What were you in high school?

[Lyric]

Just curious. :)

[LostinVA]

1. NHS, yearbook, track/field hockey kid

What would that be?

[Lyric]

2. I'd say a mixture of cool kid and athletic kid

Mixed with some smart kid. Damn you're complicated. ;) :hug:

[LostinVA]

19. I know

:cry:

[LisaM]

3. Hey! You left out band geek

Or smart kids that people WEREN'T mean to. I was kind of a combination of the two, plus I was quite political.

[Richardo]

5. LisaM, we're separated at birth

See my bio below.

[Maine-ah]

99. I'm thinkin' we were triplets

:hi:

[AllegroRondo]

10. Hooray for the band geeks!

[Richardo]

4. Smart kid (not TOO smart) + Band nerd (not TOO musical)

All combined into a background-kid kinda kid. :)

[jilln]

12. ditto.

[ceile]

6. Purple hair, athlete, GT

Everyone wanted to be my friend in some way or another, but I thought they were all a bunch of rich, fake bitches. I was wrong on about 80% of them. My high school years could have gone a lot more smoothly if I hadn't been such a stuck up brat.

[Fran Kubelik]

7. Some of the above.

Not rich, not tragically poor. Never wore the trendy clothes and got picked on for that. High honors student, played nearly every sport, was in every band and chorus, was a student council officer and member of the French club.

[Wapsie B]

8. Band Geek but otherwise a blend into the background type.

Nothing much has changed in that respect in 30+ years since.

[MissMillie]

23. yep

band and chorus.... almost everything I did revolved around being in the music room

[Wapsie B]

44. Yeah, band and chorus were my only activities.

It was an escape of sorts for me. The lonely feeling of being a teenager on the periphery of things went away when I was involved with music.

[Mrs. Venation]

54. Yeah

I have never been one to seek the spotlight. I was in marching, concert and jazz bands.

[Wapsie B]

61. Not being part of the in-crowd was ok by me.

Coulda used a little more excitement from time to time, or a lot more. But at least I didn't screw up my health doing every drug under the sun or get anyone pregnant. So I guess there were advantages.

[charlie and algernon]

75. yup, bando here too

[flvegan]

9. Fat kid, in the a/v dept, avg student

hung with the smart, preppy kids but I was into more AC/DC to their Thompson Twins and Simple Minds. I drove a sweet car, so it all evened out.

[SteppingRazor]

11. Depends what year you're talking about...

like most high school kids, I went through a few phases.

[SmokingJacket]

13. I would have been goth, but goth wasn't invented.

So I was just "weird."

[Critters2]

86. There's a goth girl in our obedience class

with the cutest Boston Terrier. She looks all tough, wears all this black leather clothing, black makeup, etc. Then she opens her mouth and has the sweetest, high-pitched voice, and the friendliest personality. And loves her dog! She's the only kid in our class, so she has about 10 "moms" looking out for her.

I was reminded about stereotyping tonight in class. During a break, she commented on the brightly colored leash the Vegan Beagle has.

Her: You didn't buy the leather leash from the kennel club?

Me: We're vegan. We don't use leather.

Her: Wow! You SURE don't look like any vegans I know!!


Not sure exactly what that meant, but I thought about the first time I saw her, when I prolly thought "Wow. You don't look like any Rally-o handler I know!"

Mustn't judge books by those annoying covers, I'm reminded.

[buddhamama]

14. i was a crossover

i got good grades, played sports, illegal activities :smoke: and i was popular. :)

[Crap_in_a_Hat]

15. Drama kid/sociotastic loner

See if you can figure that one out.

[LaraMN]

16. A hybrid of a bunch of things.

drama/smart/druggie/grunge/popular/crazy/instigator kid.

I was NOT a preppy,sporty, or quiet type.

I had alot of friends, crossing clique groups, but my closest friends were grunge/intellectual/drug-experimenter types.

In the yearbook, my picture is under the "wildest/craziest" heading on the best/most pages (along with the male counterpart to the honor).

