your High School years:

did you love it? like it? hate or despise it? or was it just 'whatever'...

what high school was it? private or public?

did you do well academically, athletically, socially?

what kind of clique were you in, if any?

how important were your friends to you then? how important now?

8/25/2008 1:30:02 AM

I liked it ok, but I'm glad that I've forgotten basically everything about it

8/25/2008 1:30:29 AM

wtf.

Hated it.

Sanderson HS. Private.

None. Not cool enough for the goths (and they were supposed to be the uncool group.)

I had none.

8/25/2008 1:31:29 AM

here's mine:

my first high school, i absolutely HATED it. and it hated me.

a public suburban high school in Ohio, that was very athletically-focused

i was not athletic or popular and i did poorly in academics... even though i could ace all the standard achievement tests, i did terribly for grades, partly because i was lazy. partly because it "uncool" to be smart in my clique, the "dope heads".

i would have been a "nerd" but i couldnt stand the nerds. so i wound up gravitating to the "metal-head-dope-smoking-loser" crowd. that was my clique. they even rejected me, but i wouldn't go away, so i wound up becoming one by default.

my so-called "friends" were probably more important to me than anything else, though i wouldnt have admitted it at the time. now I don't talk to a single one of them, and havent since i left Ohio, years and years ago. they're all dead to me. hell, some of them actually are dead, or in prison.




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8/25/2008 1:39:19 AM

Homeschooled

hated it.

hurt me academically, athletically, and socially.

My mom controlled who my friends were, so they were okay but WAAY more religious than is healthy.

8/25/2008 1:40:36 AM

I don't remember much from HS. Waste of 4 years. I just played games. Although I did stab a guy with a sharpen pencil in 9th grade because he wouldn't give me my trapper keeper back and I threw a chair at a kid for stealing a dollar from my bookbag.

On another note, brought in a grenade (not a live one...) to middle school for show and tell.

8/25/2008 1:47:17 AM

high school:
goldsboro HS: no thanks. I did make two VERY good friends there, but shit got old real quick, between racism from the teachers, bullied by some kids, and the courses available
athens: eh. I kept to myself, skipped math class, butted heads with a teacher a time or two, and was otherwise content, given everything else.
page: not too bad. I'd have liked it a lot better if things hadn't been so miserable in the living arrangements. I had some good times there, too.
millbrook: eh. jr sucked; senior year was so much better.

So that answers the thread title

my HS years? They sucked, but had absolutely nothing to do with the schools, or the typical adolescent shit that makes HS suck for most people.
Public schools.
Academically: fucked around in 9th grade, and aced shit left and right the rest of the time.
No clique. I kept to myself for a good while, and had just a few good friends.
All my friends from HS are casual friends now. There's only one I wish I had been able to keep in touch with, still miss deeply, and wish I could thank. (Chris Shaw, from Page, for you GSO folks :hinthint: ). Back then, I kind of didn't care. Friends were secondary to survival.

8/25/2008 1:53:56 AM

more or less "Did HS prepare me for College?"

Fuck no.

8/25/2008 1:56:01 AM

more like, "high" school
this was me for 4 yrs =>

8/25/2008 1:57:37 AM

every 420 was like fighting the zombies.

8/25/2008 1:58:39 AM

I loved it.

All my teachers hated me except my autoshop teacher.
I got into a few fights and managed to escape a few as well.
I narrowly escaped jail on more than one occasion.
I intelligently avoided situations that could have led to jail on a lot of occasions.
I had some good friends from a few different social scenes.
I drank some beer and had some girlfriends.
Everything seemed important; no matter how insignificant it might seem now.
And I got into college somehow.

I wasn't the most popular person in the world, I didn't fuck A+ chicks, etc.
Life is what you make of it. If you didn't learn that in high school you might as well learn it now.

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8/25/2008 1:58:46 AM

i couldn't have cared less, i just treated it like a job

i am one of the rare ones who thoroughly enjoyed middle school though

[Edited on August 25, 2008 at 2:02 AM. Reason : thats better]

8/25/2008 1:59:35 AM

I used the principles of the Shock & Aww tactics mixed with a little prison survival guides. First day, just stab a motherfucker.

8/25/2008 2:00:09 AM

No you didn't.

8/25/2008 2:02:17 AM

wasn't first day, but it was the first first year.

<-- had a big temper and anger management problems in the past.

8/25/2008 2:05:51 AM

i liked it

8/25/2008 2:06:03 AM

^^hawt

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8/25/2008 2:06:11 AM

I got three day suspension for fighting some kid with a kickball. It was really funny cause we weren't throwing fists, we were acting like retards and just throwing and kicking the living shit out of the ball like 5 feet away. It was during gym class too. The other kid started to make fun of me for throwing like a girl, so I railed him in the head. 15 years of soccer helps.

8/25/2008 2:08:47 AM

i hit my intellectual peak in kindergarten. in the later years, i just refined my skills of bullshitting people.

