1. Edline
The horrible third helicopter parent you never thought you’d have. Even your teacher knows that D in Ceramics will be an A as soon as you finish your pinch pot, but that doesn’t stop your parents from mercilessly interrogating you about your dismal mid week GPA. And then there’s the hopeless addiction aspect (Edline didn’t update today WHAT THE FU*&?!) I think it’s safe to say no one will miss Edline.
2. The Homework
I’m going to save some space with this one and just say that having mindless, unhelpful daily busy work sucks. At a certain point, that additional worksheet on proper noun usage just isn’t helpful. I’ve been told there are no “homework points” in college, so yay for that.
3. The Schedule
Seven classes a day, all virtually interchangeable except for the odd nap or educational video. The last six months of senior year were basically like living in that movie Groundhog’s Day, except less interesting and without all the suicide attempts (hopefully). And then there was the whole waking up at 6:00 every morning before heading off to said monotonously repetitive seven classes (did we seriously do that for four years?!) I think we’ll all be pretty happy when we can un-program “6:00 a.m.” from our alarm clocks.
4. APs
At this point, I can’t honestly say I care. I checked out academically about five months ago. However, It’s still really annoying how teachers keep teaching the content for their AP while your off taking your other four. Also, they are super long and those flippy desks in the auditorium are really annoying. And not just because I once got trapped in one.
5. The Portable City
In addition to being warm and facilitating the bonding process, the portables were an icy death trap in winter. And when it rained? Yeah, that was annoying. In many ways, I think we will not miss the portable city.
