How were you in school?

[Mariotroid]

In grade school I was very lazy. Never did my homework. I did SOME projects and got SOME Mark's, but I was a lazy kid. This carried on until grade 7. I didn't do any homework at all and disappointed my teacher.

Then grade 8 hit. I turned my act around cause i had a wonderful teacher. I started excelling in math and English and did fairly well in both. Eventually i surpassed all my close friends in school until grade 11 when I started smoking weed.

From then on I did poorly cause I slept in all day and never attended class. And now? I'm working at walmart.... yeah. Great life lol

[Mario]

Good story LOL.

I never put too much effort in school but always did pretty well. Makes doing things nowadays pretty hard cuz I'm not getting what was essentially praise for minimal effort anymore LOL

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[VinnyVideo]

I haven't talked about this too much on MFGG, but I was actually home-schooled through the end of high school. I think I was pretty good at learning, although in retrospect I wish I'd used more of my ample free time to learn more about programming and Excel at a younger age. I sometimes wish I'd played a team sport, although the sport I was best at has an extremely low chance of getting anyone a scholarship or a professional career.

I never got a grade worse than an A in both college and grad school, so I did pretty OK. I tried my best to soak up everything I could and participate in positive extracurricular activities.

Then I learned that once you're done with school, employers rarely care about your academic performance (although they sometimes do care whether you earned that enchanted piece of paper known as a "diploma"). It took me a little while to find a good-paying job, but I'm finally on the right track with my career now.

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[Retriever II]

When I was in college and working for my old public school's IT department part time, I occasionally ran into old teachers I'd had. I don't remember the specifics about a conversation I was having with my 7th grade math teacher, except that my performance as a student must have come up. I told her "I didn't try very hard". She told me "You didn't try at all".

That sums up my schooling elementary through half of high school. Smart, but didn't want to do the work.

[Evil Yoshi Toes]

Elementary through middle I didnt try extremely hard but i did all my homework because I cared a lot about what people thought about me. I always made sure I had everything done and I avoided talking at all to make sure there was never any reason for me to get into trouble or to look foolish.
I was still like that in high school and I'm still a little bit like that in that I hate having attention on myself and I don't like being reprimanded, but strangely throughout all of high school I did almost none of my assignments. It worked out because I went to art college so my grades didn't matter that much aside from scholarships, and I did well enough with minimal effort to get the scholarship I wanted. Still, i think I should have tried harder in high school so I could have had a better work ethic down in my first year of college, but oh well.

[GamerInGeorgia]

I've always been a straight A's student for as long as I can remember, but I usually don't study for tests and I used to do all of my projects last minute in 6th and 7th grade. I still have yet to finish high school, but I hope to continue keeping my pristine grades.

[Beatrice]

I was a good kid (both in personality and grades, but there was an exception and I'll explain that later) in elementary; but up to the first fourths of middle school (7th grade or so) where, due to getting mostly bad grades on my report card, I got banned from using my game consoles for 5-7 months or so. 8th to 9th went considerably better, and right now (11th) I'm pretty much fine since I'm in a specialist school of my choosing.

About the "exception" part earlier, something in 1st grade happened. In which I got bullied by a whole class of kids, and one day it got to the point where kid me was like "Aw, hell nah", and proceeded to pour a bottle of water on another kid's head (FYI, this was not a random kid, and was one of those that bullied me). I remember a few days after that, I got a letter from school (addressed to my parents) saying something like "We need to talk about [real name].", and somehow, on the whole water bottle incident, I got defended by my mom?

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hey wtf thats mymoms feckin name wtf

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[darkblueyoshi]

I made B's and C's, sometimes I fail tests.

[Myte]

This might come of as a bit of a brag, but as a grade-conscious person, I do my best to excel in school. I'm in college atm and I'm actually running for honors.

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[emmybecca]

i was really shy and an extreme introvert in my grade school. I never talked to anyone except a couple of friends until class 7. In my high school i was dream girl, the prom queen :P i still miss my school time. Now my younger brother is following my footsteps making his way in boys. I get the back to school shopping coupons to get his clothes and stuff for his school.

[Syaxamaphone]

I was one of those freaks who didn't pay attention or put in any effort but still got top marks.

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[Cruise Elroy]

I've always done pretty well in school grade-wise, even though in more recent years I've gradually put less and less effort into it overall :V. Guess it helps that now I'm in subjects I already have some experience with.

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[SonicKade2048]

I'd probably consider myself to be "that one kid" if you know what I mean. I've been bullied, lonely, trying my best on all my work, never succeeding right at times, just that person who you might consider, again, "that one kid".

Though, through the years I've learned to accept my differences and who I am as a person on the inside, and that not everything is going to be a letdown. I've recently got to the point where I'm letting out something I've held back for a very, VERY long time, and now I believe would be the best time to explain and tell everyone I've become acquainted with. I'm being more open about my subjects (though some I'd still rather keep to myself), and I'm talking more expressively than I normally would, rather than go hide and not talk to anyone at all (as I did in some instances). So if you ever see people like me who are sulking and need friends, don't be afraid to go up to them and speak. Tell them that there's always a light at the end of the tunnel, and that things will get better every day, no matter how long it takes or how hard it gets.

