Were you the popular kid in High School? - Page 3

AOII_LB93 · #31 09-12-2003, 11:42 PM

Well I wouldn't have condsidered myself popular at all, but I was on varsity cheer for 3 years and took honors classes and all that. I knew everyone, people knew me, but I was not considered A list in anyway...(if I was I didn't know it).

I can ask...my reunion is in a couple weeks. =)

I ran into people I didn't really hang with in HS at a club not far from my mom's place one night a while back, but they knew who I was and remembered me by name...so that was cool anyhow.

Glitter650 · #32 09-13-2003, 02:33 AM

Well I guess I'm somewhat a B-list ... I was involved in Drama, cheerleading, choir, leadership etc and I had friends.... but my school was sooo diverse that there was no way you were popular with everyone. My high school draws from one of the wealtiest areas in the country, as well as some not too well off areas AND from MANY MANY different ethnicities, unfortunately there wasn't too much mixing due to the fact that most had gone to seperate Jr. Highs and just stuck with their friends from there once they arrived in HS and the fact that the AP courses kinda segregate kids anyway... MY POINT is that since that existed... you could be the most popular in your "type" or whatever but there was always a group that was so different from you that they couldn't give a #$% who you were or what you did.

ladybug1116 · #33 09-13-2003, 03:09 AM

I don't know where I fit in, much like many of the posts indicate here. I knew a ton of people and was friends with people in a lot of different groups but my high school was INCREDIBLY cliquey (small-ish southern town with quite a bit of old $$) Anyway I had a core group of people I was close with but I was never in the "core" of the "core" if you know what I mean. I always had something to do and was never hurting for friends but I think at the time I envied not being the "center" of what was going on. I was involved in a variety of clubs, voted a Senior Superlative by my classmates, and was voted 1st runner up in my "Miss ______ High School" Pageant. I ran into someone from back home and we were reminiscing and she said "yeah we always thought you were too busy to hang out with us" which is kind of funny b/c I thought they were too busy for me!

#34 09-13-2003, 03:12 AM

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Originally posted by KillarneyRose
Sandy at a Catholic school. Hmmm, I think we now know where Britney got the idea for her "Hit Me Baby, One More Time" video

Mwahahahaha. Damn, and I thought they'd never find out!

Sistermadly · #35 09-13-2003, 03:38 AM

I hung out with people from every group. I was sort of on the periphery, but I knew a lot of different people and they all knew me. Not too shabby for a girl from the "wrong side of the tracks".

I think that's why I'm able to relate to so many different people now.

TriDeltaGal · #36 09-13-2003, 04:25 AM

My high school was very much the stereotypical "All-American" high school when it came to who ruled campus i.e. the "jocks" (our football team won the city championship like four years in a row) and the "snobs". There was very rigid "coolness" divisions: think the movie "Jawbreaker"; I had friends who would actually throw food and religiously pick on the non-cool kids. It's really quite funny considering we were part of the Los Angeles school district and when you think of that you think gang bangers and riots. However, it was pretty far from since we were in one of the nicer surburban areas. I was a cheerleader for four years and; cheerleading was a huge thing at my high school like 300 girls would try out for 25 spots. Thus, because I was a cheerleader, I was thrust into the A list immediately. (I feel so weird saying that...it feels so pretentious...I don't think I ever really thought about this before). However, I, as many of my best friends, were also the leaders in student council and clubs, taking AP classes, and cared about our grades unlike many of the other A-list people.(This might be the reason why so many of them are doing nothing with their lives now and living vicariously through their past "coolness"). I loved my high school experience... going to parties and being on Homecoming court but I think I realized early on that high school only lasts for four years and I should look to my future.

Imthachamp · #37 09-13-2003, 06:07 AM

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Originally posted by sigmanuzk
<<<<<<<<<<Voted most Popular and Best personality, I was in everything from Sports and ASB to the yearbook, newspaper and Mock trial.

hrmm, what high school did you go to? im thinkin i might have played against yall if you played basketball...football...or baseball.

DG515 · #38 09-13-2003, 06:32 AM

I was one of the snobs until the beg. of my senior year. And no, i'm not talking A lister, I'm talking like C lister that treats everone else like she felt she was being treated. I was such a follower, my "Friends" told me that we shouldn't be nice to anyone because no one was nice to us. And I actually bought that crap up until I went to Germany for the summer. I was part of a HS summer abroad program through IU and I went and met all kinds of different "levels" of popularity and I loved each and everyone. I talked with them and learned they felt as mistreated by my group as I was lead to believe they treated us. So when I came back, I wasn't intimidated by the different levels and started being a floater. I was a floater for a couple of months and then I settled comfortably into the B list. I was best girl friend to all the guys (I was on stage crew), first chair clarinet in band and orchestra, make-shift drummer for pepband, on stage in drama, student government, Asst Editor for yearbook and one of the most successful class skippers in my HS history :-D *Hey, i busted balls for 3 years, i deserved it!* I hung out with Jocks, Drama kids, Newspaper staff, Cheerleaders, Band members, the oddballs...everyone. And needless to say, my old friends called me a conformist, self-absorbed and a popularity seeker. They said i was fake, I was a B***H and I didn't deserve to have any friends. So I guess I kind of lied earlier, I didn't hang out with them much, but I realized they did nothing but bring people down that came into contact with them. I don't regret HS at all, because having the experiences I've had really has helped shape me into the person I am today and without that having happened, I don't know if I would like the person I would be.
Greek Love and Mine,
Mandie

Tom Earp · #39 09-13-2003, 09:24 AM

Going to H S picnic, ( 3 Class Years ).

I have usually found that the hoitie toities turned out to be the least upgraded, and the wall flowers really blossomed out!

One of the BMOC ended up being a bus driver for the city.

One of the filter into the hall walls, became a spook for the CIA!

Hell go figure. Many more storys as we had large graduating classes. LOL!

Kevlar281 · #40 09-13-2003, 11:57 AM

I went to school and I came home. Other then Ice Hockey I had zero social involvement with people from my school. I was pretty jaded as a teenager.

MeLikey · #41 09-13-2003, 04:48 PM

I was a high B-lister. Most of the "popular" girls were snobs, so I wouldn't have wanted to hang out with them anyway. I was friends with the nice popular kids because we had a lot of classes together. I had my tight group of girls- 9 of us all together. We all had friends from different groups outside of our own group (because of the other sports they played) and so I was friends with their friends as well. I was extremely active in high school, involved in a lot of clubs holding offices, was an editor for the newspaper, and did sports-- which led to numerous friendships from other grades as well. So I was friends with a lot of different groups as well as my own close group of friends.

CC1GC · #42 09-13-2003, 05:04 PM

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Originally posted by Kevlar281
I went to school and I came home. Other then Ice Hockey I had zero social involvement with people from my school. I was pretty jaded as a teenager.

hockey in texas? give me a break