high school

1) Hell with fluorescent lighting 2) A seemingly innocent government sponsored indoctrination center where teenagers between the ages of 14 and 18 go to be stripped of their individuality (partly by peers) and turned into an obedient, soul-dead conformist member of the American consumer race. High school is not the best years of your life, it's the hardest, where you're expected to act like an adult but are still a kid. It is a place where exhibiting free thought can get you in trouble. Chances are you won't use 90% of what you learn there. History class is somewhat interesting, and my English teacher is pretty good, but that's about me and not the majority. You're gonna get some teachers you like, and some that you hate. You're judged by what you wear, what music you listen to, etc. The cynics listen to grunge, the stoners listen to stoner metal, reggae, and metal, the preps listen to mostly top 40 crap, the "scary guys" listen to metal, the goths listen to Marilyn Manson, the gangsters listen to rap, the punks and skinheads listen to punk, the "normals" (people who don't fall into a category, like me) listen to pretty much anything. and the hipsters listen to that band you've never heard of. A very superficial place.