Please do not respond to this blog until Monday. As I am at Communication Camp connecting with people it begs me to think about connections in high school. Oddly, I only keep in touch with about 3 or 4 people I was friends with in high school. Honestly, the summer before college I went away to work at a camp, made new friends and many of them went to MSU which is where I was going. I truly wanted a break from most of the people I went to high school with for a variety of reasons. I look back and wonder if that cheapens my high school experience.
With that said, what is your views of friendship in high school? Where do you see you and your group of friends in 3-4 years? What is the importance of communication in maintaining friendships past high school? Do you think technology makes communication easier for you than it was for me and my friends?
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I think that many people loose their connections with most of their friends from high school. I think that in 3 - 4 years that I probabley wont be friends with a lot of the people I am now. Maybe I will still talk to some of the good friends that I have had since 3rd grade. But , for the most part , we will all go in different directions and maybe talk once in a while. Maintaining communication past high school helps to show you who your true friends are. The people who you make an effort to talk to and make sure you talk to them to keep close are the people who are truly important to you. Yes , I do think that technology makes communication easier for us. Computers help it because you can e-mail and talk on AOL.
Hannah Aittama
5th Hour
With that said, what is your views of friendship in high school? Where do you see you and your group of friends in 3-4 years? What is the importance of communication in maintaining friendships past high school? Do you think technology makes communication easier for you than it was for me and my friends?
Many people lose there friends that they had throughout their younger years. I think it all depends how close you are with your friends though, and how true your friendship is, if you dont break your bond i think my group of friends could stay friends til we die. I see my friends in 3-4 years all going to differnt colleges but making an effort to see each other, atleast my close friends since kindergarten, i probably wont see anyone else besides my realllyyy goooood friends. The importance of this is to show you how true friendship really is, if someone really is your friend they will make an effort to keep your friendship alive. I think technology makes it easier, soo when we get older and cant see each other everyday we could email, text, call etc..etc..
stefanie samuel
6th
I believe you learn who your real friends are in highschool. You see who you hangout with the most and who almost is like your crew. I believe friends become more distant in highschool than from middle school. I think this happens because you meet new people and have more in common. I see my friends and I becoming successful in 4 years. I see us not really maintaining communication very well with eachother. The importance of keeping in touch with eachother because its almost like you have a second family. Its cool to talk about the past and all the trouble we got in. I do believe technology impacts communication greatly because their are new ways of communicating happening often. In the past it was basically writing to your friends, now we can just e mail people and even now theres facebook and myspace.
SEan Deters
I think half the poeple you are friends with in high school you will be friends with when you get out. Many people do end up losing touch with the people. We go to different colleges or we move its just never the same. You will find out those true friends because they will be the ones that show effort and try to talk to you later in life. I do think its easier for us because we have technology. It helps alot to have email or phones it makes it easier to get ahold of are friends.
Crystal maybee
5th
I think friendships in high school are probrably the most important that you will ever have in life. You need friends that will be there for you, through the good and the bad. You need friends that you can trust and be honest with. I see most of my friends going to college, but some i see ending up in jail, or drop outs of high school. In order to stay friends after high school, you need to stay in touch. You can do this by emails, phone calls, hanging out if you live close to each other. I definetly think communicating is easier today. we have emails, instant messaging, new programs on our phones. Its pretty hard not to be able to communicate with someone nowdays.
Amy Uranik
5th hour
I think that in a few years i will still most likely be frineds with most of my friends from school. i think it is important to stay friends with old friends. Keeping in touch with your friends hellps to prove who your true friends are. If they dont want to still keep in touch aftetr high school then they really arent your true friend. I thinbk communication is easyer now cuz you can txt and stuff like that. I think txting is alot easyer then calling ppl. takes alot shorter time.
Katlyn Twigg 6th Hour
My view of friendships in high school is that they probably won't last long after high school ends unless you really try. People change around the years of 18 and 21, they change a lot. I don't think I will be friends with many of the same people in 3-4 years. My friends Sarah and Marissa and I plan on all moving to New York together so we will probably all still be hanging out. I guess it's important to keep friendship's from high school alive so you have someone to share the past with or something like that.Technology DEFINITELY makes things easier for us to stay in touch, other than with you and your friends who didn't really have much of it. We have myspace and facebook and sweet cell phones so we can all keep in touch hah.
