym in case of rain.

Just great...

I guess this isn't the end of the world, and it *could* have been worse... but it could have been so much better, too. There's always college graduation, though. Still...

It's ironic too considering almost everyone got sunburn during the practice sessions the two days before...

As for sex at graduation, no thank you. I have my reasons, none of them being related to closet homosexuality, but everyone's different and I really don't play that kind of game. I'm not a fan of casual sex. :lol

 

[Christoff Yurievich]

I'm out of college now and all my friends are the people I have been friends with since first grade...

well, he did say 99% so that leaves a few people.