What were you in High School?

I was the heavy metal rock chick. No extra curricular activities, never went to a football game....Barely made it there every morning actually! I hated school!!!

I was the one that knew everybody, but nobody knew.
I had a few close friends that, like most everyone else here, couldn't get into the other cliques. I went to one of the "richest hig schools in town, but my family didn't have the financial standing to keep up so I didn't fit in... I got more "popular my Senior year, but it helped that I was "engaged" to the star player on the baseball team! I'm looking forward to my reunion, just so I can see where everyone ended up and to (hee hee) show everybody what I've become!

I was also one of those people that was between groups. I had friends in several different social circles. I spent most of my time with the non-conformist punks and the band geeks. Interesting combination. I was friends with some of the jocks and popular kids but I was not a popular girl myself.

I was elected to be a "natural helper" my sophomore year of high school. Students anonymously vote for faculty and other students in school that they'd be comfortable going to with problems. The people with the most votes are sent to a 3-day training that teaches you how to do peer counseling and in the case of us students, when to go to an adult for help. It was a very informative and emotionally satisfying experience. That said, I guess I was popular enough that I got sent to the retreat!

I had to walk 10 miles barefoot in the snow uphill both ways... just kidding, that was my Mom.
3 years majorette and senior year drum major. I hung around with the class 2 years ahead of me and had a lot less friends after they graduated. I was a B student. I had to walk quite a way to school and was on the lazy side, so I usually did my homework in homeroom or study hall unless I got a ride because I didn't want to carry my books. (Well it was before students used backpacks.)
I hated school and still at age 46 occasionally have school dreams. I wake up and am so glad that I have to go to work instead.

Well my friend and I thought we were popular...

but we never made any of the prom or homecoming courts!!! That's our little saying...LOL! We had a lot of "fake" people in our small high school, lots of different clicks. I am happy to say, I was just myself...artistic, kooky, sarcastic and funny!! Cheerleader and softball player and in the Art room ALL THE TIME! I had a ball in high school and my closest gfriends in HS are still the same friends now!

I was in the "jock" set. My class (1975!!) graduated 401 out of a total 442 students. Back then the cliques weren't do diversified as they are now.
I sis and I were the only female twin in our class which gave us more attention.
We stuck around with alot of kids in the other public high school in town (yes more jocks!!) We were quite popular with both schools.
I was bummed that we didn't have a 30 yr reunion as we have our fair share of unique individuals that come to each reunion.
The best time was when one of my best friends husband went up to all the "stuck-up" women and complained that they had never paid him any attention in high school. He carried this tale for quite some time. He never went to my hs and they were trying to figure out who he was all night!!

Originally Posted by GailC

I sis and I were the only female twin in our class which gave us more attention.

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I didn't know that you were a twin! I'm sure I'm the only one that didn't know that, Are you identical? When I was younger, I always wished that I had a twin sister, I thought that would have been so awesome!

i was a military brat so we kind of associated with ourselves. i played sports, was withdrawn but considered the pretty girl that everyone stared at but never talked to. i used to argue with a couple guys whether or not i had a boyfriend. the boys on the base liked me a lot but were afraid to talk to me since my dad was a colonel in the marines i could of cared less! they of course did so i babysat a lot and did not go the school functions. i don't know i was more into nature and working to make money.

Being a military brat, I was the outcast because I didn't grow up with my classmates, and didn't bother to get to know them well. I was quiet and shy.

When I was in late elementary school I became a big nerd. Mostly because I like just about everybody. There was this one girl who had no friends. She was quirky and didn't act like everyone else. So the 2 of us became the biggest dorks in school. And I didn't care too much. The other girls used to try to beat her up for being different. Usually when I stood between them they'd leave her alone. So sad. I moved after the 6th grade. A year or two after that I found out she came from an extremely abusive home. That was why she had a 'habit' of breaking fingers.

In Junior high I started getting cooler. By high school I didn't care too much. I was fairly smart, dressed average, and looked better. But by then it all just seemed so trivial. All I wanted to do was graduate and get a real life! I had some good friends and most of them are still my friends today. It was enough for me!

