What were you like in High School?

Bodyfreak135
Bodyfreak135 Posts: 34
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I was normal I was in special education but my school was very open everyone got along and I was pretty popular had friends was a good student hung out with mostly jocks because of my sports knowledge. And was on homecoming court but wasn't in any clubs huge mistake because it made me extremely shy sometimes.

Looking back and having the mind I have now I would have joined every club in high school and done more but I can't go back and redo it.

I was also known as one of the best singers in my school it's the one thing I could do and everyone else would stop what they were doing because My vocals were excellent.


What were you like in HS?

And if you could go back what would you do different?
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  • ThePlight
    ThePlight Posts: 3,593 Member
    I hung out with everyone. I didn't have "a crowd" in highschool.
    I'd say it was pretty normal. I was a troublemaker sometimes, even. We'd bang on lockers twice and they'd pop right open, until the school decided to change them, finally. It was all about the statement ;)
  • Toblave
    Toblave Posts: 244 Member
    Metal head/varsity wrestler but hung with most everyone. We had a smoking area that often turned into a kegger when nobody was looking lol
  • SeoulKim05
    SeoulKim05 Posts: 116 Member
    Loner. Book nerd.
  • ThePlight
    ThePlight Posts: 3,593 Member
    Metal head/varsity wrestler but hung with most everyone. We had a smoking area that often turned into a kegger when nobody was looking lol
    WE had a smoking area too haha. I never smoked, but I gladly pretended to have an asthma attack as the lookout lmao.
    Drew in attention from teachers.
  • MB_Positif
    MB_Positif Posts: 8,897 Member
    I hung out with mostly boys and goofed off a lot. So pretty much the same now.
  • PennyM140
    PennyM140 Posts: 423 Member
    I hung out with the nerds, the guys, the rednecks. I was both a flirt and one of the guys. I was pretty well accepted in any group but didn't really feel comfortable in any of them so I bounced around. Spent as much time as possible out at the ag farm with the animals. They didn't judge.
  • Diary_Queen
    Diary_Queen Posts: 1,314 Member
    I was extremely shy and kept to my very very small circle of friends. We spent time hanging out in the senior hallway at school during lunch and would play our own homemade version of CSI to try to bust each other on forensic mistakes. I was drunk most of high school & would have rather been at school than at home. I was one of the poor kids and I could never participate in much of the activities or projects because of that. My family wouldn't pick me up from afterschool activities and often would forget me at school after scholastic/academic competitions. I tried to be involved, but I was always on the fringes because I couldn't match up with the rich kids in our small town (their mothers didn't work and their fathers made $100K/yr.). My stepfather was a raging alcoholic and my mother worked a min. wage job that was an hour drive from home. I pretty much raised myself and moved in with friends when I was 15.
  • zombilishious
    zombilishious Posts: 1,250 Member
    I played hacky sack and smoked...in the smoking section...only went to class if I had a test...and yes, I graduated...a year early...

    ahhh...the good old days... :-)
  • Ophidion
    Ophidion Posts: 2,065 Member
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  • Summer_Lunatic
    Summer_Lunatic Posts: 543 Member
    On the travel swim team. 28" waist. Got picked on in grade 9 and 10. Switched schools for 11,12 and 13 and life improved immediately. Had a few different girlfriends but only 1 from the local catholic school. Man, those uniforms were hawt!! :tongue:
  • kr1stadee
    kr1stadee Posts: 1,774 Member
    Went to an All-Girls high school, had a great amount of friends. I wasn't one of the "cool" girls, and always thought I was a little snotty and judgemental, but I was taking college courses with a former classmate's hubby, and he said that she told him out of my 'crew', I was the nicest and the easiest to get along with.

    Grades were average, and I had fun.
  • susieoj
    susieoj Posts: 181
    Triple varsity, soccer captain and then just trying to escape the campus as often as possible in my friend' cars lol ... I went to boarding school
  • LadyZephyr
    LadyZephyr Posts: 286 Member
    I was the school goth. For a while I had drawn-on eyebrows and black and pink dread extensions. I got away with my nose piercing by playing the culture card, as we Indian girls often get nostril piercings as we come of age. That was part of my reason for it, the main reason was I just wanted a facial piercing.

    We had horrible uniforms, and my typical variation on it would be layers of rosaries around my neck, crystal rings on most fingers, big mens biker boots or mary jane shoes, a longer than standard floaty skirt, that kinda thing. I even wore a steel-boned waist training corset under my uniform a lot of the time. I was really dedicated to waist training then!
    I got away with a lot of that because I was one of the top students in the school, a member of our countries Gifted and Talented Youth thing, and I got care kid perks for being in the system.

    Grades wise I got A's in my favourite subjects, B's and C's in those I didn't like. I taught art lessons in the school library, and had people queueing in the school yard to pay for the food I'd make in food tech. That was my only 'popularity'!

