I was only in school for half days almost every day when I was a senior. I don't even remember much about it beyond a few morning classes I had with friends. Got to be part of the "marketing program," which means you'd go to a (very simple) marketing class 2-3 times a week. This was the last class for everyone in this program and it ended a little after 1. If you didn't have class, you could just leave around noon. You had to have an appropriate job or internship to do this. My game store job was, amazingly enough, acceptable. You also had to work a certain amount of hours per week, but since I already worked on fridays and saturdays, I pretty much had the right amount of hours to begin with, and would only work maybe one other day during the week. The class itself was complete bullshit; during the first semester of class, we didn't do SHIT. The teacher would usually just put on videos or we'd watch TV or whatever. Very little work. Then the school cracked down and we got more work to do, but it was still easy and easy to finish. The teacher would often be out doing other things and the class would fuck around with the subs. One time they got a sub to let us all GO HOME instead of having the class. This is hilarious looking back, but at the time I didn't want to go since I knew the teacher would be pissed (and she was). But I couldn't be the only one who stayed behind and got everyone else busted, no way.
So basically my last year of high school was spent in one or two "real" classes (English and Math), then art class (which I enjoyed and we'd all mess around anyway), then either another hour and a half of nothing or break at noon for lunch...so while the rest of the seniors were doing mindless busywork, the marketing kids were off at the mall messing around. If I had to "work," that just meant heading out to the store and playing games all day (no one came until the late afternoon/evening) It was great.
They got rid of the program the next year.
And yeah, school sucks. I found my college years weren't much better, although I did enjoy some of the history classes and Japanese. So fucking glad to be DONE and I really, really don't want to return to school.
Dude, you are 18: any relationship you get in right now will not last. It's the truth, get over it. You're awesome so you'll have no problem getting better chicks in college. Don't let her dictate what you do.
You can bullshit through some classes but don't get lazy; it'll carry on to college and fuck you. Like me
Aren't you one of the eternally dateless? That's not true for everyone. My cousin married his high school (actually junior high school IIRC) sweetheart; they've been married like six years already with no problems to speak of. I think they did break it off for a bit during college but they ended up back together and got married when they both finished.
There's no question that you don't follow a girl, especially one you just started a relationship with, to school though. If you happen to go to the same school, great, but she probably will change up on you. By coincidence, the girl I liked in my senior year did end up at the same university (even lived on the floor above me); I was in the "friend zone" with her but thought I might have a chance. I knew she did some drugs (she would go to raves and get really fucked up...we're talking really bad shit here), but this was supposed to be occasional use only. I stopped hanging out with her when she asked me to dispose of this little plastic bag filled with white powder. Yeah.