We really didn't have labels in high school. The cheerleaders were anything but the cool kids and band and golf teams out numbered the guys on the football team. The basketball team did win the division. But our Debate and Acedemic Decath. teams won sates and place in the top 5 at nationals. The band placed 12th at the Atlantic Coast Championships in the Tourniment of Bands competion circut and the colorguard placed 6th out of the 30 guards there, horns placed 10th, winds placed 12th.

I was also a "freak". haha I don't know if any of you have seen the show Freaks and Geeks.. but I was very much like the main character, Linsdey. (If you haven't seen it.. I highly suggest it. Especially if you were in high school in the 80s) I hung out with all the hippy/stoner/rocker/misfit kids. Everyone thought we were weird but they were the nicest, caring, most loyal friends I've ever had. It's really ashame that we haven't kept in touch.

I was the type that just kept to myself, except for mabye talking to 7 people more than once througout my 4 years of High School.

I never went to any proms, never dated, never joined a club, sport, or went to see high school sport games, only got one picture in the yearbook and that was just my class picture, sat alone at lunchtime from grades 9-11 (12th I had a few people to sit with),when I was in drivers Ed I was stuck in the car with 3 cheerleaders and I never even tried to make a move on any of them, even though thats what 99% of the guys in my high school would have done, and at my high school graduation I left without saying goodbye to not one of my classmates.

I dont even think of it like I went to high school because I did nothing a normal person would have done, serously I think I should go back because there's a gap of my life missing. Thats just the way I feel about High School.

I was the one who had different colored hair (pink purple blue red yellow(not blond)) every week big black combat boots black clothes black makeup never did her work. showed up to class either drunk or stoned, pierced tattooed and stubborn. only hung out with people who were the same what was the title they gave us..... OH YEAH.....FREAKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!... well the hair has toned down a bit but is still not my "natural" color and still changes about every 3 months. the black combat boots are in my closet lol and every once in a while they make an apperance although they have been replaced by knee high platforms wich lace up front and back lol the black makeup has toned down alot to almost no makeup except for my eyeliner that is lol. the black clothes are still an ever present daily routine.the tats are more now than they were then and the piercings are still there. im still stubborn but havent done drugs since I was in high school (almost 11 years) and only drink on occasion.

I was the band-geek in high school. Most of my friends were somehow related to the band/orchestra. Really remember American Pie with the Band-Camp chick? That was me...many people even said that I look like her (well when my hair was shorter and red).

I recently was contacted for my 10-year and I really don't have much of a desire to go back. I didn't like a lot of people from my high school. Some of them went to the university as I did and tried to strike up a friendship with me then (but never paid attention to anything I did in HS). I told them I came to that University to get away from people from our high school.

Then a couple of years ago I ran into someone from HS who recognized me (I really haven't changed much). She was all proud that I didn't recognize her...I didn't have the heart to tell her that I just didn't remember going to high school with her. oops...

Anyhoo, I look at it, those that I am still friends with from high school is for a reason. So I'm most likely not going back to the reunion as if I really cared to know where these people are, we would've kept in contact with each other.

From as far back as I can remember, I was always the outcast, the one everybody despised and ridiculed, even physically attacked... which is, no doubt, why I developed lifelong chronic monopolar disorder. If kids only knew what pain they can inflict!

The main reason the kids hated me was that I got good grades and most of the teachers liked me... but by high school, I had stopped caring about grades, and I spent all my time on choir and theatre. People actually admired me for my musical ability, which was a wonderful change! I also won a bunch of awards for writing. But I never became popular... just marginally acceptable. ~ sigh ~

I identify so strongly with that song by John Mayer (sp?), even if he IS young enough to be my SON:

"I wanna run through the halls of my high school
I wanna scream at the top of my lungs
I just found out there's no such thing as the real world
It's just a lie you've got to rise above."

Amen, brother! I wish I'd figured that out when I was about eight years old...

I will say, I am popular cause of my parents, (most people know my parents where we live.)

Well, most of my eighth grade class is a smart as a softmore class, does that count as close enough?