How was your high school experience?

[toad]

Were they the glory days? Hell on earth? Were you a preppy, a stoner, a greasemonkey, a geek, an insert stereotype here?

Life was pretty miserable for me, but only because I made it so. Looking back, I missed out on so many opportunities to have fun, I guess because I was so intent on being "different" or whatever, because I didn't want to be one of aforementioned cliches.

Instead of tyring to better than everyone else, I wish I would have just gone out and got wasted every night. Like in college:) (Still, I learned about 1000 times more in college than I ever did in HS).

But even if you gave me a million dollars and the things I know today, there's no way in hell I'd go through high school again. No way.

You?

[bearded_cat]

1. They were great

mid seventies. Freedom and a great variety of music. Other things also, but I will leave it to others to add the best reasons that life was good. :)

[Birthmark]

5. Ah, the mid-70's!

From what little I remember, I had fun. ;)

[JanMichael]

2. Mixed bag. Mostly a good experiance though.

I was a decent athlete so I played baseball, wrestled and ended my senior year playing varsity soccer.

But dating was sporatic and I had my moments of humiliation.

While getting the letters in various sports I never really fit in with the TCU "GO HORNED TOADS" Christian mentality that dominated my HS's sport cliques.

Most of my friends were the people that were smart, talented, unmotivated, cynical and prone to drinking.

Needless to say I'm still proud of those people and know they did well. Why...Look at me?!

Who'd a thunk it?

[Maple]

3. Sucked majorly

Hated the place

[maxanne]

4. I hated high school

I did go out and get wasted all the time. It didn't help, just gave me a substance abuse problem.

I am a product of the sixties and seventies - a time when girls were still forbidden to take certain classes and do certain things. I was always told I couldn't take the classes I wanted. I couldn't take wood shop because I was a girl. I had to take cooking because I was a girl. I started a Boston Creme Pie fight in that class that is probably still a school legend. That perky little cheerleader shouldn't have pissed me off. I gave up on doing class work, and my grades plunged. Then I was told I couldn't take the classes I wanted because my grades were so bad. I could take anything I wanted, if I brought up my grades. I pointed out that if I was taking the classes I wanted, my grades would improve. I got a few detentions for that.

I was suspended 6 times in my junior year, and I was only there from September to November. The rules said expulsion after 3 suspensions in one year. I never knew why I got the treatment I got until the 20th reunion, which I attended, even though I was a drop out. Apparently my test scores were HIGH.

This was before folks really began to understand the connection to home and school. No one ever asked me if I was drinking or drugging. I was from a "good" family - so no one ever considered the fact that my mother was a raging alcoholic. I quit school at 16 to become a drug dealer - which in retrospect wasn't good career planning. ;-)

Eventually I got a GED. Eventually I started college - but I have yet to even get close to a degree. I will probably never finish. Those early choices have a real affect on our later lives - though you'd never have convinced me of it at 15 and 16.

School sucked profoundly for this misfit.

[Leftist78]

6. hellish nightmare

I wanted so desperately to fit in with what I perceived as the "cool" people. Things are so different in the real world. The "beautiful people" from my high school are nobodies now. They're insurance salesmen, mid-level managers at (insert mindless corporation here), soccer moms, and real estate agents. In my experience, the people who make the biggest impact on society are usually the outcasts. The creative people who were to weird to fit in are the ones that make it later on.

If it sounds like I have a chip on my shoulder it's because I do. It’s mostly because I look back on myself back then and I wish that person knew what I know now.

[KG]

7. SUCKED!

life was way cooler for me after i got out of HS.

[chimpymustgo]

8. Glory days.

Incredible fun.

[Skittles]

9. I went to three high schools

in England, Iowa and Illinois. And I was ALWAYS an independent who had a great time making fun of all the ridiculous "cliques".

[Deja Q]

10. I was called a geek, dweeb, nerd, narc, fag, sissy, god's joke, and others

And, yes, I'm only repeating the things told to my face.

The fact I'm not an insane psychopath is a miracle.

Okay, I may be weird but that's about it! :P

Welcome to DU! :D :bounce:

(edited subject title)

[Skittles]

25. I was always the new gal in school

when I was in the states, I was quite the talk - long blonde hair and an English accent. My first day in the lunch room I would always seek out that lonely, outcast guy sitting alone in the lunchroom and make a beeline for his table. I'd become friends with him and I'd STAY friends with him. YES INDEED.

[ScotTissue]

11. Miserable

I think the first day of class at a new high school, I got off the bus and this hideous, beautiful cheerleader asked me, "So what, are you a geek?" I said "no." But I was. God that burned me, and I don't really think I am over it yet.

[DS1]

12. What High School?

I was so busy living my own life that HS was basically a daily speed bump. It was completely unnecessary, didn't learn a damn thing, not for lack of trying, but lack of anything interesting being taught.

Social Studies sucked.
History? See Social Studies
Math, waste of time
Chemistry, waste of time
Design, cool
Wood shop, cool
English, :puke:
Law :freak:
Foreign languages, useless

[populistmom]

13. I was a nerd trapped in the body of a cheerleader

I tended to be very opinionated on social and political issues and not play the "game", but I'm fair haired, waspy looking and curvy, so I dealt with a lot of sexual harassment type shit. I tried to dress in black and wear my Doc Martens (late 80's), but I never mananged to quite pull it off. I hung out with the arty/theater types, but I found that with the males in the group, I'd always have to make the first move and take things very slowly. I'd frequently attract jocks, but hated them (along with their crassness), so therefore, I was "rude and bitchy" to most of that whole "popular crowd".

