I can't speak for the rest here, but my life is going up hill. If your childhood was better than your adult life, its time to get off your ass and change something.

My life went downhill from the start of middle school to the end of middle school, and then it went uphill.

I guess I hit a rutt after high school. At 18 I moved out of my parents house and in with some relatives. I planned to stay with them for less than a year, but wound up staying for like two years before I finaly had enough money to get my own place. Then it got worst, I was always working and always broke. I couldn't even get government help for college because my parents made too much money; I wasn't even living with them or recieving any help from them. So there I was working a million hours a week for peanuts and I couldn't even go to college to try and better myself, That had to be my lowest point.

That sucks but college is a huge waste of time I say. You waste all of this time, money and energy and at the end you're older and with a ton of debt. There are other ways you can better yourself on your own without having some professor give you a bunch of things to read, take tests and write papers.