> > How do you guys deal with it? Those of you in high school, how do you deal with knowing you have to leave? If you're in college, how'd you deal with leaving? If you're past that, what little tidbits of wisdom do you have for a teenager who is scared of the Real World?
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> I had a very easy time leaving. I didn't really have any friends to speak of (one or two), and I've never been particularly close to my family. To me, going away to college was a relief, since I got to get away from a lot of people who didn't partiularly care for me and meet a whole new group of people who would come to dislike me shortly thereafter.

Heh, sounds like I should have no trouble when it comes time for college then. Considering that a large number of my friends are online, and that as I've mentioned on here before, I'm not much of a social creature anyhow...

> > Well, at least I'll have you guys.... you'll still be here, waiting for me at my computer, right?
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> Why, of course we will. Where else would we be? :-}

Well, I'll be registering for and entering college at about the same time as Unipeg, and thus having to put up with all of this mess as well...

So, anyway, thanks to all the forum for the advice (even though I never asked for it)...

-- codeman"2001: a school odyssey"38