What were you in High School?

Originally Posted by Momofmany

I walked out of school, quit drugs, went to college and got into a good career. It was an interesting experience.

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Good for you

Bookworm here. I wore thick tortoiseshell glasses, my mother wouldn't buy me "cool" clothes, I didn't do drugs and didn't sleep around. This made me pretty much of a loner, in school. The worst thing, that I did, was get caught smoking in the bathroom and got a one-day suspension (never mind what Mom did to me).

Thanks to an indpendent study program, I could spend most of my time in the library, working on my own.

Hmmm...well, in our school there were only about 500 students (elementary and high school combined) and my graduating class had only 30 students and we were all so incredibly close, like brothers and sisters. I hung out with the "popular crowd" per say, but we all knew eachother, I was out for sports, cheerleading, that type of thing. We weren't snobs, or meanies, just well known I guess!

I really miss high school, I don't even talk to a single soul that I went to high school with. How sad is that...you spend over 12 years of your life with these people and once you graduate, you all move on with different lives and hardly talk anymore! We are all such different people its amazing!

I started out hs very cluelessy, like knee high socks and plaid skirts and the valley accent. But then I gradually turned goth, so that when I graduated I was the freak girl who people were wary of. I didn't have a lot of friends but mostly because I never liked to call people back or hang out with them. I was also a long term relationship girl, so all through hs I had a bf, and I never really made girl friendships. girls kinda hated me because they all thought their bf's were sleeping with me but they just wished they were.

I would say I was the In betweener I had freinds in all of the different "Cliques" but you might have been able to call me the selfconfident loner

I was labelled a rocker chick I wore concert t-shirts, leather jackets, tight ripped blue jeans (what was I thinking!) and my favourite bands were Metallica and Megadeath!

Originally Posted by Miss Mew

I was labelled a rocker chick

I wore concert t-shirts, leather jackets, tight ripped blue jeans (what was I thinking!)

and my favourite bands were Metallica and Megadeath!

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Hmm that's what I wear and they call me "Punk"

Attending an all-girls school made for a lot of cliques, none of which I was included. My first two years of high school, I made it through fairly unnoticed by the other students. The teachers all knew me, because I got very good grades. At the beginning of my junior year, I had major surgery, and suddenly everyone knew who I was. Of course, they all thought that I had gotten pregnant and left school to have the baby and give it up for adoption......silly what people will assume, especially peers looking for gossip.

When I returned to school, things were a bit different. I became involved in drama club, glee club and those sorts of things. Started dating a popular guy from the all-boys school down the street, too. I never went for "popular", but there were a few good friends that I spent a lot of time with.

Hey, by the time I graduated, they even got my name spelled correctly in the yearbook for the first time! (To be fair, Ronda Duknoski probably was a bit of a challenge, though!)

Originally Posted by Sibohan2005

I would say I was the In betweener I had freinds in all of the different "Cliques" but you might have been able to call me the selfconfident loner

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That pretty much sums me up. I started out as a complete nobody, a music geek and honors student, but I got into the "bad" crowd (smokers/drinkers/druggies, but I NEVER did drugs) for a while in my soph/jr years. By the time I graduated I had friends that were all over the map clique-wise.

At school I was the biker, rocker chick that did not hang out with much of anyone except my one guy friend that was gay. My mother allowed me few other friends and had me in dance classes from the time I could walk. She thought the knee length hair and wearing all black and leather was "artsy." She would have had an aneurism if she had known what was really going on. Imagine her surprise when I went car shopping and came back on a Harley.

Originally Posted by Miss Mew

I was labelled a rocker chick

I wore concert t-shirts, leather jackets, tight ripped blue jeans (what was I thinking!)

and my favourite bands were Metallica and Megadeath!

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I think we would have gotten along well in high school! LOL

I was...um...in the unpopular hood (rockers, some gearheads, the jean jacket, Levi jeans, untied Nike hitops, band/concert tshirts) crowd through Jr. High and the first part of High School. Yes, there was a popular hood crowd, and I wasn't a part of that. LOL I was the anomoly in that crowd, though. I always got good grades (graduated high school With Honors with a 3.86 GPA (there were no weighted grades back then, so 4.0 was the best you could get), and was heavily involved in choir. My school sucked at sports, but our music program was the best in the state.

After my Sophmore year in HS, I outgrew the hoods I hung out with before, and joined a group of choir friends, and got involved as a reporter for our (award winning ) school newspaper. I was the rebel amongst my friends, but we had a great time all the time. Mostly harmless fun, as opposed to the group that I left behind that wasn't doing such harmless things any more.

