What were you like in high school?

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I was the epitomy of the introvert personality. I'd rarely go out and when I did I'd get stupidly drunk. I'd get drunk every weekend and listen to music. I'd always try to be different from the crowd so I listened to different music and never hung out with anyone outside school. I liked to be especially introverted when girls were around, and I liked to peer out the windows hoping a girl would catch my eye. Pathetic, tbh.

How about you?
 
uhhhh i'm still in High school .. I go to parties but I don't get drunk or do drugs! do sports, play music.. study I guess!
 
I don't even think I want to remember. Probably much like I am now, only with more friends.
 
i avoid everyone. All my friends go to a diff school.
 
As far as I know, I'm a bit obnoxious, but I'm fairly popular.
 
sea said:
Around grade nine or ten I gained a significant amount of weight. I'm about 5'8" and have been for years, and I went up to around 230 pounds or more at my highest point (I weigh about 130 right now). For some reason I also had a really disgusting teen beard and greasy spiky hair as well, which was doubly off-putting. That, coupled with my not-so-awesome social skills and tendency to act like a geek in semi-subtle ways killed almost all the social life I had, outside of a very small circle of friends. It's a time that I'd rather look back on through the lens of nostalgia, even if know just how tinted that lens is. I'd like to think I'm significantly better off right now than I was, which is probably true, but where I am is still pretty pathetic.
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come on man dont say that you're pathetic. If you have family and friends then you're certainly not pathetic.
 
I didnt hang out with anyone, or go to any social events during most of my high school years. I think one of the big reasons is that even in middle school I only had a couple friends, then I played football for my freshman highschool year. Playing that basically took up all my free time since we had practice every day after school, most saturdays, and games on fridays. Normally playing a sport gets you new friends from your teammates, but I found myself hating most of the people on the team, plus I hated playing since I had to play without my glasses on (so as not to break them) and I was quite literally blind (Ive lost like 96% of my vision lol, doctor said that without glasses, im legally blind).

So for that whole year I couldnt hang out with the couple friends I had, and eventually we grew distant. I made a few friends in my classes, but only hung out with them like once a month, mostly in-school friends. I think the person I hung out with the most was my cousin, and his friends. We would play some pen and paper RPG like once every week.

So obviously I wasnt very popular, but I also wasnt unpopular. I was pretty much transparent to my whole grade, and I wouldnt be surprised if nobody knew who I was, and if they wouldnt recognize me today.

Pretty sad and lonely time in my life tbh. But then when I graduated and went to college, for some reason I felt a lot better. Which is strange because I was a lot worse. I didnt talk to anyone for the first year and a half, and all I ever did was wake up, go to school, come home, go to work, come home, repeat, every... single... day. But I still felt good somehow.

Now that I moved out and went to a new school in a new state, with people who liked the things I do, I am a lot more social, and hang out more often. Still not as much as most people I imagine, but im happy.
 
I'm still in high school, but I have a tight-knit group of friends, and although I'm not popular, I'm not unliked. I mainly sit back and watch what people do. I have a tendency not to do things. I have a melancholic-phlegmatic personality type according to the personality test here. It's creepy how accurate that test can be.

It might be a Catholic site, but don't let that scare you away.

You do need an account to take the test.
Test: http://www.4marks.com/temperaments/test.html
 
I'm 25 now, but lets see how bad I can embarrass myself. I'm probably exaggerating slightly how big of a dork I used to be, but . . . :D

1st-4th grade: Thriftstore & garage sale clothes picked by my mom who has no sense of fashion at all. Lets just say shorts with flowers on them aren't supposed to be worn by guys. I was also extremely energetic.

5th-7th grade: Black sweat-pants (WTF?) and extremely random t-shirts, never combed my hair, but was worried that it would look like a mess. Eenrgy went to shit because of horrible headaches every day. I had no game & I ended up not talking much or making many friends or anything else because of lost energy.

8-12th grade: Baggy dark-blue or black shorts and baggy t-shirts. They didn't fit the baggy style either, they were just very poorly fitting. yes, I even wore shorts in the winter. Learned to mostly ignore the headaches, but I was basically the guy who didn't talk.

College: Figured out headaches were from food allergies, slowly regained some of the old energy (over a very long time). Kachkis or Shorts, lose plain t-shirts, actually combed hair (poorly). "Oh yes, you've got to be kidding me this is how I should have looked in middleschool"

(20-22 years old) Post-college: Jeans, then better fitting t-shirts (But still lose). Theorizing about personality improvements, but mostly trapped at my parents house and had little life.

