This past weekend two friends from highschool came to visit me. Well, ok, they came to look at schools, but they crashed at my place, and hung out with me the rest of the weekend. It was a really great time. Even though I hadn't spoken to one of them for a long time, I was able to just launch comfortably into conversation - there was no awkwardness what-so-ever.
Why is this the case? How come I could feel so comfortable with these two, who I hadn't seen in ages, and whom are on very different career/life paths than I am? Especially when I am not nearly so comfortable with many of my peers, that is, my fellow law students. I mean sure, there are lots of my fellow students who I am completely comfortable with, but normally that has come over time. With these two highschool friends, it didn't take a minute. We just were immediately comfortable.
How can it be that where I came from seems to matter so much more than where I'm going?
Continental drift divide
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...So why do you think highschool should be one word??
The song is It's the end of the world as we know it. (R.E.M. is great!)
Middleschool and elementaryschool too?
Just highschool. Not Elementary. Middleschool, I don't have much opinion on. The reasons are many (which just means I'm too lazy to launch into a big explaination right now), but mostly because I think highschool has established itself as it's own thing in our culture, and needs to be identified as such. It is no longer just a type of school "high school" but is much bigger and more autonomous. Hence, "highschool".
I could agree with you on that one - at the grad schools I've visited, I have had a great time talking to other "museum people", but there's just nothing like people from home. Which means we'll all have to get together next year ("all" meaning you, Laura, Steph, Krista) since we'll all be within a reasonable distance of each other.
Oh, by the way, if you haven't yet checked out Gomez and Robbers on High Street, I would highly reccommend them - they were the opening acts for Cake last week, and alone were worth the ticket!!
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