[POLL] In high school, I was...

[Jeff7]

...I was somewhere beneath "nerdy/geek" on the totem pole of garnering respect. God I hated school. I felt so much more at ease dealing with teachers, as they weren't damned immature, undisciplined kids or teenagers. The adults always said that school was important, so I treated it as such, probably taking it more seriously than a lot of those adults tended to take their jobs. In my mind, it wasn't a place for frivolity.
I am so going to be one of those old guys who yells at kids to get off the lawn. Or by the time I reach that age, I'll just custom build a Youth-seeking Deathbot. :laugh:

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Juno

Originally posted by: mugs
My graduating class was 35 students, so there wasn't really a "popular" group. So even though I was a bit on the nerdy side, I was still friends with the hottest girls in my class.

which school? i graduated from mountain lakes even i lived in livingston for the most of my life.

I went to a private school in PA

 

[blamb425]

Originally posted by: Isla
I had friends in many groups but belonged to none. I was a good girl, a bad girl, a brainiac and an artist.

None of the above is the only choice that I can go with.

Same. But I'm not a girl!

 

[Sqube]

I was the only black kid in my class, which defaulted me to the cool group starting junior year.

However, I was still pretty nerdy. It was an interesting mix.

 

[TallBill]

None of the above. I was a three year varsity athlete, MVP and captain senior year. I was IN all of the honors and AP classes but didn't try so had a 2.8 GPA. I was a bit of a dork and severly behind on the social scale. I played volleyball 11 months out of the year and got a full ride to college which I blew.

 

[timosyy]

Average nobody I guess, out of those 3.

I was friends with everyone IN the popular groups, but didn't actually hang out with them. Hung out with a pretty tight-knit group of people like me (we're still very very good friends and hang out all the time 3 years into our separate colleges).

Nerdy/geeky too I suppose, teachers would always ask me for help on computer related issues, and I was "that guy" girls always talked to about relationship issues and such.

 

[GeekDrew]

I was definitely the nerdiest of all of the class, but I hung out with the "popular" crowd, also known as the "most intelligent of the class" crowd. Not all of us had the greatest grades, but we were definitely the "smartest", and (fortunately or not) the school staff acknowledged that. After I came out of the closet, things went to hell in a handbasket. Transferred to a different high school a couple of months later (beginning of 11th grade), immediately came out, and became fairly popular really quickly. Even moreso when they put me on staff the following fall.

 

[xanis]

I was an average Joe. I was far from popular but I had a decent amount of good friends.

 

[multiband8303]

I was an interesting mix...

I had one group of friends that I (mostly enjoyed) to "chill" with, doing most of my "geeky" things, IE: Playing Star Wars CCG (I still have them..somewhere, wonder if they are worth anything) LAN parties, etc, etc

And then my other group of friends from when I was a big car nut.....most of them are complete losers now, and all they cared about then was partying.

Unfortunately I don't know anyone from high school, I went to high school in Fargo, North Dakota, and now live in Minneapolis, MN (in a suburb, Eden Prairie)

 

[Fenixgoon]

nerdy kid, but people knew who i was (small school)

 

[nageov3t]

I was popular (not quite A list on account of the fact that I didn't play any sports, but I was a total gossip queen and usually had an invite to the parties worth going to).

wish I could go back in time and give my high school self a good kick in the ass for caring more about who was fighting with who instead of hitting the books harder. high school crap wasn't really in tune with my learning style (I'm great at understanding/applying concepts and seeing the big picture, but I really suck at the memorize/repeat stuff that hs tries to drill into you), but who knows how different my life would have been if I had gotten a huge scholarship to college or something. hell, I'm only still friends of like 3 of my high school buddies.

 

[Journer]

the nerdy guy that people thought was smart and bought bootleg crap from

 

[hans007]

i was definitely nerdy. i suppose i just have a lot of different interests, i took a fair amount of honors and ap classes, but i had a reasonable amount of friends who were not on the college track. i mean i played basketball at lunch and ran track (albiet terribly) and generally knew a lot of people but being carless and havin uncool clothing i'd think would definitely make me some weird outcast geeky type. we did start lan partying when it definitely was a "bizarre" thing to do in lik e1995.

i think my biggest accomplishment was pushing the administration over and over to register "torrancehigh.com" instead of going cheap with some long ass .edu name in 1998 before some random person bought it. oh and i more or less hated school because i think the worst thing about being in high school is if you didnt exactly fit into a clique.

that said the only people i still talk to from high school were my geekier friends. i suppose you bond with the group you were outcast with, but i'd say most of us are fairly normal ungeeky and i'd say successful people now, i guess college made us all more well rounded.


i have noticed that since i went to a fairly "average" school (10% went on to 4 year colleges , but 75 % did go to some junior college statisticall) being geeky was more odd, than say if you went to a place where being smart was not uncommon (at least from what i've heard from people i met in college) like say schools in neighborhoods were all on the college track, ora private school etc. i suppose there is some merit to "tracking" in public schools for that reason since being a "geek" generally is somewhat of a struggle through high school at least socially. my friends and i even in high school figured it was just some sort of backlash against us due to this being the peak of some people's lives and probably the low point of ours.