[Gingerbread Latte]

I can't say high school was all bad for me but I expect that's due to the differences in between UK schools and the US. There was still the "popular crowd" though and that was hard to deal with as most of them basically got popular through being bullies.

Even so, it's true that most of the friendships I had in high school have long gone now. I only keep in contact with a select few and even then we don't speak often. Teachers in school always told us that university and the work place is where you'll end up making lifelong friends. They usually told us this whenever we had to choose options for classes and they were trying to discourage us from picking classes just because our friends were doing so.

I'd say that high school can teach you valuable lessons though. By the time I got to the end of it I'd stopped caring what other people thought of me and just got on with my work. If I hadn't gone through all the struggles with my friends leaving me and break ups etc. then I don't think I would have turned out to be the same person I am today.