Hey, we're all cool now, but what were you in High School? Band kid? Emo kid? Jock kid? Math kid? Detention kid? Motor head? Pot head? Bubble head? Bad boy? Slutty girl? Dweeb? Nerd? Clown? Waste-oid? C'mon now, it's time for truth telling!
Metal head (complete w/ long hair, concert shirts, jean jackets and bass guitar). Still play the bass but I lost the hair, jean jacket and (most of) the concert shirts...
Well, I played in the band for two years and played on the football team for three years but, honestly, I was never any good at either. What exactly is a dweeb? Or a nerd?
This guy was a band geek! 1st chair alto sax (BOOYAH!) and drum major for marching band. It's okay to be jealous! -Matt
Speech/Debate team Quiz Bowl captain Took Algebra II in the summer to get ahead in math, and I took English the following summer in order to graduate early. It's not all nerditude, however. I did pass up the opportunity when I was selected for the all-state team to go to a national Quiz competition because I would have had to miss my senior prom.
Party animal / under achiever and spoke to almost no one. My main focus was going to nightclubs in NYC 2-3 times a week.
I confused everyone. I was an art room kid and a jock. In my school you couldn't be both so that meant that I didn't "really" belong in either group. So I lived in the margins. Just like now. I'd also mention that I had a very close friend who was a "nurse's office kid." These were all sub-cultures in my school. Kids that you sort of knew, mainly through other kids. Kids that you knew by name or by sight. Kids you sat next to in class but never spoke to, kids you spoke to but didn't really like...
I was... complicated. Not to mention hardly likable at all. In high school I was both the nerd who was never motivated enough to study and the athlete who was never motivated enough to workout in the off-season. Therefore, an underachiever. I was so shy and depressed that I had no shot at making any good friends and was so deeply enthralled in my skeptical inquiry into the meaning of life and existence of a higher power questions that atheists and religious people alike couldn't stand to talk with me for very long about it- all of whom (especially atheists, amazingly) hating that I needed proof and references and stuff like that. Then there were the anger issues. Ugh. I'm happy to report that I've grown up a lot since then. Still a disorganized underachiever, but without all the other ugly stuff. :dance:
Jock/ Pot head who spent alot of time in detention . . . . does that count, lol. (Oh to be young and stupid) I went into the military and then law enforcement, so alot of things have changed since then.
Captain of the tennis team that won the Los Angeles city championship two years in a row. Offered a tennis scholarship to the U of Miami. Won second prize in the Bausch & Lomb Science Contest (a $10 gift certificate). What more can there be in life than that?
Although it started a few years back, I think this is a great post. I was a jock back in high school...loved my sports and still do Perhaps the love of fitness got me involved in the healthcare field.
I was a shadow. I knew everyone in my graduating class by name (333) but when I sat down for graduation practice in alphabetical order the girl next to me asked me how long I went to the high school, it went like this: Me - "4 years, and I also went to the same junior high school as you" Uninsterested girl making small talk - "oh" I hope my three boys are more involved in school, more interested in everything, and just "more" than I was/am.
I was an athlete in school, not a star by any means, but involved. Spent most of my time sort of bored and my grades reflected my disinterest. A bit of a thrill seeker....but in measured and calculated ways. Are none of the "slutty girls" going to speak up? LOL
I was a combination of things... I was a choir boy (Used to sing in the choir), but I was also the school's own privately unpaid administrator. Hehe, I was trusted by all the admin, from the principle on down with any school related tasks. Basically, I networked myself to know the admin and they ended up trusting me to do things that no other students were permitted to do.