:P

I enjoyed my hours outside of the classroom, and am still friends with my closest companions from "back in the day."

[bridgit]

17. Invisible smart kid...

:headbang:

[ProfessorGAC]

89. I Was A Visible Smart Kid

Played basketball and ran track. Was pretty good at both, but not good enough to get it to pay for college, unless i wanted to go to small schools in either Wyoming or Oregon, neither of which had chemistry majors. So much for that.

But, at least i wasn't an invisible kid. Sorry about your experience.
The Professor

[catmandu57]

18. Drop out

Stoner, loner, spent most of my time in the library educating myself. I got caught up in the great purge they threw out over a hundred of us the same day, I just didn't see any reason to go back the next year.

[Joe Fields]

20. I was part jock, freak, smart, class clown, and popular, but I made

a point to fit in with all crowds, and even made a point to befriend even the so-called "unpopular kids".

[Chan790]

72. ditto. n/m

[Connonym]

21. Fat smart four eyes girl

not that I'm bitter

[NewWaveChick1981]

22. Smart kid who got ignored most of the time and picked on the rest of the time.

:shrug:

[LaraMN]

25. Sounds like my best friend.

I was pretty easy-going in school, but I got RAGINGLY mad when anyone picked on her.
To this day, I think I'm more mad at people who were mean to her than she is.
:P
Oh, and she turned out freaking FABULOUS. She's still my best friend.
:D

[Fran Kubelik]

28. Sounds about like me.

:hi:

[SPKrazy]

81. I wanna kick their asses!

I had a lot of that

then i became a chameleon kid who could fit in anywhere

then i became a drunk and stoner

then i got out of high school

but most of the kid in every social strata in my high school had their drunk stoner crowd and that was the common denominator for me there.

later i had to sober up and get off drugs :P

[ismnotwasm]

24. Other

Not there.
I skipped my most of my freshman and my entire sophomore year. I ended up with one math credit somehow, sophomore year. I then when on to an alternative school for "bad kids" There were no categories there except how stoned you were or how may schools you were kicked out of.

Got my GED at 19.

[u4ic]

26. Definitely not popular

smart, but just a percentage or two below dean's list; art geek; the unnoticed kid who occasionally did very wacky things.

I got some semblance of notoriety in grade 9 when, on a mixed grade field day trip, I had to take over the reins of a very tough horse from the *gasp* grade 12 president of the student council. I had a reputation that year as being the only one who could ride that horse. After he left, the legend died...:P

[Starbucks Anarchist]

27. Semi-smart invisible kid.

[catmandu57]

29. I've got Janis Ian running through my head

right now.

[eyepaddle]

30. I was too smart to be accepted by the metal heads and

too poor to be a cool kid, I caught way too much shit to be invisible, so y9ou tell me.

I'm glad that's over.

[davsand]

31. We had stoners, socials and jocks.

Most of the cheerleaders and jocks in my school were also pretty chemical--it was the late 70's... (Come to think of it even the AV club had some pretty chemical folks!)

I did the music and drama thing, but I also was hanging with the other crowd.

:smoke:


Laura

[Initech]

32. I didn't fit in anywhere in high school.

Hell, I STILL don't really fit in anywhere!

[Aristus]

33. I was the nice guy that all the girls liked but didn't want to go out with.

They liked the dangerous guys who rode motorcycles and treated their girlfriends like crap. They'd commiserate with me because "you're such a sweet guy", and then go right back to the neanderthals.

My brother, although much more popular than me, had essentially the same problem. He confessed his feelings to a girl and she said to him (I'm not kidding) : "You were such a nice guy, I couldn't think of you as anything but a friend."

He lost his cool and asked her: "What did you want me to do? Slap you around a little?"

[meegbear]

34. The pudgy, smart burnout ...

:hippie:

[driver8]

35. I was a jock, good student, partier...

I got along with almost everyone at my high school. I played sports and was in with the "cool" kids, but I also liked to party so I was in with the "stoners", also. I have a lot of great friends from high school...we were a pretty tight group of friends.