Sorry if I turned this into some kind of moral story, I have a lot on my mind about these kinds of subjects.

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[Fun With Despair]

I was a total loser for years and years, and then suddenly in highschool everyone thought I was cool because I was apparently funny. Regardless, I kind of miss it. I had a decent amount of friends to do stuff with, and life was a lot more interesting.

[Yakibomb]

So if you ever see people like me who are sulking and need friends, don't be afraid to go up to them and speak. Tell them that there's always a light at the end of the tunnel, and that things will get better every day, no matter how long it takes or how hard it gets.

Actually, I did this for a friend when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade. We'd be on a playground, playing and talking (no clue about what, probably video games), and eventually, he'd throw a tantrum, tell me things like "You're not my friend anymore!" and I would be left with that for the rest of the day. This went on for probably a long time, probably 6 months. Though, I went back to him each day. This was because there was a moment when I realized something...

One day, he approached me after school. I was on-guard and suspicious, but as a first-defense mechanism I mirrored his movements in an attempt to gain acceptance. I recognized that the things, his movements and so on, we normalized. So I asked him about his tantrum (in so many words) but he didn't quite remember that he even had this. I said, "ok", and that was the end of the discussion. He would still have these tantrums, but I was generally ok with this.

(I'm kind of getting off topic here... There was one time I remember, when we were playing SSB64 he'd want to be "bee Ness" (the yellow/black palette swap of Ness from EarthBound), I poked fun at his anger by picking Ness as that pal.swap and quickly realized my mistake--He gets up and resets the game! Ugh. We're still friends today but man... The guy just wanted to be bee Ness, I guess.)

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As for the school thing. I was a loner kid. That's pretty much where I'd like to leave that.

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[fireball3k]

i made the honor roll in high school because i did OK in some weighted courses. i floundered through college until the last few semesters, when i started giving a crap and made As and Bs. i made Bs and Cs before, but if i could do it again i'd have pulled a vinny and fought to get As.

people say that smart people do well in school... well, that might be true, but i think what's more important is a work ethic. it was one thing to know stuff, but it was quite another to do the work.

[Kritter]

I hated school and gave up by around year 10, though I did try and turn it around by year 11 and got good grades but my mind wasn't really in the game by that point. Year 12 was just a hate-filled blur. I was... fine in primary school, not a stand-out student but not a terrible one. I had terrible work ethic and I'd spend more time daydreaming than paying attention in class.

I had no interest in most of the drivel that comes from the usual schooling. Why the f*** would I want to learn German? I don't care for maths and I certainly don't want to get into anything involving chemistry or physics. I won't even mention my hatred for all things P.E.

I made mistakes as well in my later years of school in that I picked classes that my friends were going to be in, rather than things I'd enjoy, so I ended up in places I just did not belong.

If I could offer any advice, it's do subjects that you want to do, suffer through the rest as best as you can and try not to put too much stock into school in general because for the most part it's a joke, because most of the REAL learning in life happens after you leave.

[Mariotroid]

What is this real learning you speak of Kritter?

...being serious here. @Kritter

[VinnyVideo]

Going along with what @Kritter was saying: Formal education is a game. It's a lot different from the "real world" - the skills that contribute to success in school don't always mean much once you start working full time.

A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome.

A game is an activity or sport usually involving skill, knowledge, or chance, in which you follow fixed rules and try to win against an opponent or to solve a puzzle.

Some people thrive in this ecosystem; others struggle. How much you like your school experience depends on a variety of factors - your learning style, your desire to learn, your ability to fit in with the school's culture, your teachers, your classmates, access to extracurricular activities, the school's budget, and family support, to name a few. Schools aren't always good at adapting the system to students who don't fit into a certain mold.

Don't get me wrong: Education is very important. People with knowledge, skills, and connections (and yes, these connections are a big part of the value of an education, especially by the time you get to grad school) are more successful than those who lack those things. However, the formal education system is not the only way people can acquire those things. So don't stress if you don't like school or have problems there.

One more thing: "Useless" subjects can sometimes prove to be valuable down the road - for example, not all students enjoy their foreign language classes, but in my current job, knowing Spanish is very important. So try your best in all your classes, even if they don't seem relevant when you take them.

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[CGWorks]

I was homeschooled until 6th grade. I despised math with a passion and did very poorly at it, so much so that I nearly had to repeat it. I generally didnt do much homework but did enough to get by

This continued until 10 grade where I needed to repeat Algebra 1 because I was an idiot. From 10th grade through 12th grade I excelled in all my classes.

The beginning of college was very rough. I did all my work but the amount of effort required was obviously a lot higher, so the effort that got me A's and B's in highschool was now getting me C's and sometimes D's, and I switched from a Physical Therapy major to Computer Engineering. I failed all my courses in Spring 2015 and returned to community college to sort of start over and rethink my intended major.

I switched from EE to Computer Science and got my grades back up, finally passing Chemistry after taking it 3 times xP My grades picked back up and I transferred back to university in Spring 2018 and so far my grades have been excellent, despite some difficulty and many nightmares over exams that had occurred weeks prior xP

Planning and hoping to keep them up, and I have only 3 semesters left before I finally graduate lol