What Were You Like in High School?
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It was nice reading other people's posts here. 
For me, I was just another girl and nothing special really.
* What were you like in high school?
Introverted, loner, quiet, timid, awkward, observant, responsible, friendly.
*What groups/clubs/cliques did you belong to?
I wasn't really part of any groups. I did take some college credits if that might be close to counting.
* Who were your friends?
I only had 2 friends at the time, though I didn't spend much time with them since we lived a bit of a distance away.
*Who were your favorite teachers, and why?
My mom was my teacher.
* What were your favorite subjects, and what did you intend to do after high school? (Did it go as planned?)
My favorite subjects were health, medical, theology, literature, piano, and certain subjects in science.
I wanted to become a nurse and a missionary. Neither of these happened, though I graduated college with a different degree.
For me, I was just another girl and nothing special really.
* What were you like in high school?
Introverted, loner, quiet, timid, awkward, observant, responsible, friendly.
*What groups/clubs/cliques did you belong to?
I wasn't really part of any groups. I did take some college credits if that might be close to counting.
* Who were your friends?
I only had 2 friends at the time, though I didn't spend much time with them since we lived a bit of a distance away.
*Who were your favorite teachers, and why?
My mom was my teacher.
* What were your favorite subjects, and what did you intend to do after high school? (Did it go as planned?)
My favorite subjects were health, medical, theology, literature, piano, and certain subjects in science.
I wanted to become a nurse and a missionary. Neither of these happened, though I graduated college with a different degree.
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Aaaah. This sounds familiar. Except for Mr Popular.
I was in auto shop class...but too nerdy to be a burnout.
I was too much of a burnout to hang with the nerds.
I was in drama club...as the one and only tech guy...and the only drama club member who didn't act.
I was bigger than just about everyone else...so I was constantly barraged to play football and/or fight with the other big kids to entertain the masses. I didn't do either...
I wore glasses (since I was 7), dyed my hair all sorts of neon colors, wore flannels, combat boots, and/or trench coats, listened to crazy headbanging metal and/or cheesy pop, oh, and I rode the bus until halfway through my junior year.
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I was in auto shop class...but too nerdy to be a burnout.
I was too much of a burnout to hang with the nerds.
I was in drama club...as the one and only tech guy...and the only drama club member who didn't act.
I was bigger than just about everyone else...so I was constantly barraged to play football and/or fight with the other big kids to entertain the masses. I didn't do either...
I wore glasses (since I was 7), dyed my hair all sorts of neon colors, wore flannels, combat boots, and/or trench coats, listened to crazy headbanging metal and/or cheesy pop, oh, and I rode the bus until halfway through my junior year.
[video=youtube;N9qYF9DZPdw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw[/video]
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t-r-o-u-b-l-e.........but the good kind..... Kinda.... We had a waterfall bout 1/2 mile from the school, so coming back from lunch was a never on time thing.... If they KNEW we were gonna be late youd think they'd have the decency to extend lunch... Bbuuutttt. Nnnnnooooo...... Picking up the band directors car and moving in in front of the band hall doors so the band couldn't get out.... Ordering food to be delivered to the school cause let's face it... The food there nu uh..... It wasn't a very big school so everytime we moved in a "crowd" we seemed to take up all the space.... I don't think I was very quiet or shy back then.... Go figure.... Trucks all over the parking lot and a CB in almost every one of them.... There used to be a sonic in town and there was a huge empty parking lot next to it... Sonic was empty but the parking lot was full... We used to get the gals in trouble though, they'd bring the food and then we'd "keep" them there a while.... Ya ok.. We were loud...
I was very introverted even with my friends. I've always been a loner doing my own ghibg. I went to a Catholic school in Massachusetts. In that area, it wasn't exactly cool to be religious. We read the bible not because we wanted to but because we had to to pass our religion classes. I think over half of us weren't even Catholic, let alone gojng to church.
My favorite subject has always been English because I love to write. I'm also a bit of a nerd so my favorite clubs were the scifi club and hunan rights squad.
Overall, my high school experience was a good one. It was a small and supportive community.
My favorite subject has always been English because I love to write. I'm also a bit of a nerd so my favorite clubs were the scifi club and hunan rights squad.
Overall, my high school experience was a good one. It was a small and supportive community.