[gyopsy]

14. I didn't like it

Not to say I didn't have some good friends and didn't have a few good times in there some places. But for the most part, it was a quest of survival and I never felt quite right.

And no, I did NOT go to my high school prom but in retrospect, it's all good!

[bluestateguy]

15. Generally good

My reputation actually improved to the point that I was in the "upper-middle class" of the popularity hierarchy by the time I was a Senior. I was one of those kids who benefitted socially once everybody else in school matured a little bit.

I had my failures to be sure. I did not handle stress well and I never did find a girlfriend in spite of my increased popularity, but I had friends, things to do on the weekends and the respect of my classmates, which was a far cry from where I was in middle school, which was just sheer hell.

[RushIsRot]

16. I went to the "socially accepted & attended" high school but lived

on the other side of the tracks "so to speak." I was different without trying to be. It just came naturally. Still, nowadays I'm on the reunion committee as its treasurer. Rock and Roll and Elvis came along during my days in high school. I witnessed the arrival of a significant era. I have fairly decent memories of high school although I was never once invited to a party at another classmate's home during those days.

My best friend's dad owned a radio station, and we often visited the control room when the station was off the air and played DJ. He went on to become one. I tried that vocation once and learned that I didn't have the "gift of gab" necessary to succeed.

Ah, those teen years!

[Darth_Ole]

17. I hated high school.

I went to a huge high school, and the only people who really took a liking to me were some of the teachers.

It's not that people hated me or made fun of me, and I actually was in a few clubs and activities, but I had hardly any friends. I was typically by myself most of the time at lunch or wherever. I hated it.

[RushIsRot]

23. Guess I was pretty much a "loner" from the get-go.

I knew I wasn't like the rest and accepted it as best I could. I missed out on lots of kisses and goodness-knows what else, but I never fathered an unwanted baby either. I was actually a "virgin" when I got married for the first time. I later learned my wife didn't qualify. Now that term seems so silly.

[Skittles]

27. WHO TREATED MY ARGIOPE MAN BADLY

I'LL KICK THEIR ASS.

[RushIsRot]

33. Skittles, Darlin', I love it when you talk spiders to me!

[Piperay]

18. HORRIBLE, I HATED high school

I didn't fit in, was small for my age and a real geek. I lived in a high income area and the people in my school had BIG bucks for clothes, I didn't so I could never dress as nice as the rest. I was so glad to get out, I never looked back have never gone to a reunion and don't intend to. I LOVED college though, that was TERRIFIC! :-)

[NightTrain]

19. High school sucked!

I couldn't wait to get away from those neo-fascists and their Nazi-schatzie girlfriends.

[leftist_rebel1569]

20. I'm IN high school...

And I hate it soooooooooo much....

[Arugula Latte]

28. Hang in there

Believe it or not, it eventually ends. I know those four years can seem like an eternity, but time certainly speeds up afterwards(especially in college, which in my experience was fun, fun, fun, and more fun).

But, listen, you are ahead of the game already. You're smart enough to be on DU and aware of the world around you, not to mention coming down on the correct side of issues. Good for you!

[leftist_rebel1569]

30. thanks

I'm now gonna be a sophomore...and I hope these high school days will be OVER SOON! And, thanks for complementing my intelligence, I love complements...anyways, I can't wait for college, it looks like fun...and i'd finally be free of my winger parents!

[RememberJohn]

21. My HS years were great...

... I was in the "all around" crowd - good footing in all the stereotypical groups.

I guess I'm in the minority here. Things were great. I was popular. No problems.

[dsc]

22. a decidedly mixed bag

I was OK in the classroom but terrible in the gym and other places. Gym class was just one gigantic humiliation and I just hated using the bathroom. I will never understand for as long as I live why people felt it OK to trash me to my face. I was called queer, fag, homo, etc. Worse I internalized it which made me feel worse. I did all I could to 'butch' up. Class was the only place I felt even sort of competent.

[AnnabelLee]

24. Hell on earth about covers it n/t

[Bossy Monkey]

26. I enjoyed high school

I was in marching band and debate, so I'm pretty much the nerd poster child.

You'll find (you're finding) that most people either like HS or college, but few enjoy both. I'm one of the liked HS/hated college crowd.

[Fenris]

29. Fucking Awful

9th through 11th grade were shit. No friends, no future, no one who cared. Senior year rocked though, because in some bizarre turn of events I became one of those "cooler-than-thou" people because I looked and dressed differently, and was intelligent and funny. But the rest was fucking horrendous.

No fucking way I'd go back to that shit.

[mitchum]

31. Fantastic! I had the reputation of being some kind of badass genius...

because I took prodigious amounts of drugs and was often suspended for carrying knives, but I could write and paint and never had to study (thanks, genetics!) Come to think of it, this same gambit still helps me get over.

[Shanty Oilish]

32. Boring

We traveled so much, I was always the new kid in school. After a while my parents just dropped me off at the city library so I could learn without impediment.
When I was around 30, I stopped having nightmares of finding myself back in a school. :scared:

[arwalden]

34. 1975-1978 High School Was Fantastic

[imax2268]

35. I was the Fat Kid...

They teased me relentlessly...

But I got even with them...at my last high school reunion I walked in with my Armani suit, a HOT, HOT woman on my arm, and 125lbs lighter...they didn't recognize me but when they did...I didn't give them the time of day...SUCK ON THAT TEASERS...!

[Braden]

36. I dont yearn for those days

I enjoyed it and all but I found HS rather boring clubby and generally dull.

College. now that was fun.

[cmd]

37. Hated high school, loved college

You would have to offer me a lot of money to get me back to a high school reunion.