I feel ambivalent towards the whole issue. High school was FANTASTIC as far as social life went. I was amongst the first of, not just amongst my friends, but amongst the whole student body that grew some balls in the form of confidence, and while others were busy getting high on weed or pills or skipping class to go smoke cigarettes, I concentrated on getting laid, and it's general consensus that I'm an asshole among my friends because I managed to nail girls while they were still looking up porn (though, to my and ANYONE's credit really, it's not hard, most of the time all you had to do was TRY.

Though it's probably a story for another thread, thanks to the fact that my father worked offshore and when he was gone I was literally a high schooler with my own place, this helped IMMENSELY, and I'd throw big parties, and more than once I've taken a girl to the bedroom and had one of my drunken friends barge through the door midcoitus. Now that I think about it, it's a wonder I ever DID get laid, because the fact I sort of had my own place was offset by the fact that when my father was gone, there was ALWAYS someone at my house. And they never fucking knocked once they got past the front door.

As far as academics, that's where high school shot straight down the shitter for me. I found I learned MUCH more reading the material on my own than listening to the teachers, and there's only so much ennui you can suffer in school before you start, erm, doing horribly.