Was high school a positive or negative experience for you?

Hmmm, the BID from earlier ... high school.  My mother always told me, because my grades were horrible, that high school isn't a social gathering.  It was a place to learn, a place to grow.  High school was the most miserable experience, for me.  I was teased, ridiculed and treated like crap by everyone, including my boyfriends.  I walked around with my head down because no one liked me.  My mom STILL avows that it's because I had a HUGE chip on my shoulder, but she doesn't know that people were so cruel to me.  Social experience, I think not.  I had no friends.

What I wouldn't have given in high school, to be as popular as I am now.  :D