NEWS: Where Have All The Prom Queens Gone?

So I used to go to school early to discuss HTML and Javascript, I was in band, in fact my senior year I got voted secretary. I'm pretty sure band secretary is as geeky as it gets. But somehow I had friends in just about every clique, so high school wasn't really too bad. Might just be a small town thing though.

Ha!
All the popular girls in my school ended up pregnant when they where 18 - smoked and drank whiles they where pregnant and now live off of benefits as single mothers.

Well in my home town they're working at Napa, Walmart, insurance agencies, or they're cops.

Agreed.

it's OK, Suri; I still like you.

i just assume they all end up in business school, but i'm sort of hoping they run a ferry back from the island of lost prom queens for my ten-year reunion. which is coming up a whole lot faster than i'd like to pretend. i admit, approximately 78% of the reason i'm even contemplating attending can be attributed to the expectation of schadenfreude.

sometimes popular kids friend request me on facebook now. i accept them because hey if they have the internets on that island it can't be so terrible, right? they never give me any details about what life there is like, but it does involve an awful lot of marriages and communications degrees. regrettably bad highlights are still all the rage, but maybe that's only because i went to high school in texas.

Facebook has solved this burning question for me - I always wondered where they'd all gone, and it seems that they do still exist although a lot of them have settled down now and had/are having children. Other than that they seem to be receptionists, travel agents, teachers who go to cheap bars at night looking cheap and drinking cheap spirits.

I never run into them. xx

So pretty much everyone on SG went to high school in Shermer, Illinois too, huh?

I've been contacted by a handful of people I knew "in passing" our freshmen year, and then quickly moved out of orbit with once they were no longer 9th graders and therefore, had some sort of social sway at school.

Didn't really hate them then, but I was a bit resentful that they seemed to be having fun with a go-go party lifestyle while I was hauling my 16 tons every day. Then I kind of hit a wall over the summer of junior year, and as a senior I came into my own dorky hierarchy & had a blast.

These days, I hear from them occasionally on Facebook, but we don't make plans to grab a beer when I seldomly come home to visit (I'm military, so I go home MAYBE once every 2 years.) I'd love to give it a shot though, and see if some people have actually grown a bit since then or see if first impressions really do set the bar.

Besides, I have a busy life myself that I wouldn't trade for anything. I took my lumps, but it has been worth it. I'm not bitter, I'm BETTER!

A lot of the guys also became cops, firefighters, and soldiers.

i wonder about this sometimes too, and i think that most people think they were geeks in high school. Everyone is insecure, although granted not everyone got picked on. in the boiler cooker social scene that is high school, the pressure is on everyone to be the same, and obviously everybody falls short of that standard. So my money is on the theory, that most people, even people who everyone else thought were cool, actually thought they were much less.

I browsed through the Facebook profiles of my graduating class, and most of the names were totally unfamiliar to me. I guess I was one of those geeks that was lucky enough to get ignored rather than picked on, and it appears that I was able to return the favor pretty thoroughly.

And some of the geeks get married right out of high school and go into the military. And not the ones you expected. *shrug* I was a geek and I'm a 25 year old undergrad with no prospects.

Yea, I'm kinda feelin' that right now. I'd say something bad about those "popular" kids, but I'd be willing to bet that they probably have more to talk about in life than I do right now, so...

Of course, I also was the only wrestler in my senior year that made Honor roll, and I tended to get along with the "popular" people, so I don't really have any horror stories. More Junior High ones.