# First Day of School **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 17, 2006, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-day-of-school/369029 "2006-08-17T00:43:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-day-of-school/369029/1 "2006-08-17T00:43:15Z")
My son and I went shopping for school suppies tonight, which prompted me to remember his reaction to his first day of kindergarten: “Mom! It was the best day of my life!” (And charming as that was, I couldn’t help but think, “You’ve got no place to go but downhill from here.”) So what do YOU remember about your first day of… Kindergarten/First Grade High School College As for me… **First Grade** I had a really cool book bag, of the style that would be called a “messenger bag” today. Red vinyl. Lots of shiny buckles. I also carried a purse (WTF? I was five!), and when we got our seat assignments, I left it in the desk where I had first sat and another kid found it and Sister Mary had toask who it belonged to and I was really embarrassed at having done something that made me the focus of a nun’s attention. **College** I was pretty sure I wanted to major in geology. But my very first class (8 a.m.) on the first day of college was Geology 101, which was in a huge auditorium with probably more students than were in my h.s. graduating class. And as if that wasn’t disconcerting enough…the professor was a total “I’m too sexy for my shirt” sleazebag. I never took another geology course. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-day-of-school/369029/2 "2006-08-17T01:50:49Z")
Kindergarten- I was surprised that I was one of the only kids who knew how to read. The rest of them were working on some pretty lame stuff! 😉 Both my kids loved school from the moment they got there- in fact, when I came to pick up my oldest after his first day of preschool, he ran to the far corner of the classroom and cried, saying he didn’t want to go home! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MissGypsy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@MissGypsy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissGypsy)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-day-of-school/369029/3 "2006-08-17T02:38:27Z")
**Kindergarten** : I was surprised that almost all of the other kids already knew each other, from preschool. I only knew two kids in the class, because we had always lived on the same street and played together. **High school** : I never realized how big that building was until I had to make it from one end to the other in four minutes. My legs hurt so much at the end of that first day that I could barely walk upstairs to my bedroom. **College** : That was one big-ass lecture hall, and the professor seemed to expect me to know something about the subject already (I didn’t). My second class that day was much better, but the 500-people lectures were intimidating, at first. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-day-of-school/369029/4 "2006-08-17T02:59:03Z")
**Kindergarten** I was really pissed that they made me take my shoes off and leave my bag in the cloakroom. I thought they were stealing them. I didn’t know anyone because I’d just come from China. **High school** I was scared of the juniors and seniors in their differently-coloured shirts. On my first day of year 11 I looked at the year 8s and thought “Hey, I bet they’re feeling pretty threatened by me. Score!” I also didn’t know anyone because I’d just come from Canada. **College** I missed my first lecture. And I _still_ didn’t know anyone, because all my friends had ditched me for UWA.