Were you the popular kid in High School? - Page 6

TristanDSP · #76 10-12-2005, 01:22 PM

Since I went to a wierd ass Arts School for 8 years, the band dorks, actors and dancers were the popular kids cause we didn't have sports.

I was friends with most of the popular kids, but I wouldn't have considered my group of close friends "popular".

DeltAlum · #77 10-12-2005, 01:23 PM

Totally off the subject, but I'm always amazed when these threads re-surface after two years.

PhoenixAzul · #78 10-12-2005, 01:23 PM

I was somewhere out in left court, not on any list, and not on anyone's radar, and I liked it that way. I was a 4 year letterman in swimming, 3 year letterman in tennis, and a letterman in crew. I had a 4.0 and did Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science, so I got put in the honors classes with the rest of my nerdy wonderful ilk. But I'm also a punk and straightedge. So I don't drink, I donn't smoke, I don't do drugs, and I went to a ton of concerts and wore band tshirts. I got a lot of shit from my attempts to start a gay-lesbian alliance (now if you want to talk about torture, man those kids got it), got shit for my political views (don't you love america, terrorist? (this coming from a person who couldn't tell the difference between Iraq and Saudi Arabia)) and got shit for pretty much everything else.

My best friends were goth guys and I love them so much.

My high school was, no exageration, preferential to football. If you're from Pittsburgh, you know of Perry High football, especially my senior year...undefeated, unscored upon. Those guys were GODS. They didn't have to show up if they didn't want to...and everyone else was dispensable. I was too smart to be a jock, too jock to be a nerd, too weird to be anything else, and too ugly to be popular...so I just did my thing. I don't talk to many people from high school, as I'm one of 5 people to go out of state from a class of 250+. It is really hillarious to look back and see how many "beautiful popular" people are now pregnant and slovenly at Mcdonalds with no education.

Honeykiss1974 · #79 10-12-2005, 02:32 PM

I was a shade under popular - I guess you could say well liked. I was just friends with everybody.

My school had about 2,700 students so being popular amounted to people knowing who YOU were. Most of the "popular" kids were those that did a lot of activities, got good grades, had money, and were actually friendly to other people. I recall being the editor of the video yearbook and putting all my friends in it. If someone werer to look at that, they would probably think "man, you guys must have been popular" . LOLOLOL

I just remembered that everyone was so jealous because I did the morning announcements everyday over the intercom (which was the "it thing" to do because people KNEW who you were).

Cripes! The stuff that was soo important back then. LOL

Rollergirl2001 · #80 10-12-2005, 03:28 PM

I was quite a loner in high school. I had to move away from my friends. In ninth grade, I was so geeky and ugly that I didn't kave any friends. I wore those pink framed glasses becasue I broke out with my other glasses. Someone called me a band nerd. My aunt gave me a pep talk that those people are jealous and I was beautiful. I didn't believe at that time. Then, to make matters worst, in math class whenever we had to work in groups, I had to work by myself and the teacher didn't care! I wanted to tryout for cheerleading to gain popularity, but I couldn't. Now, there were people that started to approach me towards the end of the year. But it was too late for them, because I wanted to transfer to another school. I wanted to transfer to Bartlett High to be with my friends again, but I couldn't.

So I went to a city high school that is half black and half white. I made a few friends here and there. At the end of my sophmore year, I wanted to try out for cheerleading, but my grandmother was totally against the idea. So, no go for cheerleading. I was in several clubs,however (Softball Club, Beta Club, Jaycettes, newspaper, etc.).

Now, in my junior year, I would sit with a mixture of balck and white people. What pissed me off is that the black girls would talk about us because a white girl sit with me and 3 other black girls. It just goes to show you that there are ignorant people at high school that have less money than you and they are popular. Uggghhh... I hated high school.

In simplest terms, I wasn't really popular.

Tickled Pink 2 · #81 10-12-2005, 03:35 PM

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Originally posted by Honeykiss1974
I was a shade under popular - I guess you could say well liked. I was just friends with everybody. My school had about 2,700 students so being popular amounted to people knowing who YOU were. Most of the "popular" kids were those that did a lot of activities, got good grades, had money, and were actually friendly to other people. I recall being the editor of the video yearbook and putting all my friends in it. If someone werer to look at that, they would probably think "man, you guys must have been popular" . LOLOLOL

I just remembered that everyone was so jealous because I did the morning announcements everyday over the intercom (which was the "it thing" to do because people KNEW who you were).