8/25/2008 2:09:43 AM

my second High School i had a blast.

That one I only went for one year, my Senior year ... this was after my "homeless tour" where i knocked around Baltimore M.D, D.C, and Cleveland OH for about a year after dropping out of my first high school.

this was a different high school, because my parents had moved. now I had hair down to the middle of my back, drove a motorcycle to school, skipped classes with impunity, hung out at the mall, fucked a LOT of skanky chicks . didnt have a clique, really. hung out with whoever, mostly other long-hair types. Drank a shit ton of beer every goddamned weekend.

lots of fun that year. the teachers i think were kind of afraid of me. no one knew what to do with me. i was smart enough to pass tests and other than skipping class and smoking in the bathrooms, i didn't get in trouble.

problem was, all that heavy drinking at age 18-19 pretty much ruined me for ever being a social drinker again.

8/25/2008 2:12:58 AM

I didn't get a car or my license till I was 18... missed out. I also just walked or biked to school since it was just a mile away. Hated riding the bus.

8/25/2008 2:14:50 AM

One time,
This guy said he was going to kick my ass when we got off the school bus.
I told him that if he so much as touched me I was going to beat his ass.
And when we got off the bus he touched me on the shoulder as he said something along the lines of "I touched you."
So I punched him in the face and just kept throwing blows until the administrators broke it up.

Shit is funny as hell now that I think back to it, but I did get suspended at the time.

8/25/2008 2:17:31 AM

Quote :

"problem was, all that heavy drinking at age 18-19 pretty much ruined me for ever being a social drinker again."

Same thing happened to me freshmen year at college - I got so deep into it over the years that I can't have a beer in public, it'll become twelve.

8/25/2008 2:17:41 AM

I'm the opposite. One beer ends up being -12...

8/25/2008 2:20:16 AM

Quote :

"I got so deep into it over the years that I can't have a beer in public, it'll become twelve."

no shit. its sad, really, because i go out and have like one or two beers at a restaurant, its like fighting a demon possession to not turn it into twelve, or twenty.

8/25/2008 2:20:27 AM

after one beer I'd be like... I better not, gotta keep my figure.

8/25/2008 2:21:56 AM

WHEN IT HITS THE LIPS

ITS SO GOOD

8/25/2008 2:23:07 AM

I liked high school a lot. Was part of a few different cliques, so I had lots of good times. I was pretty much an undercover nerd, so I never skipped a single class (not until freshman year of college) eventhough we had an open-campus when I was there. Ran track and participated in a bunch of clubs and stuff. No car though, but I knew enough people that did so it was no big deal. Did pretty well with the ladies as well...

High school was actually pretty damn awesome, but I was glad to move on to the next phase of life.

8/25/2008 2:28:27 AM

^ okay, undercover nerd, you sound like you had the kind of experience that should be "normal"

did you go to college right after HS? what was your major, and how old were you wehn you graduated 4-year degree?

8/25/2008 2:32:16 AM

nerd, high school, and awesome... you can only have 2 of the 3.

8/25/2008 2:37:44 AM

Yes, I went to college right after HS... but to a community college. Got my 2 year degree in Biology (studying to be a chiropractor) and then transferred to State. I got down here and lost my mind with the new freedom and dropped out in 01. Went back in 03 changed my major to Media Comm and graduated in 05. I was 25.

Undercover nerd meant that while I was an athlete and partied and hung out a lot (never drank or smoked though), I was an honor student, in the astronomy club (used to work in our school's planetarium), counselor at a science camp every summer (where I was the resident electron microscopist), and interned at a chiropractor's office.

^Hence I had all 3.

8/25/2008 2:52:19 AM

sorry, don't believe it.

8/25/2008 2:53:56 AM

That's OK. But it's true. I was fairly popular, not class president-level, but still pretty good. I used to run the teen club scene hahaha.. damn those were the days. I used to choreograph hip hop dance routines for local groups and used to perform as well. My teen years were pretty sweet.

But anyway, this thread isn't about me. It's cool though man... next?

8/25/2008 2:59:27 AM

raleigh charter, public
liked it ok, wish there were more students in my class (56)
did well athletically (basketball and tennis) and well socially, but my head wasn't in the academics, though I did well enough on tests to do ok. Also I came in second in the science fair for some reason.
we didn't really have cliques

8/25/2008 2:59:58 AM

I thought it was alright. I went to a public school. I was in the academic/nerd clique

8/25/2008 3:01:34 AM

Quote :

"Got my 2 year degree in Biology"

lol, wut?

nevermind, whatever... interesting is that success in HS didn't really correspond to success at post-secondary education, at least for you, did it?

i mean, you wound up doing alright, finally, but with the way you described your high school success ... I dont know, i guess i would have thought you'd been straight through college and on to grad school or something.

i guess my purpose is with this thread, is did ANYONE have a normal high school (ie, happy and well-adjusted) and then go on to successfully execute their 4-year college career?



