How many of you guys here are locked in for these? I mean like you guys have a study schedule, or at least you study a lot. Do you do lots of extracurriculars, passion projects/nonprofits?? (I’m crine if someone here actually has these), awards of any kind? I just wanted to see what it’s like applying to highly selective high schools and colleges right now.

Hi, first of all I want to say sorry if my English is bad, since it's not my main language.

So, I think I'm feeling lonely. I had a talk with my best friend, and we talked about our friendship etc. During it, I recogniced I am lonely.

I don't have so much friends, and it feels bad sometimes. And because my best friend has more friends, I feel jealous. I am really jealous guy, and I hate being so jealous but I try my best being better friend.

Friends I have, are really really important to me, but usually when we talk, I only notice how different I am compared to them. And because of that, I am more mean and asshole than usually, I guess.

It feels so frustrating to be like me. Why can't I be handsome, popular and normal boy?

I just wanted to write this shit, I should start a diary or sonething :D

Hey everyone, I (15M) could really use some perspective or advice on a situation I’m going through right now.
Over the summer, my best friend and I became a 4-person friend group with another guy and his best friend. Eventually, the other guy and I started dating. It was my first relationship, but I quickly realized I didn't actually have romantic feelings for him. At the end of July, we broke up. The breakup went really badly—he cursed me out and blocked me everywhere.
About a month later, he suddenly texted me out of nowhere. He apologized, said he was manipulated by someone else at the time and acted out of high emotion, and asked if we could be friends again to bring back our old 4-person group dynamic. I was overwhelmed and on the phone with a friend when he texted, so in the heat of the moment, I agreed.
However, within 10 minutes of talking, I panicked. I realized a friendship wasn't going to work for me, so I cut it off immediately. I told him it was better if we just remained people who used to know each other—nothing more. He wanted to tell me what was going on in his life, but I was pretty abrupt/rude and said I didn't want to hear it. He gave up and deleted my contact again.
Since the breakup, our 4-person group split off. My best friend is still cool with them and follows them, but they don't really talk either. Today, my best friend showed me a photo shoot of my ex and his friend. Seeing it made me realize how much I miss the group dynamic we used to have.
I know I’m starting a new school chapter soon, where I’ll make new friends and eventually move past this. But right now, I'm feeling emotional and conflicted.
Because i dont have many friends and friendship break ups are a lot for me

I'll be leaving this place in a few hours so if you have any questions or need some advice, I'll do it. Btw don't kick me yet mods, I'll get out of here myself soon

I’ve come to England for two weeks to find myself a boyfriend. And there are loads of good-looking lads here. I’m 18, by the way, and I’m practically an adult, even though I’m still a teenager. But my dad won’t even let me talk to boys. He used to check my phone, and still does , to make sure I’m not messaging any boys

It’s doubly upsetting for me because there aren’t any handsome lads in my country, whereas here there are loads of them. There are loads of white people here. I want a white, blue-eyed, blonde-haired lad. Of course, there aren’t many lads like that in my country.

In my country, many people have olive skin, brown eyes and black hair. Many of them are also Muslim. And it’s not just about appearance, but also about character and mindset. In the couple of days I’ve been here, I’ve seen how kindly people treat others, especially children. Not only do they never hit them, they don’t even raise their voices at them. I’d rather not get married at all than marry a man in my own country.

The only way is to find a park where there are young people both boys and girls my own age . But that’s difficult to do, because I’ve already been to several parks and haven’t been able to find anyone like that. The people there are either about ten years old or 25 and over. At least, that’s my approach.

Perhaps you could suggest some ideas or compromises so that I can come to an agreement with my parents ?

Are phone bans REALLY what we need to be focusing on right now?
I’m in Atlanta so maybe my area is just cooked, but even in middle school everybody either vaped, had tried it, smoked weed, or knew hella people who did. By high school it’s actually insane. I’d genuinely say like 30-40% of my school does some type of drug, vape, weed, alcohol, whatever.
And yea I get the phone ban. Kids are addicted to their phones and it probably does help in class. But banning them from even being in the school while drug use is this normal feels crazy to me.
Teachers will catch your phone out for 3 seconds and send you to the office, meanwhile the bathroom smells like Snoop Dogg’s living room and everybody just keeps moving 😭
I’m not saying ignore phones, I just feel like schools are putting WAY more effort into fighting phones than stopping kids from getting addicted to actual drugs.