I was shy and socially awkward. Was studious and did not really get that senioritis everyone was talking about (I did burn out in community college). I liked Star Trek, history, science fiction, and listened to Christian music. Very trusting. I did not drink, smoke cigarettes or weed, etc. While everyone (or some people) were doing that stuff, I was using my brain and thinking about things. I was taught evolution and after looking at alternate info, dismissed evolution and became a young-earth creationist (later I dabbled in old-earth creationism but realized they were playing games with the Bible, so I quit listening to the Exodus podcasts and just believed in a young earth but not a 6,000 year old one). I had to read An Inconvenient Truth, later I dismissed since I found alternate information and the warning sounded apocalyptic even more than the Bible, so I dismissed and do not believe in manmade global warming. Sadly, nowadays I would be skewered by people who believe global warming deniers are idiots and dummies. That people who do not believe in evolution, should have their science degrees taken away because they claim they do not know science. Was bullied and I did not know it until I heard similar stories to mine and realized it was bullying. The crazy thing is my high school had an anti-bullying thing (not nowadays type of thing), well that did not work out and bullying kept on happening there. Accidentally bullied someone else and one time did not do an assignment or something so had to take a lunch detention. One time on my bus someone was showing me or had in my view a porn magazine. All of sudden I took the porn mag and ripped it to shreds because I was disgusted by it. Probably was not the best thing to do since later on I got addicted to pornography plus the dude was angry at me. Stood up to someone who called another person the f-word and got verbally attacked. In high school, at times I would sit by myself but then when one of my lunch periods changed then I sat with some other people that I usually did not talk to, the table was crowded for that one. Then, another time I with some dudes, a black dude, another dude who might have considered himself Catholic but totally was not, and some dude making jokes about mother Russia and all that. I kind of liked that dude he really did not give me a hard time, plus he liked the sports team I liked. The fake Catholic dude talked about porn and the blind having a porn and it got ridiculous, was glad when my lunch period changed, most of the people there were jerks. I was genetically thin (still am), weighed around 90 pound until I hit the growth spurt and went to 120). One girl, Carmela or something claimed she loved me but then she disappeared went to another school or something. I had acquaintances, had either one or two girls that I claimed love for and that was a revolving door but really did not know what love was and was confused. My adolescent experience in Peru did not help with that either. I witnessed some fights but did not participate or watch them. I was a member of the Student Christian Fellowship group that my mom encouraged me to join, played on a recreational league that did not travel, and in my final year tried out something different and joined the Super Smash Bros club. In one of my gym classes since I was so thin, people told me I needed to eat burgers and I told them I could not help the way I was. I was also bullied in my senior year (I believe it was) where people said Star Trek was gay, I was gay, and all kinds of stuff (I saw two girls making out in middle school, no one told me it was wrong, I just knew it was wrong and it sickened me, sadly later on in community college I realized I accidentally hate homosexuals and asked God to get rid of that). This was around the time when I started to see the homosexual clubs become a force to be reckoned with, still glad I did not participate in the Day of Silence or INtolerance and did not sign that INtolerance chain banner).
I did not really have a lot of friends. They were more acquaintances than friends. I never told them not to text me, but they never did. Sometime before the end of high school, I finally got my first cellphone. I am not sure I had any favorite teachers, I just went to class, studied, and usually received As and Bs. I liked my Spanish teachers, my World History teacher Mr. Eberle (he had Star Trek, Ghostbusters, etc bobblehead dolls and liked to play Jefferson Airplane and other music from that era before class started). I don't why I liked them, maybe because I liked the subject they taught or because they were interesting to me. I liked more of my teachers in community college.
My favorite subject was history and I had no others. I was horrible at math and hated it with a passion, did horrible and had to take a stupid assessment test again and again and again in that section in order to graduate even though my grades were ok. I intended to become an archaeologist after going to community college but it did not pan out. I lost the passion for it and instead it shifted to caring about the persecuted church. Now archaeology is more a hobby but not as passionate about it. I did not become an archaeologist and instead work at a library as a part-time page since I really don't know what else I want to do with my life anymore. Would have called myself a Christian (God protected me from a lot of things even saying to a girl that wanted to date me from my English class, that I was not sure my parents would approve) in high school but really did not dive in deeper and recommitted my life to Christ in community college. Even though I never went to dances, I don't think I missed out on much. God bless.
I did not really have a lot of friends. They were more acquaintances than friends. I never told them not to text me, but they never did. Sometime before the end of high school, I finally got my first cellphone. I am not sure I had any favorite teachers, I just went to class, studied, and usually received As and Bs. I liked my Spanish teachers, my World History teacher Mr. Eberle (he had Star Trek, Ghostbusters, etc bobblehead dolls and liked to play Jefferson Airplane and other music from that era before class started). I don't why I liked them, maybe because I liked the subject they taught or because they were interesting to me. I liked more of my teachers in community college.
