Favorite/least favorite year of schooling?

[mvd]

With school starting, this topic is appropriate. This topic includes the years up through your non-graduate school college.

Favorite year: Senior year of high school. I got my highest grades yet and had a great time at my prom.

My least favorite year: 7th grade. The private school I went to was really going downhill, and they started accepting misfits. It was so bad that I did my work from home for much of the year. Changed to a Catholic school for 8th grade.

So what is your favorite year of schooling? What's your least favorite year of schooling?

[Worst Username Ever]

1. If you are including undergrad

Then my senior year of undergraduate. Well, I was on the 4.5 year program, so that last 1/2 year, actually. I was the closest to my friends, I was living with great people, great parties, making money while at school, it was good.

Least favorite was 8th grade. For some reason the entire grade turned on me and I became a total reject geek with no friends until highschool

[coloradodem2005]

2. My least favorite.

8th grade and the semester just before I graduated college. 8th grade because I became the geek of the school. My last semester because that is when my life fell apart.


My best would be, probably any year of High School, even though I did NOT go to the prom. My Junior and Senior years of College.

[Reverend_Smitty]

3. I can't pick a favorite

I had a great time my junior and senior years of high school. I also am having a blast in college.

I guess my least favorite year was first grade. I lost snack time, nap time and it was the only time I ever got in trouble (in any way) in school. I lost 1 day of recess that year, and I still claim it wasn't my fault! The only blemish on this goody two-shoes, teacher's pet record!

[Rowdyboy]

4. 7th grade was the worst...

We had just moved from a rural school district to a larger area. The city schools assumed that I would be behind (ignorant bastard elitists) and stuck me in dumb-ass classes. When I'd get A's, everybody hated me and I caught hell. PE was worst of all because I'm not athletic either. It was a nightmare.

Junior year college was the best (1974). Exciting classes, great friends, Nixon had just resigned, Watergate election gave huge majority to Dems, alcohol and marijuana flowed freely. Everything was possible.

[Lovecrafty]

5. My favorite, and least favorite, years of school

Most favorite: Kindergarden because they gave us kolurs and glue and we could make perty prezents for mommy and it was fun we could take naps aftur lunch and got to play on the swings and it was just reel fun time.

Least favorite: 9th Grade. The transistion from a middle school enviornment to high school presented several problems, at least at first. The high school I attended was rather large and had a complicated floor plan. Classes were, at first, difficult to find and because of the increased size of them, I rarely had classes with close friends from middle school. In a way this was good because I had to make new friends, but it seemed the further along I went in high school my childhood friends began fading away until they were only another face in the hall...Academically I had no problem adjusting and felt more stimulated by the increased workload. Only socially did I find minor problems which, after the first six weeks, worked themselves out. By my senior year I was involved in many school organizations and the lonely days of those first few weeks as a fish were all but forgotten!

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

7. Favorite: Second grade

My teacher really inspired me to read, read, read! I loved beating the other kids for most books read and getting such delightful trinkets as a paperweight with a butterfly in it and a KU Jayhawk emblem.

Least favorite: Sophomore year. I was in an extremely gawky stage, and no one wanted to go out with me. I enjoyed the academics and activities, but was miserable because at the time I based my entire self-esteem on whether the guys I liked liked me in return. STUPID.

[mvd]

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[VOX]

6. Worst: 7th Grade -- going from grade school to middle school...

Major culture shock! After the first day, I came down with measles and missed two weeks. Just couldn't take it at first. I was 6'+ tall, skinny as a pipe cleaner, and had all the confidence of a banana slug. Things got better by the 8th Grade. Definitely better.

Best: Last year of college -- undergraduate. Had a mastery of my stuff, and just enough ignorance to not be shy. A great time.

[LWolf]

8. Favorites: kindergarten.

I learned to read. And 3rd grade; I read 100 books or so for my teacher, planted a garden with her, hatched eggs and adopted one of the chicks, and raised silkworms.

Least favorites: I'd 2nd; I got an "unsatisfactory" in printing and had to go to speech class to say my "ssssses" correctly. 4th; long division 7th; the science teacher who made reclusive me do an oral report, and the pe teacher who made me perform a gymnastics routine in front of 100 kids when I couldn't do a cartwheel. And the trampoline I flew off of onto the gym floor. 9th; I got outed as a "brain" and the sharks closed in. 10th: Mr. Wreck, the wreck of a geometry teacher. 11th: I ran away from home and didn't show up for half of the first semester and spent the second semester banished to a relative halfway across the country.

There were 7 schools in that list of 8 grades, and 3 more schools to go with the 4 years/grades I didn't include.

[Cuban_Liberal]

9. Least favorite: Kindergarten. Most favorite: Senior in HS...

My English wasn't quite 'up to snuff' when I started school, so that 1st year was sorta rough. Senior year in HS was GREAT, thoigh!

:)

[scottcsmith]

10. Favorite year: 10th grade Least favorite: 9th grade

For some reason, in 9th grade I had a really hard time with math. I was a late bloomer with math, and it wasn't until 9th grade that I had my first Algebra class. I nearly failed, so I had to take it again in 10th grade. My GPA for 9th grade sucked. But when I got to high school (10th grade) something happened...I don't know if it was the fact that I had better teachers or what, but I started to get it, and that year I had almost a 4.0 GPA and made the honor roll.

11th grade was good, too, another year of being on the honor roll.

[LiberalManiacfromOC]

11. The best year so far for me was 7th grade.

Easy and I made tons of friends.

8th grade sucked though because all my new friends went to high school and I was a social outcast.

[name not needed]

12. I hated 9th Grade

I had shitty grades, I realized how much some people hated me, the entire year sucked.

[WMliberal]

14. fav: senior year of college

least fav: 6th grade.

[JohnKleeb]

15. tough one but

I think last year was pretty bad, because my grades were just disgusting, the best actually could be 5 or 6th grade, I had a lot of fun then.

[politicat]

16. Favorite.... tie: 9th, 5th, and 11th.

They were all good years - great teachers, good friends, and being involved in school.

I never really had a bad year, but I suppose the year I was 16 to 17 could be the worst... I'd gone to college, gotten my GED, but my parents divorced and couldn't afford the $300 a month (150 to me, 150 in tuition) the school required of them. I was in college, doing pretty well.... and 1000 blessed miles away from them.... when they came and exercised their parental rights to yank me out of college and bring me back to Arizona to go back to high school and graduate properly... oh, and help my mother with my two sisters, since my father couldn't be bothered to pay child support or be a real parent.

That was the worst year, but it was not so much a school year. I aced that semester of hifh school and did enjoy being not around the parental units - they did have a hell of a time controlling me after that.

Pcat