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What were you like in high school?

Posted by calais50 • 5/30/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic

Were you brainy, athletic, rebellious, popular, etc?
Was there a particular group of people (I hate using labels, but they certainly exist in high school such as goths, jocks, preppies, nerds etc) you tended to be friends with or did you hang out with everyone? Also, if you feel like answering this part, how have you changed since high school?

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5/30/08

carlgalloway

Everyone hated me, I was a snivelling weedy, nerdy type. I didn't become the self-assured stud muffin I am now until I got to university

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5/30/08

MadameX

Purple gym shoes, speeches about radiation, political essays, NOT good in gym class. Most of my friends were honors-class types, but there was defintely some cross-over, not a clearly defined "group".

Oh, and here's an irony--so petrified of public speaking that I literally got sick to my stomach when forced to give a speech.

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5/30/08

kellybax

I hung out with a mix. My closest friends were friends with a lot of other groups: the burnouts, THE popular people, the rednecks, etc....

The way I have changed the most is that I am a lot more confident than I was back then. That is probably something that comes with age.

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5/30/08

Shiley

Quite unless you mess with me or a friend. Goofy I had a tendancy of hanging out w/ my BF and singing the Almond Joy/Mounds song down the hallway. Artsy, Loved my broadcast journalism class. Pretty much the same.

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5/30/08

calais50

I was really quiet, studied hard, hated gym class, was in the band, journalism/yearbook staff. My friends were either brainiacs or the zany gothish types. Today, I am not as quiet and I am more athletic.

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5/30/08

wenfri

I think spent most of my classes in the office. (blush)

Drops into the category of sh*t disturber LOL

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1. 5/30/08
  
  kellybax
  
  Don't feel bad Wendy..... I spent most of time in high school slipping past the guards to skip class. To some extent, I regret that now but.... I had fun then! And why not, with all of the responsibility I have now, I am glad that I had some carefree days back then.
  
  Disclaimer: To anyone still in school who might be reading this, I do not endorse cutting class! (anymore)
2. 5/30/08
  
  wenfri
  
  Kelly
  Oh I don't feel bad about it Not in the least. Had a blast doing all the same things as you. Skipping was one of them
  
  Love your Disclaimer
  
  I wish I had finished high school ya know
  
  AS it was I waited till I was married, had 3 kids (youngest in diapers) marriage taking a sh*t) and making $4 an hour, then wrote the equivalency exam.
  
  First exam I ever passed with flying colours (colors) LOL
  
  Started College in the fall for my RPN degree.
  
  I agree kids should do it the right the first time
5/30/08

ThriftShopRomantic

In the honors class, but our best football players were also honors students, so the dynamics were unusual.

Wrote poetry, did a lot of drawing, was writing and illustrating a mystery novel. Wore thrift store clothes, made my own jewelry and made up my mind senior year, instead of being quiet and shy, to actually joke with folks.

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1. 5/30/08
  
  wenfri
  
  Hmmm.... Sounds like a Brown noser to me LOL
2. 5/30/08
  
  ThriftShopRomantic
  
  Heh-- too quiet for brown-nosing.
3. 5/30/08
  
  Norski
  
  Actually, the idiot-athlete/scrawny-braniac didn't match my high school experience. In fact, there was a slight positive correlation between brains and athletic ability.
  
  Of course, the sample was 'way too small to be significant.
5/30/08

tillie

A band nerd - that really sum it up.

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1. 5/30/08
  
  wenfri
  
  Nothin wrong with strummin your fingers
2. 5/30/08
  
  Norski
  
  A musician! Not bad, not bad at all.
5/30/08

AmyOops

Drama Queen. Always had the lead and doing local theater, tv etc..

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1. 5/30/08
  
  wenfri
  
  And you couldn't add to this one
  
  www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/life-is-a-bowl-of-drama
2. 5/30/08
  
  AmyOops
  
  I was on that thread too, talked about my crazy order at the chinese place.
3. 5/30/08
  
  wenfri
  
  ooops my bad so you did LOL
  
  Please forgive my oversight Oh please I beg of thee
  
  How I could do that
5/30/08

Enlight

I was very different then I am now in life.

High school was not my thing, although self-education is.

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5/30/08

richrf

Hmmm ...

I was an activist. Took part in many of the anti-war protests. Played sports, with my friends, but not team sports. Shy with girls. Much different now!

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5/30/08

fineartathome

Put a lot of value in originality and expression then, and that hasn't changed. Seems people are afraid of expressing themselves today, though.

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5/30/08

gagandeep89

I have never really been liked coz i ve always wanted to work and study ...nerdy types but then again i cant JUST study and i ve had my share of fun too
i can still say the same for myself even in college

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5/30/08

BennyGreenberg

Ya wouldn't know it to look at me - but damn was I the jock...

