How were you in high school

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Captin_hung: im still a student but this is how i see my self
i begun as an angry bully who beat kids up for looking at me funny almost, got kicked out of school many times. then i fell in love with a chick (never told her how i feel) and she became my reason to stay in school now im an A student i represent my school in rugby and im actually looked up to by other kids so school has been a real maturing experience for me ;D

 

[Pecker]

From the identical topic in Etcetera, Etcetera:

I was the poor kid in the class - the one in the hand-me-downs and raggedy clothes. A clown but not a party guy. Never cracked a book but maintained a B average. Very naive.

Pecker

 

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Ineligible: That's really encouraging, Captin_hung. I wasn't like you but I found love really brought me out of myself and changed my life a lot.

 

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DizzyGus: Athlete and good student.

I was in with the cool people but I didn't really care. They were mostly flakey and I never wanted to hang around them.

College was the same way. I had a few good friends and other than that I kept to myself.

I enjoyed school but I don't miss it. I have WAY more fun these days!

Gus 8)

 

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palladen: Brainy jock, but I found it was better to work outside of these classifications even in HS. Kids back east seemed to be more mature (and still do) than kids out west.

 

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BigDragon1981: High school was smack dab in the middle of the 'dark era' for me, as my manic depression was at its worst and my family was all insane, off dealing with their own problems. For this reason, I was different from day to day ... some days energetic and hyper, some days slow moving and silent. I didn't have really any friends at all, I didn't ever do homework (but always did well on tests). Around the end of my sophomore year, people learned to leave me alone. Nonetheless, its a period I don't want to relive, for any price.

 

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rangersean: My greatest sympathies to you BigDragon. I managed to live through my own depression back then. I didn't realize I WAS depressed back then until I was finally treated fifteen years later.

 

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BigDragon1981: Thank you, ranger. I finally got into a psych ward during my junior year, but it was not a good one .... You were basically locked in a room alone, and they'd bring you meds and foods. It was really crappy. After I got out, I took zoloft and paxil for awhile, but gave up on them and decided to deal with it on my own.

It wasn't so bad that I had manic depression ... it was just people in my high school were really cruel, and I really had no one to turn to, that's what made it so bad. The principal there actually tried to help me out though.

Either way, things have come full circle ... my family and I have all exorcised our demons and are all on the same page and doing well. It was a hell of a trip there though .....

 

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rangersean: Man, Dragon, wow. My good thoughts in your direction for continued health.

Mine's pure chemical and hereditary, so drugs are the only thing helping me, sigh.

 

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joe22xxx: I was a "good guy", I think. We didn't have a lot of different kinds of people in my HS, mostly kids from the same neighborhood. I tried to be friends with everyone, except some of the thugs who just stayed to themselves. I had a cool time in HS & discovered sex big time, which was amazing.

 

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dable_wi: Benderten:

I had experiences in high school that were somewhat similar. I didn't really come into my own until after high school and, although I felt somewhat accepted, there was always a barrier between me and the A-Group kids. I compensated for my feelings of inadequacy by getting involved in drugs, using and selling. I thought that if people found out that I was doing that, they would feel I was "cool." God, was I wrong. I became immediately associated with a bunch of derelicts who didn't finish high school, much less pursue anything meaningful or even legal after high school.

My family was strong, strict and determined, so I made it into a good university, graduated and have enjoyed a very successful career.

Regarding your ten-year reunion: I wouldn't hesitate for a moment to go. I had all the same reservations you have, but what I found amazed me. People who I never paid any attention to had become very interesting. Their lives after high school were completely different than I would have expected. Similarly, those parties with "all the potential" had, in many cases, never accomplished anything beyond high school. They had rested on their high school reputation and were mediocre at best.

I wound up making out with one of the hottest chicks in our graduating class (the second night when my fiance' was with me, the hot chick made a drunken fool of herself). I rekindled old friendships that I had let slide and I left town with a huge sence of gratitude that I had made the effort to go.

By all means, go, young man!

dable

 

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hung: Many, many years ago I graduated from high school and we only have a reunion every five years. Soon will be 50 years since we all (all 26 of us marched to Pomp and Circumstance). We were a group of 13 girls and 13 boys so we all had partners to walk down the gym floor and up to the stage.

In high school I maintained a B+ average and was ranked number 7 of 26. I was a farm kid, just like everyone else. Was in Band, Boy's Glee Club, Mixed Chorus, Future Farmers of America (FFA), Debate Team, and also known as "The Bull In The China Shop."

