Holy crap, it's closer than I thought.

zafeyry • 3 August 2012 at 5:32 PM

@metaphor
Have fun 😃 I'm going into 8th grade, but I'm not nervous at all 😋 I haven't gotten my schedule yet though :/

lonewolf • 3 August 2012 at 5:57 PM

Going into 10th grade. Sophomore. Gosh, I feel so old. It seems like just yesterday I was in 4th grade playing Pokemon... ☹️ anyone else going to be a sophomore?

metaphor • 3 August 2012 at 5:59 PM

@lonewolf

Same here! Time flies, it really does.

spikaya • 3 August 2012 at 7:22 PM

Goin' into 12th grade... Wonderful. Just wonderful. My junior year had it's moments, but overall it was a disaster. I have only four days left in my last real summer break, and I plan on playing as much Minecraft as possible during it.

Come back, time! DX

lexicon • 3 August 2012 at 7:46 PM

I'm finally an upperclassman in high school ^^ I guess that's big. 2nd to last year of high school & I have so many tough classes and honor society and clubs and sports and- *hyperventilates*. I do hope I make it to college alive.

@metaphor

snow_angel618 • 3 August 2012 at 8:00 PM

@lonewolf yup, I'm going into tenth! 8D Gah... We've got three more years and then we're off to college o-o pretty scary stuff

lonewolf • 3 August 2012 at 8:13 PM

@snow_angel618

Woo! Another 10th grader. I'm not alone! 😋 and I know... it's freaking me out haha. It felt like this year went by so fast and now it's almost school- it's kinda sad. ☹️

univea • 3 August 2012 at 8:16 PM

@pebblestar_nightclan *also terrified*

@metaphor Summer went way too fast. ☹️ Stupid Fall, Can't you hold back a little bit? D:

chowchow2012 • 3 August 2012 at 8:16 PM

@luv
Woohoo 8th grade!! I'm not feeling nervous at all because I know all the teachers because of rotary Of last year ; ) I go back in September

metaphor • 3 August 2012 at 10:43 PM

@univea

It really did.☹️
I don't really mind, though. The best part is I never have to go anywhere near a high school again--no more stressful hallways, no more lockers, no more English teacher that taught absolutely nothing!

blueclaw • 3 August 2012 at 10:57 PM

I'm going to 5th grade. My friend is going to Kindergarten.

eggs • 3 August 2012 at 10:59 PM

@blueclaw

Really? I thought you were older than that 😱
I'm going to 7th grade 😸

blueclaw • 3 August 2012 at 11:01 PM

@eggs

Well I'm the only one who's GLAD school is here.

awesomeness365 • 3 August 2012 at 11:03 PM

@blueclaw: I'm only happy because I'll have something to do and not be bored for most of the time. XD

blueclaw • 3 August 2012 at 11:03 PM

@awesomeness365

SAME HERE! 😱

pablo2012 • 3 August 2012 at 11:04 PM

@metaphor going to 5th grade aaaaaaaaahhhhhh!

eggs • 3 August 2012 at 11:05 PM

@blueclaw

When does your school start?
Mine is not going to start after about a month and a half...

awesomeness365 • 3 August 2012 at 11:06 PM

@blueclaw: XD I've been having a writing camp for the past week so it hasn't been that boring, but before it I was just wandering around the house... XD

blueclaw • 3 August 2012 at 11:06 PM

@eggs

Mine starts in 4 days!

@pablo2012

I'm going to 5th grade too!

pablo2012 • 3 August 2012 at 11:08 PM

@blueclaw cool!

nkiay • 3 August 2012 at 11:15 PM

@metaphor

Good luck in College. First year is always a duzy. DX

metaphor • 3 August 2012 at 11:17 PM

@nkiay

Thanks! I am a little nervous, but I kind of get the idea of the college setting. I used to take some of my classes over at the local community college after a regular school day, and that environment made me feel less pressured than the high school atmosphere. I wish I could have done what some students did--take my classes at the comm. college for high school credits. I didn't like the social aspect of high school at all.

I struggle more with socializing than anything else, haha.


@solaris

Ahhh, it is very expensive. Even with a decent scholarship, it's definitely not cheap.
But I do love to learn, especially about things that interest me.
And now that I have a lot of the Gen. Education credits out of the way, I should be able to do a lot more of that.

nkiay • 3 August 2012 at 11:45 PM

@metaphor

Yeah it's much more opened minded. Just be safe, it pretty crazy the first year.

metaphor • 3 August 2012 at 11:47 PM

@nkiay

Yeah, it may sound kind of silly, but I'm worrying about guys a lot too, haha. And I hate sounding so shallow, but when I went to the orientation, there were so many girls who were tall, slim, etc...and I just didn't feel like I could even compete. I mean, I don't expect to hook up with anyone right away if at all, but it kind of put me back in my place, told me to guard myself and to not be too overly confident.

