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OnesandZeros

OnesandZeros

Cuyahoga Falls, OH
March 2004

OCT 14, 2008 01:05 PM

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.

Franzipan

Franzipan

United Kingdom
July 2008

OCT 14, 2008 01:50 PM

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.

SnakePlissken

SnakePlissken

Corvallis, OR
December 2002

OCT 14, 2008 01:50 PM

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

JuliusChurch

JuliusChurch

Ashland, PA
November 2005

OCT 14, 2008 08:25 PM





Stop thinking you're in high school. Lose the "popular kids" vs "outcasts" mentality, and you'll go far in life. What appears to be a close-minded clique is often times just a group of people who've known each other for months or even years. Don't expect to duplicate that level of intimacy simply because you paid $12 to join a website. Furthermore, the world is not a John Hughes movie



Agreed.

Suri

Suri

SUICIDEGIRL

Pennsylvania, USA

OCT 14, 2008 08:35 PM

mightymur said:


If you have no "high school was hell" stories, then you're not terribly interesting in many social circles. Especially if your stories revolve around, "I made high school hell for others."



i was a popular kid (a Heather)

*a cheerleader
*honor roll
*mean as a snake
*kind of a slut

and i am so ashamed of it that i avoid high school conversations like the plague.

JuliusChurch

JuliusChurch

Ashland, PA
November 2005

OCT 14, 2008 08:48 PM

Suri said:

mightymur said:


If you have no "high school was hell" stories, then you're not terribly interesting in many social circles. Especially if your stories revolve around, "I made high school hell for others."



i was a popular kid (a Heather)

*a cheerleader
*honor roll
*mean as a snake
*kind of a slut

and i am so ashamed of it that i avoid high school conversations like the plague.



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

Thistle

Thistle

SUICIDEGIRL

California, USA

OCT 14, 2008 09:51 PM

Most of the popular kids from my hometown are still there.

The popular kids from the rich towns near mine are all doing rich kid shit like starting businesses and working in finance.

I wasn't treated uniformly poorly by the popular kids, so I don't resent them.

RileyStClair

RileyStClair

Los Angeles, CA
September 2006

OCT 14, 2008 11:04 PM

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.

miserabelle

miserabelle

United Kingdom
April 2007

OCT 15, 2008 03:16 AM

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

RudieCantFail

RudieCantFail

Baton Rouge, LA
January 2006

OCT 15, 2008 04:07 AM

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

Weatherpunk

Weatherpunk

Japan
June 2008

OCT 15, 2008 04:55 AM

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! wink

NewSpectre

NewSpectre

Baltimore, MD
March 2005

OCT 15, 2008 06:21 AM

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

Suri

Suri

SUICIDEGIRL

Pennsylvania, USA

OCT 15, 2008 07:54 AM

JuliusChurch said:

Suri said:

mightymur said:


If you have no "high school was hell" stories, then you're not terribly interesting in many social circles. Especially if your stories revolve around, "I made high school hell for others."



i was a popular kid (a Heather)

*a cheerleader
*honor roll
*mean as a snake
*kind of a slut

and i am so ashamed of it that i avoid high school conversations like the plague.



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



oh good

Perdita

Perdita

SUICIDEGIRL

I'm lost

OCT 15, 2008 05:32 PM

Suri said:

JuliusChurch said:

Suri said:

mightymur said:


If you have no "high school was hell" stories, then you're not terribly interesting in many social circles. Especially if your stories revolve around, "I made high school hell for others."



i was a popular kid (a Heather)

*a cheerleader
*honor roll
*mean as a snake
*kind of a slut

and i am so ashamed of it that i avoid high school conversations like the plague.



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



oh good



I was mean as a snake too but that's about it. It still bothers me. I'd like to think people can grow and change. At any rate I still like you too. smile

gutterpunk4u

gutterpunk4u

Pewaukee, WI
May 2004

OCT 17, 2008 01:12 PM

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.

Kleio

Kleio

Winona, MN
January 2006

OCT 17, 2008 01:28 PM

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.

Suri

Suri

SUICIDEGIRL

Pennsylvania, USA

OCT 18, 2008 03:00 PM

Perdita said:

Suri said:

JuliusChurch said:

Suri said:

mightymur said:


If you have no "high school was hell" stories, then you're not terribly interesting in many social circles. Especially if your stories revolve around, "I made high school hell for others."



i was a popular kid (a Heather)

*a cheerleader
*honor roll
*mean as a snake
*kind of a slut

and i am so ashamed of it that i avoid high school conversations like the plague.



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



oh good



I was mean as a snake too but that's about it. It still bothers me. I'd like to think people can grow and change. At any rate I still like you too. smile



i'm glad to be liked

i like you!!

Cigarette

Cigarette

Cleveland, OH
April 2004

OCT 18, 2008 06:45 PM

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.

fountainofdreams

fountainofdreams

Batavia, IL
January 2005

OCT 19, 2008 07:06 PM

Cigarette said:
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.

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