Hi guys, welcome back to my channel!
So today, I'm gonna be doing a video about the high school advice that I wish I got.
Hopefully this doesn't come off as a surprise. But yes, I am indeed a high school graduate. I did my 4 years.
I served my sentence.
Going into high school, I was lucky enough to have a big sister who had
experienced a lot of things and could give me a lot of guidance through whatever I was going through, but for those of you who
Don't have a big sister or if you don't have someone that you can ask advice for consider me your big sister, your best friend.
I hope you guys enjoy this video and let's get started!
The first topic that I wanted to talk about is boys.
I just have to.
From my experience, and what I learned, it seems like the most important thing to have a boyfriend in high school, and truly,
It's not. I was pretty much single all four of my high school years except for the ending of my senior year.
Not gonna lie, I was boy crazy and I feel like that's kind of normal, especially when you're a teenage girl.
I would just always be obsessing over who I think is the cutest, boys on the football team,
just things that truly in hindsight don't matter at all.
It might seem like the most important thing in the world to have a boyfriend or be talking to someone.
I'm so glad that I did not have a boyfriend my first three years of high school,
just because I truly got to live out my high school experience how I wanted it to be.
I didn't have a shadow next to me telling me how they wanted me to live my life.
I've seen a lot of my friends go through really controlling relationships,
and I feel like that's a really common in high school to have a controlling boyfriend. Which kind of sucks.
So that's that, but in the event that you do have a boyfriend make sure you set boundaries don't do anything
you don't want to do. High school boys are just high school boys at the end of the day. Know what you want and
Don't settle for anyone just because you want to have a boyfriend. I think having really good girl
Friendships is the most important thing and that's the most fun.
I do think it's really awesome to have
Experience and just if you want to date different boys and find out what you like then do that.
To be honest, high school is just supposed to be stress-free and the most problems
I had throughout my high school was always revolved around boys. I had so many boy issues,
And if you have a boyfriend, that's great. Good luck to you guys
I would say the most important thing is to; one, not steal your friend's boyfriend.
That happens more often than you would think and two, don't let it interrupt what you're doing whether it's sports or your studies.
Next topic that I kind of want to touch on is high school relationships.
It's kind of similar to what I was talking about previously about boys, however, I have just seen so much happen.
I only had one relationship in high school that I'm still in.
I have just gained experience from other people's experience.
What I want to say about high school relationships, is that in high school, boys
obviously aren't mature, and as women it's just
Scientifically proven that we mature faster and that's a fact.
So boys aren't as mature and they won't always treat you how you want to be treated,
So all I wanted to say about high school relationships is one, don't do anything
You don't want to do, and two, if a boy is making you cry every night, he's probably not right for you.
I said it! Now, we're gonna talk about actual high school itself.
I want to say that the most common
misconception is that people think that your freshman year doesn't matter and I cannot stress to you guys how important freshman year is just because
At the end of the four years of high school, you have a cumulative GPA and also the GPA stuff set aside
It's really important to set good habits for the rest of your following years of high school.
Just because if you don't have good habits from the start, it's really hard to change that up. Personally,
This is how my high school experience went so freshman and sophomore year, I had a really difficult classes
I took pre AP classes, which was technically like an honors.
I hate to say this, but it is
true when people say junior year is kind of the worst only because of the SAT and ACTs, but other than that if you're
Cool with that stuff it's a good year because you're a junior, You'll probably be able to drive by that year
So other than that, it's a good year
And then since I worked so hard in my first three years of high school, I pretty much had a chill senior year.
That's what happened. I took half day because I already had all my credits completed
So I just had to show up for four classes a day.
I would say work hard the first two or three years of high school
just because your senior year you're gonna want to have fun with your friends and make good memories and just kind of do whatever you
Want you don't want to be weighed down by school. That's my opinion,
I know some people really like to pack on those AP classes
which if that is how you are I give you a round of applause because that's hard and that's amazing because my senior year,
I was clocked out.