(23 years old) First major job: (post college +3) Decent fitting jeans and t-shirt, shorter cleaner hair, general hygiene improvements, major personality developments, significantly more outgoing, developed game, developed confidence, more energy, basically complete transformation in about 3 months. It's amazing what independence and escaping a "same-old-same-old" environment can do. Found first serious relationship.

(25 years old) +1.5 year later: Leaving first major serious relationship after 1 year. MORE hygiene improvements (relatively flawless, I'm even tan), major clothing improvements in style/perfect-fit/combinations/quality/layering/etc, styling my hair first time ever (still experimenting), attracting girls almost too easy, MAJOR improvements in personality and confidence, and more. I also have more energy than ever though not quite back to my previous energizer-bunny state (what I really need is a hyper girlfriend, lol).

Speaking of recent personality and confidence improvements, it has helped me in SO MANY WAYS! Sure it heps to attract girls, but also making friends, getting paid more, and just tonight I negotiated a fairly important business deal. If you think impressions don't matter, think again.
 
I'm just that guy who everybody vaguely knew but didn't really care about. Bit of a dork, not very social, but not antisocial either.
 
I was Ostracized, totally. I was a freak for most of elementary and middle school. I knew that I was never really going to be able to make any useful relations because everything was (and is in high school) clique based. I didn't dress like everyone else else for the most part. Freshman through junior year I had my Flannel shirts, I was obsessed with the whole grunge thing and could tell you everything you ever needed to know about Mudhoney or Sound Garden. Then senior year (recent past) I went on an off shoot of that into something new. I've got my ripped up black wranger jeans over which I wear black and yellow or green and black stripped tights (on cold days [you can see the tights through the holey pants]). If I'm not wearing a sweater I'm usually wearing a jacket thats a combination of a plaid carpenters shirt and a black zip-up hoodie. I wear buttons on it (currently a Butthole Surfers button, Tank Girl and the word lies with a red cross over it). I still dress like this.

Now that I'm in college, my social life is there. I'm in amongst a lot of artsy people, photographers and painters as well as computer guys and animation people.

I'm interested in architecture, Drawing and animation and music production (recording). I play in various bands, of various musical tastes, and I record my Solo work too. I want to create a game development company with some friends, sort of a garage start up.

Oh, and I have beautiful long hair!


In short: High school sucks! Why? Because it's full of teenagers. They're idiots, trust me.
 
Total geeky nerd which is about the opposite of what I am now.
 
I was a skateboarder back when it wasn't cool, and a breaker of grade curves, which is not cool to this day. I had a really fun time, but most of the other students were cretins.
 
I was pretty normal, though I probably didn't think so back then. Bit of a geek but then most people were. The only thing I regret is choosing an all boys school, as I didn't have much contact with girls at all. I'd only really hang out with friends from school outside of school hours, never went to any parties and was too shy to go to balls/proms/whatever you want to call them. Although I did make a genuine effort one time and actually took dance lessons, even got matched up with a really cute girl, as I remember it. I kicked myself so damn hard for chickening out of that. >_<
 
I was really quiet in high school, didn't talk to people much, although I spent a lot of time in the environmental club at school which was really fun. People knew me and were nice to me, but I just didn't hang out with anyone or go to parties or anything. Skipped prom because I thought it was stupid and a waste of money... which I still think it is, so no regrets there. I did really well in classes and ranked pretty high overall, which was kind of surprising since my school was full of competitive GPA-manipulating freaks and I didn't even care enough to bother knowing my GPA.

I'm in college now, still pretty quiet but have a nice small group of friends I talk to a lot, and still doing extracurricular environmental stuff. I barely talk to anyone I knew in high school anymore, but it doesn't bother me too much since I like the people I know now a lot more anyways.


phantomdesign said:
headaches
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One of my friends gets those all the time, so bad that he can't do any work (or much of anything) when he has headaches. I think he's even had brain scans and I was kinda worried he might have an aneurysm. Maybe his are from food allergies too..... is that a pretty common thing?
 
Semi-funny and sort of complicated or difficult to deal with.
Overall quiet at times.
 
Quiet, introverted, creepy, and emotionally shattered would describe it pretty well.

That has for the most part persisted to now. But the past couple of months I've gotten a lot better. Oh therapy and other things, where would I be without you?
 
I tried EVERY medication 60+ doctors could think of (no effect), cat-scans, other scans, ****ing psychologists, electro-shock therapy, neuro specialists, numerous headache specialist facilities, etc. After about 8 years someone finally thought to do an allergy test (requires drawing a lot of blood) & they found I was extremely allergic to soy (in everything), highly allergic to corn, and slightly allergic to wheat. Since I've also discovered that watermellon & cantelope also cause headaches.