And now I am babbling, sorry. haha

akira • 3 August 2012 at 11:51 PM

We're moving, away from all of my friends and family members ;C i'm absolutley terrified. I suck at talking and making friends in RL...

nkiay • 4 August 2012 at 12:01 AM

@metaphor

You aren't babbling! Don't be worried about guys, its like guaranteed you will find a guy. All of my girl friend who wanted a BF found one by the end of freshman year.

If anything I would say watch out for guys. Especially if you haven't had any experience with them. I never really saw my self at beautiful until I got to college. I never thought I was ugly but I certainly never thought I was very pretty. It was overwhelming the amount of guys I had after me. It was the weirdest thing in the world. I am super friendly and most took that for an green light. My school has like 75% girls too, and lost of gays so I was baffled at the number of guys.

The nice thing about college is everyone is older and doesn't really care about superficial things as much. 😉

metaphor • 4 August 2012 at 12:25 AM

@nkiay

When people try to hit on me/flirt with me, I think they are joking usually, unless I've talked with them before. I just don't have a whole lot of confidence in the way I look. I have a chest, but I guess that doesn't count if you're a "fat girl", so heh. I've never been an amorphous blob of blubber or anything. I'm just short so even the slightest bit of weight gain is bound to show somewhere on me. I've lost a lot of weight senior year, went down three pants sizes, and even got myself a nice swimsuit this year--not a bikini, but a nice two-piece that accentuates the chest. I felt very confident when I went to a public water park, a big improvement for me, someone who used to wear T-shirts over the swimsuit.

I'm working extra hard to keep the weight off and possibly more. I've come to realize that this really is all for me, not to impress anyone. I gained at the beginning of the summer, mostly because of all that yummy party food, but I've shed it again and am back to the weight I was when a very blunt friend told me, "You got skinny."

At one point in my life, I was treated like the scum of the Earth because I was the new girl and I wasn't the slim, beautiful, flirty blondie a class consisting mostly of boys would hope for. Last year, I was in a brief relationship with a guy who made me feel like the world, but then I messed up and he went off for the summer and we don't talk anymore (it's a long story).

Sorry for my tl;dr novel. xD

nkiay • 4 August 2012 at 1:06 AM

@metaphor

I Like novels. 😊

No I was the same way only I was too skinny, not blond, girly ect. I was picked on for a good portion of my life because I was too skinny, I had a really hi metabolism and was really active. I mean it was bad I was underweight. I remember when I was 90lbs and like 5'8" and 13years old. Bad!!! I finally filled out at the end of high school/college and I can't tell you the number of people that say oh you gained weight, and mean it in a good way. One of my friends said "Oh you look healthy now." So minus being a nerd, super tall and looking like I hadn't eaten in weeks I was great. 😋

That's great you are starting to get confidence! It feels great doesn't it?! I didn't really have any confidence until I was pretty much in the same place you are. I finally realized I didn't give a crap what other people though, I liked the way I looked.

I think college will be great for you. 😊 The one thing I have to say though if you can choose who your friends are. In high school there are so few people you end up being friends with people simply because they aren't mean to you. In college you can get in with a group of people you really like, and that really like you. Same with boys, you don't have to date the first boy that gives you a compliment or is nice to you. The best thing about him shouldn't just be he is nice to you. Word of Advice YAY!!! 😃

Oh and THIS!
http://humon.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d53wtec

metaphor • 4 August 2012 at 1:44 AM

@nkiay

It is a nice feeling! There were many points when I was getting discouraged about my effort because no one really noticed, even after I lost the first two pants sizes. It wasn't until the last drop that people started to come up to me and tell me it looked as though I'd lost weight--and that was way at the end of the school year, at the beginning of summer. My drive to lose weight caught on early in the winter!

I do have a medical condition that makes it harder for people to lose weight, one that I'm afraid to say I have because everyone seems to use it as an excuse to be overweight when they do not in fact have it---hypothyroidism. I was born with it. While it has made weight loss a bit more of a struggle than it would for a person with a properly functioning thyroid, it is kind of my fault for gaining the weight I had gained--lazy, ate when bored, etc. I lost a significant amount of weight in spite of it, so it kind of irks me that everyone is magically coming down with cases of slow thyroids. Yeah, it is far from an uncommon condition, but there are people with it who are in great shape and I know one such girl. But that's another rant...


I was never teased for my weight until I went to that school where everyone treated me like a germy whale. I've never been 200lbs. not so fat I couldn't see my feet; belly, but where it should be, not way past the pelvis. Like I said...super short.

And thanks, you cheered me up!

Should go to bed now. Big day tomorrow.