    I didn't have many friends, particularly in the last two years after I went into care. I didn't mind, I've always been a loner. I had one close friend and we stuck together, otherwise you'd just find me in the library reading or painting in the art rooms. My favourite class was drama. We were a close-knit, supportive group. I had a wonderful teacher.
  • mrslcoop
    mrslcoop Posts: 317 Member
    Varsity cheerleader, year book editor, played in the marching band, and worked the backstage crew in the theater group. I dabbled in a little of this and little of that and had a lot of friends in various circles and wouldn’t have changed a thing. I wouldn’t ever want to redo HS even if the experience was the same however. College is a different story though… that I would redo in a heartbeat with everything the same.

    ETA: I was a total book worm too, but hid it very well until the end at graduation. I was in NHS and an honor student that graduated near the top of my class. I was also a good 25 lbs lighter than I am now and was sickly skinny. I look back and do realize I had issues with eating in HS.
  • DenyseMarieL
    DenyseMarieL Posts: 673 Member
    I was shy, a dork, hung out with the 'unpopular' crowd. Quit high school in grade 11 because I hated it. Ran into a bunch of the 'popluar' kids when I was about 22 in the bar, and everyone kept saying how 'hot' I became, and the guys hit on me all night. I told them they made my life horrid in high school and they could just eff right off. Anyone every see the movie 'Never Been Kissed'? ooooh boy......that was totally me.... LOL
  • wheird
    wheird Posts: 7,963 Member
    I was a dumbass. Like most teenagers.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,029 Member
    Total nerd. Book worm as well as a band geek. I weighed 124lbs graduating from high school. Will my long hair, I looked like a female from the back. My best friend at the time wouldn't let me ride in the front seat because he didn't want people thinking he was dating an ugly girl!

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  • wolverine66
    wolverine66 Posts: 3,779 Member
    pretty much like i am now...but younger
  • Ophidion
    Ophidion Posts: 2,065 Member
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  • JustAboutDelicious_wechanged
    JustAboutDelicious_wechanged Posts: 2,486 Member
    A lady in the streets....
  • wheird
    wheird Posts: 7,963 Member
    A lady in the streets....

    You were never a lady. :laugh:
  • kr1stadee
    kr1stadee Posts: 1,774 Member
    Oh and the "if you could go back" part?
    I'd not be shy. I was HORRIBLY shy growing up. Missed out on some fun that way!
  • RunBrew
    RunBrew Posts: 220 Member
    I was, admittedly, kind of an odd duck. I got along with everyone, but only socialized with my XC teammates. (only 13 of us- boys and girls) I went to school everyday, but typically did as little as possible to get B's and C's. I wore strange clothes and adopted weird habits just to be different. It wouldn't have been at all out of the ordinary for me to wear a bike jersey or my XC singlet (over a T-shirt) to school, just like football or soccer players did. I also went through a phase were I wore only flip-flops, regardless of weather.

    My attention in HS was almost exclusively on racing mountain bikes, distance running, and girls. In that order. Grades were a distant 4th.

    If my 'now' me met my 'then' me, I'd probably have beat me up. :laugh: I'm kidding.
  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    pretty much like I am now...just fatter.

    Went to a small school, started in 5 varsity sports, was good/all district in 4 of them, high achieving student, and mr. goody 2 shoes.
  • beernpizza2
    beernpizza2 Posts: 553 Member
    I was awkward.

    I haven't changed much.
  • wheird
    wheird Posts: 7,963 Member
    pretty much like I am now...just fatter.

    Went to a small school, started in 5 varsity sports, was good/all district in 4 of them, high achieving student, and mr. goody 2 shoes.

    Show off. I only played two.
  • JustAboutDelicious_wechanged
    JustAboutDelicious_wechanged Posts: 2,486 Member
    A lady in the streets....

    You were never a lady. :laugh:
    Good point. You must have went to my high school..
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  • Toblave
    Toblave Posts: 244 Member
    I was a dumbass. Like most teenagers.

    LOL Me too. I've since come to believe that boys don't mature until the age of 25, until then we're as dumb as a box of rocks.
  • 2Heavy2Long
    2Heavy2Long Posts: 315 Member
    At the age of 20, I wasn't looking back on high school.

    Dude, stop reflecting and get out there and have fun.
  • JeniferEverx3
    JeniferEverx3 Posts: 219 Member
    I like this topic :smile:

    Hmm... I was mixture of things in HS. I wouldn't say I was "popular" but I got along with & associated with most of my fellow students. I avoided the "popular" kids because I have never had tolerance for people who act like they're better than everyone else (which is what popular meant at my school). I never really had enemies, and I think that was mostly because even though I was shy when it came to making new friends, I also never cared what people, especially people I didn't like anyway, thought or said about me. The rare occasion someone would start a rumor about me or talk about me behind my back, they never got the reaction they were looking for and it was instantly like it never even happened :tongue:

    If I could back and change anything, I would do the following:

    1. Try harder to get better grades.
    2. Stand up to the teachers who screwed me over and were the main cause of my bad grades.
    3. Start living a healthy eating/more active lifestyle so I could stay 98 lbs forever LOL I literally weighed 98 lbs from 8th grade until after I graduated :ohwell:

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