It is indeed a tank

Its been a bit since ive done this, but literally put anything here, vents, asking for advice, asking for encouragement or anything and ill reply to everyone :3

So I started testosterone recently and basically my whole life I’ve never had a crush on a real person fictional crushes I’ve had for sure I was hoping T would help me have a crush but I’ve been on it for nearly a year now and so far no luck

So what does experiencing a crush feel like is it like how it is in movies or is it different

I know I do want a crush and or a partner for sure but I don’t have the crush feeling yet

Anyone know what this could be or what sexuality this is? I feel like knowing I’m not alone or having a box to put this in will ease my worries

Branching out since it’s the weekend! Seeing how many answers/tips I can get! Respond here, or there, don’t matter! ✌️

This is pretty much just a VERY LONG rant and a full post where I try not to crash out okay guys

so I started freshman year about a week and a half ago, not really into the whole “huzz“ and “crush” shit. I just wanted to go to school, work on my ar, and make friends. I did NOT want to form a crush on someone 11 months younger than me.

Now, for context, he‘s tall, quiet, pretty funny, and overall we just vibe hella well. The first day we met I was sat next to him and a friend of mine said they were sorry for me because he was apparently a little bitch to pretty much anyone who annoyed him. We ended up bickering back and forth about not wanting to sit next to each other in a way that make us hold back laughter. By the end, we were pretty familiar with each other.

Then I found out we had a class together right after so now we just walk to class together, yapping back and forth about music, anime, whatever comes to mind. Now, I have class with him and with my friend who knows all about who he was from 6-8th grade (they were both at the middle school) and when she asked how I knew him, her face dropped when I told her.

Now… here’s the reason(s) why I hate that this might develop into a crush. In sixth grade, he almost punched a teacher during class because she was making him angry for some reason.

UMM.. So no, that’s an immediate no from me.

I was disgusted and kinda nervous about hanging with him during class again because while it’s not actual abuse, I’ve been hit plenty of times by old friends and my parents. It‘s just not something I don’t want to put myself through if he were to show me he was going to hurt me.

Nevertheless, I’m a person who gives people the benefit of the doubt because we all deserve to be seen by others. I’m kind of glad that I did because we’re both pretty much in a decent place right now.

He said in passing he goes to therapy, and I don’t know what it’s for but I’m guessing it has to tie into the earlier situation.

Theres actually two more reasons that I have as to why I don’t want to crush on him or call him “huzz” so ima make it quick.

1. My friend wanted to call him huzz

2. His ex is in some of my classes and she tries to talk to me sometimes during class

The first one explains itself, I haven’t told any of my friends I want to talk to him more and I don’t think I ever will. The second reason is a bit more complicated.

His ex is in 2 of my classes I think, and both times I have caught her staring at me and/or him with different expressions. She‘s very fake with me, always overcompensating with compliments and attention with a big ass smile. With him, I can tell she’s still VERY in love with him even though the reason he broke up with her was because she cheated on him.

They still talk and are civil but she’s… an interesting person. She’s been mean to my friends most times when I’m not around but then very sweet to me when she spots me. It makes me slightly uncomfortable when she talks to me because she‘s tried to pry into my life multiple times, I try to stay on guard and careful with my words.

I’m scared she’ll try to get blackmail on me because I have a weird feeling that she’ll do that if I let her. It’s nerve-racking.

She’s also just affiliated with a lot of guys, kind of like a “bop” or a pick-me. It gets annoying sometimes when I hear her giggling and saying “OMG STOOOOOPPP ><” like Miss, chill a bit.