Kymmie Brownson 6th
Although high school friends are important to keep, they also might be not such a bad thing to grow apart from. Most of the time, when you make friends in high school you can be shallow and immature and the "friends" you make are not real. I see us all going to college and some in different places than others and some not at all, hopefully we keep some what in touch because I truely care about them. We will be happy, but I want to have a time to meet all of my friends atleast on a yearly basis. It is important to keep your friends because through all the new people you meet and love, at the end of the day, your old friends have been with you through everything. Communication is much easier, we can talk to our friends by the click of a button or two, we can talk to them when they are half way across the country which makes it easier and hopefully more successful at keeping up with your buddies.
Carolyn Newton Period 5
I think that highschool is the time you find out who your real friends are. Its the time you find the group of friends that you fit in with the most, and stay with that group through out most of highschool. I can see me with the same group of friends through highschool. But I can also see us all going to different colleges as well. But if they are truly good friends, then they will keep in touch where ever I go. I do believe that technology plays a good part in keeping in touch with your friends. Because without cell phones and texting and email etc., then it wouldnt be that easy to maintain that friendship.
Clare Pathe
i think friendship in high school is really important. you spend so much time at school throughout the school year that its good to have friends to pass the time with. i think alot of kids though view school as just a place to hangout with their friends insteed of a place to learn. in 3-4 years i see my group of friends still being pretty close but definatly not hanging out as much as we do now. well all probably be way busier than we are now. id say communication is one of the biggest components to maintaning a friendship, and that would help you maintain a friendship after high school. it would likely be harder to do this though becuase your probably not seeing the person everyday like you were in high school.
Andy B, 6th hour
With that said, what is your views of friendship in high school? Where do you see you and your group of friends in 3-4 years? What is the importance of communication in maintaining friendships past high school? Do you think technology makes communication easier for you than it was for me and my friends?
I think that freindships are one of the main things that keeps kids going through highschool. I think thay relationships act like a supporting cast. In the 3-4 years i see myself still with a few freinds in life from highschool. Although i thinki that this number will drasticly decreasse over time. However, the biggest groip of people that i will be with 3-4 years are people from sports that i have met in highschool. I think that maintaining communicatino keeps people in your life. Its keeps realationships alive that could one day make a difference. I think communication is way easier for me than you because i am able to just zip a email or an im.
VISGER,
got this weeks vocab..?
I think that after high school I will looses connections with a lot of people. Today I do think it is easier to keep in touch with friends from highs school through cell phones, web cams and other internet things. I hope that I will stay in touch with my really good friends after high school but we will never know. After high school people go their separate ways, one moving to California and the other to new york. If you really want to maintain a relationship after high school I think that both people have to try and keep in touch. I have a few really good friends at Lakeland right now and hope to be their in the future as well. Technology makes it much easier than it was 20 years ago. And in the increasing tech industry I think in the future it will become even easier.
Tyler Inman
5th Hour
Nick is at communications camp or is sick so he probably wont have it up.
I beleive that in high school friendships are extremely important. They help you through the day. When your down they help you stay happy by making you laugh. Hopefully me and my friends will still be hanging out. Although I know that I probably won't have most of my friends after 3-4 years i'll try to make sure that I keep some of my friends, mainly my best friends. Communication is vital to maintaining friendships, if you don't talk to your friends you lose them. I do beleive that technology makes communication easier for than it was for you. One, because we can just call our friends on our cell phones. Two, we can talk on the internet.
James Richardson
5th hour
As for my friendships in high school. I'm very pleased with them. I've kept friendships with people over ten years. For example, Kristen Pauly and I have been best friends since we were in kindergarden. Not once have we ever gotten in a fight, my family has seen her grow up, just like her family with me. Also my friend Mollie Smith though she may not go to Lakeland we are still really close and have been since 3rd grade. As for my group of friends I'm with in high school I honestly think they will be there even when we graduate and after. Usually, you see girls always getting into fights with their friends. Drama. That's not the case here. Were there for one another when we are needed. The importance of maintaing friendships if very high. Simply because it's nice knowing that someone will always be there for you when your in a time of need. To have a shoulder to try on, as some people may say. It's a way to find out who your true friends really are. If they are they wouldn't want to lose you, and make the effort to try and get together. Also, have technology as a way to communicate is great. You can still keep a close relationship with your friend with just a click of a button. In some cases it may be bad, in others it's the only way to actually talk.
