What group did you hang out with in High School?

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hypochondriac

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im going to refer to my last 2 years in High School.Ages 17 an 18.
I was at a new school and honestly it was like joining a new exciting social club. It was a huge school with over 100 students in my grade alone.
Though I was more of a jock I really much preferred the nerds. We had some really interesting and intellectual guys who I learnt a lot from.They were way out of my league but that made them all the more fascinating. Topics were history psychology poltics and religion.
I gravitated to the nerds but we had such an open group that I could be meeting diffrwnt people every weekend.
My parents were very social and welcoming. We somtimes had 15 people T my house. Our home became an alternative meeting place to pubs or coffee shops. coffee shops werent popular in those days where i lived.
Several of the people in our class went on to high status jobs such as company economic advisers lawyers and systems engineers. no doctors but still šŸ˜
 

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My family moved 3 times during my high school years...3 separate states. The first year and a half in PA I had lots of popular friends, same in my second year in MD. But when I came in during the middle of my Junior year in VA near DC, I was totally ostracized by the females..especially the cheerleaders. They hated me the very day I arrived, literally.

I basically had one good girlfriend for that year and a half.... a very good friend I will never forget and who made a huge positive impact on my life. She was a friend to all and respected by all though not a part of the in-crowd. She stayed focused on her values, her studies, and her faith.
 
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Definitely not one of the in-crowd but was part of a large group of fun loving kids. We didn't think much about the future or high grades. Our afternoons were spent in the soda shop. Weekends, roller skating,listening to music or going to the movies. We never got into trouble. We all came from a middle class background and I guess our parents where happy we were good kids and sooner or later we would find our way in life,which we all did.
 
I hung with everybody. I was a social animal, back then. I was NHS President, and Students for Biafra President. I got along with the jocks, because I was an All-City swimmer, and the hippies, because I was the leader of my rock band.

My school went from 99% White, to 87% Black, in the four years I was there. Getting along was the name of the game, and I was a skilled player.

Good times, good memories.
 
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Hypochondria: "It was a huge school with over 100 students in my grade alone."
That's so funny. My grade had thousands.
As for your question: I was a truant.
 
I hung out with the music šŸŽ¶ geeks. Being in some bands I knew a lot of musical kids.
Then I knew friends of my brothers and we all hung out together.
It was fun. Sort of. šŸ˜…

For the most part though I was a loner trying to fit in and never quite did. I was ok with that.
 
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Senior High School was a privilege to experience. My one regret is my lack of application in regard to study. i missed out on some good courses and good universities. I dropped science in rhe final year but in hindsight that wad a mistake because i needed it to get into Psychology.
 
Missed out on courses?
I left home at 16 so wrote my own school notes.
Actually I wrote all my school notes the entire time and only attended classes I liked and I hated math.

I failed grade 9 math three times and figured I was terrible at it. Later when I went back to adult high school to pick up the classes I needed to become a nutritionist, I did much better but still donā€™t like math . šŸ¤“
 
High school in the USA, I hung out with the brainy guys and the school library was our gathering place....the term 'nerd' hadn't been invented yet.
Girls weren't in the picture for me, except in fantasies.
I had to take algebra three times myself.
 
I rarely went to school. I would write letters to excuse myself in someone elses name..I know-bad girl. I hung with the druggies when I happened to show up. I was not popular and had few friends. At least I had some šŸ˜„

I was a good student at times and even accused of having someone much older write my papers. It was not so. All in all it was horrible.
 
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I rarely went to school. I would write letters to excuse myself in someone elses name..I know-bad girl. I hung with the druggies when I happened to show up. I was not popular and had few friends. At least I had some šŸ˜„

I was a good student at times and even accused of having someone much older write my papers. It was not so. All in all it was horrible.
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that shows how conservative my upbringing was. Our town was only about 15 000 population. very few drugs or druggies in the town let alone school.
and i would never dare play truant. my aunt was a nun and the principal of my junior high school.
 
hypochondriac said:
that shows how conservative my upbringing was. Our town was only about 15 000 population. very few drugs or druggies in the town let alone school.
and i would never dare play truant. my aunt was a nun and the principal of my junior high school.
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Small town upbringing was probably better than mine.
 
I gamed the system in my Senior year: Everyone else went to home room, and then skipped classes, during the day. They got cut notices, and got in big trouble. I skipped home room, and then went to the few classes I needed, in order to pass them. I still have my report card booklet. I had thirty-six absences for the thirty-six week school year! My home room teacher was very cool. I can't remember handing in more than a few excuse letters, yet she never reported me. Thanks, Ms. Ledbetter!
 
I was a "bad boy" fast cars group in H.S. Hung out in the Campus Grill across the street in the mornings, at lunch but had to work after school. The real bums hung out in the bowling alley across the street from the school.
 
I had to give this a lot of thought. I really didn't hang out with any group, per se', but if I had to pick which one group that I hung with the most, I guess it would be the jocks, except for the wrestlers. I despised those guys. Do wrestlers ever shower or change underwear? They always smelled like sweat.
 
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I had to give this a lot of thought. I really didn't hang out with any group, per se', but if I had to pick which one group that I hung with the most, I guess it would be the jocks, except for the wrestlers. I despised those guys. Do wrestlers ever shower or change underwear? They always smelled like sweat.
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I have a lot of respect for wrestlers. My oldest son wrestled. Three years in High School and four years in college. But then I don't like cops. So I guess we're even now. :cool:
 
Trade said:
I have a lot of respect for wrestlers. My oldest son wrestled. Three years in High School and four years in college. But then I don't like cops. So I guess we're even now. :cool:
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You have to know me, but I was only kidding about despising wrestlers. I used to kid them all the time about taking showers. It was just a kind of teasing thing.

I know you don't like cops. I've read a few of your posts. I have a friend (yes, friend) that doesn't like cops, but he likes me. You can not like the uniform, but still like the person. Just think what this country would be like if we didn't have cops.
 


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