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1. 5/30/08
  
  calais50
  
  What sport(s)?
2. 5/30/08
  
  carlgalloway
  
  chess?
3. 5/30/08
  
  BennyGreenberg
  
  Baseball
  
  Ya - I could play chess too - but that was a different side of me...
4. 5/30/08
  
  carlgalloway
  
  LOL never understood baseball, it looks similar to cricket just slower, but I've heard the baseball jocks have a good time off the field
5. 5/30/08
  
  BennyGreenberg
  
  Stops...thinks... Johnson City Tennessee... no no no that never happened...
6. 5/30/08
  
  carlgalloway
  
  Ah well sorry about that, maybe in your next life you'll come back as a jock in a bigger town
7. 5/30/08
  
  BennyGreenberg
  
  The issue was being from a big city and landing there to play ball...
  was good for us city guys and not so good for the local boys...
8. 5/30/08
  
  wenfri
  
  Baseball I used love baseball.
  
  You ever played Donkey Baseball??
  
  Now there is a challenge
9. 5/30/08
  
  BennyGreenberg
  
  what's with you and all this talk of asses
5/30/08

lordiwanttobewhole

I was a rebel. Always in trouble, I always got caught too. I dropped out of school. I was the one in school who was in the smokers circle. I drank at school once & was in the principals office frequently. I usually tried to turn on the tears while in with the principal.

A couple of years ago, I went back to get my grade 12 & went to college. It was an exciting time! I graduated from college and want to go back again! I loved it!

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1. 5/30/08
  
  wenfri
  
  Hey you musta been a friend of mine LOL I spent a lot of time in the Prince's office too
5/30/08

7masterheathen

During the first two years, I was shy, didn't go to parties much. But the last two years, I became a party animal. I became very outspoken.

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5/30/08

jafabrit

I loved sports (loved being on the javelin team), floated amongst various groups, and loved going to high school in London. My nickname was potty coty and I can't say I have not deserved the name then or now LOL!

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1. 5/30/08
  
  wenfri
  
  Oh poop you mean London Eng. not Ontario LOL
5/30/08

robertstevenson

I was shy until I was a senior. I had transfered in from a private school, and I didn't know anybody. I found it pretty easy, but I didn't learn a lot.
I had a little too much fun my senior year.

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5/30/08

ekim941

I hung out with everyone. I could find common ground with just about any group. I haven't changed a bit, I still hang out in groups I don't "Belong"

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5/30/08

DrowseyMonkey

I was pretty quiet, had a small group of friends. They were party freaks but I was the goody-2-shoes of the group. My grades weren't that great but that's mostly because I was bored to tears. Once I went on to College & University things changed and I realized that I could actually get a lot of A's ... several in a row even! Wow!

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5/30/08

Arcticulates

I was quiet, loved to read and study. Had a few close friends, always was a little scared, in high school, there was constant knifings, gang fights, and clashes with the blacks and whites, and you would never know when. Innocent bystanders were hurt all the time, and quite a few teachers too. So it was scary in High School for me. I was just a little 5 ft., 90 pound, blond, blue eyed girl. But when I think back about that now I am pretty sure that is what kept me safe, I didn't look threatening at all.

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5/30/08

kdawg68

Not surprisingly, I was complex.

Captain of the football team, yet also a class clown.

My big thing was getting everyone together. All cliques. Jocks, stoners, dorks, everything in between. It wasn't a party unless EVERYONE was there.

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5/30/08

Norski

I was a geek, and I've got photos to prove it.

Huge Adam's apple, pocket protectors, too-short pants: the works.

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5/30/08

JillSaxon

I was slightly less awesome than I am now.

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5/30/08

G8rbryan

I was somewhat shy, but I am anything but that now, just ask kat822. lol

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5/30/08

kat822

oh yeah you should see him now, life of the party, swinging from chandalears, table dancing, giving lap dances....they kick him out of Denny's every Friday night !!!!

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1. 5/30/08
  
  G8rbryan
  
  Damn it, Kat....you were not suppose to tell EVERYTHING! lol
5/30/08

kat822

opps my bad, forgot we were keeping that on the down lowwwwwww, psssssst guys want to know his stripper name????

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1. 5/30/08
  
  G8rbryan
  
  OMG! NOOOOO! Don't tell them that!
2. 5/30/08
  
  kat822
  
  is that a dare?
3. 5/30/08
  
  G8rbryan
  
  Ummmm, no..........it's a request not to. lol.
5/30/08

MeghnaK

It was interesting and entertaining to know how you were all in high school and how you all remember those days.
I think I am having a jolly time in my school and is really enjoyable

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5/30/08

CleverElsie

I was a nerdy overachiever, perpetually out of fashion, woefully inadequate on the athletic field, laughed off the dance floor by the opposite sex, a repository for spitballs.

singletude.blogspot.com

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5/30/08

acousticguitarist

I walked out the gate regularly and went surfing

I was very bright, bored, popular, loved the girls and left just before I was 15

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6/02/08

kaguvkov

Shy in those years but I have lots of girlfriends. Very energetic.

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