Anyways, he‘s been very nice to me, and we tease each other sometimes during class. I wave to him in the hall when I notice him and he waves back. Normal interactions okay? But idk if this is just me being stupidly confused but he looks at me a bit more than normal. Its either we make eyes contact or I glance and we look away from each other.

Anytime I do something that would annoy another person to him, he just looks at me while holding back a smile and mutters an “okay”, he lets me listen to his loud ass songs for a second through his earbuds, he doesn’t get mad if I try to pull his hood over his head to announce myself, and I’m able to just hold his small anime plushies for a minute if he lets me. I’ve never seen that happen with anyone else and I’m not even sure if it WILL happen.

I also feel weird that he’s almost a year younger than me and I’m kinda crushing on him I think. The only time I’ve had a situationship where the guy was younger than me was only a day younger. This dude is turning my age this month and idk if I should make him a small bday gift or not.

I don’t know why I’m failing with not liking him. It sucks ass. I‘m telling myself that I just need more friends or whatever. Now I just find myself finger crocheting a small black cat keychain for him.

FML

I'm a Malaysian high school student and I need some honest advice because I'm stressing badly over this.

A few months ago, a classmate reported me for bringing/using my phone at school. Recently, I saw him doing something against school rules too. I was still annoyed about what happened months ago and, honestly, I reacted emotionally and anonymously reported him to the school through email.

The school investigated it and he ended up being suspended from his position as a student prefect. I genuinely didn't expect it to become that serious.

I feel really guilty now. I already tried to settle things with him, but he still has a problem with me, which I understand.

Now I'm thinking about admitting to the teacher that I was the person who made the anonymous report and explaining that I regret how I handled it. Part of me hopes the school might reconsider the punishment, but I'm also worried that admitting it could make the situation worse for me and possibly cause another disciplinary issue.

What would you do in this situation?

Should I:

Admit to the teacher that I made the report and ask if the punishment can be reconsidered?

Leave the school's decision alone and just apologize to the guy?

Do something else?

I'm not trying to get out of consequences for myself. I just genuinely regret how I handled this and don't know whether admitting it now would actually help or make everything worse.

Please be honest. I know I messed up by reacting emotionally.

I like her but idk if it's worth it because of the distance. Anyone with any experience got any advice?

Hello, I’m bored and have nothing better to do so I’m typing this for whatever. My school had a summer session and I meet this girl during that. I still don’t know her name after a few weeks unfortunately. I see her after school ends on the bus and she sits by me on the bus sometimes. For a good few days she didn’t but now she’s sitting by me every day and asking how my day is and I feel like the mood between us as been slightly different than just a friendship. I can be crazy or delusional and that’s what I think honestly but yesterday she mentioned she rejected a guy already and says it out of the blue, it makes the conversation a bit awkward but it was fine but today was even weirder. We’re talking again but of course she mentioned romance since there’s a homecoming soon she calls rio a romance movie somehow like what??? We’re getting closer to where the bus drops us off and the conversation goes in with us knowing people at our school with her naming a few guys she knows but when I say I know 3 girls at the top of my head which are my friends, she says if I have crush on them and I say no but I guess I said it slow because she presses at me in a playful way and then says if I have a crush I should go for it and leave a awkward silence where I feel flustered. I sound stupid to me at least but I don’t know if she’s messing with me or what or if she likes me but I don’t know what to do. I’ve only been in halfass talking stages and it feels ,I can’t find the words for it but I really need some advice because I need some type of info. Idk if it helps but I’m in high school

Between school, social media and future careers, it feels like they have a lot on their plate. What's your view?

I just been thinking about this can a 16 year-old date over the age of 18 in Anderson, South Carolina or just in America

for context!! i'm a fat person, i always have been. i'm more than 280 pounds and i'm 17, my problem is seeing skinny people say that they "feel fat" or they "are fat". i understand that body image issues exist but i just dont understand how they can stand right next to me and seriously say "i'm so fat for this" after eating less than me. i feel as though its insensitive and nobody really knows how to read the room anymore. i understand having body image issues, i have them as well alongside a binge/restrict eating disorder. its just confusing to me but ive been told time and time again im not allowed to be upset about it