My favorite subject was history and I had no others. I was horrible at math and hated it with a passion, did horrible and had to take a stupid assessment test again and again and again in that section in order to graduate even though my grades were ok. I intended to become an archaeologist after going to community college but it did not pan out. I lost the passion for it and instead it shifted to caring about the persecuted church. Now archaeology is more a hobby but not as passionate about it. I did not become an archaeologist and instead work at a library as a part-time page since I really don't know what else I want to do with my life anymore. Would have called myself a Christian (God protected me from a lot of things even saying to a girl that wanted to date me from my English class, that I was not sure my parents would approve) in high school but really did not dive in deeper and recommitted my life to Christ in community college. Even though I never went to dances, I don't think I missed out on much. God bless.
A-ha.
I was quite the opposite of what I am now. My friends at church call me 'the innocent' one. I literally live under rock and have no idea about the TV shows or popular music they go on about, and they assume they have to cover my ears as soon as an 'adult' topic comes up. I remember one of my mates stated, "Clubbing? Arlene doesn't even know what that is", but little does he know, I've done things that would make even the likes of him blush.
I'm not saying this to boast of what I can do, but I'm boasting in God's ability to completely change, re-arrange and transform a life that seemed so broken.
Anyways: high school. I hated high school. I was an A+ student through primary school, then I became a teenager, and dealing with the things at home and not understanding why things were happening made me very angry and very distant from people. They actually called me 'sadistic' in high school because when people bothered me I would give colourful illustrations of ways they could die. I used to do crazy hair-do's, like wrap my hair in to two pom-poms and then stick colouring pencils all through it. I was pretty clueless about make-up for most of high school and spent most of the time playing sport and wrestling in mud and swimming in rivers and creeks. Although I was rather tom boyish, my body seemed to develop early and caused me much confusion between myself and the opposite sex. Then I realised I had some sense of power by using my body so... that was just interesting... yet not so great.
I guess my grade weren't so cliquey, but my group of friends were obviously all the misfits. We had a rather strange assortment of people who had a rather large difference in personality type and in interests. I wasn't super close to them except one, who was this stocky red-headed football guy who would let me beat him up with a ruler and cheat off his answers during math exams. I think we had this secret brotherly-sisterly affection towards each other, and yet at the same time, he was scared of me.
I would sometimes sneak out to open house parties from the ages 14-17 years of age. I was introduced to this as I befriended a couple of girls from another group who were interested in all the seniors. I would sneak out of my bedroom window every now and then to get drunk with some senior grade members and twenty-something year olds.
I can't say I had a soft spot for any of my high school teachers at the time, but now that I look back, some of them were okay. I usually just tried my best not to be seen so all I remember is being the student that was barely recognized.
Overall, my high school experience was a rather negative one. During that time, my identity was majorly warped and distorted as I tried to figure out what it meant to grow in to a woman. But at the end of the day, I have such a wealth of sympathy for teenage girls going through high school. Every now and then I get high school students come to my work place for work and study experience, and I instantly feel the need to take them under my wings and strengthen them.
They may not necessarily have it tough, but kudos to any human being who survives high school.
So yeah. Now that I typed all that, excuse me while I try to suppress five years of my life (jokes, jokes.... or am I?)
I was quite the opposite of what I am now. My friends at church call me 'the innocent' one. I literally live under rock and have no idea about the TV shows or popular music they go on about, and they assume they have to cover my ears as soon as an 'adult' topic comes up. I remember one of my mates stated, "Clubbing? Arlene doesn't even know what that is", but little does he know, I've done things that would make even the likes of him blush.
I'm not saying this to boast of what I can do, but I'm boasting in God's ability to completely change, re-arrange and transform a life that seemed so broken.
Anyways: high school. I hated high school. I was an A+ student through primary school, then I became a teenager, and dealing with the things at home and not understanding why things were happening made me very angry and very distant from people. They actually called me 'sadistic' in high school because when people bothered me I would give colourful illustrations of ways they could die. I used to do crazy hair-do's, like wrap my hair in to two pom-poms and then stick colouring pencils all through it. I was pretty clueless about make-up for most of high school and spent most of the time playing sport and wrestling in mud and swimming in rivers and creeks. Although I was rather tom boyish, my body seemed to develop early and caused me much confusion between myself and the opposite sex. Then I realised I had some sense of power by using my body so... that was just interesting... yet not so great.
