what was I like in high school. 3 words will sum this up.

YOUR WORSE NIGHTMARE>

Ted....you must be my long lost social life double, at least during my 3 years of HS ( did the extra credit thingy and graduated early )
I did the Chorus thing, played sports, hung out with my share of "Heads" and "Reds", and as a lost geek ( coulda graduated in 9th grade if not for for Social Promotion Legislation ) I knew my way around a pocket protector...

Still doing the social gadfly act in my 40's, no particular clique ( cept maybe this JU crowd )

Reply By: Charissa Kaschel

I took choir 7th and 8th grade...then switched to Auto shop my freshman year. (We go 6-7th=middle school, 9-12th= high school)

The two classes I actually liked, (creative writing, ceramics) were due to the fact that I was screwing the teachers.

Alllrighty then....

YOUR WORSE NIGHTMARE

I have no doubts....(meant as a good thing btw)

oh yeah, and played Dungeons & Dragons with the geeks.

Hey! Yeah boi! I'm a D&D'er. Been RPGing D&D for...oh...6-7 years. RPGing in general for much longer...(8ish...i think)

Oh yeah, and I was a drama geek...

I "grew" into drama/film the few months after HS. Go figure...

First: Congrats on getting featured!

I did? Oh...well thanks...(and thanks Brad & crew)

I was naive, trusting, and happy.

Ding! Ding! Ding! I was pretty much all three as well...occasionally I wasn't too happy, but, definantly naive, and very trusting. Only once (that i can remember at the moment) was I "betrayed". (A 'freind' borrowed 35 dollars and never payed me back.)

~L

Hmmm...

I was a dork I guess. My school had the "heirarchy"--the popular kids, the kids who thought they were popular but really weren't, the dairy farmer's kids, then my little group, and then the misfits. And you really only socialized with the groups that "hugged" you, so I had my group, but talked to the dairy farmer's kids and the misfits, too.

I did lots of different things in high school. I wish I would have focused more on my studies though and earned some scholarships. I did choir, knowledge bowl, track and field, golf, student council, National Honor Society, church stuff. I wish I would have done drama and FLA and gone with the group that went to New York City. I also wish I could have gotten chosen to go to for the Close Up program--you know...you go to Washington DC...

I went to my senior prom stag. I convinced another girlfriend with no date to go by a dress and go stag with me. And we did. One of my favorite high school memories is going into the neighboring town one night, almost getting into a fight with some girls from the reservation in the KMart parking lot, and then putting my car in a snow bank right in front of someone's house and having my friends dig and push before the people inside came out to see what was going on.

My senior year, though, my dad got cancer, and high school kinda faded way down in importance. Really? It's a joke. And I'm glad its over.

Oh yeah, I was once suspended in 11th grade for six weeks for beating up a teacher.

I didnt belong in any group or clique. Maybe in and of itself, that is a clique, I dunno. The one thing I loved the most was singing in Concert Choir. I was in that from 10th through 12th grade. We represented MN in the 50th annviersary of the ending of WWII and traveled to Paris, Normandy, London...and we got to sing at Notre Dam and Normany...etc. We also performed a tour around our hometown and released a CD and we won multiple awards at state Choir festivals. I had a blast and want to get into a choir again.

I was a shy, quiet young man who probably took everything around me far too seriously. I was artistic and musical but went to a very conservative Christian Brothers school where neither music, drama or art were subjects. I spent a lot of time with my nose in a book.

Having said this, I got on with everyone in my year. I listened to a lot of cool music and lent my records to a lot of my classmates, which held me in good stead. I also smoked the occasional cigarette with the 'bad' boys. This didn't do my reputation any harm either.

One question. Does it really matter what you were like in HS?

I know those were 4 years I would rather forget but that has to do with my experience. The cold hard facts are those years helped just a tiny bit in shaping who I am. It was only when I opened my eyes and ears that I truly began to learn. HS was a waste of time.

I think that Elindel has a good question...I mean...sort of makes you look back on who you were then, and who you are NOW.

Im an ISS supervisor. I see many kids during the day that just think HS is a waste of time. They just come to HS to pass the time. They rip up tests and the like and dont even bother trying because they dont need to go to college or have a high school education to get by in the real world...according to them. On the other end of the spectrum...I hear of kids who never set foot in my room who set goals for themselves and achieve amazing levels of success. When I have students in here who just toss a test in the garbage or dont do homework I give them, I say "way to go...aim for failure.'

greywar

No way! Good for you.

Reply By: little-whip

Reply By: Ziggystyles

Just try getting that across to some others here. *rolls eyes*

Reply By: little-whip

Whip, did you really need to say that?

You know, I am nothing at all like I was back then, thankfully. Maybe it is just as well because I think if I was as sensitive now as I was then, I wouldn't even blogging here.

John does have a point... High School had very little to do with shaping who I am today. Maybe there are some others, particularly here, who need to know this.

True enough, still, for me at least...it shaped a small portion of who I am. (The good part that is)

You aren't even a year out of high school, though.