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8/25/2008 3:09:11 AM

I didn't finish mine in 4 years but I also did a shitload of internships so I actually had something to put on a resume after school

8/25/2008 3:13:17 AM

I basically dropped out of ncsu this semester, but I'm going to photo school currently. Pretty sure I'll go farther with photography than a textiles degree.

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8/25/2008 3:15:06 AM

I screwed up my internship. That def. didn't help things.

As far as the 2yr degree, that was what the comm. college offered. I sometimes regret that I stayed home and didn't just go away to school right away... but personal crap took over. But yeah, I def. didn't follow my academic path as planned. It's all good now though.. I'm building my own business and should be able to fully live off of that by next summer.

8/25/2008 3:29:46 AM

loved it- had a blast the entire time

8/25/2008 4:52:07 AM

high school was ok - it had it's moments

went to public school in the guilford county system...a pretty good HS (i think i saw a few years ago it was in the top 100 public schools or some shit like that)

i did well academically, but i never had to put much effort into it...graduated 24th in my class and got a 99th percentile on the ACT. i also did well athletically, but not at the school. played club lacrosse in the city where i was the starting goalie for 4 years (3 varsity). went to top 150 camps and was recruited to play in college. socially, well i had plenty of friends, but i never really hung out and partied...had too much other shit going on to waste time like that

i really wasn't in a clique. i mean i was in the band, so there was a little band geek stigma...but given that i was as big as most of our linemen, i didn't get shit for it (except from the coaches who wanted me to quit and play football). but i did the band because i really liked playing jazz and the high school had what was one of the best if not the best jazz bands in the state (we beat college jazz bands at competitions a few times)

i have only a few really close friends. i left NC for college and never looked back. most of them moved as well. in short, they don't mean anything to me, but not in a bad way

8/25/2008 5:05:01 AM

high school was ok - it had its moments.

also a guilford county school alumnus (Ragsdale). I did well enough academically, but never really had to study or work hard to keep a >4.0 gpa. This bit me in the ass when i got to college, as i couldn't coast on natural ability anymore.

I wasn't in a specific clique, i had a lot of friends that were geeks, preps, and everyone in between. I guess i was a tweener.

I don't really keep in touch with any of my HS friends now. Few of them went on to do anything with their lives last I heard or based on facebook.

8/25/2008 7:30:37 AM

it was ok I guess. around my junior or senior year, there were a lot of bomb threats/scares in charlotte and around the nation....so my high school basically became a police state

had a lot of friends....that was cool I guess

don't think too much about it

8/25/2008 7:36:32 AM

liked it

harrisonburg high school; public

mostly; i was on the track team but i wasn't any sort of superstar; yes

artsy/musicians/grunge kids, but had a lot of friends in different groups, too

i'm still good friends with everyone in our core group, but everyone's so spread out now...we still see each other at weddings and junk though

8/25/2008 8:23:40 AM

high school was fine

public

good enough to get into nc state; didnt care, spent most of my time in the theatre, decent

not really any

the people that i considered friends are still my friends, everyone else was just an acquaintance and as such, i havent kept up; not that i wish them harm, i just have more important things to do

8/25/2008 8:23:40 AM

I wouldn't say I hated it, but I wasn't exactly a huge fan of it. Everyone (And I mean EVERYONE) was a drug user, so it was a terrible environment to be in at that age.

8/25/2008 8:24:52 AM

Hated most of it except senior year...

i loved senior year....

8/25/2008 8:35:35 AM

It was pretty good, nothing to complain about.

Cardinal Gibbons/Sanderson HS | Private/Public

Academically I slacked but made good enough grades, athletically I played two years of soccer then stopped, socially I got invited to all the preppy parties, but I mostly hung out with nerds and stoners. But I would talk to anyone really.

Nerds and Stoners, but really I would to to the preps and jocks and anybody else who felt like talking, stoners just were the most fun to hang around with.

Not very important, I'd meet new friends all the time.

8/25/2008 8:51:04 AM

For the most part, I really hated high school and it hated me, and that's really all I'm going to say about that. Kinston High, public...I was your average all around student.

I'm still great friends with both of my close girl friends from HS, and still friends with about 5 others that I see at least once a year--some I see more of course.

8/25/2008 9:09:25 AM

I enjoyed high school.

HS#1 rural school in small town in Illinois had a lot of fun, did great socially and academically. wasn't into sport but did band chorus and drama so I could hang out with my GF at the time. No real cliques, it was really split down what level of classes you were taking (honors vs normal).

HS#2 Sanderson in Raleigh, It was my senior year and I didn't know a lot of people. Did great academically, socially It took a little time but I did make a few friends that I talk with now and then. I'm closer to people from HS#1 then HS#2.

8/25/2008 9:09:30 AM