You string a sentence together better than most 17 year olds.
Still not perfectly, mind: your punctuation is a bit off. Well done on it though.

The problem is that what you have written is really quite dull. Although you're having to consider your place in life and this time on the threshold of adulthood is fascinating and frightening to you, it's not interesting on its own. Your friends and family care, but only because they care about you. We don't, and we don't care about this either. It's not entertaining, insightful or thought-provoking.

The thing is, the emergence into adulthood and all the inner conflicts that we experience at your transitionary age are a rich source of stories and interest. There's a whole genre of fiction devoted to it: the bildungsroman, or coming-of-age story. Your post makes me sad, because you've squandered an opportunity. Amid the stories of middle-aged men coming home from clubs (obligatory last line, "I'm x!" where x is over 35), aged punks suspicious of youngsters wearing '80s band logos on their vintage leather jackets, and women defiantly proclaiming their love of hot chocolate, Radio 4 and slippers, you had the chance to say something genuinely different and you blew it by being boring.

There is a word describing you at the moment: callow. It's not intended as an insult, but it might give you a sense of what those people who are slating you in the comments are thinking.

Even if you can't come up with something interesting to say about your present situation, you *are* in a good position to entertain us with tales of your youthful foolishness and exuberance. We can live vicariously through you as you run around doing all the things we'd love to do but can't because we're not 18 anymore. Tell us some funny stories when you get to university. Tell us how you are making a tit of yourself in this last summer of freedom. Be funny, make us think, or be happy lurking on the sidelines.

And for God's sake don't do PPE! We have more than enough policy wonks ruining the country already.
( Scrumper, Mon 11 Jun 2012, 22:59, 2 replies)

Grooming alert
ruffling hair and grandfatherly advice ahoy. And puppies
(AndyC4m Eject Eject [><], Tue 12 Jun 2012, 11:55, closed)

I'm well aware of widespread pop culture interest in such tales.
I have plenty of laughs and good experiences of course, over my 4 previous teenage years. However, I am ultimately not very interesting.I don't see myself as unusual or special in any way, nor do I want to. I'm conservative, not some radical. I'm not looking to change the world, not bothered about being the next Hugh Hefner or Bill Gates, etc. I just want a productive well paying job, a few hot girlfriends, before marriage, a nice car and house in a nice area, lots of foreign holidays, with no financial or health worries, etc.
(Glucose-Maximus All over the world., Tue 12 Jun 2012, 17:11, closed)