I guess my grade weren't so cliquey, but my group of friends were obviously all the misfits. We had a rather strange assortment of people who had a rather large difference in personality type and in interests. I wasn't super close to them except one, who was this stocky red-headed football guy who would let me beat him up with a ruler and cheat off his answers during math exams. I think we had this secret brotherly-sisterly affection towards each other, and yet at the same time, he was scared of me.
I would sometimes sneak out to open house parties from the ages 14-17 years of age. I was introduced to this as I befriended a couple of girls from another group who were interested in all the seniors. I would sneak out of my bedroom window every now and then to get drunk with some senior grade members and twenty-something year olds.
I can't say I had a soft spot for any of my high school teachers at the time, but now that I look back, some of them were okay. I usually just tried my best not to be seen so all I remember is being the student that was barely recognized.
Overall, my high school experience was a rather negative one. During that time, my identity was majorly warped and distorted as I tried to figure out what it meant to grow in to a woman. But at the end of the day, I have such a wealth of sympathy for teenage girls going through high school. Every now and then I get high school students come to my work place for work and study experience, and I instantly feel the need to take them under my wings and strengthen them.
They may not necessarily have it tough, but kudos to any human being who survives high school.
So yeah. Now that I typed all that, excuse me while I try to suppress five years of my life (jokes, jokes.... or am I?)
I was quiet, but not terribly shy. If a stranger began talking to me I'd be eager to speak with them and be friends with them. I used to doodle in class and one time I drew a dragon on a desktop and the next day a girl had written her phone number next to it and said it was a cool drawing and to call her (true story!). I did call her a few times but I think maybe I scared her off because in the end I was asking her if she would be my gf. It might also be because of my ethnicity. I was about the only asian-looking student in the whole school. The other was a thai girl who ended up becoming valedictorian.
I thought that joining the football team would 1) make me attractive to girls and 2) give me the chance to fulfill my dream of playing real football (I was a huge football fan). Well.... it turned out that a bunch of guys on the team were racist bullies and even though I got to play and enjoyed tackling and rushing the quarterback, the bullying was non-stop and the coaches couldn't do much about it...
So one day I met a drummer from the school band and he suggested I try out since I've always wanted to play drums. Goodbye football, hello band! I was drum captain of the marching band and I played in the jazz band and orchestra too. It was the most awesome experience of my life. We did competitions and stuff too.
Unfortunately my former team members were also in some of my classes and the bullying went on despite me quitting football. And they really loved to make fun of the fact that I left to join the band. One of them actually pulled a knife on me once in the schoolbus but no one saw it. He also grabbed my neck and choked me on another occasion.
Mainly because of the bullying, my grades suffered. I barely graduated. My parents blamed it all on me (the bad grades, not the bullying).
So yea, I was a quiet kid who secretly wanted to be popular and liked. I had friends in the band, but I never did have much luck with finding a girlfriend because I was really nervous around girls I liked, although I did have a three short-lived high school girlfriend relationships. All of them were band mates.
That's about it. And then I graduated..
I thought that joining the football team would 1) make me attractive to girls and 2) give me the chance to fulfill my dream of playing real football (I was a huge football fan). Well.... it turned out that a bunch of guys on the team were racist bullies and even though I got to play and enjoyed tackling and rushing the quarterback, the bullying was non-stop and the coaches couldn't do much about it...
So one day I met a drummer from the school band and he suggested I try out since I've always wanted to play drums. Goodbye football, hello band! I was drum captain of the marching band and I played in the jazz band and orchestra too. It was the most awesome experience of my life. We did competitions and stuff too.
Unfortunately my former team members were also in some of my classes and the bullying went on despite me quitting football. And they really loved to make fun of the fact that I left to join the band. One of them actually pulled a knife on me once in the schoolbus but no one saw it. He also grabbed my neck and choked me on another occasion.
Mainly because of the bullying, my grades suffered. I barely graduated. My parents blamed it all on me (the bad grades, not the bullying).
So yea, I was a quiet kid who secretly wanted to be popular and liked. I had friends in the band, but I never did have much luck with finding a girlfriend because I was really nervous around girls I liked, although I did have a three short-lived high school girlfriend relationships. All of them were band mates.
That's about it. And then I graduated..
That is interesting...that you took Woodshop as I went to Home Economics about a week and was so bored with it as I already knew how to do what the class was doing I switched to woodworking and made things that challenged the teacher.... I made a pet bed, a small desk top book holder, piece of art out of ply wood that I painted and put in a show, and a round table top that my in-laws used for several years to eat off of.....