[johnnie]

36. High

[La Lioness Priyanka]

37. house captain in a private catholic all girls school.

mostly our popularity was based on academics.

[Omphaloskepsis]

38. 4.0 Nerd / Skateboarder / bought my clothes at thrift shops / sXe

Oh, how the times have changed.

[Xithras]

58. Oh man, sounds like me.

On the surface I looked like the typical skater, and I could hang with the best of them on a vert pipe. At first glance, most people would never have guessed that I was a straight A student who also entered science contests, wrote fiction in his spare time, and was a member of both the school chess club AND the computer club (the last being a bastion of particular uncoolness in the pre-Internet days at the dawn of the 90's).

I still play chess and program computers, but the pipes screwed my knees for life. Back then, of course, wearing a helmet or pads wasn't simply uncool, it was unheard of. Ouch.

[Omphaloskepsis]

67. I was the opposite..

I was the kid who looked like a nerd but could do 360 flips down a eight set.

[azmouse]

39. I was smart and had friends but

I was also overweight so I didn't get asked out. Got my revenge though. I lost a lot of weight the year after graduation and then the guys that saw me wanted to ask me out. Haha... by then I was dating the guy I ended up marrying!
I hated high school. I was so ready to grow up and get out on my own I sometimes wonder how I made it through school.

[Burma Jones]

40. Some 15 years after I graduated from High School

I got a phone call asking whether I was (insert real name here), I said yes, and the girl on the other end of the phone proceeded to tell me that I was still (in)famous at my old high school and that people made up stories about me based on what teachers told them and old yearbook photos.....I also heard the same thing from the HS girls that babysat my twin half brothers.

Two years ago, now some 27 years past HS graduation, I took my young kids to a football game at my old HS. The current Band Teacher was a year ahead of me and returned to teach at the HS he attended - ala Kotter. I waved, and he recognized me and introduced me to the band as "that guy some of you asked about"........I was Lead Trumpet in the County and State Jazz Bands and there are notes in the scores that still say things like "Rump goes insane here". One of my nicknames was Rump because I mooned people.....like the Governor of Maryland.....

I was also the lead in the two plays (Oscar Madison in the Odd Couple and Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) that were the first performances in what was then a state of the art theatre, so we got to sign the walls, and that graffiti has been preserved.

I also was largely responsible for a 10 year ban on Nighttime Pep Rallies and a significant delay in Magruder High School getting lights to play night football games.......It had to do with leading obscenity laced Cheers and a tirade about the benefits of smoking marijuana, at a pep rally attended by students, faculty and staff.....The funny thing is, is that after graduating, and while spending a couple years at Junior College making up for my utter GPA failure, they asked me to announce Football Games. I played Football too.

I had legendary parties - my folks were divorcing and would disappear for days at a time........

My body was a proving ground for all manner of Drugs.......

I had a good time in HS

I had a good time in College

I'm having a good time now.........

[Jimbo S]

41. Other: math/computer geek

[NewJeffCT]

42. I was the invisible man in high school

But, at least I was well-known enough to win the "Shyest" in both my high school and junior high school - of course, with only about 100 in my high school graduating class, it's not difficult for everybody to know everybody.

[Mad_Dem_X]

43. I was mostly ignored, teased occasionally. n/t

[dolo amber]

45. I was the uber-dork that didn't realize she was an uber-dork

and thus hung out with and pretty much got along with everyone. :shrug:

The cool kids might've talked shit about me behind my back but I was oblivious. :D

[GalleryGod]

46. Legend? Guilty as Charged.

[ForrestGump]

47. None of the above

Most decidedly.

[LeftyMom]

48. I was geeky and unattractive.

Nobody really gave me any shit after my freshman year (this probably has something to do with the fact that my high school boyfriend was 1. big and 2. crazy) but I didn't have a ton of friends either.

[TommyO]

49. You forgot us theater geeks!

Remember, it's "Thespian!"

