Monday, February 11, 2008
The High School Daze
As I'm reading through these scholarship applications, one thing keeps coming to mind: wasn't it SO SO sweet to finish school at 2:30?
That meant that each and every day presented a viable option for "doing stuff". Sure, there was swim practice, or snow shovelling or homework that required a bit of attention, but even with me going to bed around 9pm, the world was still my oyster for a solid 4-5 hours a night.
The best part of the whole thing was that we were ALL finished at 2:30, and were all equally as unoccupied and keen on chillaxing. Compare and constrast to these days where when you factor in my commute I'm not home from work until 7-8pm most nights. I make dinner, and have at most 2-3 hours of free time, but that's usually occupied by some side project or another. Even still, these days peeps all have different schedules, live further apart, have less car access and have girlfriends/wives/boyfriends/etc.
Ah well, I sleep easy at night knowing that we did a pretty solid job back in highschool of fully maxing out of the sweet sweet hours while we could.
That meant that each and every day presented a viable option for "doing stuff". Sure, there was swim practice, or snow shovelling or homework that required a bit of attention, but even with me going to bed around 9pm, the world was still my oyster for a solid 4-5 hours a night.
The best part of the whole thing was that we were ALL finished at 2:30, and were all equally as unoccupied and keen on chillaxing. Compare and constrast to these days where when you factor in my commute I'm not home from work until 7-8pm most nights. I make dinner, and have at most 2-3 hours of free time, but that's usually occupied by some side project or another. Even still, these days peeps all have different schedules, live further apart, have less car access and have girlfriends/wives/boyfriends/etc.
Ah well, I sleep easy at night knowing that we did a pretty solid job back in highschool of fully maxing out of the sweet sweet hours while we could.
Labels: High School
# posted by Greg @ 4:23 AM 
