What were you like in high school?

stoner...

 

Yeah, I also felt like I didn't fit in, and kept to myself. But the weirdest part is that I had tons of friends during my twentysomething years. Now I'm back to being a loner. Go figure.

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How old are you now?

 

Not as cool as I am now:rofl:

 

Fortysomething. In truth, I'm amazed I've lasted this long: I was forever telling people I'd not live past 30. Almost everyone in my family died way too young. My sister was only 28 when she died. And my mother passed away at 49. But I'm still here.

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LOL. Great answer.

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I went to Catholic High School 1964 -68. I was pretty much the quiet person that did what was expected and hated every minute of it.

 

That's interesting. Your high school sounds like it was really cool. Mine was pretty much a huge hate factory: The jocks liked to pick on the nerds/geeks. The popular girls openly made nasty remarks about other girls that were not pretty enough (in their opinion). The eccentric girls/dudes got picked on by both the jocks and the popular girls. Come to think of it - the stoners (for the most part) didn't bother anybody. At least that's how it was at my high school.

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I was a chess-club stoner, but everyone (seriously, pretty much everyone) smoked weed and was cool with everyone else for the most part

 

These poll categories don't seem to fit my high school very well, except for the jocks. To be cool, you had to be an athlete. Football players were treated like rock stars. We had maybe four legit stoners in my class of 200 people. Plenty others smoked weed now and then, but it wasn't their main thing. Believe it or not, it was actually okay to smoke tobacco on campus if you were over 16, but only in one spot. The smokers all hung out there and socialized between classes. They seemed to think it was really cool, but everybody else thought they were idiots. The whole school and town was a little bit redneck, even the local country club. But we didn't see it that way. What did we know about the rest of the world?

Most of the classes were divided up according to academic ability, so the smart kids and the dummies didn't have much of a chance to get to know each other very well. In the things we did have a choice about, there was a social division between white and black, and between athletes and non-athletes, and that was about it. We didn't use a lot of labels.

13 ?

 

i dont fit in any of the choices


i was the quiet shop class dude that everyone got along with

didnt do any parties or regular teenage fun things since i was working and doing school at the same time..i just didnt have time for fun and friends

 

yeah, i generally enjoyed my time in high school, but i never really thought it was cool or anything. after hearing about your school, i'm starting to think maybe it really was.

there were some basic groupings that could be loosely compared to the major cliques, but for the most part everyone got along with each other. of course there were isolated incidents of drama, but they were never based on one group being mean to another, or anything like that.

there were 47 people in my graduating class, and probably about a third of them went to the vocational school, so there just wasn't a lot of room for division.

 

I was a starting football player, hated by the coach because I wore my hear long, partied with everyone, hung out with everyone (especially the "bad, poor, smelly kids"), got decent grades with piss poor effort. Literally fought for the kids who got picked on and more often than not, the bullies were my football team mates, who eventually respected me for knocking them on their asses and holding a mirror to their faces so they could see just how ugly their behavior really was. I was a god damned highschool superhero/mafia boss by my senior year and I couldn't wait to get the hell out of there to see how big the world really was.

 

In middle school I was a jock.. I ran track and was a cheerleader. In my first year of high school I smoked pot and ended up being a pot head for the rest of my high school career!

 

Eccentric, nerd/geek loser who had no friends, even online, no after school activities, clubs or sports. Same way in college. Now, I'm not so sure.

 

Princess then and Princess now lol

 

At the time you had to take grade 13 if you were attending University. If you were going to college you only needed to take Grade 12.

Grade 13 were advanced courses that were mandatory for University. So you had 5 years of Sciences, Maths and Languages. Your first 4 years also had to be advanced courses to take 13 rather than general courses.

 

Same here (except I dropped out before graduation). I literally had to force myself to attend class each day. I did attend college (after I got a G.E.D.), and I couldn't believe how cool it was. Since it was a junior college, everybody tended to have jobs and was older than a typical college student. The profs took a genuine interest in the students. It was awesome - nothing like high school. I actually looked forward to attending each class. :sunny:

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Nerd and eccentric.

I actually really hated high school. I lived in a small country town and the school was full of nasty people.

 

It was basketball players at my high school. I never could figure out why. I always thought the eccentrics and nerds were far more interesting. They tended to be creative and intelligent. Yet most were treated like pariahs. That's why I got the hell out. LOL.

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