Alanna Nagi
6th hour
Well Here is what I think; you are friends only to people of whom you relate to. You grow differently each and every other day, you and your friends grow differently. depending HOW differently, affects your relations. This has drastically changed in the last 100 years. The internet (although corrupted now because of spam) is the great improvement on communication know to humanity. Yes I'm going to use WoW* again as a example. Back awhile I told a story of a encounter were I learned not to talk to NPCS*. Yeh(not sure how to spell his FULL name) has the strongest foreign(Russian or German) accent I have ever heard. I've got to say, things sound 5 times funnier when HE says it."Crap someone died again, lemme rez*...wait...what the fu-why am I still in com-bat*?!" I'm not sure were he lives (it's impolite and creepy to ask), but he is pretty cool. The distance factor of the world is practically invisible. You can talk to your friends via e-mail, IM, phone or even (if your nerdy enough) WoW.
*WoW-world of warcraft
*NPCS-non-playable character(guys you sometimes kill)
*Rez-Resurrect, you die many a times in woW
*combat-you cannot Rez while fighting something, don't ask why.
Derek Guckian
6th hour
And if ANYONE (excluding Mr Kay) comments on my blog tomorrow in school I won't use WoW as a example again
Middle school is when you see who your group of friends is. In middle school I think you hangout with a bigger crowd. In highschool you start to grow apart from your group and hangout with smaller groups of people. I know that with me I still hangout with the same general group. I hangout with a couple people more that others because we have more in common or something. In 3-4 years, I probably will be close with some of the same people but I think I will make a lot of new friends when I go to college. Communication with friendships past highschool is important because you might not see the person as much. You need communication to keep in touch. Technology makes communication a lot easier for my generation than in yours. We have cells phones and the internet which are big communication devices that are easier and faster than writing a letter.
Cody Kabisa
6th hour
Mr. Kay,
I am not sure what I can say about most friendships in high school. I can say high school is full of drama and stupid crap like that so sometimes relationships are based around that (lots of friends break up due to drama). At the same time me and my friends are way different. I feel that my friends don't care about about stupid crap like that. We like each other because like each other. Not because we look a like or we act similar. I mean that stuff strangely adds to it but its not the basis. In three to four years, I am not sure where we will be. We all sort of want to be in a similar place but we can't tell where it will work out. We could be together at the same school or in the same area or we could be in different time zones. I am sure we will always keep in touch but it might make it hard due to location, but you never know. The importance in remaining friendships past high school is so when your out on your own, well you don't really have to be alone, so you don't seem to be going into a new environment friendless. Also it will make you friendships stronger. I do think technology makes it easier to communicate past high school. Now, every day I could at least talk to my friends on line using e-mail or something simple as that. So overall, friendships are important and I would like to keep my friends forever but our friendship could always deteriorate but I hope it doesn't.
-Luke LaFountain
6th Hour
i think friendships in highschool are crucial. when you have friends they are there to catch you when you fall. you can spend some of the funniest times in your life with them. with some friends you can tell them things that are bothering you or that you needed to get out.when we graduate and go offf to college or wherever i am still going to stay in touch with my close friends. now we have so many more ways to keep in contact with people. right no w my friends take up a huge part of my life. i trust them with everything and spend a great deal of time with them. i would never want to loose conection with my close friends, they are what help me through hard days. now, if it was middle school, i wouldn't care. those were probably the worst years of my life. i never want to return to that, so i keep good relationships with my friends.
i view high school fri3endship as a very important thing in high school.as you go on with friendship you get to know more people and become a better and more rounded person. i see some of my friends in 3 to 4 years as kinda breaking apart because as we grow we will move apart as we go off to different colleges. the importance of maintaining riendships i fell is somewhat high. i feel this way because i like to keep my old friends because the more years the pass and the more you get to know that person the more you can trust them. i feel technology does make it easier to reach someone because you really dont have to do anything in order to talk to anyone anymore. all you have to do is just call them up on the phone really.
