I won't try to be all sunny, junior high sucks, but it's over with so fast. Hard to picture, but before you know it will just become a distant memory, "that awkward blur inbetween middle and highschool".
Just try to hang out with the right people and you won't run into much in the drugs/knives/gangas scene, at least that's how it was where I went. Also, I got into honors classes, which really kinda breeds out the bad apples. Not that everyone in average classes is "stupid" or a bad person, but honors does seem to be tammer. At my school, if you didn't want to be in a class with rough necks, tobacco chewin rednecks, babie's mamas, gang members, and those who couldn't refrian from using f--- in' in in every sentence, you just acted sweet towards the teachers, should some sembalance of interest, attended reguarly, and did some what well on examines, and you we're placed in honors. It's a world of difference. That way the only time you run into hard core druggies is a brief brush in the hallways. And they're usually only there once or twice a week.
So my advice- shoot for honors (if they have something like that where you're at. You sound intelligent, you should get it.) But you might be forced to use puncuation. :aol