Later when my daughter outgrew her crib I made a youth bed with a heart in the headboard that was strong enough to hold both of us..... still love having the know how....and have become great at demo work knocking out walls and taking tile off walls and such.
Later when my daughter outgrew her crib I made a youth bed with a heart in the headboard that was strong enough to hold both of us..... still love having the know how....and have become great at demo work knocking out walls and taking tile off walls and such.
I had more hair in highschool. I really do miss it, my hair, that is. I wasnt popular, but I was well known. I just did my own thing. I was friends with all the demogrpahics. I could get along with pretty much everyone. As I mentioned before, I was in band, ROTC, and Journalism and Broadcasting. Nothing too spectacular I guess. But it wasnt a bad time. But considering it was only 4 years of my life, it wasnt really significant either.
I really do miss it, my hair, that is. I wasnt popular, but I was well known. I just did my own thing. I was friends with all the demogrpahics. I could get along with pretty much everyone. As I mentioned before, I was in band, ROTC, and Journalism and Broadcasting. Nothing too spectacular I guess. But it wasnt a bad time. But considering it was only 4 years of my life, it wasnt really significant either.
What were you like in high school? What groups/clubs/cliques did you belong to?
I was bullied and tormented when I was in middle school that I almost quit school in the 7th grade. The school I went to went from grades 5-8 and high school started in grade 9. By the time I was in high school more than half of the people who bullied me in grades 6,7 and 8 quit school in grade 9. The ones that didn't quit school stopped picking one me in grades 10 and 11. When I was in grade 12 a group of grade 9 students were bullying me because they thought I was in grade 9 because I look younger than my age. I was a really quiet and shy kid and I loved to read. I did my school work and never talked back to the teachers always on time and early. I was in the school choir in grade 9 that's pretty much it and volunteered in the school library at lunch.
* Who were your friends? Who were your favorite teachers, and why?
I didn't have a lot of friends in high school maybe 3 friends we didn't hang out after school or anything. I have 1 friend I been friends with since we were 6 years old and we didn't hang out much in high school because she had her own friends and had a boyfriend and a couple jobs and was somewhat popular. I was mostly a loner in high school and kept to myself and didn't trust people because I was bullied so much. My favorite teachers I was the teachers pet in some of my classes because I mostly did my work. I liked the librarian she was really nice no matter how busy she was she would drop what she was doing and help you find the book you were looking for for a school project or read. I had a grade 10 teacher who was sooo cute all the girls had a crush on him and the female teachers too really liked him and thought he was cute too I was too shy to talk to him much I just smiled when he would talk to me lol. I had a history teacher who was very nice and was a christian too and she would always talk about her faith in class and she said she had a aunt who was nun that always walked around the house wearing the nun outfit when her aunt would visit her.
* What were your favorite subjects, and what did you intend to do after high school? (Did it go as planned?)
I really liked english and history and music lol. I hate math and scince and french they are my worst subjects. I wanted to go to college but I have a learning disability and all my classes in high school were modified for me and I don't think college courses do that for people who have learning difficulties. I kinda want to be a vet assistant but you need high school math and science and I'm horrible at those subjects. I never went to college or university. I would like to but don't want to be in debt for trying out a college course and not being able to understand the work.
Actually, the vast majority of high school students struggle with fitting in and being self-conscious. Even students who are "the stars" are constantly questioning their status in relation to their peers and experience a lot of uncertainty about whether people truly like them. So, it makes sense that like 10+ years later the self-reporting isn't, "Yeah, I was a cheerleader. My teachers all liked me. I had no trouble getting boyfriends. I had few struggles. Life was good" (which is how it may have looked to everyone else). Instead, people are going to remember how painfully self-conscious and uncertain they were on the inside. How they were the first-string QB, but they hated their buckteeth, or how they were the president of the Student Council, but they thought they were worthless if they weren't achieving, or how they were funny and academic, but they were bullied on the bus everyday.
I remember when I was in high school, adults would often say, "These are the best years of your life." Even then I thought it was bogus. I loved school, but hated high school. The underlying suckage of most people is magnified when you crowd them all together like that. It's like Lord of the Flies, only we got to go home at night. In theory, I know that some people DID peak in high school, but I have yet to meet anyone who self-reports that high school was indeed their best years.
I remember when I was in high school, adults would often say, "These are the best years of your life." Even then I thought it was bogus. I loved school, but hated high school. The underlying suckage of most people is magnified when you crowd them all together like that. It's like Lord of the Flies, only we got to go home at night. In theory, I know that some people DID peak in high school, but I have yet to meet anyone who self-reports that high school was indeed their best years.