Honestly I have no desire to go back to any reunions. There would only be maybe 5 people (out of 400 in my graduating class) that I would care to see again.

I was the shy, studious type and was involved with the school newspaper and was a member of the World Affairs club. So, guess I was pretty nerdy too. In my yearbook, everybody wrote about how "sweet" I was.

I was the incredibly odd one that was generally well liked in high school. I'm surprised to say that about 50% of the school knew who I was regardless of the fact that I wasn't particularly involved in any extracurricular activities. That said, i was also a bit notorious, because I was heavyset and intelligent, and very obviously quirky. And if I got bullied, i would beat them senseless with whatever book I was reading at the time.

Do you know how embarrassing it is to be a stout young gentleman being lifted off the ground and wedged into a wall, by a girl not quite 5 feet tall? I was generally left alone by anyone who didn't like me after 9th grade, because it was known that I would simply pummel them, remorselessly, and they would have to explain how they could let little old me beat them up.

I was the Artsy type, very non-conformist, and I still am. I was involved in the Drama Club, the Chior, and performed in musicals and plays in school. I studied voice, and also performed in a lot of community theatre as well. I didn't really hang with any clique's. I was more interested in music and acting, than to care about most of those silly High School things.

Originally Posted by eilcon

I was the shy, studious type and was involved with the school newspaper and was a member of the World Affairs club. So, guess I was pretty nerdy too. In my yearbook, everybody wrote about how "sweet" I was.

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I was persona non grata....

*laugh* I wasn't in World Affairs club (don't think we even had one) but I was on the newspaper and was in choir all four years. I graduated at the top of my class, so I definitely fit the "nerd" bit... and even though everyone wrote about how sweet I was in my yearbook too... no one really ever hung out with me.

Course now I'm in college and all the jocks that happened to come to the same college I did flirt with me. *sigh*

I'm interested to see what my reunion will be like (if I decide to go).

I'm sure my label in high school was quiet, shy, passive, and friendly when spoken to. I was in the in-between group that basically didn't get into trouble and listened to authority figures. I was accepted by most everyone in my high school (ie, druggies, preppies/popular, athletic kids, the in-between ones, band-aids <that's what we called people in the band>, etc.). Since I was athletic and fairly good at sports (I played field hockey and volleyball), it helped me be accepted by the athletic and popular kids.

I graduated 15 years ago and have never gone to a class reunion. I think many people would be surprised how much I have changed since then. I'm a social worker and it's taught me to come out of my shell and speak my mind.

I don't really know. I went to High School in a relatively small town, and my school didn't have stereotypical cliques. I was popular, but most people were! I was cheerful and was very giggly. I would have annoyed myself a little now, hehe.

In junior high I kept to myself a lot, was pretty shy and insecure, and would spend weekends holed up in my room reading and writing poetry and short stories.

In high school I came out of my shell and met more people like myself. I was an artist, as were most of my friends. I was a photographer for the yearbook, on the students council, involved in dramatic arts, founder of a local youth group, and although my primary art was writing (I was published locally at age 15), I also participated actively in fine arts and helped put on a local art show (I was painting a piece and explained my technique to passerby).

My friends varied, and although I got along with everyone from jocks, preppies, nerds and rockers, most of my friends were "alternative" types. This was pre-grunge, back in the mid-late 1980's. As far as style goes, some were mods, skinheads, punks, goths, or just had their own unique sense of style. I did my own thing, wore lots of black (still do! ), and had my hair died every colour of the rainbow.

Unfortunately, I didn't get to experience the last year of high school the way most kids do. My mother abandoned us, my dad committed suicide, and I was left to my own devices, so unfortunately it took a while longer to finish my last year than I had hoped.

I was a "browner", which was short for brown noser. And that was because I got good grades. It didn't make me unpopular, but I was notorious for being a good student, when that was very uncool. I was also in the school band, and spend all of my spare time with band kids. It wasn't like the big marching band culture of the USA, we were a small concert band, but we did love music, and spent hours of our spare time in the music room, playing and having fun. Looking back, we could have been called band geeks, if that term had existed back then.

The thing was, at our school, nobody really cared what clique you were in. Everyone got along, you just knew where to pigeonhole everyone.

I was very quiet. I hung around with a group of five or so friends because none of us could get into any of the other cliques. Of course by the end of school, we were known as the hardest clique to get into. When I think back it assumes me greatly once we started to not care about what the popular kids thought, they started caring about what we thought. Of course it could have just been that we got better looking as school went along.

Actually I am meeting up with four of the five friends I had in highschool tonignt and am really looking forward to it.