How did we do it?

Do you remember HS? 5 days of going to the same place from 8-3 (or earlier depending on your schedule). That's 7 or more hours a day spent in school, learning. These days, I spend 3 hours at school on Tuesdays and Thursdays and 6 hours on Mondays and Wednesdays. By the way, I'm dying each Monday and Wednesday after school, totally burned out (OK maybe slight exaggeration but it doesn't feel too good!) :( Seriously, if I feel this way now, how did I ever manage to survive 7 hours a day for 5 days every week? Not to mention, how did I manage to wake up that early nearly every day of the week? Nowadays I consider any hour before 9 to be unnatural... and yet back then I was always up 2 hours before 9! I don't know about you, but I know that I probably wouldn't be able to survive the high school schedule if I had to go through it again. (This massive number of hours thing doesn't include work, since you get paid for that... so one can argue that it's SLIGHTLY more important than school...)

:) (just as a side note I think I'm going to end every post from now on with a smile)