[stuntcat]

88. oooo yah!

I was sort of a theater geek, mostly just a nerd though.

Every Friday night a few people would come to my house to watch horror movies and eat pizza but it wasn't talked about at school, when we were there we just hung in different circles (well they had circles, I was a loner)

[bikebloke]

50. Hybrid

I was wallpaper, yet mixed easily with different groups.

[datasuspect]

51. stoner dropout

[Rob H.]

52. I rarely spoke in high school (hated it, couldn't wait for college) but

...people still knew who I was, mainly because I was so quiet. (When I was a senior, in one of my classes some girls made a point of joking around to get me to laugh because they'd never seen me smile--I'm series!)

[unpossibles]

53. I was in the non-clique

there were about 6 of us, plus two smart kids who sat with us for protection because the jocks didn't (usually) mess with us. We didn't really fit in anywhere beyond that we all liked music and would "travel between the tribes" so to speak. And we were in the smart kid classes, but were not as smart (or rather, not as studious, thanks to beer and other things) as the "smart kids."

[crim son]

55. After moving to the states I went from complete nerd - badly dressed,

shy and smart, to ultra-cool because going on exchange was considered an ultra-cool thing to do. And yes, I've remained ultra-cool from that time to this. :P

[bigwillq]

56. Cool, in-crowd

I played some sports and hung out with the jocks.

My school wasn't that big so everyone knew each other.
I guess you can say I hung out with the cool crowd.

:)

[bicentennial_baby]

57. Smart Kid/Cool Kid/Druggie/Girl with 21+ y.o. Boyfriend

:D

[MedleyMisty]

59. I was the smart kid

But once I got past the early years, no one was mean to me about it anymore. Probably a combination of everyone maturing and me learning to act silly so they could go ahead and feel superior without having to bring me down.

Also, I wasn't popular and didn't wear anything expensive, but the most popular guy in school developed a crush on me in sophomore year that lasted until after graduation. So I did hear my name brought up in gossip a lot.

I wasn't part of any certain group. My school wasn't big on groups, really. There were small groups of friends but no clique was considered better than any other clique.

[GenDem]

60. Artsy, stoner group

I was neither really popular, nor unpopular, and didn't much care either way. I got along just fine with every clique -- considered everyone a friend.

Hard to believe that this summer we will be having our 30th reunion, which I'm proud to be on the reunion planning committee.

[femmocrat]

62. Overachiever. Way too many activities!

They didn't hurt my grades much, though... I was still in the top academic classes.

[JitterbugPerfume]

63. I was very shy

and an underachiever

[trof]

64. Preppy beatnik.

Played bongos wearing Bass Weejuns.
And shades.
COOL, daddy-o.

[Dr Fate]

65. Other- Stoner/troublemaker but smart (sort of) & geeky (certainly) too.

Mostly a comic book & music nerd who liked to joke around and have a good time- pretty much just like now.

I spent much of High School trying to get up the nerve to talk to girls.

[Bucky]

66. Debate geek.

Which is really just a band geek with a suit and no rhythm.

[smtpgirl]

68. People called me a frock which is

a freak - because I smoked pot and hung out with the cool kids and a jock - because I played sports.

I dressed in preppy clothes, was a class clown, got ok grades, but history & biology were my classes, aced both of them all through high school.

In my senior year, I skipped most of the year as I only needed English to graduate. I spent the last 2 months hanging out with the stage band going to Elementary/Jr. High schools for concerts, then after that we hung out and drank beer & smoked pot.

I was not part of any clique, had many friends with many interests. I just had fun in high school.

[graywarrior]

69. Freak.

And among us freaks, that was cool.

[Left Is Write]

70. What was I in high school? 15, 16, and 17.

[wildhorses]

71. new girl

Drive your mustang down, to where you hang out.
Alone without a friend.
Girls walk by you, some in fact have tried you.
But once they tried they never tried again.

Except the new girl.

Alone and lonesome, trusting no one they say,
You never had a friend.
People talk about you, they say they doubt you really,
Ever let anybody in.

