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It’s been a while, but when I was in high school, I was up at 6:30 so that I could run through the shower, get to 7AM jazz band late, be at school until 4ish, t
by peterlk 1mo ago
It’s been a while, but when I was in high school, I was up at 6:30 so that I could run through the shower, get to 7AM jazz band late, be at school until 4ish, then off to my minimum-ish wage job until it was time to go to evening jazz/symphony/other bands. Home at 8 or 9; bullshit some homework for a passable grade; and then do it again (I was often doing homework during band practices). Weekends were music events.
I did not go to a top tier school, and I did not live in a top tier place. The stories I’ve heard from others indicates to me that my experience was not unique. I wasn’t even the most busy of the people I knew.
This wasn’t every single day, but it was more on days than off days. Contrarily, I had a great time in college because the pressure of classes actually felt like less than I was doing in high school.
- ratelimitsteve 1mo agothis closely matches my experience graduating with a C average and getting accepted to a branch campus of a public university. I then crashed hard out of that school because, as you said, suddenly I actually had a lot more agency and a lot less responsibility.
- coldtea 1mo ago>The stories I’ve heard from others indicates to me that my experience was not unique. Unique no. Hugely outlier, yes.
- Tostino 1mo agoYou kidding? Did you not know working class kids who actually needed a job?
- coldtea 1mo agoAnd had to wake up at 6:30 or earlier to go to school? No.
- xandrius 1mo agoI also woke up around that time, just because it took 30-40 min to go to school + breakfast and preparation. So why dismiss other people's lives just because they are different than yours? What's the point of lying about waking up early?
- ffjgjgj 1mo ago[dead]