In 3 to 4 years, i think i see myself still talking to a few of my good buddies from highschool. While there arent many, there are peole in my life right now i dont think i cold stand to not see again, like my old southern pals james kassidi richard and rufus. at the same time, here up north, i value my relationships with my grand rapids pals scott and andrea. i believe communication is one of if not the most important ways to keep a relationship going. yes, i believe the various technologies aid in communication today. with e-mail, you can contact someone from just about anywhere, as long as they have access to a computer. cell phones are also a great one, because you can call them wherever they are so long as theyre turned on and in serivce.
i think that friendship in high school is what every kid needs. i think that i will keep in touch with about three of all my friends. i think that to have a close friendship you have to be able to communicate with each others. if you don't have any communication between your friends then you could end up in the end not being as close friends as you thought. i think that technology makes communication a lot easier. then things that make it easier are cell phones, and the internet.
Mr.Kay,
In high school I think that it's really important to build relationships with others. In high school i think that have friends and having people you can relate to would help things go eaiser. After high school i can't really see myself around ALL of my current friends, but I know a couple of them I would be. I think that keeping contact with your old friends would be really fun and kind of a way to still keep that young person inside you alive. With the technology now a days I think that staying in touch with people is a real easy thing to do. Now when we want to talk to someone we can just call or text them, which makes it alot easier then having to look them up in the telephone book or something.
Brittney Cooper
6th hour
I believe frendships are what get you through high school. They are like your lifeline. However, some friendships will be there for your support and are crucial while others will affect you in a bad way. So it's very important to make friends that you know will always be there for you. I do believe that i will still be very good friends with some friends i have now in later years. Some people i have grew up with and i know for sure that decades from now i will be in close contact with. Unfortunatly i am also for sure going to lose touch with others. Im not sure who but you will always drift apart from people because change has to come. Technology defiantly helps because it's much easier to stay in the loop. Such as computer for emails, phones, and texting. This makes it simple because no matter where a person is in the world, you can nearly always reach them in a fast, sure way.
Kristen Pauly
6th hour.
I can honestly say, that have some friends in high school, but not anyone that I would consider a close or great friend. With that said, I can't see maintaining a continuing friendship with anyone person from high school at this time. This does not mean that I won't encounter such a friendship. If there was a particular frient that I would consider to be a friend during high school I would maintain that friendship; the world would be a better place if we would put value in the people we meet and make them feel important enough to keep their friendship going. Yes, I do think technology makes communication easier now than yoou and your friends Mr. Kay, we can keep in contact with peoplevia the internet and having easy access by a cell phone.
Tyler McLeod
6th hour
Friendships are a great thing to have when you are wandering about life in a high school. But when I think about where we will be later on, I can't imagine what we will be doing. Going to conventions, having fun, being childish as ever. That's the way I want it to be...like the old days.
But when you are pulled in two directions-my friends holding onto my left arm, Odin tugging away at my right- I feel a sense of sadness, and I cannot shake it.
I don't know if I will call my friends once or twice each month after graduation, but I better leave that part to father time.
Communication, I find, is a lot easier spoken with the written word than through the binary codes of the common computer. I enjoy the excitement of receiving a letter addressed in my name waiting in the mailbox. For me. Ony me. No one can take that joy. Not even God himself, if he even exists, can tear the happiness I will feel when I hold the parchment in my hands, and a single tear rolls down my cheek when I see whose name is on the return address....
Odin Von Vorn
Heaven...
Steffeny Apollo
5th hour
Mr. Kay,
I believe that now is the time when we are going to find out who are friends really are. Whether they stand up for us till the end, or leave when we need them the most. I think that in 3-4 years I will still be in contact with most of my friends. I think that technology does help us communicate easier and faster than when you were in highschool. Plus our technology has advanced over the years to.
