Everyone in your grade is just as stressed as you about dating. You may not even realize how many ways you have it better than your paired-off friends, but there are a ton.Click through the slideshow below for 10 reasons to enjoy your current life as part of a non-couple -- and feel free to re-visit this every time you find yourself thinking, "OMG WHY AM I STILL SINGLE? And also, because dating in high school is way, way overrated.The specifics were almost irrelevant, because all echoed an identical sentiment: “If I had only known then what I know now.” News flash: You will feel this way in four years no matter what you do.The question is, how much will you suffer in the meantime? Never Stop Chasing...don't belittle yourself and worry about things when he's too young to understand how beautiful you actually are.

So if you do any of these things, just know that you're not alone. Not that you have any idea how to open your locker anyway. Even if you could open your locker, you have no idea where your next class is let alone how to get back to your locker during the couple of minutes between classes, so you break your back carrying around five huge textbooks.At least that's what you tell yourself after it's been two weeks, and you STILL can't open your locker. And you text all your friends to coordinate your arrivals, so you don't have to walk through those double doors alone. You nervously scan the cafeteria for anyone you know to sit with at lunch. You're hoping being a kissass will save you come #Freshman Friday. You're already scoping out prom dates—and it's only the first week ... You know that junior prom is still two years away, but you're so excited that officially being in high school means you're much closer to prom. You won't do anything—enter the school, go to the bathroom, walk to class—without at least two besties with you at all times.So you didn't really hang with Emily last year, but you can both sit together at lunch and share how painfully awkward your first day has been. Plus, there are so many more cuties to crush on now! What are the other telltale signs you're a freshman? MORE:13 First Day Struggles Every High Schooler Knows to be True What's Your High School Yearbook Superlative?Dear Mom of High School Freshman, It is hard not to feel, in those weeks leading up to the first day of freshman year, that you and your child have finally hit the big leagues. High school is, in many ways, a break with everything that has gone before. High school takes four years because that is the minimum it takes for both kids and parents to transition from the final days of childhood to the first moments of adulthood. Suddenly your child, and let’s be honest he may look like a young adult but is still very much a child, is in a world where sex, drugs, alcohol, along with high academic demands, competitive sports, and college are all part of the vernacular.