I HATED waking up early for school. I look back at K-12 as mostly being dragged out of bed when I wanted to sleep more, and as you probably know sleep deprivation is an actual form of torture.
Overall, I think I had great teachers and a great assortment of classes both required and elective. I learned a lot in spite of rarely reading a book and often being tired. Thank goodness for science and math and also for teachers in every subject who could teach a decent lesson up in front of the class.
In jr high friends started to drink alcohol and hang out at parties and that continued through high school and that was not my gig at all; so school, and especially after school, started to become more lonely.
Eventually, I got a job and those friends didn’t drink and later a boyfriend who drank, but he didn’t care if I didn’t and he wasn’t at parties every weekend and best of all we would go out dancing. Luckily, Washington DC drinking age was still 18 when I was in school. I was only 16 when I started going out (fake ID) but I don’t think I easily would have passed for 21. I was more and more separated from school friends when I was going dancing and they were at house parties getting drunk and fooling around. Remember I wasn’t drinking I was dancing.
I was able to complete high school mid year (December) my senior year. I missed out on the opportunity to complete an AP class I was in because I wanted to get out of high school so badly. Get out of having to go to the building 5 days a week. In retrospect I think that’s really a shame.