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[IncognitoHFX]

[espoir]

I dont think I ever fit into any of those categories.

In high school I had 2 other friends that we were best of buds. up until our last year we were basically known as the 3 musketeers because we all met in grade 9 and did absolutely everythign together as a group. Our group extensions were mainly with the geekier group, but I would classify us as that either. Yes we were geeks in our own right, I was into politics/history, friend was into computers and the other video and art design. We drank and 'smoked' like many of the other students, but probably not to the same frequency or amounts. We also played sports and me and one friend were on the soccer and volleyball team. But I wouldnt call us jocks, because well we hated those guys.

I guess ultiamtely in highschool I was and my two friends were more middlemen. Not with the geeks, nor with the jocks or artsy students. I actually kinda miss those days, they were fun, especially my last year in OAC.

[itaewonguy]

I was popular in school and never ran with just one crowd.
I rolled with everyone pretty much..

The jocks, hanged with them around the cafe, and parties on weekends
The asians, played handball with them on the courts
The smokers and druggies, use to roll with them behind the bike sheds
The nerds, use to own a commodore and an Atari so use to game with them sometimes..
THe blacks, use to play basketball and most of them lived on my street so always walked to school with them and usually sat with one of them in class ..
Never had a fight in school, because I pretty much knew everyone in my grade.
when ever fights broke out it was always people I knew, so I didint really take sides,
of course I didnt know everyone in my grade.. but I knew alot of them..


for some reason though, I cant remember my school days now..
just a few memories now..

[simpleminds]

Went to a girls secondary school and am glad I did. Didn't want to deal with boys and dating on top of everything else.

I was the kid who contributed in class yet didn't bother to do homework. Thus my grades were mediocre, but that was OK, because I was in a mediocre school that encouraged mediocrcy. You were supposed to become a nurse, not a doctor. I spent much of my time in the library with my only friend, who would have been voted Val-whaddyacallit if we were in America. (She's a surgeon now.) I was the socially awkward kid who was picked last in everything and nobody wanted to sit next to. I had a sister who was in the same year as I; she was two years younger, taller, prettier, and popular. We had nothing in common.

Didn't get bullied much 'cos my friend was fiesty and I was good at manipulating and playing the victim when necessary. Teachers believed whatever I told them, thus getting the other girls (and boys in primary school) into trouble. In year 8, I stopped bothering about being liked, and accepted my place at the bottom of the totem pole. The popular girls had their territory, and everyone else theirs, and no one dared to cross into another's. The rules applied in the classroom as well, but on occasion, I switched seats, so had the pleasure of watching the other girls sorting themselves out according to their position on the totem pole. They'd scold me for taking their seats, saying I was mean, but there wasn't a thing they could do.

You know the 'most likely to..', 'the one who' stuff; well, the popular girls who organised these things didn't have a clue about me. My younger, prettier sister was the one who always came late to everything. Me? The girl whose best friend is most likely to win a Nobel Prize.

[definitely maybe]

i guess i can consider myself lucky compared to most on here. i played football, hockey, and lacrosse in high school, captaining the football and lacrosse teams my senior years. never had any trouble making friends. always did well enough in school, generally b+to a-. losing my father in middle school and my mother's subsequent remarriage made things touchy at home at times (largely my fault), but i guess i've had it pretty easy. still do.

[ESL Milk "Everyday]

I was bullied for a bit in Grade nine and ten, but eventually found some friends and kind of disappeared from everyone's radar. I didn't really fit in with these friends... I was mostly just there so I wouldn't look alone. Actually, they started to ignore me and we got to a point where they didn't look at me anymore, but they never told me to go away, and I didn't really care.

I used to write a lot, and daydream and read... I did marijuana and hash a fair bit, and sometimes LSD, but not as much as others, and I wouldn't say I had a habit. It was hard for me to get it because I didn't really like dealing with people.

I watched a lot of oddball films, and made a lot of trips to the used bookstore. I think I was kind of morbid, but I didn't really express that in any kind of special fashion or style or anything. I stopped talking for the better part of my fourth year, but nothing about this struck me as all that strange, and no one else really cared, though my parents were a little worried. A lot of people didn't realize I was still going to school, I think... but I finished and in uni things were much better.

So yes, mostly I was a complete and total shadow of a ghost of a human being... to tell the truth, for the most part, it's a giant blur.

[Rteacher]

I'm probably the most separated - by years - from my high school days (class of '67) but spirit never grows old, and my long-term memory is good.

I was usually an "A" student throughout junior high, and in ninth grade I was on the wrestling and track teams.

I wrestled in the "unlimited" weight class though I was only 165 lbs., and my best match was probably when I lost to the eventual (MA) State champ, who outweighed me by 25 lbs. I was leading on points 5 to 2 with only thirty seconds left when I ran out of gas and got pinned.

I went to the same school (Classical High) where my father was a popular math teacher, and I put extra pressure on myself by going all out to excel in varsity football my freshman year.

My grades suffered because right from the start I kept falling asleep doing homework and strained to keep awake during classes.

I showed good potential as a fullback - practically nobody could tackle me - but near the end of my freshman year I got a bad knee injury that I never fully recovered from.

In my junior and senior years I was a starting (undersized) lineman on both offense and defense, but I wasn't a big enough star to attract the gorgeous blonde cheerleader/valedictorian that I had a crush on. I did become an honor student though.

Socially, I regularly played poker with Jewish friends (often I'd be the only Gentile) but I was too shy - possibly "social anxiety disorder" - to ask the kind of beautiful girls I was attracted to out on dates.

Of course, not going to the senior prom was somewhat traumatic. I knew at least a couple very nice girls who were eager for me to ask them, but I couldn't decide which one - and I had no confidence at all in my dancing ability (preferring to just listen to music...)

I passed on a football scholarship to Colby College and ended up going to UMass-Amherst, where I repeatedly "turned-on, tuned-in, and dropped out"...

I also lost a lot of hair - setting the stage for my eventually becoming a Hare Krishna monk ...

[MollyBloom]

Only had two boyfriends during my high school years... Senior year I was voted class flirt

I had an interesting time in high school. I was versatile in a lot of areas so I was friends with every clique...jocks, geeks, druggies, popular kids...the weird thing was in high school and in college I always got along with the older kids the best. I was sort of a clown, so I often got into trouble during soccer and lacrosse practice. In college I played Division 1 lacrosse and had to do sprints in the morning or stay after practice and do push-ups while my fat-ass coach sat on my back.

[robot]

High school was a blast.

I rolled with the artist/musician crowd. Our numbers swelled so great that we were a threat to even the jocks.

We ruled the school.

[teachteach]

Quite a few burn outs and druggies here.