What was your high school experience like?

I was just talking about this last night with my roommates and they all commented on how horrible high school was. I on the other hand had a great time and I think I probably made more lifetime friends in high school than in college. Other than my roommates I don't think I have much reason to talk to people I went to college with after I graduate this year. But there are still about a dozen close friends I still hang out with from high school. I'm not saying one experience was better than the other and you really can't compare the two because they were completely different experiences. (I had a great time in both high school and college) but it makes me wonder why so many people are down on their high school years.

I was in no way one of those "Miss Popular" types but I was one of the "smart" kids and had a decent sized social circle.

Academically and musically good . I find out now that I was popular - everyone remembers me for doing music . Back then I felt as if no one paid attention to me at all . I was such a wallflower - but nope , people remember me . Often times I can be somewhere like Wal-Mart and I see someone I went to HS , someone who was a cool kid and I run away because you know how those old feelings come back lol . But they always catch up with me and is the first to start off a conversation . Everyone grows up in the end :)

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Thanks, Dad...:sarcasm:

High school: got a great education, had some good friends, but absolutely HATED the poisoned, cliquish, snotty atmosphere of a rich California high school where the kids had too much money and the sport was making life miserable for others. I am still close to a couple people from high school.

College: Went to Berkeley, had a mind-blowingly wonderful time, but the friends I made there haven't lasted for the most part.

And only 3 or 4 would I really want to know.
High school was more clique-ish and mean in some cases, that is why people generally don't talk nicely about HS.

Most everyone knew me in HS, and most of them liked me, even if I didn't hang in their circles. But I really didn't have that much fun there.

beautiful women isn't it? :evilgrin:

Nobody in my school thought I was pretty. I'll share one incident I remember... in my freshman year, the guys circulated a list ranking all the girls, and I came in second to last. Really helps build the ole self esteem, stuff like that.

it's not like women aren't insecure in the first place. Looking in a magazine is about enough to depress a poor young girl. :)

However, I have seen your pics. You're are quite beautiful nowadays. Cool and intelligent too. I am not just sucking up either. (translation: I am, but just a little) :)

Thanks... I really needed that laugh. :hug:

:)

But I knew it was only four years of my life so I didn't all angsty about it, I just didn't care.

that High School was a welcome distraction, a place to get high, finally get some sleep and still get a 4.0...

I couldn't get a 4.0 in HS to save my life. I was lucky to get Cs half the time.

the place for a social life and partying (ditching) cause you know, you can only get in trouble after dark :eyes:

that I still keep in touch with. My father is always amazed at how close my group of friends is.

I had a great time in college as well, but I only keep in touch with two or three people.

1. in college I started drinking so I've made a lot of people I enjoy going out to the bar with but we really have nothing in common other than our love for cheap booze.

2. my major is small and it keeps me busy so I really only see the same 10 or 11 people in all my classes we are all friends but it's just because we are all in similar circumstances. I don't really associate with too many people outside of it (I hang out with the athletes as well but they are closely related to my major as well)

but in high school my "group" were the kind of people who could just hang out at each others houses and talk about religion, politics and philosophy until the sun came up. Hell we still do it when we are together

Being bullied, taunted, teased, and played disgusting tricks on (ask me about the "shampoo in the badminton birdie" and the "He's an artist in graphic design class" incidents; those were my faves...)

Then came Senior year where people must've gotten tired of doing all that to me...

Until graduation night. It felt like I got the least amount of applause. Not that I gave a damn, and I was in the top 25% of the class... and then the all-night party meant to keep us from illegal drinkin' and baby-makin' had one final, yet fortunately, minor incident...

And then it was all over.

Until college... where more anti-gay jokes were made. They must've known something I didn't...

Still, despite it all I respect human life more than they ever did. I must be severely mentally ill. :7

I was the girl everyone loved to pick on while I was in high school. I couldn't blow that pop stand quickly enough! It also isn't surprising that my grades sucked.

I moved north and started college 7 years later and throughly enjoyed the experience. I made the Dean's List several times.

and ended up being a good student. Funny how that works, huh?

I would've been friends with you I'm sure. :)

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I was pretty popular, a star athlete. I hung out with friends of all stripes. Got along with everybody really, I didn't care if they were not in the "cool" group or whatever. I wish I would have gotten better grades though. I also wish I would have been a little more into girls than just sports and stuff.

I really didn't have any "friends" until high school, when I ended up hooking up with a group of people that I still try to talk to on a regular basis. I still speak to my best friend from high school (who was also my best man) quite regularly on Yahoo Messenger (about 20 minutes ago, in fact).

hey, it was the '60s.

if you can remember it, you weren't there ....

Had a lot of good friends, knew everyone in the school, from the nerds to the stoners.

But at 5'11", couldn't get a date to save my life and didn't go to the prom.

Which is okay, because my best friend went with a guy and another couple -- the girl in the other couple got really drunk, and the guys left the prom to take her to her hotel, and didn't return for over 2 hours.

I didn't trust the guy, and had told her "you'd better bring $20 for cab fare" and damned if that's not exactly how she got home.

I did like English and Theater, but the rest was horrendously boring systematic. I made up for it my spare time. I had alot of friends, and I'm still close to a number of them. College was better, though.

and I don't apologize for it. I went to high school from '74 - '77 and everything they say about the 70's was true. I had a blast.

I was one of the smart kids but was constantly in trouble and hung out with the bad kids.Which got me into even more trouble.

The most hurtful thing was when a young woman I wanted to know better told me that nobody was my friend because they were all scared of me. Scared? Of me?

Khash.

Junior high was hellish. Period.

High school was fine; I had good friends and we had a lot of fun.

i had a 4.0, but, oddly, the "popular", "smart" girls in "decent sized social circle(s)" kept trying to climb my my ass for the stupidest things & shit both :shrug:

voted most likely to succeed
dated and had sex with the head cheerleader
class president
all a
valedictorian

okay so i just lied......it was okay, all my good friends went to the catholic high school though.

I had good friends, but we fell out of touch. They were the only good thing about it. Them and art class. Everything else can go take a flying leap.
Something about being in class at 7:45 am, getting picked on for everything (not having boobs, having boobs, dressing weird, listening to music that wasn't Oasis, reading books, you get the idea), being called a feminazi pretty much daily by this little beret wearing D&D player, drunk jocks puking in the halls, swim class with school issued suits from 1967 at 9am, the shutting down of the school newspaper--and my only possible ticket to a scholarship--a counselor telling me I really should try out for track now that the paper was gone, having to sit in a trailer to watch an army recruitment film instead of learning how to apply for college because "you kids really should think about trade schools or the military instead because schools like Madison are very competitive," and nothing but dubbed Disney films in French class really didn't do it for me for some reason.

Oh, memories.

On the plus side, it helped make me the cynical malcontent I enjoy being today so I guess I really ought to thank the bastards, but I won't. College was a lot better on all fronts.

was generally afraid to go to the bathroom in her high school because she was afraid she would be murdered or at least badly beaten in there.

I am not joking.


What is amazing is that my wife is a very gentle, kind, and caring person. I, on the other hand, am often a creep.

Whatever flaws I may have, my high school was a warm, stimulating, and pleasant place, run by wonderful and dedicated teachers who encouraged thinking and individual responsibility. After more than 30 years, I am still very grateful for what I learned there.