my middle school life was mixed. im not trying to brag but i was pretty gifted in academics and but had like moderate social skills so i was slightly popular with my class. in my country's fucked up culture, dating at schools is heavily frowned upon, so no luck regarding that.
in my high school, i applied and got into one of the best schools in my city so it was basically a bunch of nerds only. so i was one of the most outgoing and troublemaking students in my high school years but we didnt do much because the academics side was heavily demanding and the school was pretty strict.
i luckily got into one of the best universities in my country so now the class is even more filled with nerds (my country just looks at marks in entrance examinations for selections and doesnt place emphasis on the other aspects). here im one of the wildest ones and i used to get drunk every alternate day at the end part of my freshman year. i ended up with a heavy nicotine + weed addiction & a drinking problem and my grades took a nose dive. i then spent my entire junior year sobering up and trying to make up for my lost grades and building my resume (through covid) while (sorta successfully) quitting my addictions. i smoke weed like once a month or so now and ive completely quit cigarettes. i drink every alternate weekend and im trying to stay off the alcohol. in order to combat my addictions, i picked up my passion during middle school & high school - anime & manga. that's when i found the forum when i again started reading one piece and many other series' much more seriously and frankly this helped me get my life back on track.
im going into my senior year at uni now and its almost august so i gotta start prepping for GRE, language tests to apply for grad school at some western country to get out of this shithole of a country. so yeah wish me luck! :P