Danielle Turner
5th hour
I think I am greatful for the friends that I have. Unfortunately I think I am going to lose most of my friends due to future plans. I know, for a fact, that I will substain friendships with most of my close friends. I hope to talk to some people again that I havent heard from since middle school. I think communication will play a major role in my friendships after high school. Communication helps maintain frienddships I have currently. I think communication does make it easier for us to communicate more than it did for you. We have many types of uses of communication that we have now that you didnt have when you were are age.
Troy Wojichowski 6th hr
My views on friendship in high school is that the people you meet you probably will still talk to them. Where I see me and my friends in 3-4 years is that I won't see most of them any more. I think I will keep in touch with some of my good friends. Once we get out of high school we all go our different ways. Maybe I will bump into one of my friends when I get older. Then maybe we can keep in toch. I think technology makes communication easier for us because we can use it to talk or text message.
Katherine Walsh
6th Hour
Friendships in high school are not meant to last very long and soon everyone breaks away to differnt parts of the state for college. Very few people talk to people form high school and it is in college that you really start to make long term friendships. I don't ever seeing most of my current friends in person in the future and i think thats how many see it. You all break away into differnt colleges and then get married and then so on and so on. To communicate beyond high school you have to collect each others information like phone numbers or emial addresses. Today i think it is easier to communicate then it was for you beacasue of manily email. Email has connected a lot of people and is a very easy way of taking to someone and it rarely changes from time to time like phone numbers and addresses.
Shaun Gerber
5th Hour
My view of friendship in high school is that you kinda need them. When your having a bad day they can cheer you up. When your stressed about a test or somthing you can vent to them. And if you are a CHEARTER then they can give you their homework to do if you forgot yours. Where i see my group in 3-4 years is still hanging out because we already live very far away from each others homes. It is important because if mess up your life some how maybe they can help you out. It is also important because you could always rely on them for stuff. I definitely thing that technology has helped because you can communicte from differnet counties, states, and even different continents.
Zack Ruffin 6th
I think i have a pretty good friendship with a few people. Becuase I have known them for a long time. I really don't have that solid of a friendship of people I have met in the last year or so becuase I have only known them for such a short time compared to my other friends. In the next 3-4 years I will probably only talk to the 3 or 4 friends I have known for such a long time compared to the people I have met since high school. I think the importance of maintaing communication in a friendship is important. Becuase why would you be friends with someone you dont want to talk to or dont have anything to talk about. Or have a way to have and go out and do something. I technology has a big impact on that. If I want to see what people are doing I can send them a text message with my phone. Or even turn on my xbox and see who's playing what game. I can even turn on my computer and go to one of the million websites to talk to them.
kevin anderson
6th hour
I feel that friendships in high school are as important as the good grade many of us strive for. I think if there wasnt any friendships, there would be nothing to wake up everyday and look forward to. That's how I see it. I hope to still be friends with the people I associate with 3-4 years from now. However, if I am not, I wish them the best of luck. But, it is their choices that have made them who they are, so whatever they do, I truly don't have a business in. This being said, if I am still in contact with my friends in the future, I hope to communicate with them often. I think, like before, if you didnt have any friends there would be nothing to look forward to. And, as you grow up they start to slowly go away. I definately think technology make keeping in touch easier. Cell phones these days do a lot of stuff I suprised we still call them phones. In addition, the internet has enabled email, instant messaging, and other ways to keep in touch.
I believe that friendship in high school helps teach us about the type of friendships we should try to build later in life. They teach us what are good qualities to have in friends. I would love to say that I will still be friends with a lot of people from high school when I get older, but that probably won't be the case. I hope that a few of my very close friends will still stay in contact with me though. I think that it is important to keep connections with high school friends because they are the first real friends that you really ever had. They can be the support for you that you might need every once in a while. Technology does make communication easier for me and my friends. It seems like almost everyone has a cell phone, and that is a very easy way to stay in touch. The internet is even easier, because you can talk to people around the world. Places like myspace and facebook are designed just to stay in touch with friends. I hope that with the new technology, my friends and I can stay in touch while still building new realtionships along the way.
