More Browncoat demographics: What were y'all like in High School?

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LITTLEALBATROSS29

Sunday, June 4, 2006 9:16 PM

I was none of the above.
I started out ok , honor classes & all.But soon rebellion took over. I dyed my hair black, wore only black. Listened to depersssive music ,smoked cigarettes,wrote poems about death. Had weird looking friends.Somehow I never got in too much trouble. Eventually dropped out. Got my ged & went to college, got an associates degree .Had many a good time, many bad. But REALLY wouln't want my kids to do it that way.
But I also met my husband in sophmore year english class.
Bryce

I swallowed a bug.

ANGIEBABY

Sunday, June 4, 2006 10:03 PM

I was type A and D hard to grasp but I changed when I changed schools, now I'm definatley a D

Life is like a box of chocolates......You're always left with the nutty ones!

MARAZ

Sunday, June 4, 2006 10:38 PM

Probably closest to A. Perhaps C in that I have always had good grades and often enjoy fantasy/sci-fi type things. Mostly in my school being intelligent wasn't a barrier to popularity. Like others have said I moved quite easily between groups - I had close friends who were A, B and C types (not so sure about D). To be honest I think my school was probably quite different from the average high school, firstly because I live in the UK the last two years of school (Sixth form) are optional, so most people there are quite bright. Secondly because my school had large number of people from well off backgrounds. Also many of us came from different schools (in sixth form you often change schools) which meant there were lots of connections between different friendship groups. The result was basically that although there were different cliques of people there were loosely defined and fluid.

I hope that's not just boring :)

AFTERGLOW

Monday, June 5, 2006 12:00 AM

Hmmm...how 'bout catigory "U" for Unpopular. I had a few friends (and lots of pen pals) but for the most part high school was a terrible experience and I'm glad it's over. That aside, there were some bright spots:
-Junior Classical League (nationwide Latin & Greek club...anyone here alumni?)
-Debate team
-Community theatre company (did everything from a little acting to building and tearing down sets, box office sales, ushering, selling refreshments at intermission...anything that meant I could be involved)
-Frequent road trips in my 1983 Nissan Pulsar NX (with sun roof and flip up headlights...though I was driving it in 1991 )
-Mock Trial team (we even got to state once!)
So I was a hippie classics debate sci-fi wierdo.
Now, I'm proud of my geekdom.
And even prouder to be a Browncoat!

13

Monday, June 5, 2006 12:32 AM

Let you know in two years!

Junior high:

Mostly a clown, with one good friend, although everybody knows me, although I've been prone to fits of depression and brooding. Prodigy, on good terms with everybody, sort of athletic, hung out with only that one friend.

High school's going to be the same, I think.

Although there is about 50-65 people in my entire school, K-9, so moving to a city will be an adjustment.

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13, First Mate of the 'Heart of Haven'
and Honorary Forsaken

KAYNA

Monday, June 5, 2006 2:27 AM

B/C/D combonation. The ostracisim started in elementary school and never really went away, though not as bad in high school. Less open at least. Still wanted to maim them horribly. Hated my school and ploted destroying the place.

I only ever had a few real friends at a time but was willing to be friendly with anyone that was friendly back. No self-esteem in 9th grade but eventually got to the point of fu** you, I'l do my own thing. Hated social gatherings. Spent most of my spare time by myself.

Made select choir a year early and got A's in every art class I took so pretty artsy. My obsession was less any Sci/Fi thing than Fantasy. Especially fantasy books. Huge reader, still am, anything and everything with fantasy on top of my list. Still love most classic sci/fi though.

Problems with depression (really hit me hard my junior year of high school) and lazyness. I always aced tests without studying but never did homework. Who's heard this speech from a teacher? "We know you can do so much better. You have so much potential..." They all liked me though, cause I participated in calss and had real, intelligent discussions on nearly any given topic.

This should illustrate some of the situation.
I once presented a "bill" to my government class (we were doing a mock Congress thing) on legalizing prostitution just to get a rise out of them all. They were mostly ignorant, Mighigan redneck, uber-christians that sent horrible threats to wiccan friend of mine. They collectivly voted to legalize pot and lower the drinking age but voted against mine just because "it's wrong"

I have no plans to ever go to a high school reunion.

...Wow. I'm sorry that that got so long.

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Op: You're fighting a war you've already lost.
Mal: Yeah, well I'm known for that.

SINGATE

Monday, June 5, 2006 8:33 AM

Kayna, you sound like a younger, female version of me. Though I never joined any clubs or participated in school activites.

I was a sci-fi/fantasy geek from the time I first saw the original Star Trek reruns in my childhood. Then Star Wars came along and fully cemented sci-fi as my favorited genre. These things added to my being overweight and wearing glasses did not make me a popular boy.

I played D&D and was able to maintain an A/B average without even trying. There were two guys I went to school with who were troublemakers but I got in good with them by helping them pass a few classes. This insured that few people would mess with me. Unfortunately one of them got sent to drug rehab and the other was expelled for nearly beating some kid to death. There went my protection. Yeah, it's selfish of me but I never felt much empathy for my classmates and I assure you no one else ever helped me out.

Moved to a new state just before the start of junior year which ended up to be a blessing in disguise. I really embraced the fuck everyone else attitude, dropping F-bombs like I was getting paid for it and generally not giving damn what people thought about me. The weird thing is that for some reason people responded in a positve way. I ended up having friends who were sci-fi nerds, athletes, business wannabes(guys who wore suits to school!), and some bonafide geniuses. Go figure.

I still have no interest in going to any reunion and have not been in contact with any of my former classmates.

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We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

SHINYGEEKET

Monday, June 5, 2006 9:42 AM

My freshmen year of high school I was kind of an A/C combo, minus the Cordelia-ness and the Star Trek obsession (though there were and are other geekier obsessions, which I shan't discuss here). The school I attended that year was tiny, barely hundred students, so I had a lot of friends my age and older. That was also the year that most of my friends were in bands so there where a lot of shows to hang out at.

Sophmore year I became a B/C type mostly because I moved to a new area and shortly before moving by dad passed away, so I sort of retreated into myself. I spent the last three years of high school just studying and hanging out with a core group consisting of about 5 other people. Towards the end of high school my group of friends kind of imploded mainly due to my toxic former best friend. I sure everyone has had that relationship that started out good, but eventually went horribly, horribly wrong, right? Well if this person has been my boyfriend, the relationship would have bordered on abusive.

So now here it is, almost exactly a year since my high school graduation and I guess I would call myself a D type. I've got a pretty good group of friends (many whom which I went to high school with, but never really hung out with) and I'd consider myself independent what with the college life and a spanking new job .

"We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land'."

THATWEIRDGIRL

Monday, June 5, 2006 10:58 AM

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Originally posted by copilot:
Basically I was that wierd girl that's always singing and dancing.

Huh. thought that was me...maybe i'm you...

Not that it matters anymore what we were back then, but i was a dork..a dork everyone knew...and made fun of...i was not a geek back then, and i couldn't be called a nerd because though i took the nerdy classes with all my trekkie friends, I didn't study...ever.

So count me as a dork...band, latin, french, student council...the list goes on...but who cares? I'm cool now.

www.thatweirdgirl.com
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"...turn right at the corner then skip two blocks...no, SKIP, the hopping-like thing kids do...Why? Why not?"

CHRISISALL

Monday, June 5, 2006 1:33 PM

Nice to see you around, TWG.
*misses the pre-BDM days*

BDHChrisisall

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