Except the new girl.

I guess there's never been anyone.

Except the new girl.


Last time I saw him, he was laughing.
She was standing by his side.
I've got a feeling, that they're still together.
From the look that was in his eyes. There's no one,

Except the new girl.


See him smile, he don't care.
Says he loves her, and he'll always love her.
See him smile, it seems fair.
That he finally found her, finally hold her. There's no one,

Except the new girl.
Except the new girl.
Except the new girl.

[SPKrazy]

82. Ahhhh!

wildhorsey

:hug:

I wish i'd had been your friend somewhere along the line


:hug:

[SarahB]

73. The bad girl of the chorus/drama geeks.

i.e. Not really that bad. :D

[Nikia]

74. I voted for all of the above

I was an extraordinary person back then. Now I am more of a loser. It sucks.

[pokerfan]

76. Smart stoner kid (almost valedictorian)

who took the toughest courses, smoked dope, drank beer, and got along with pretty much everyone. Wrestling, drama, annual staph photographer.

Had one fight my freshman year with the kids from the "other" junior high with which we had just merged. Those guys wound up being some of my best friends.

[Oeditpus Rex]

77. Nothing

Absolutely nothing.

[misanthrope]

78. Human**nm

**

[Lyric]

79. I guess I can answer my own poll now, lol

In elementary school, I had it baaad. I was the fat girl, the smart kid, AND the poor kid. I had no school friends, and the other kids went out of their way every single day to make my life a living hell.

That all changed around the Fall of 1993, when I was 14. I'd gotten taller and lost some weight that summer--not enough to qualify as thin, but enough that I wasn't even close to being "fat". I'd also gotten a nice rack over the previous summer, and my face had changed from chubby-round-babyface to contoured, with nice full lips and dramatic brows and coloring. Of course, none of the boyos in my grade dared to notice--even if I wasn't actually fat or ugly, I still had 6 years of school stigma attached to me, and that's something hard to live down. But the older high school boys sure noticed. :)

I was left alone most of the time during the first part of that year--not "accepted", but not tortured either. Then some idiotic prepgirls in the "in" crowd with nothing better to do decided to start giving me hell because I still had secondhand clothes and my eyebrows were untweezed (oh the horror). One of them was actually STUPID enough to follow me home and attempt to "beat me up" in front of the others. Unfortunately for her, I'd lost my natural timidity the summer before, and when she hit me...I hit back. Hard. Repeatedly. This was on a Thursday. She was absent from school Friday, and when we came back on Monday, her face was STILL swollen, bruised, and greeny-blue. She never spoke a single disrespectful word to me again, and neither did anyone else, for that matter. Her parents came over to yell at my parents, but two adults in my neighborhood had witnessed the whole thing and told them that their precious little angel attacked ME and I was simply defending myself. (You'd think that the fact that she lived across town but got off at MY bus stop would have clued them in as to who started it).

After that, I spent the rest of my high school years left alone. No real friends, but no grief from the other kids, either. I wound up dating guys (and later girls) MUCH older than me. I met ThinkBlue1966 when I was 19, and the rest is history. :)

[KitchenWitch]

80. I was a Burnout!

And I was Goth before it was cool to be Goth.

[qnr]

83. Didn't go to HS. Actually, I lie, because I went for three months n/t

[Critters2]

84. Smart but quiet kid with the back brace.

Didn't want to draw attention to myself, so I spent most of my time trying not to make eye contact.

[Pushed To The Left]

85. I was like a nerd without the benefits of being a nerd!

My grades weren't good enough to be a nerd, but I looked like one a lot of the time. I suppose I was also a fat kid some of the time. I definitely was not very popular or "cool", even though I did have some friends.

[SKKY]

87. I went to a mostly black High School (Desegration)...

...Being athletic and good at sports is what me from getting my short, dumpy, white ass kicked
everyday.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

90. Young. Very young.

[1gobluedem]

91. Other: Teacher's kid

Expected to get top grades (I did) and not cause trouble (I didn't). Also played in the band and my gang was fairly popular.