I just want to say that my situation for senior year is very
Different than how it would normally be just because you guys know I'm doing online college
So the requirements for that are much different
but if you're going at the normal route of going to a college then
Senior year can get stressful just because of applications and getting your teacher recommendations and stuff. So just keep that in mind
But what I was saying is that senior year is also just a fun year because it's the last one everyone has a different path
So do what you want to do?
I just recommend working extra hard the first like two high school years just because you want to be able to have options at the
Other two years of high school. I did want to talk about AP classes. I have never taken one
I was supposed to take one my senior year
But I decided not to it's much more beneficial if you have the option to rather than taking AP classes
is to take classes at a local community college
Just because you get real college credit for that and the only thing about AP classes is that if you don't pass your AP exam
Then all that work you did literally counts for nothing
And also I want to add in there that grades are an important thing, but they're not the most important thing
I was the type of person if I got a bad grade on a test
I would shut down and honestly looking back at it. It truly doesn't matter obviously
You don't want that to happen all the time. But if at a certain time you do get a bad grade
It's not the end of the world just because you can ask your teacher for extra credit. There's things you can do
Hopefully the other test you did well, it's really sad how much pressure is put on students
You are not your grade. You are you if you are amazing, you're not that letter on a piece of paper. I
Have some good experience on the next topic about girl drama
I
feel like I am obliged to talk about this because I know most of my viewers are
Girls and if you're in high school, you're just gonna have drama no matter what do you learn can't avoid it
However, I'm going to give you some tips to avoid it as best as you can because having girl drama
Especially with other girls or even within your friend group is worse than anything else that ain't it?
let me start off by saying that it's a
95% chance that the friends that you go into high school with are not the friends that you're gonna leave high school with that's just
For my experience, and I know a lot of other people experience that too in those four years of high school
You will grow a lot
the person that I was entering as a freshman is a
completely different person as I left as a senior so changing a lot and so is everyone else so with your friends you kind of
Either grow together or grow apart. I don't think it ever has to be some petty things
Some people just aren't meant to be friends and some people do keep their friends throughout all of high school
But I just I'll say that make sure you trust your friends because it's so sad
I have seen girls view best friends with someone and then they talk badly about their best friend to me and I
Don't get that do not talk about other people
That is one thing that it's kind of as natural as a girl every girl gossips. It's really normal
just watch here saying it too and kind of limit what you say just because it's not good to put bad energy out there and
really if everything can kind of circle back around to you because people will be like, oh
Did you know what this person tells me it can just turn into a big fat mess my senior year going into it
I was like, okay, I'm not gonna have any girl drama this year. I'm gonna have a very small circle of friends
That was the best decision that I ever made
I feel like when I see girls that have really large group of friends, they always talk badly about each other
which I don't get I guess a part of it is just
Human nature but fine friends that you really trust because that will be really important and just don't participate in joining in drama or talking
Bad about someone if all your friends are talking badly about Gracie. You don't have to join in
It just is really not good
And when you're that person getting talked about it is the worst feeling ever I guess I would just say to treat others
How you would want to be treated now? I want to talk about teachers
There's three teachers that I had really good
Relationships with and let me just say if you can find at least one teacher who you click with can create a good relationship with
That will help you so much whether you're having friend issues and they can guide you through with drama or you're having trouble with other
problems
It's really nice to have a teacher that you can go to or if you ever in a situation where you have nowhere to sit
With at lunch. It's really nice to have a teacher that you can go have a lunch with or just sit in their classroom
I've done that a couple times and I had no one else to stay with that lunch
It's so helpful having a teacher that you can confide in and honestly just be nice to your teachers
I know that some teachers aren't the best but no one deserves to be talked over or laughed at or
disrespected and I feel like teachers just get so
Disrespected in the school systems a lot of times and just have respect for them
because even if you hate learning about the subject
It is probably their twentieth year teaching that subject and they probably hate it more than you do now. We have a special guest
Yeah
I wasn't planning on doing this but this is my sister Kayla you graduated in 2015, so she's old
