I was a bit of a thug !!

I somehow managed to get in with the wrong crowd,,,,i think it was because the school bully (Joan built like a brick shit house :( ) told me i had to be in her gang or else !!! :rolleyes:

I really wanted to be the blonde cheerleader type though They got all the boys,,,our gang didnt cus the boys were all scared of Joan :eek:
I guess i kinda drifted in and out of bad gang and the good gang though,,,i think the good gang felt sorry for me cus they knew if i left the bad gang id get beaten to a pulp !!

Does that make sense ???

What kinda kid were u in high school??

Jock
Cheerleader
Nerd
Geek
Swat

?????????

LOL, I guess my friends and I were "regular"----that is, we weren't bad kids, but we weren't good either, lol, ---we cheated on tests now and then, ( we were quite creative), didn't do homework, smoked, skipped school now and then.... I was on the drill team but was too unathletic to be a cheerleader---I remember when a friend of mine killed our Oceanography teacher's mean and horrid pet crab, Herman, who was a beast and who sat on our lab desk and we had to FEED him--he was as big as a dinner plate--you should have seen him eat....he would literally rip cute little hermit crabs and other creatures to bits and then stuff the remains into his horrid mouth--we were not sorry to see him go bye-bye--teacher was mad tho---he never found out who did it, lucky for us.

I've been homeschooled...but I guess you could say I was the quiet, shy type...I made quite an art out of being invisible ;)

I was the Jock back in Taiwan. When I moved to Florida to start 9th grade I had stopped growing and had been a reader for a while, so slowly faded out of the Jock clique and was pretty much the Good Student for a while, even though I remained atheletic. The last two years of high school though I was elevated to the math genius status. It was pretty dramatic since usually this sort of thing about a person is usually known pretty early on. But I was a jock before, so nobody knew. I became kind of famous because my name would be announced frequently on the intercom about what state/regional calculus award I had won again. This allowed me to be outside of niches and be friends with quite different kind of students. I was also a big gamer. By the last year of HS I started getting into drama/movies and thought being a very good student was boring (especially after being accepted to college already), so I started hanging out with the Artsie, the Drama Kids, and some Goths. Somehow because I was a really good baller, I was also friends with the Thugs and the Ballers all throughout high school. So by the time I graduated I had friends from all kinds of school niches.

What kinda kid were u in high school??
Interesting question Red.

For me, it is a melange of the gamer geeks and academic nerds that I hang out with. Mainly due to the fact that the other groups are usually too shallow and stupid to walk straight, but who's keeping track of that? Not me. I know a great deal of jocks having been a starter on the football team through junior high and into freshman year, but I wouldn't say I fall into their category. Due to my politics and musical/artistic taste, the indie rockers/artists are among my acquaintances, and the goths or preppies never make contact with me unless they ask me a question (I am a school guru of sorts, always recruited to aide in a mental or schoolwork debacle):(. I've been in high school 2 years, and have another 2 ahead of me, but I don't fit into a "group" really, because I'm a "loner." Too shy and quiet to be very sociable.

Fiddlesticks.

Cliques are stupid. High school is stupid. What I find especially amusing are all the little chilluns who try to be "counterculture" and "different" and such and end up conforming just like everyone else. Personally, I don't care what groups I happen to fit into and what groups I don't. People will attach labels to you, but attaching them to yourself is a sign of a weak mind. My motto is, live your life, and don't give two shits as to what others think of you. Trying to make everyone else happy is doomed to failure anyway.

Cliques are stupid.
Way to be a killjoy.
High school is stupid.
A truly intelligent comment, to be sure.
People will attach labels to you, but attaching them to yourself is a sign of a weak mind.
Finding a niche to "fit in" is normal social behavior for all children, Dr. Phil.
My motto is, live your life, and don't give two shits as to what others think of you.
More dazzling eloquence.

Believe it or not, I was a radical. I published an underground newspaper that sent the school administrators into periodical fits of rage. Needless to say, I was rather popular and all of the teachers loved me. Except for the dolt who 'taught' Journalism, that is.

Except for the dolt who 'taught' Journalism, that is.
I thought it was just a playground myth that journalism teachers were incompetent loons.

Geek or nerd - I'm not sure what the difference is.

What's a swat?

Geek or nerd - I'm not sure what the difference is.
Let me put it in simple, succinct terms: A geek is a Star Wars fan, a nerd is a Star Trek fan. Let your mind do the "figuring out."

