Why do people change after high-school? iin?

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I'm very confused at the moment.(Australian) University is a whole lot less "cool" than high-school. No hazing rituals, no punchups, no racially or sexually diverse people being beaten up with aluminium poles, no gossiping, no bullying, no furious competition over small-scale capital. Fat people are assimilating with the general population. What the hell is going on?

After the exhausting experience I had in high-school conforming to the above, am I expected to suddenly turn the other way? To turn over a new leaf? After all the exhausting fucking work I did reformatting my personality? I must say I am offended by such a notion. Has everyone had such an easy time changing?

And why does such a radical change happen IMMEDIATELY AFTER high school? Why not a SUBSTANTIAL TIME after high school, or DURING high school?

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  • Moonbow
    10 years ago

    The grow up!

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  • Short4Words
    10 years ago

    Everyone has phases in their lives, being a high school student, is the last time you can truly be a kid. Once you're in university or college you have much more responsibility and independence and so becoming more adult like just happens, for some more than others. Some are much closer to adulthood at an earlier age it all depends. I notice people were a lot more respectful in university, but change, I think not. The setting changed, the circumstances changed, but no one changes like that, it takes time. You paid a price to stay popular, but why don't you just realize it was high school bullshit and move beyond it?

    You seem self-aware enough for that.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      10 years ago

      It's very simple. I wanted the popularity despite knowing it was bullshit. I just wanted it that badly. I also felt like my own rationalizations were not enough to fight off the social climate and expectations. Strange I know.

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      • RomeoDeMontague
        10 years ago

        Well I remember after I left grade school all the children became, violent, rude, Sex obsessed thugs. They would gang up on people as well as younger children, steal, beat them up, pretend they were drunk, or on drugs even when they weren't. Everything before this the children were sweet, behaved, innocent and basically would flinch at the word "Hell". Since that was a bad word anywhere outside of church or that type of context. I understand it might be a culture shock. It was for me as well. I don’t see why you enjoyed being in that type of environment though. So you liked being around immature, insecure morons who would pick on each other for nothing? You sound like you are really immature and you need to grow the fuck up already. You think you were cool? You weren't shit dumb-ass. Wake the fuck up!

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      • Short4Words
        10 years ago

        You basically didn't want to fall off which I understand, it kinda sucks being on the bottom. But it was a humbling experience. I honestly think you should give it up, and try working on yourself.

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  • GoraIntoDesiGals
    10 years ago

    You miss things like bullying? You were the dumb bully who picked on the smart math student right?

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  • [Old Memory]
    10 years ago

    If you look hard enough you can find all the same bs, at least at my school.

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  • Fabulous
    10 years ago

    Yeah hazing's the bomb.

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  • NotStrangeBird
    10 years ago

    Military school.

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  • college
    10 years ago

    welcome to adulthood (though I'm barely an adult myself haha). Though I find adults have their own, subtler version of high school hierarchy.

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