Kaleigh Swanson
6th hour
There are many opinions of friendship at the highschool level. Mine is that everyone has a lot of different groups. At least most people do. I for example have many friends in many different groups, but the main group i see becoming really close friends and doing everything up to college with eachother. This includes going to the movies, cedar piont, prom whatver it may be i think we will be doing it together. Communication is a huge factor in your friendships. I say this because if you don't stay intouch over just one summer you might not even be that good of friends come the school year. On the other hand if you stay in touch, via texting or email and hang out you become really good friends. i think techgnology has helped the everyday teenager to make their life easier. First of all you have a question about homework in a class just send them a text and you'll get a response in 5 minutes at the most. Also facebook and myspace help things like that two because you can get information on there if you ask someone. So the answer to your question is 100% yes no dought about it.
Ty Bouwens, 6th hour
p.s. CoD World at War is amazing
i think friendship in high school is really important. you spend so much time at school throughout the school year that its good to have friends to pass the time with. i think alot of kids though view school as just a place to hangout with their friends insteed of a place to learn. in 3-4 years i see my group of friends still being pretty close but definatly not hanging out as much as we do now. well all probably be way busier than we are now. id say communication is one of the biggest components to maintaning a friendship, and that would help you maintain a friendship after high school. it would likely be harder to do this though becuase your probably not seeing the person everyday like you were in high school.
Alex Martin
I have many friends but a small group of friends i would call my best friends. In 4 years i see my friends leaving to different colleges and me and some of my friends growing and meeting new friends in college. I think keeping in touch with friends is very important. My dad just recently went to his high school reunion he said it was great to see the people he used to hang out with. I think it would be great to tell my children story's about my experiences with my friends. I definitely believe that technology has helped people find and stay in touch with there old friends. I think myspace and facebook are good resources to stay in touch.
Taylor wattles
6th
I think many relationships are lost during the transistion from High School to college. I have a very tight group of friends and I hope that we will all stay in touch. I am going to try my best to keep in touch with my friends because I feel that now in high school I have friends that are very close to me and I don't want to lose their friendship. I know of a few friends that I will keep in touch will throughout my college years because they are very important to me. However it is going to be difficult to stay in touch with everyone because we will all be going in different directions in high school. But with that said, I am also going to create new relationships with people in college because that is all apart of the experience. Communication is the key factor in keeping relationships because with that you are able to stay in eachother's lives. Communication in this generation makes it easier now than ever to keep in touch. I think this makes it easier for our generation to keep in touch thatn the ones before us.
Taylor Dieck
I think that friendships are really important in high school. I also think though there is room to grow. In high school I think friendships are important i believe thet are what makes school fun. However I think when you go to college you become more independent. I think it's wonderful to keep friends but i don't think it's great to dwell in the past. People have to move on in life and live it for them. Although I do feel it is easier to keep communication going now a days. With all the technology we have it might just be a short little text, and communication is still there. It is always great to keep in touch with friends though.
In highschool i find friendship to be very important in some occasions. First off its always good to have close friends that you know would have your back in any situation. I also love having the opprtunity of being able to contact my frinds when needed or when assignments are missed. Personaly in 3-4 i find me and my close friends to stick together but others to gradually fade away. I also find communitcation past highschool to be very important as well because it is always nice being able to talk to those you once were best friends with. And compared to the technology these days i find communication to be easier by a long stretch, such as e-mail, chating, etc.
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John Kent
5th hour
The power of friendship in high school all depends on views. My views of friendship in high school are permanent. In 4 years, I see my friends and I going off to college and staying in contact with each other. Communication is not just a necessity it is a requirement. If you want to keep a friendship you have to communicate to them regularly. We can text each other so we can get together within the hour. We can email each other with copies to everyone to keep them in the loop. This way we know when we will get together. I’m not sure when Mr. Kay went to MSU but my Mom went in the eighties. She said that you had to call everyone by phone or meet them to plan a gathering. Sometimes you couldn’t meet with everyone. Sometimes you couldn’t call each person on the phone. Some students’ phones were disconnected because they didn’t have the money to pay for the phone. Long distance calls were very expensive. So if you called you friends far away it cost too much. So needless to say, it is much easier for me to keep in contact with my friends than it was for my mother.