Cliques are stupid. High school is stupid. What I find especially amusing are all the little chilluns who try to be "counterculture" and "different" and such and end up conforming just like everyone else. Personally, I don't care what groups I happen to fit into and what groups I don't. People will attach labels to you, but attaching them to yourself is a sign of a weak mind. My motto is, live your life, and don't give two shits as to what others think of you. Trying to make everyone else happy is doomed to failure anyway.
The interesting thing to study would be why the high school period is when this very specific group forming behavior and group identity searching is at its peak. As soon as you get into college, you find that this nonsense pretty much stops.

A truly intelligent comment, to be sure.
I'm sorry I didn't elaborate, Mr. I Am Better Than Everyone. High school, I have found, seems much more important at the time than it actually is, at least socially. I'm not attempting to comment on the education provided at that time, which is of paramount importance as it's college prep for some, and the last education many others will get. But the social aspect is a lot of pointless posturing and "fitting in", which I found to be utterly boring, useless, and far too time-consuming to be worth it. My comment about cliques and my comment about high school went hand-in-hand, as the former is an integral part of the latter. Quite often, the cliques will ostracize those who are not a part af it, which is antisocial behavior at best, and incredible arrogance at worst. This is what is stupid.
Finding a niche to "fit in" is normal social behavior for all children, Dr. Phil.
I agree, and it's not just with children. That doesn't excuse it from being hopelessly shallow, though.
More dazzling eloquence.
I'm afraid this "sentence" lacks a verb, and I think my statement was quite succinct. Can you tell me, without being an arrogant and patronizing little fuck, what you find at fault with it?

I was what in my day was called a Rock. A rock would be the antithesis of a nerd. We were hardasses. We worked on cars, smoked, fought, and got into trouble outside school. We wore pegged pants, or jeans with garrison belts and engineer boots. Outside school we always had a cigarette in our mouth and a pack rolled up in the sleeve of our tee shirt. I was expelled from high school in my senior year for selling fire crackers in school. (They are illegal in New York State) When the principal checked my locker for fireworks he found a large knife I had there. I was allowed back in school only because the assistant principal had known me since I was four years old and pulled some strings.

My guidance counselor told me to not go to college but to join the army instead, which was kind of funny since I was a straight A student who took all college prep classes. I was a wise ass punk but I was a smart wise ass punk.

After the army I went to college where I had a 3.8 cumulative average, had a triple major and was a member of Phi Alpha Theta international honor society of historians and students of history. I began studying for my Master's Degree while still a Junior in college.

Shows what guidance counselors know.

Interesting question Red.

For me, it is a melange of the gamer geeks and academic nerds that I hang out with. Mainly due to the fact that the other groups are usually too shallow and stupid to walk straight, but who's keeping track of that? Not me. I know a great deal of jocks having been a starter on the football team through junior high and into freshman year, but I wouldn't say I fall into their category. Due to my politics and musical/artistic taste, the indie rockers/artists are among my acquaintances, and the goths or preppies never make contact with me unless they ask me a question (I am a school guru of sorts, always recruited to aide in a mental or schoolwork debacle):(. I've been in high school 2 years, and have another 2 ahead of me, but I don't fit into a "group" really, because I'm a "loner." Too shy and quiet to be very sociable.

Fiddlesticks.

Evak, for some reason I've always pictured you as much older than a high-school student--possibly by your writing style.

I . The last two years of high school though I was elevated to the math genius status. It was pretty dramatic since usually this sort of thing about a person is usually known pretty early on. But I was a jock before, so nobody knew. I became kind of famous because my name would be announced frequently on the intercom about what state/regional calculus award I had won again.

Dio, I've always admired those who are smart in math.
Such things are beyond my intelligence--just ask my old algebra teacher.

X equals the opposite of B plus or minus the square root of the quantity B squared minus 4AC all divided by 2A.

And another!

Let f be a continuous real-valued function defined on a closed interval [a, b]. Let F be the function defined for x in [a, b] by F(x) equals the integral from a to x of f(t)dt. Then, F'(x)=f(x). Also, the integral from a to b of f(x)dx = F(b) - F(a).

Two very important statements in math.

the horror, the horror..........where were you when I needed someone to do my homework?

I was a "tomboy" in grade school. Everybody knew I could kick A@@
so they wouldn't mess with me. That goes for the boys as well. Now when
I was in jr.high & started to like boys, I figured I'd better stop beating
them up if I ever want a chance of dating any of them. Then I was
in my near fatal car accident & none of that seemed to matter by
the time I got back to school. (a year later)