I have no idea how common it is, but it's worth trying. They may even discover non-headache related food allergies too. My headaches have mostly dissapeared since!

dfc05 said:
One of my friends gets those all the time, so bad that he can't do any work (or much of anything) when he has headaches. I think he's even had brain scans and I was kinda worried he might have an aneurysm. Maybe his are from food allergies too..... is that a pretty common thing?
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Are we allowed to tell our life stories now? (Not that I'm raging on you guys, some of us have stuffs in common) The thread title was specific about high school years.
 
Pretty shy and introverted, but not horribly so. I found it difficult to talk to girls and new people, but that became less of a problem towards the end (although still hardly my forte). I was lucky to have a lot of good friends I'd hang out with regularly, many of which who were near the center of most interesting social events. I became great friends with the guy who practically introduced partying to my grade.

If you want to go by typical high school archetypes, I was the "weird" one of my group. I was a big geek, had a lot of dirty and absurd jokes, and had a tendency to cross the line. I was the kind of guy who would greet you on the morning tram to school and inform you in the most unnecessary detail possible the quality of the shit I had taken 30 minutes prior. You could also get me to do stupid, sometimes self-harming things with the lure of money or alcohol. I got a bit more normal in the last two years though.

It generally took time for people to warm up to me, and vice versa. I've been told I have a really dry sense of humor, which makes me come off as pretty unsavory on some occasions. But when you got used to it, we generally got along famously. I reckon getting drunk every weekend with people from 8th grade onwards helped too.
 
Here's the thing with me, I leave a good first impression, people (men and women alike) like to talk and hang out with me the first couple of months, then they get bored. This was true for most of high school, hopefully I've improved a bit since. I do have friends whom I've know for many years though, so I guess I'm not all terrible after the first months.
 
Quite the geek when it came to certain subjects. Quiet. Long hair (the hell was i thinking), i even grew a full on moustache when i was 18. Got rid of it a year later when some year 8 or 9 kid and his mates walked past and did the whole Hitler walk. Surprising how much it hurts to shave one off...

However i do give a good first impression apparently. But i used to bore people by running out of stuff to say quite often, and too quickly. Girls were like my kryptonite, i used to talk to them loads but id just turn to jelly.

Had a weird sense of humour where id say something i thought was funny, and people would look at me like 'what a twat, why did you say that?'. Like this one kid in like...year 7 came into our 6th form geography lesson and he had what looked like comical glasses on, so his eyes were all zoomed in and kinda cross-eyed looking. He asked for a book, picked it up, and as the door closed behind him as he left i said out loud 'shoulda gone to specsavers'.

My teacher span round and said 'hes got a condition, he has to wear glasses like that'. The whole class just looked at me with disgust. Obviously i didnt know he had a condition, else i wouldnt have said anything. What pissed me off most, is that if the typical 'im so popular so i can say whatever i want and people will laugh' twats in the year had said it, the whole class wouldve roared with laughter. ***king ***eholes.
 
Shy and reclusive. I was teased all the time for no good reason. It started becoming so much that I just started skipping classes and did not look forward to school at all.

I did hang around with good friends away from school though, one of them older than me(and considerably cool). We were the punk rock group, but I was the shy straight edge one among them. Heh.
 
I'm not sure what I was like in High-School, but it feels like I have/had too many hobbies at the same time:

Cars
Drawing
Writing
Computers
Guitar
Airsoft

I feel like I never really excelled at anything because I was always trying to do too much. (While still doing nothing.)
 
The Monkey said:
Here's the thing with me, I leave a good first impression, people (men and women alike) like to talk and hang out with me the first couple of months, then they get bored. This was true for most of ...
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Sorry, what were you saying?
 
Ah, high school. I enjoyed high school. You know why I enjoyed high school? Because I barely went.

Freshman year: If you've read any of the hojillion stories I've written on this board, you know they're pretty much all prefaced by, "I'm the loner type," which is precisely how I was in school. Except, for some strange reason, being the loner type always made people gravitate toward me.

First day of freshman year, didn't know anybody, didn't have anywhere to go for lunch, so I just sat down outside my next class (which happened to be biology, as I recall) and ate. Alone. And I was in the process of eating alone when some guy comes up to me, says, "Hey," strikes up a conversation. And the next thing I know I'm packing up my brown paper bag and following him to this spot outside the gym where all these people are hanging out, and what the shit now I'm friends with like ten people.

