Great article....I have always wondered about that too.

I was in the band in high school. Well, I still am really, being a classical musician now. Doing what I absolutely love! And when I went back to my reunion, after way too much agony and indecision about whether or not to go, I learned something that made me pretty happy.

If you had gone to that reunion, you would have found that they really are lost out on that island. It was almost depressing how clear a line it was. The popular kids, the jocks, the cheerleaders, those types, were in one group, and us geeks and, well, normal folks were in others. The popular ones were desperately trying to relive high school. Clearly it was the top of their life.

Us geeks just sat back and made fun of them.

But you're right. They did seem to disappear. After high school, they seemed to fall off the planet. Although, I do remember seeing them every once in a while. I remember seeing former football players working at local gas stations. I remember hearing about former cheerleaders dropping out of college to go to (really!) beauty school, or real estate school.

It really did make me feel better, in some slightly evil way, to know that those kids that I despised in high school, the ones that ruled the school and thought that made them thusly rule the universe, really did drop off the planet afterwards.

The funny thing is I see some of those people now and they are always really cool with me. Ten years ago they didn't give a damn about me, but now they want to know what I've been up to. Luckily I've mastered the art of acting like a care until they walk away.

Facebook is quite an amusing tool to snoop on people i really did not get on with at school.

I'm a bit confused.

i understand perfectly, but i'm not sure how to explain it.

I was kinda wondering about that myself. ^^^ A little confusion.

I never had the full experience of HS dropped out in my sophomore year.

Did have a crush on a girl I am still sometimes curious about. Amanda the only girl I think really recognized me. Granted I didn't have the guts to approach her.

But that is all ancient history.

On a website known for its freaks and geeks, I'm sure most of us can relate to this article.

As someone has already mentioned, it's rather easy these days to see what those people in high school are doing now. My unscientific research shows that most of the popular girls are married with children, some of them didn't even wait until leaving high school. Most of them have the same kind of boring jobs most people have; working in customer service or middle management, while an unsurprising amount are stay at home moms. I don't know that this is any different than the geeks, though, and it probably isn't.

As far as the guys, most of them are still as douchy now as they were then. You see these guys everyday, they make up the majority of the male population. They amplified their frat boy lifestyle in college, and continue to live that life to this day with "their boys".

In essence, nothing really changes after high school; people are still cliquey and judgmental, I see it everyday, even on this website.

Reminds me of a Buddhist parable:

I'm interested in seeing some of these Bloom County inspired campaign signs, if you happen to still have one hidden away somewhere.

It's funny how the Theatre Dept. is kind of the catch all waiting area for all the Geeks and Freaks, trying to finish H.S. intact. That's where I went to get away from jock bullies, and the popular girls who didn't know I was alive.

And I've never left.

Still today I work in theatre, avoid jocks in bars and still feel very geeky around pretty women. Where ever I've gone I've always felt a popular crowd developing. It tends to make me uncomfortable. Unless I'm in the centre of it. So I still get to define that group as geeky and feel comfortable again.

On a rare occasion I run into people who were on the fringes of the H.S. Popular crowd. Usually when I'm working a Country - Rock show or Christmas Shopping. I don't recognize them for the most part. Unless they say hi first and I scramble through my brain to remember their names. They all look very normal, around my age and tend to have kids.

I think the popular crowd works in retail management for the most part. I thank god I've never had to be in retail management. because you have to sell shit to people who really don't need it.

<~~~ AV Squad
<~~~ Carried all books in a backpack and didn't use locker until late Sophomore year
<~~~ AP Comp Sci in grade 10
<~~~ Punched in face by "cool kid" for walking past his group

High School sucked until I started smoking a lot of pot. Stoners are great friends.

I was unpleasantly surprised by how much like high school the corporate world is. Thankfully I'm on the design team, so it's cool nerds ahoy.

No one is perfect, Mur, and the fact is you have made a lot of yourself since high school. That means a lot. It may not be enough for you sometimes, but that's how life is.

I think this is the real story in most of the case.

I'm in school now to be an investment banker. Most of the people I associated with in high school are also going to be investment bankers, accountants, consultants(lol nerds), and marketing execs.

the girls for the most part have become teachers. I think you can look at that two ways. The pessimistic view is that education is the easiest major at most colleges, I hope this isn't the case. The other, nearly as pessimistic view, is that they became teacher to get back to school, since school is where they hit their prime.