Cripes! The stuff that was soo important back then. LOL

Me too - I was well-liked. Although during a conversation w/ one of my friends they were like - "you were always one of the popular kids".... I'm thinking - NOT.

Also, one of my friends was on the yearbook committee. About 3 yrs ago I got a copy of our yearbook from our school and was looking at my profile - I was thinking : "I did all of that???"

My friend said "You know she hooked all of us up!" LOL!

ADqtPiMel · #82 10-12-2005, 04:03 PM

I moved into my high school as a freshman, so I was always kind of on the edge and never had a clique. I hung out mostly with college kids at Wright State and kind of ignored the other high schoolers.

Looking back, I guess I was fairly popular, but I didn't really pay attention to social status at the time.

ISUKappa · #83 10-12-2005, 04:15 PM

Everyone knew who I was (in a high school of 450, it's not that difficult) but I wouldn't consider myself "popular" in high school. I didn't really go to parties--I was too busy with other things and most of my friends didn't drink (I was part of the smart/artistic/drama/music crowd.) We were all well-liked but not necessarily considered "cool."

Sister Havana · #84 10-12-2005, 04:50 PM

I was kind of a floater too. I wouldn't consider myself popular, but I wouldn't consider myself totally unpopular in high school. (Grade school was another story...) I was involved in a lot of things (newspaper, Operation Snowball, student government, choir, literary magazine, Jayteens, etc) and I took honors classes in English and social studies but not math, so I got to know people from all different groups. I was friends with a lot of people who weren't really friends with each other.

I didn't really date in high school...I was that girl who was every guy's friend, but nobody's girlfriend. I did have kind of a core group of friends and I'm still in touch with most of them today. (I'm in touch with more of my high school friends than my college friends, go figure!)

Buttonz · #85 10-12-2005, 05:32 PM

My high school class had 53 kids. I was friendly with almost everyone but I wasn't considered poplular at all

KSUViolet06 · #86 10-12-2005, 11:19 PM

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Originally posted by Buttonz
My high school class had 53 kids. I was friendly with almost everyone but I wasn't considered poplular at all

I find it suprising that there actually were cliques in a class of 53.

LightBulb · #87 10-13-2005, 12:50 AM

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Originally posted by JocelynC
I find it suprising that there actually were cliques in a class of 53.

Nah, there are cliques everywhere. I had em in my (all-girls) high school (86 in my graduating class) and even in my (co-ed) grade school (60 in my graduating class).

I wasn't in the popular clique, which didn't bother me because I had better friends in another circle. I had no desire to be best friends with the most popular girls, though I was friendly with everyone in my grade and in many of the other grades. Senior year, my classmates voted me Most Unforgettable.

amycat412 · #88 10-13-2005, 02:20 AM

I was well known and a cheerleader/dance team member, but I never considered myself part of the A crowd. I was friendly with them, but had my own group of friends. Since HS when I run into people they all swear they knew who I was, that everyone did, but my friends and I sort of operated in our own little universe.

Have been out of HS for MANY MANY years and am closer to my 20 year reunion that I'd like to admit, but... still friends with my HS set AND we all agree that we love each other, but college and post college were way better than high school.

#89 10-13-2005, 06:47 PM

I would have to say I was on the B list.......I had a lot of A lister friends but not really outside of school. I played basketball and that helped more than anything because our team was so stinking awesome.....(state runner up senior year). My main mission in hs was to make people laugh and get into Baylor. I was voted "Best Sense of Humor," nominated for "Most Beautiful" and graduated with an 94 average. I had a couple of good friends who were huge dorks though....so maybe that hurt me..but I didn't care, they were great friends. I would say I did pretty good. Freshman and Senior year were the best.

a.e.B.O.T. · #90 10-13-2005, 06:53 PM

I was coined as most popular... not because everyone liked me, or atleast feared me, but because everyone knew me. I went to high school were no one stepped up really... except me, and I did it all, I was the KTV anchor, KTV editor, yearbook staff, class council, student council, french club, MUN, newspaper, Theatre, Speech... the list kind of goes on, I was the 'butt' I like to say. Everyone sat on me, IE relied on me to do all the work, and casted me out as the weirdo cause I took on all the work. If i had time to eat lunch, I sat alone. Alot of people were my friend, but I had no close friends in high school, just hi hows it going relationships. When I went to college however, I was/am one of the most popular to catch up with, and I dont know why that really is, but it is