We were a real motley crew, the kind of stereotypes you'd see right out of The Breakfast Club. We had the Brain, who always had his nose buried in a book. We had the Princess, who was actually a teen fashion model who did runway shows and dressed in all the latest from Italian designers. We had the Basket Case; she was kinda nuts, but I liked her a lot. We didn't have a criminal or an athlete, but we had some other things like the Beggar, who'd always try to beg for food because he was broke as shit; he'd often fail miserably, so I started giving him instruction on how to mooch off of people or, when that didn't work, just resort to taking things out of their lunch bags by force. We had the Christian, who was seriously into religion and always disapproved of most of the things we did, but she hung out with us anyway, and we in turn did infact enjoy her company. The first guy I met I think could best be described as ADHD; he was kinda socially awkward, a brainy-type as well, had some anger management issues, but he was a good friend of mine. And then there was one of my best mates, I'm probably doing her a disservice but I'll call her the Pervert, because her and I used to get together and all we'd talk about is porn, and bring porn to school. Porn porn porn, and we'd twist what everyone else said into sexual innuendos. And then me, the loner type, weird sense of humor, and for some reason was popular without ever doing anything. Out of my circle of regular friends I knew the popular kids, and the less-popular kids, and I was popular among the faculty (school security and I used to hang out and chat it up all the time). I'm still not sure why it happens; it carried over into college as well.

But I was also a truant. I never went to class. I got to the point where I'd only go to the classes I wanted to go to, and from there I'd skiv off. I remember being late one day to English (morning class and I'm not a morning person). I opened the door and before my hand even released the knob, my teacher says to me, "Darkside, C7," which was the office.

"Right." And so I spent most of my time in that office, but it was OK: I was friends with the principal and the vice principal and all the receptionists there, so they allowed me to do work like answering the phones and running the computers and relaying messages. That was really the only time I enjoyed being at school except for lunch.

I'd started hanging out at the mall and walking to places around town, making friends with people there.

Sophomore year: So yeah, they kinda kicked me out. Or rather they gave me an ultimatum that I either had to start going or I'd have to transfer to another school in the district. Which was fine by me, because I had friends that went to that school too (see? Friends all over the place).

And I REALLY didn't go to this school. I mean I went to like one class, and that was web design. I wasn't going to go to my math class because it was early in the morning, and my math teacher had a hook for a hand and he threatened me with it when I fell asleep in his class. And I wasn't going to English because f*ck The Great Gatsby, that book sucks. And I don't think I ever went to P.E., because at first I couldn't find it and after awhile I just didn't give a shit.

So I'd go to web design, get out for lunch, leave. Most of the school would go across the street for lunch to eat at the Dairy Queen, but I'd go across the street on the other side and eat at the fancy steak house. I'd watch people outside the window getting their cheap burgers, sitting outside and talking to friends, while I was being waited on and being served tender cuts of sirloin and feeling the most delicious sense of superiority. After lunch I'd go to the nearby comic store, or walk a mile uptown to my previous school, kill an hour until they had lunch and hang out with my friends.

At the end of semester when web design ended, I started 'working' at the local video game store in the mall. Which basically meant I hung around, convinced people to buy things, and chilled with all the mall folk. Mall workers have it made, or at least at our mall they did, because we all knew each other and the codeword was "mall discount," which meant, "Go ahead and pick whatever you want out of the sandwich store's fridge, make your own sandwich for free, then head down to Cinnabon and get yourself some cheapass sodas. Then back up to the arcade where you get free games all day, every day. Then kick it back inside the video game store and sell more stuff, maybe wash some windows." And that was sophomore year.

Junior year: I moved. I moved because I had no other school to go to, so there was no reason to stay. Plus houses were getting expensive as f*ck (Silicon Valley; I lived literally right next door to Capcom USA). So we packed up and they sent me to some kinda juvenile school. I had a good time there though, because I'm smert, and so the teachers and I got along and I basically just chilled out, went to class every day, got straight A's. Managed to make a few good friends, and I was still inexplicably popular. Everyone's acquaintance.

Senior year: Too many juveniles, so they started shuffling me around. They thought I was 18, not 17, so one morning they tell me to stop reporting to all my classes and start going to GED class. Well, I was deficient in credits anyway, so it was OK by me.

Until such point as my teacher, who always pushed me the hardest (not meanly, but to drive me) told me (embarrassingly in front of everyone), "Darkside, why're you in here? You're smart. All these other guys," he motions to the class with a sweep of his hand, "they HAVE to get GEDs. You don't. Go down to the office right now and tell them to put you back into your classes, because you can still graduate."

So I did.

And they told me no. "You're 18."

"I'm 17."

"...oh. Well, looks like we made a mistake."

"That's fine. So, starting tomorrow I'll just go back to my normal classes."

