What were you like in high school?

I was a jock/nerd/eccentric. Now, I'm a nerd/eccentric/stoner.

 

They were also much more likely to have bright futures. Most high school sports stars don't go on to have great careers in pro sports. They only have great memories of high school. That's a bad deal, because those years are such a small fraction of your life.

I've noticed that when successful people get interviewed on TV, they usually don't have anything good to say about their high school experiences. It appears that adult life quite often turns out to be the opposite of high school.

Now I'm even more confused. Down here, there is very little difference between a college and a university, other than size.

 

I wasn't good enough at certain subjects (math and science) to be a true nerd. But my clothes were not cool, so I was thought of as a nerd. I was the painter/poet type. And my hair was way too long. So I was more of an eccentric.

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I was none of the above. I wasn't cool or uncool. I was definitely a little weird but by no means eccentric.

 

I was both a little weird and eccentric. Sometimes being a little weird can be a good thing.

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Sounds like an awesome combo to me. Go for it. :sunny:

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I never would have guessed that about you. LOL.

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That's awesome. I've always only managed to be an eccentric.

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lol, When I was a senior, my theatre group went the farthest in competition that any group had since the 80's. The football team won 3 out of 10 games all year, we made it to the competition right before state. The principal got on our bus as we were about to leave town and asked us what our motto was. We all shouted in unison, "We're better than the football team!" His reaction was indicative that it wasn't the response he was looking for. :smilielol5:

 

^^Guess you guys could have done an act portraying a football team.

 

We did, regularly. It didn't go over too well with the football players. "Duuuhhhr duh, duhhhhr...foosball!" Yeah...we were just as big of dicks as they were. We just were more animated about it.

 

I love it!!! Good for you!

Our high school band was really good, but nobody outside the band cared. I suppose you could call it a clique. It was cool getting to know people from other graduating classes who had common interests. We had a few stereotypical band geeks, but most of us were into all kinds of music, not just the classical stuff we performed.

The rest of the school had zero tolerance for anything that was not classic rock or pop. I wouldn't say they hated us. They just weren't interested.

 

It sounds like Hell on wheels. My bus rides to and from school were actually peaceful. I always pretended to be writing or reading something - so I would appear totally lost in thought.

This helped me to remain sane. I just mentally blocked out whatever was happening on the bus. I never spoke to anyone - and nobody spoke to me. I just sat in my seat reading Whitman and Dickinson. That was how I managed to survive.

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When my fiance was in high school (same school, he's 4 years older, though), the band was the best it's ever been. (He himself put together an ensemble, led it, and took it to state his sophomore year.) It was so good that people went to games just for the band and in turn, that brought up the morale of the football team and they started doing well, too. However, the band was still outshining the football team (their director was just sheer amazing), so the school board had to put an end to that. Used small town drama (seriously, the whole story is a long dramatic soap opera that could probably make for a Lifetime movie) to run the band director out, replaced him with his ex-fiancee, who set to destroy the band, with much success. They had to rewrite the school fight song because they don't even have enough members to play the original.

 

I only went to art and English and skipped my other classes.I read widely at home though.My way to get some attention from the girls was to draw caricatures of them.I was the best table-tennis player in the school.I later became friends with my English teacher some fifteen years after leaving school,the result of a very strange set of circumstances which I won't divulge here...It's a long story.

 

my high school was probably a special case. in a neighborhood where rich, white parents can send their kids to the religious single sex schools, or an equally expensive coed one, i went to an agricultural public school where they accepted students from all over the city, so long as they had certain qualifications. this means we had students of many races, many backgrounds, and obvious differences in family money.

so, i'll say there were more than one group of everything. we intermingled races, of course, but when you live down the block from someone, you tend to be better friends with them than someone who lives in a completely different neighborhood.

then there's me. who lives in a 99% black neighborhood, and goes to this school. a lot of the white kids didn't like me, because i was poor, or just 'not good enough', whatever. they really were pretty bland in personality, from what i could tell.
the people i lived down the block from, took the public buses with, were the ghetto kids. so it wasn't really a separation of black/white/hispanic, it was more neighborhood based. but we kinda all stuck together. much smaller of a school, as oppose to high schools with thousands of kids, there were 600 in my school all together.

so what did we do? we learned about animals, shoveled shit, worked in the fields, planted seeds, took care of the greenhouse, make arrangements, built things, worked on cars, did some food science. when you're doing funny things like that, you tend to befriend everyone. our sports teams weren't that great.

 

Oh wow! I would have loved to go to a high school like yours. I feel like that would have been so much more fun than just regular school. I skipped out of school a lot in high school, mostly because it was just boring. If I had to go to school to work on a greenhouse or build things, I would have went everyday!

I also would not doubt that an agricultural school would have not so good of a sports team haha.

 

I was eccentric, still am...bit of a weirdo. But in angry way too, my first year of high school changed me forever and I became what the teachers would class as 'unteachable' despite the fact i was really clever and I was dumped in the 'bottom groups' for all subjects other than art, very misunderstood, hated authority. Got kicked out in the last year unfairly but luckily appealed and got back in.

A stoner/drug taker also.