I had been involved with an educational instuition for almost my whole life, or at least when I was 3 years old. Before that, all my learning was based on intuition and just exploring the world around me. I don't truly remember when I started school, but it was starting to become a routine when I was a little kid. The school life when I was little started out as a very fun experience; it looked like it was a play type situation where you ran around and learned a lot of things. Then about kindergarten or first grade, there was a change in the atmosphere and school was going to be different. It was hard to adjust to a school day with no nap time and you have to learn all this boring stuff which is way too hard.
The same school pattern has been the same, with the increase of responsibility and possibly homework, and I didn't really study that hard. But the main outlet I had with the school world was the music, as the sports were for other kids. Band and choir were the best part of school and I was involved in the music program ever since I was in the 5th-6th grade. That made school worth going too.
I am gradually transitioning to a school like environment to the next environment; which is going to be "the real world environment" and I am going to be part of the real world, and I am going to make my contributions to society. The school is not where everything ends and the social structure is not going to be based on the high school system - it is going to be a very vast real world system.
Of course, you are going to have your social class system but you are not going to have the compact social structure system when you are in high school. Popularity is going to be based more on the income level and even people that have the high income are not going to be popular. The popular people are going to be the people that are making a lot of money and get to have the nice fancy houses and are known around in the community. Then you have the average people and then you have the scum of the world.
In high school, you have the same system and it is probably based on your parents, but when you get out of there, it is going to be a different world.
Right now I am at the bottom scum of society, but eventually I am going to be bumped up. But almost all college students are technically at the bottom scum of society and they seem to still have their social structure system in the college. You are cool when you are the frat boys and on the football team, and you are not cool when you are some of the special ed type people. But eventually in the real world, the frat boys are really not cool and they are pretty much losers, but the most successful people are the intelligent people with briliant minds, which are the nerds.
But the coolness factor changes when more people are getting access and the novelty wears out. Someone who has a nice house and nice cars are cool, and the people who are trailer trash are not cool. It looks like sex becomes no big deal; drinking become no big deal; and even having a BlackBerry is no big deal, but there might be some form of status that might be a big deal. It could be the knowledge and the power might be something that is cool; the ability to control things and to make decisions is very cool. Someone who can dribble a ball is probably cool in middle school or get laid is cool in middle school, but eventually the novelty is going to wear out. These guys that went on the moon - that's pretty cool or the person who invented Tupperware is pretty cool, but it seems like the values of cool are going to change.
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