I figured I would bring her in for this session because we both had experience
With this taught me that I want to talk about is making friends and handling Mean Girls
We're talking about it a little while ago but there have been moments when we both have sat in the bathroom
Yeah lunch, which is really upsetting
Yeah, but I know a lot of people go through and a lot of people wouldn't think that we would go through it
But I feel like when you first enter high school, it's hard to make friends
It's really hard because you're like you're so nervous and you want to fit in but you also like want to stand out and be
where you want to be weird and I would pretend to be on phone calls for like the entire lunch hour like a boyfriend or
something I'm just like talking and just so that when people walked by I wasn't just like
But you just have to like not be afraid to be yourself
And put yourself out there as scary as it is
like people love that and respect that and those are the type of people that you're like drawn to that's true when I pretended to
Be someone else the friends that I made we're all thoughtful. Yeah, if you really don't know how to make friends
I would join a club or a sport because that's really nice to have like a community or theater Mean Girls
Club a oh I remember getting a DM on Twitter from this one girl
She was like meet me at the statue after school. Like I'm gonna meet girl stuff
the only thing I could say is don't be the
It's really easy to talk about people and gossip about people and be mean it's so easy
Especially because that seems to be a really easy way to make friends. Hmm you seem about like a weird chick you don't think
That's an easy way to like connect with someone but that's not like true
What do you then do though?
I feel like there's really nothing you can do because you don't want to be that girl that like tells a teacher or something
But if it gets that way, I wouldn't let it right. Of course
If you're being seriously like her physically and perhaps then you should go tell a teacher. Tell your superiors
But like it's not gonna last forever
I mean girls are so petty and that's something that you I mean you deal with mean people in life
That's just the way life goes. There's one more thing
I really want to talk about because this is a really big part in high school culture and it is parties and social outings
Let's talk about social outings first, so like football games and stuff, please go to them. They're so fun
I had a weird phase where I was like I'm too cool for school spirit and in my senior year
I was just so into it and it's so fun to be into it
It's literally not lame at all to show school spirit and participate in your spirit days. Like you don't know what else it's like
It's just fun even looking back at it. It's just so cool and also make memories
Oh, I can take lots of pictures videos
Those are always so fun to look at I know when you look back at your high school photos. It's just so interesting weird
You wouldn't want to look back on your high school experience and just regret not doing stuff so now we're gonna talk about parties
Don't do anything you don't want to do don't go anywhere. You don't want to go or good points ahead
Yeah, especially at like if your first like interested in partying, it's probably me because you feel peer pressure, too
But your friends are and it's not lame if you don't want to go I would always like look at the people
That didn't go and I was like good for you guys. Like I don't have the willpower
And the thing is you can go to parties and you don't have to do anything
if you do go I would always make sure to go with someone else always tell someone where you're going to just because it's so
Easy to lie to your parents about where you're going
I feel like but it can get really dangerous if something happens and they don't know where you are. You never know
Its inhabitants now you don't want to turn into one of those sad stories and it's just not worth it plus if you don't party
It's really not a big because a lot of people that get addicted to partying in high school
Even some people that she knew that went to parties back in 2015. It's 2019 and that's still all they do
It's not the worst thing is to like it's late when you're 21 and griten go to bars quick love whatever have fun
But I remember before going into high school. I was like, oh my gosh
It's not gonna say it's like Project as everyone's like and it's really lame and my whole thing with high school
Is that like when you're in it, it just seems like it's life. It's the moment
That is the be-all end-all the Alpha Omega beginning and end
Every brought it down
Bonus round I'm gonna have both of us say something that we wish we knew going into high school that we later learned
Go ahead. I just what I said before like I just wish I knew that it wasn't life
You really think you know who you are at high school, you're like, oh, there's no way I could ever mature from this point
I know everything but high school is just
such a small part of your life and it can be really fun and great and in high school is what you make it but
I wanted to say I would say something like that that high school isn't
Everything even though it feels like everything's whether you're having the worst high school experience
It's gonna come to an end and whether you're having the best high school experience, it's also got to come to an end
Thank you. That is gonna be it for this video. Thank you guys for watching
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