"You can't. There's no room."

"So what you're telling me is there's no way I can get back into my classes?"

"Yes."

"And there's no way I can make up my credits to graduate?"

"No."

"Well...bye." And that's how I said it, and I walked right out the door and never went back to high school.

But it's not like that was any big change for me.
 
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Darkside55 said:
*essay*
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Nice.

I am currently in high school, damn I wish we could select the subjects. Right now 75% of the subjects seem retarded and not needed in my life onwards.
But meh, got to finish this mother somehow.
 
Okay I won't write a 900 million word essay like Darkside :p but here goes. I was one of those people who made people laugh but not by being genuinely funny but by doing stupid and things and acting weird. It was a good way to get yourself noticed. Haven't changed too much from then but slightly more mature now (well i'd like to think so anyway).
 
High school is (thankfully) just a blip on the radar of my past.

I went to a "regional" high school with kids from 3 other towns. It was 3x more impossible to make any lasting friendships, mainly because high school is fraught with cliques and everyone grasping and clawing their way to the social top.

I've always been an "independent" type--not specifically a loner, just too damn stubborn to feel the need to reach out to others for anything. I'm still that way. I had a handful of close friends, but due to very overbearing parents, I never actually got to hang out with them outside of school. I didn't have my first alchoholic beverage until I was 19...and didn't really stop until 25. Those years are lost, but...I'm sure I had fun!

I didn't go to my proms, or any school function, really. I played field hockey, and was on the Spring/Winter track teams...as a thrower. I was the worst in the league. Seriously. I couldn't throw the damn discus for shit, because I was too self-conscious about the proper form. The shotput was even worse. There was a girl on the team who had a gland problem, and weighed about 350lbs. She could throw farther than me, just by standing there. I had no friends on the sports teams, because I was fat. Not hugely obese, just not Abercrombie thin. And I didn't care. That really pissed people off. I ran 5+ miles a day, and could leg-press more weight than all the guys on the team. When I say I can kick the shit out of you, I mean it.

I also had a horrible problem with controlling my mouth. I find humor in EVERYTHING...and at anyone's expense. I made many enemies just because I never bothered to sugarcoat my opinions to fit in with the masses. I wrote a term paper in freshman English on "Euthanasia" and the merits of that practice. When I was reading the paper to the class, I actually started off by saying something along the lines of "...and no, this isn't about kids in Asia". Of course, nobody got it except the teacher, but then again...98% of the class probably still can't spell euthanasia.

I got punched a few times, especially on the bus. I punched a few people, especially on the bus. I hated the bus. It was a horrible cesspool of neighborhead jerk-offs who spent weekends in the woods getting drunk. Those were my woods, damnit. I found so many awesome things in those woods. Arrowheads, old baby prams from waaay back, lobster shells, and blissful silence. They ruined those woods. Bastards.

I hated everything, really. I was an angry high-schooler. That's a good way to put it, I guess. I never felt that I was learning anything that I didn't already know, thanks to the Internet, and had no plans to use most of it in my future. Shockingly, I really haven't.

Oh, and I failed Pre-Algebra twice. The teacher was my tutor, and I still failed. I hate math. Even now, it's beyond me. Colleges thought I was retarded. I got 12 wrong on the verbal SAT, and 12 right on the mathematical portion.

Hmmm...apparently those memories aren't as locked away as I'd hoped. I'll have to work on that. Bright side...it's all over, and I survived. :bounce:
 
Went to a fairly small school, so even though I'm fairly quiet (usually) I got along well with almost everyone... but then almost everyone did :)
We were all pretty chilled out tbh, sports wasnt a big thing, no cliques etc. The surfers among us weren't even considered particularly cool (and they weren't, I was one for a while).
 
I had about 10 "friends" in High-school, didn't talk to anyone besides them, were only "close" with two or three, and quite enjoyed the situation. I sometimes played soccer during the lunchbreak, which I sucked at, some other times I just talked with friends. I did relatively well, according to me, got mediocre-ish grades, although didn't fail many classes, and never put too much effort into anything.
 
I'm still in high school.

I put my head down studied and hung out on steam and hl2.net. :|

that's about it.

EDIT: I might as well elaborate a bit. I'm the smartest in the year officially and so that makes others kind of uneasy round me and so I only have about 4 friends. Of course people also say I am wierd because this year my last year instead of ding what every other normal person does i.e. nothing I decided to take 2 advanced higher classes (equivalent of 1st year uni) and one crash higher and actually work.

I'm doing quite well in them but apart from my qualifications i'll probably only take nothing but bad memories from high school when I leave.
 
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