School has been great for me most of my life tbh. But I see a lot of teens here expressing feelings of angst, many with concerns about bully's. Here's a new idea for you guys: how about instead of being so pretentious and thinking that you're better than everyone else by forcing yourself to be counter culture, why don't you try to socialize? I know many of you play a lot of video games, you listen to music filled with negativity, you don't go to parties, you hate the popular kids, etc. You really think it's a coincidence that you get bullied? Or maybe you feel as though you're being bullied, when you're actually just being outcasted, [i]by your own actions[/i]. I'm not saying that you have to start conforming to something everyone else does, but at least give everything a chance before you cast it off because it's popular. Just a word of advice from someone who had/is having a kick ass time in school. My worst memory is probably when I got alcohol poisoning at a pep-rally. Definitely don't recommend it, however in the end, the experience was beneficial to me. My father always said, "sometimes you need to leave where you are to find out where you need to be." Due of the consequences of my actions, I was able to reevaluate and refocus myself, and now I'm going to school for something I absolutely love. I might not have made it here if that hadn't of happened. Another word of advice: Very often a self-made success will feature times which the failures in life would have called it quits. All of these bad things you guys are talking about, try to build from them, instead of solidifying them as something you would of been better off without.