Im sure I will keep friends in touch after high school. It may be a little harder to stay in contact during school. If your friend is truely a friend they would make an effort to stay in contact. Going to different schools may make it harder to meet but thats why they invented Myspace,Facebook,IM, etc. Im guessing that only around 1/2 the friends in high school will be friends after. People move, contact is lost, people die...shit happens. I just know I will try hard to keep contact with friends after high school. Hopefully they will too.
i think that the group of true friends you have now will be devided greatly because people may move away from the school or move away from the area. but some friends remain through the hardships. throughout time you will gain friends who will remain with you through thick and span. technology makes it easier to communicate with people because of services like yahoo, myspace, and google to make it easier to relay messages to people to talk to them when it is conveniant for you and conveniant for them. not to brag, but back in the day when you wanted to talk to people you had to walk there...... communication has come a long way through the years because your's and my generation have worked together to expand and strengthen our communicational types.
I Think that in high school you find out your really friends. Who you will be staying friends with and who you will not. Where i see my group of friends in 3-4 years is hopefully all going to college and still keeping in contact. The importance of maintaining a friendship is you finding out who your true friends are. I think That technology has make communication easier. Becuase now that theres texting, Myspace, Facebook, aim and all that. Friends communicate all the time. I think it is a whole lot easier to keep in touch.
Megan Fraser 6th hour
After high school in a few years, I think that I will lose a lot of the closeness that I have with people. This probably won't be a problem with like 2 of my really close friends but with everyone else I think it will. Distance really doesn't help all that much. You can only grow so close on facebook and myspace and then you kind of stop replying to messages. I met a bunch of friends on a cruise this summer and I was super close with them. Now that we're all back home and moving on with our lives it's harder to stay in touch. It is a ton easier to stay in touch today then for you and your friends. Now we have facebook, myspace, aim, email, cell phones. Back then there was some of that but not anywhere near that.
In high school you kind of find out who your freinds really are. Before high school you're friends with a large group of people an once you get older the group starts to get smaller. In three to four years I see myself seperating from most of my friends to go to a good college and start my own life. I think that maintaining communication with your high school friends is important because it helps you remember everything from the past. I don't think that it would be good to just forget everything that happened in your past, even if you thought high school was terrible there are always good memories. Back when mr. kay went to school it had to have been really hard to communicate, no one had cell phones or anything like that. Nowadays we have computers, and cell phones and it is a lot easier to keep in touch with all of your friends.
I think that everyone lose some friends during their high school career. In 3-4 years I am hopeful that I will at least still be friends with my close friends. More than likely me and my other friends will either drift apart or go our separate ways. The importance in maintaining friendship past high school is so that you know who are your real friends are and who are just using you. I do believe that technology makes a BIG difference in keeping up with old friends. Now instead of getting out a piece of paper and a pen you can just e-mail them or my favorite instant message, or if you have their number you can text them. <3
Samantha Casteel
5th hour
Sorry this is late, my computer wouldnt let me go on internet last night. Hopefully since its before noon you won't count it as missing..
I know that many or most of the people i know today, in highschool, i wont see in the future. People move on in life, and change. Most may move away, other may stay in White Lake thier whole life. I think that in 3-4 years i will always have one of the friends i have in school today. We'll walways be friends, highschool or not. The group of friends i talk to in school i will most likely lose contact with. Technology makes it easier to keep in touch with peole because you can contact poeple no matter where they live.
Mikki Nosek 5th HR
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I think that I will make and still have friends. I think that in 3-4 years in I will keep some of my freinds, but others I won't. I will also have new freinds in college and will then keep in touch with them also. Communication is very important in freindship. My parents have people that they know since 2nd grade. Without communication they would not still be friends. Technology has improved alot and it has made communicating much easier.
Chris Reid
5th hour
ith that said, what is your views of friendship in high school? Where do you see you and your group of friends in 3-4 years? What is the importance of communication in maintaining friendships past high school? Do you think technology makes communication easier for you than it was for me and my friends?
Mr. Kay,
Communication camp was sweet. (except catch phrase)Anyway, I think friendships in high school are important. People need their friends for various reasons. I have an older brother and I saw him lose a lot of connection with his friends from high school so I think I will be like that. I think you definatly have to maintain communication for friendships. In some ways technology has made it easier to stay in touch. With that being said i believe you have to physically see that person a lot to maintain a real friendship. It is kind of like not being able to have a long distance realationship with a boyfriend/girlfriend.