I achieved this title as soon as I took my first shower after P.E. as a Freshman in High School. Showers were required then, and we all washed down in this tile lined room with many shower heads. Really no opportunity to remain private. No such thing as stalls. We even had a trough in the Boy's Locker Room for Number One excretments.

We all had a farm background and really no different set of values so there really was no cliques. I did not participate in sports. Of Course basketball was the thing, no football team in this small school.

Girls did much better in sports. This small town of 700 citizens and surrounding farms produced the State Championship Girls Basketball Team for two consecutive years and this was before the various Class Breakdowns. In other words, this team from small town went head to head with the cities with much larger school populations. The total enrollment in our high school was 126 farm kids all working to be good citizens in the future. Some went on to college, several went on to serve in the Military and a good number went on to be farmers just like their parents.

Thanks for the opportunity to share in this topic.

 

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bih20: just completed HS last year.

I was pretty well rounded.

I was into athletics.

All 4 years I was on the soccer team. First two, played on the badminton team as well.

At the same time I wasn't afraid to r go to the library.

Now I didn't learn much there, and really didn't try hard, lol, but I wasn't ashamed to be there.

I think I was somewhere in the middle, and I think respected by most for it.

 

[lacsap1]

By reading ties stories it looks like you all are from the US. As I'm living in Europe > Netherlands, the sports part is not as important like in the US. Everybody can study what ever they want at every university and we don't have sports scholarship to enter ties universities.
strange system by the way..

Any way, back to my school period:

I was one of the popular guys at school.
In my school period it was very important to fit in to a classification group, like the football group, the farmers, the foreigners, the (would-be) elites ect.. As being a "New waver" (this was a music period around 1985, with music like the Cure, Soft Cell, Talk Talk and U2 and we painted our hair black, black clothing, everything was black ties days. Smoking joints all day (Yes, I'm from Holland so no problem) and hang out to listing to the "sad music" of our heros and talked about the problems of the world. So at my school the New wavers where the most popular group with most of the beautiful girls & boys from the school and making the "elites" go crazy..

 

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TaMarquis: [quote author=BigDragon1981 link=board=meetgreet;num=1074278523;start=20#27 date=01/22/04 at 09:28:31]It wasn't so bad that I had manic depression ... it was just people in my high school were really cruel, and I really had no one to turn to, that's what made it so bad.[/quote]

Wow. This sounds EXACTLY like me in High School, and even NOW, while I'm in College. Glad to see you're doing better, BigDragon...

 

[MASSIVEPKGO_CHUCK]

[quote author=BigDragon1981 link=board=meetgreet;num=1074278523;start=20#27 date=01/22/04 at 09:28:31]Thank you, ranger. I finally got into a psych ward during my junior year, but it was not a good one .... You were basically locked in a room alone, and they'd bring you meds and foods. It was really crappy. After I got out, I took zoloft and paxil for awhile, but gave up on them and decided to deal with it on my own.

It wasn't so bad that I had manic depression ... it was just people in my high school were really cruel, and I really had no one to turn to, that's what made it so bad. The principal there actually tried to help me out though.

Either way, things have come full circle ... my family and I have all exorcised our demons and are all on the same page and doing well. It was a hell of a trip there though .....  [/quote]


I wasn't exactly a nerd, but then again, not a jock either. I was kind of in the middle. I maintained a "B" average, but I butted heads with the VP about invading my locker, eventually, he coerced me out. I've since got my GED, but just to piss everybody who thought I couldn't graduate, I'm also getting my actual diploma

 

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BigDragon1981: Sometimes I still fall down lile today .... it's more like an extreme mood swing, but its not fun .....

 

[Ralexx]

I was quiet... distant... or rather indifferent. My interest was focused on grades. I ended up being called "encyclopaedia"... would that make me a geek ;D ?

 

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HotBoiLA: hey hungcurious...go to your reunion!!!

i was basically the theatre fag in high school (though at that time i hadn't admited to myself i was a fag, which made it even worse). i hated high school. but when i went to my 10 year i found that it was really nice to see a lot of those people again. and, i have to say...it was interesting to see most of the "popular" people were a mess...no longer good looking, not doing much with their lives, etc. it seemed to me that it was more the "outcasts" who had their lives together. i even got hit on by a couple of the "studs" from the HS days...both of whom were so ugly at this point i wasn't at all interested.

it can be really fun...and at the very least a way to see what everyone is up to.

 

[jonb]

Well, I was basically a jack of all trades, master of none.