But, I can tell you it's hard when your father teaches in your school and you have to take his class (the only one who taught state and local government, which was required) and he is also the football coach.

I was very happy to get to college.

[Guava Jelly]

92. Skinny Nerd

Who could turn any love interest into a best friend...It was my curse

[Karenca]

93. Other: Mine was a split personality -

Smart kid (skipped grades, honor classes), but I was a chronic cutter...(and I forged alot of notes to get my way).
Very popular - but I only hung out with other kids (also smart) that were perpetually stoned (like myself).
I managed to graduate early in a constant hallucinogenic daze and
without hardly ever have gone to class.

[Rhythm]

94. All of the above!

I was in the marching band, JROTC, Garinger Players, was one of the first punks/goths, and was one of only 6 "out" queers in my school of about 3000 students.

I was legend, i tell ya... voted "most unique senior" of the class of 1985!

[grace0418]

95. Smart/chubby/arty/band geek.

I pretty much had all the labels that get one beat up in high school.

[Spirochete]

96. Clueless renegade

who skipped classes, smoked in the bathrooms, set off fire alarms, put glue in all the classroom locks, and made it nearly a month before being expelled.

[regularguy]

97. Skinny, very high, guitar player. NT

[Heidi]

98. Dork. Still am. On the "up side," though, I'm

Tom's _only_ myspace friend. :7

[mike_c]

100. stoner....

I don't remember much from those days.... :rofl:

[Broken_Hero]

101. A few things, but I selected fat kid, but

I was also, athlete(football/track field), Band Geek, Pep club geek, Pep band Geek, comic book geek.....:)

[Joey Liberal]

102. I was a teenaged drunk and I lived in a motel

Other than that, I was just a normal juvenile delinquent.

[Deja Q]

103. Amongst other things, I was told quite clearly and repeatedly:

God's little joke.

[Liberalynn]

104. I wasn't cheerleader popular in highschool but I wasn't an outcast either

I had a good number of friends and many people were actually nicer to me when they found out I was smart in highschool. Some of my public school classmates would even come to me for help with their homework and studying.

Now exactly the reverse was true in Catholic grade school, I was picked on because my parents weren't rich, and I wasn't snooty, and they were jealous because I was smart. I was also very shy and my feelings were eaisly hurt. I was a constant target for all those reasons. And most of the teachers weren't any better than the students. Although there were a "few" nice ones.

I loved Public school and hated Catholic School as a result.

[xmas74]

105. I was athletic,

I was smart, I came from a poorer family and wore clothes from garage sales and thrift stores often (yet knew what to look for and often came off looking better than most. Girls would laugh at my outfits yet wear something similar a month later.). I had a goth stage but grew out of it when I was 15 and had my first real job, yet always listened to the music. I ran around w/ the stoners, the motorheads, the punks, the athletes, the NHS kids, the art kids, I was in band (trumpet), I was on the debate team (Lincoln-Douglas, foreign extemp, poetry and prose, radio), I was involved in the school plays, I was the president of a few clubs (Future Teachers, Drama, AFS, head volunteer and was a class rep).

I was loved and hated all at the same time but for different reasons than most. I was loved and hated either way because I was so different and I couldn't be pinned down. (That and I once took one of our Downs Syndrome classmates to a kegger. No one wanted her there but I thought she deserved to be there since she was a member of our class.)

Oh, and I was the kid that protested everything, wrote about protesting everything in the school newspaper, grumbled about coverage of some events in the yearbook as I was sent to cover said event and was obsessed about everything being fair to all-often while risking something of my own. (Such as a recommendation for a full scholarship).

[Arugula Latte]

106. Smart, not popular, not unpopular either ...

sort of blended in ...

My high school was nasty. Nasty, nasty snotty rich kids.

[Skittles]

107. I was a GI brat who moved constantly

I saw these same sickening groups in every school I attended - I made it a mission to never become one of them