What were you like in high school?

Of the five characters in The Breakfast Club, which one resembles you the most during your own high school experience?

1. The jock

2. The nerd/geek

3. The stoner

4. The eccentric

5. The princess


I was #4 (the eccentric).

What were you like in high school?

QP

 

a drop-out

 

LOL. Me too. But I was quite eccentric before (and after) I dropped out.

QP

 

I dressed like the princess but hung out with the freaks and weirdos.

 

i picked eccentric but truth is i couldnt pick any single stereotype. i played sports so i was like a jock, i was into science and computers so i was a little nerdy. the popular crowd would ask if i wanted to hang out so i could have been among them but they were always getting in trouble and out of school they would always be drinking and smoking so i didnt hang with them after school either. i wanted to be part of the nerdy group because they always had fun and never got in trouble but they didnt want me in their group. if i had to pick a category it would have been Outcast.

 

So does that make you a combination of the two? Cool.

QP

 

Hmm, I sort of look back at school with *some* amusement, and a far bit of sadness.
People wanted me to be at the epicentre, but I think I came over as not being interested.

But I found the culture confusing as I went to school in England when younger and then abroad. Cant say I ever really liked it.It was different depending on which year it was.

I was definitely the Sigma - which means "would be an alpha but never wanted to play the game". Appearance wise I'd dress like the "jock".

 

The eccentric character in The Breakfast Club was an outcast. So you made the right choice.

QP

 

I got excellent grades, but I was hopeless when it came to sports. And my clothes were whatever I could find at my favorite thrift store. So I felt apart. I ultimately dropped out before graduation.

QP

 

"to myself with a few friends" Grades moderate, no sports, no drugs, atypical girl, conservative.

 

Stoner, but I got along with a lot of people.

I work hard for a living now, and I actually like my job.

I honestly hated high school, I just didn't care about it, so I quit in 12th grade.

I have a good job now, and I didn't need a diploma (or college) to get it, I think knowing a skilled trade is more valuable than having a piece of paper saying you passed high school.

 

I started out as #1 but morphed into an amalgam of 2-4 sometime during my sophomore year.

 

I don't think any of those fit me. I was queen of the freaks. I was the most popular girl in school by numbers. I was fucking awesome. lol

 

For the first two years of high school I was semi-popular -- kind of a stoner and a bit of a clown, but I never fit any of the stereotypes and have always been pretty individualistic and never liked labels or associating with peer groups. Later on, as I began to smoke more and experiment with other drugs, I became more reclusive and withdrawn. I have always been a bit eccentric and never really fit in, but the for the last two years of high school I became pretty withdrawn and mostly kept to myself. I found solace in coming home from school and smoking tons of weed and listening to 60s psychedelia (by myself). I had quite a few friends, but was never much into "hanging out" or going to parties at this point. I always found my peers to infringe on my burgeoning individuality -- like I could never really be myself around people. I preferred to be a loner. I think at this point I think I was considered to be quiet and awkward. Had it been 10 years later I would have probably been singled out and labeled a potential mass shooter.

 

my school was too small to support strict stereotypical cliques. i had some of everything in me, except maybe princess.

 

I was the class goofball.

 

I was the outcast: ignored everyone and everyone ignored me.

 

Some kind of combination of nerd and eccentric... and actually that is still what I am like.

 

This is how my school was too. We had all known each other our whole lives and we just knew each other too well to fit each other into stereotypes or something.

 

I went to a small school, also, graduated in a class of 60, but the cliques started really early and just kind of stuck. My brother's class was really cool, though. They were about the same size as my class and they didn't really have cliques or groups. There were only a few kids people didn't like and for good reason, lol.