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[crusher_of_heads]

I played some sports. Struck out with a lot of girls, but had 2 great girlfriends. I liked university a lot better, and emerging from the far end of puberty with the realisation that peer pressure, in most cases, was retarded and not worth a moment of my time. I pity the adjosshis who are so hung up on saving face, what with it being stupid and all.

[bassexpander]

Several girls got pregnant when I was in high school.

I was voted Valdictorian.

[caniff]

I was a pothead and all my friends were older. This was good as noone messed with me. I was dating a senior when I was a freshman, which had my classmates somewhat in awe. High school was easy as hell, until I got kicked out for yelling at the principal (long story).

Soon after I took the SAT at another school on a Saturday and got a good score, took the GED and applied to UMass. I was accepted and enrolled as a freshman when I should have been starting my senior year in HS.

[Atramentous]

High School was disjointed for me. Two schools and three different sort of lifestyles.
The first one I attended was a non-English school. It was more relaxed on the social scene and there were no real cliques out to ruin people for the fun of it. The awful teachers who wielded humiliation of students as an instructional tool were the main problem. Then my Da pulled the carpet out from under me and decreed that I absolutely had to attend an American school.
Life was sh*te for the first year. They were awful, cruel and incredibly un-educated. When asked to find the country they were living in on a map, most of the class either could not find it or had a great deal of trouble finding it. Ignorance was considered cool and swotty me just did not fit in. So I stayed under the radar as much as possible as I truly did not enjoy gum in the hair and biology books "accidentally"dropped on my head (I had a bottom locker). The aggressiveness of the girls was amazing. I did well in my course work and was varsity in two sports and tried to ignore the nastiness that pervaded 80% of the student body. However, times did change. I figured that if I just did what I wanted to do, then I would enjoy my time as best I could in the cess-pit that is High School. So I continued with my sports and became the captain of one team, got into drama, did the Model United Nations thing and elbowed my way into the student leadership roles. I went from bullied and miserable to Popular ( ) and stressed out.

[crash bang]

long distance hiking competitions

seriously? hiking competitions? wtf?

do you mean orienteering competitions or adventure racing?

[MA_TESOL]

[Hanson]

[simpleminds]

[Tiger Beer]

I mixed in with many groups. I took college-oriented classes, but I wasn't a geek or nerd, I was involved in sports, but I wasn't a jock, I dabbled into other things, but I wasn't a stoner.

Basically I just listened to A LOT of music, and got a little involved with all kinds of things...but never defined myself in any particular way. I never took any group that seriously to inundate myself into it 100%.

[Lukychrm42]

I mostly just did my own thing. I guess I was part nerd and chorus geek, part hippie, part rebel, part athlete... I was a bit of a loner, and then I studied in Europe for a year abroad and that sort of became my calling card or whatever. I hated high school- if I hadn't gone abroad, I would have graduated a year early.

I was more of a teacher's pet in college... I pretty much lived in my department. Ah those were the days...

[beast]

I was always huge and spent most of my free time lifting weights. I outweighed most kids by fifty pounds or more. Nobody messed with me except older kids like three grades higher than me who wanted to make a name for themselves. I got attacked by them usually in groups and I ended up getting suspended for beating them up. No girlfriends whatsoever to speak of. I got pretty good grades, but I didn't study much. I kind of think I was a little bit like Shrek. I always dreamed about moving away and living anonymosly where nobody spoke to me or challenged me. Here I am, mission accomplished.

[just4u]

Ok, female response. I was popular in a wierd way, but it's not all it's cracked up to be. #1 Popular people often have a lot of other nonschool related problems. #2 Not all of us are mean. I'm not mean to people because I moved around too much and been through too much and it taught me humanity. I had shite for a home life and had this duel life where I was a cheerleader at school. In many ways, it all seemed a farce. I got voted on my homecoming court and asked to be taken off of it b/c I was having a lot of problems at home at the time and didn't feel like a whole big thing. #3 Just like Winona Ryder says in Heathers, popular people often get sick of their friends, but if you're in a small town, you kind of have to be nice to everyone/hang out with people you have nothing in common with. #4. You often get shite for not being conformist. On days where I didn't feel like drinking with everyone after a game/work whatever. I would often get shite. People are used to other people playing by their rules, at least where I live, and I'm often an affront to that. #5. It's hell from other girls when you're dating someone desirable. #6. I've seen less popular people get shite from more popular/better looking people, so it's not everything it's cracked up to be.Everyone gets shite from someone else. I guarantee you, that popular person you knew in high school was getting shite from someone, even if it was from an older sibling, etc. Everyone has someone who makes their life hell on some level, even if they hide it well. #7. A lot of people will try and make your life hell when they know they can't have you. and #8. a lot of people from the lower half of the totem pole get jealous, and try to start rumors. #9. Finally, sometimes it's hard when you're introverted, or just been through a lot of non-popularity related stuff, and you want to stay at home, and everyone says you should go out. #10. I've been dropped by friends of friends telling them not to talk to me, and I've been asked to drop people. Fortunately for my good friends, I'm not a sheep, so I will not drop them.

Summation: kind of like that saying "for every beautiful woman you see, there is some guy sick of putting up with her shite"...."for every popular girl you see (not sure about the guys) there are several of her friends that she is sick of."

That may sound mean but people have no idea how some "friends" can act out.

And yes, well liked people also miss school because they're sick of going. They have to go through the same @%^ with the teachers, other students, etc, just on a different level.

I did often get @!%##% at times, when younger, because I was often the youngest and the tallest. Now the older people are lamenting the fact that they (they say) are "old." It makes me giggle. Aaaah revenge is sweet. (It's also why I do everything I can now to help younger people.)

[Fishead soup]

I used to buy little lead minitures from "The Battle of Waterloo" and "The Lord of the Rings" and paint them. I was prone to fixations and could not concentrate on regular school. I took remedial classes. I also got into Fossil hunting and Dinosours.

When I entered High school I joined Army cadets. I went to camp frequently. Sometimes for as long as six weeks. I attended camp in Ipperwash and C.F.B. Borden.

When I was in high school I hung out with a lot of geeks. My life changed when I dropped purple microdot acid at school. Then a friend introduced me to Ska( Two Tone music). Later I saw The English Beat in Toronto.

It wa shortly after I got into Punk. From there I lost all interest in the military. I was later accepted to " The Ontario College of Art" I later did my BA at the University of Guelph.

[IncognitoHFX]

[Fishead soup]