As young students, we spend our entire school lives desperate to break free from the prison-like conformity and the oppression of double science on a Thursday afternoon.
But little do we realise that life outside of the classroom isn’t all it is cracked up to be – yep, this growing up thing is a lot less exciting and liberating than it seems.
There is a reason people look back on their schooldays more fondly as they grow older. Even though school can be a place of sheer misery and banality, it’s not always as bad as it might seem.
Here are twelve important things we lose when we leave those school gates for the last time. Life really does change forever…