Jordan Blanzy
5th hour
High school friendships to me are very important. Friends in high school keep each other going. People need friends because they are always there to catch you if you fall and will help through your high school career. With my group of friends, I think in three years we will be drifting apart. Many of my friends aren't really true friends. They are people that I have a great time with and I love to be around. Many of the friendships will be broken. However the people in my group are always friendly and nobody really gets singled out. Communication plays a huge role in all of the friendships that I have. It is what mainly keeps us close. The friends that I have are people that love to talk, laugh, and have a great time. Technology definitely makes friendships a lot easier to maintain. Cell phones and other electronic devices makes communications more easy and fun. People love to type on the computer and text each other. Friendships, many times, are built off of technology.
William Schwartz
6th hr
My views of friendship in high school would be that, yes they are important but i feel that school should come first and yeah even though you need to succeed i believe its important to be close with friends do to being that you will always have some one to turn to. For me the person i turn to now after communication camp is rachel duelo and scott r. These two people i have found i relate to them both in many ways and now i feel like rachel is like my sis and scott is like my best friend i could ask for. In 3-4 years i would hope to see use hanging ourt going to party and keeping very very clos im hoping. I believe that communicating with your high school friend is the best thing i think you could do. being because they truly really know you and know where your coming from. I reall think yes technology has mad it better because you can always get ahold of that person and its easer to follow up on everything with everone.
Thanks for a fun and eye opening experience at communications camp. I feel some what like a new person. Thank again for inviting me.
I enjoyed being at communications camp for the past few days. Anyways, for the most part I think most student loose touch with there highschool friends, or even sweethearts. But there are always thoes few students and few clicks that stay in touch. In 3-4 year i think I will have the majority of the same friends as I do now, along with a few others. I still have best friends with the person I was in frist grade, and plan on staying friends with her for ever. We all have different things we wanna do or even try, different school we plan on going to, its all a matter of fact if you just try to keep in touch with all your friends. I do think technology makes it easier to comminicate through commpters, cell phone ect. Over time friends will come and go, the ones who mean the most, keep close.
Mr. Kay,
In about 3 years, I see myself still talking to certain people that I am really good friends with now. I definately think that technology has made it easier to stay in tocuh with people. The internet, and cell pones make it so easy to talk tio people with a press of a button. I know that I want to get out of high school and go to college, but I dont want to lose touch with people I am friends with now.
I think friendship in high school is real. I think because of our adolescences we haven't had many experiences with relationships. which i believe causes many relationships in high school to be immature. I'm not saying friendship in high school isn't real, I'm just saying many relationships are not very steady and understanding from lack of experience. I do believe i will always keep in touch with three of my good friends. For being young and immature our friendship is very strong and we have so much trust in each other. I understand that I will lose connections with the majority of my friends now. I don't think it's a bad thing. I think if it is a good relationship maintaining connections wont be too difficult. And honestly I'm not sure if technology is going to make relationships remain. People change and lose the common interests they once had. I think it's good to still communicate with old friends to a certain degree. I think that people have to concentrate on the people physically in their life.
Chloe Martin, 6th hour
i think friendship in high school is really important. you spend so much time at school throughout the school year that its good to have friends to pass the time with. i think alot of kids though view school as just a place to hangout with their friends insteed of a place to learn. in 3-4 years i see my group of friends still being pretty close but definatly not hanging out as much as we do now. well all probably be way busier than we are now. id say communication is one of the biggest components to maintaning a friendship, and that would help you maintain a friendship after high school. it would likely be harder to do this though becuase your probably not seeing the person everyday like you were in high school.
John McLean
i believe that i will hold all my bonds with all of my great friends i have in todays day and age. because we have so many technologies today that can keep everyone connected. those are such devices like computers and cell phones, which almost everyone today has.
its important to keep connected with people because when you do not, you really do lose all sense of awareness of them. i really hate when that happens. when you make such great friends, but just lose them forever. most of the people i have lost in touch with were people from like australia and new mexico. it sad, but i think people can really actually get away with not talking to those people.
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