What "activities" did you do in High School?

[runninmac]

Just wondering what Macrumors community did in high school for fun or what you parents forced you to do.

For sports I run cross country and track.

For the academic side im on the class treasurer and a student guide

All them are fun and Im happy that my parents dont force me to do anything so what did you do?

[iBlue]

martial arts (since i was 7) tae kwon do mostly and also kenpo (i have two black belts) but i was exposed to a little bit of everything.
those are at least activities that i will admit to doing when i was younger ;)

[Vader]

Crosscountry, golf
Also I am in band, Jazz band, and a Math club of sorts.

[The_Man]

I did Wrestling and Baseball All Four years.

Baseball was fairly easy not too much work, but Wrestling is by the hardest sport I have ever done, especially when you have to cut weight.

Has anyone else done wrestling that can back me up?

[Lacero]

Chess club, Math club and Social Studies club.

[mad jew]

A lot of track work - mainly sprinting, but really anything up to 400m. :)

I still do it quite a bit, it pays pretty well. I didn't actually get into Macs fully until after highschool. I wasn't a geek then, but things change... :D

[iBlue]

I did Wrestling and Baseball All Four years.

Baseball was fairly easy not too much work, but Wrestling is by the hardest sport I have ever done, especially when you have to cut weight.

Has anyone else done wrestling that can back me up?

not in the traditional sense but i know what you mean. plus a good friend of mine was into wrestling (in school) for a while and he said it was harder than most people gave credit for. i think he just wanted to tackle me, which he succeeded in once via element of surprise, he was so proud to take down a near black belt (i was almost there at the time, red with a black stripe) i just thought the outfits were funny :D wrestling :p - but i got teased too (for: ) "fighting in your pajamas" :D hahaha

[neildmitchell]

I totally HATED and LOATHED high school.
I think freshman year I was the V.P. of the horticulture club (I was a stoner).
Being a stoner was the only way that I was able to make it through H.S. and living in the midwest.
I got my first job at 15, I wanted to flee the midwest ASAP, whatever it took.
After graduating, I worked two jobs for a year, and fled to California.

Many felt the same way that I did, one girl and her boyfriend robbed a local bank after graduation so that they could get out of the midwest, they were quickly busted. A lot of others became heroin junkies.

[Chubypig]

I do student council, play baseball, am in scholar's bowl club, and I'm president of my class.

[mariahlullaby]

Well, I'm still in high school (start senior year Monday). But let's see:
French club, swim team mostly.
I used to do orchestra. I also tutor French as well.

[homerjward]

i didnt do **** my freshman year :o (my only year so far)
i did a bunch of stuff in middle school (academic UIL club, student council [president in 8th grade] played football, was involved really heavily in band, did njhs, buncha other crap i cant remember) but i found it alot more enjoyable doing nothing for a year :p :D
maybe ill join a couple clubs this year, i dont know.

[runninmac]

I totally HATED and LOATHED high school.
I think freshman year I was the V.P. of the horticulture club.

I got my first job at 15, I wanted to flee the midwest ASAP, whatever it took.
After graduating, I worked two jobs for a year, and fled to California.

Many felt the same way that I did, one girl and her boyfriend robbed a local bank after graduation so that they could get out of the midwest, they were quickly busted.


God i really want to get out of the Midwest ASAP. The only place in the Midwest I can really stand is Chicago or NYC. The part where I live I just cant stand the way some people think. There way to arrogent and closed minded.

[Duff-Man]

Duff-Man says...absolutely none. I had no use for the place and the last thing I wanted to do was spend any more time there (or with the people) than I had to. It was only after I graduated and started in the "real world" that my education really began....oh yeah!

[mad jew]

What exactly is a class president, and what do they do?

[Prelude2Tragedy]

JROTC, 3 years varsity football, 4 years varsity golf, band, history club, physics club, plus alot of other honor society crap with tutoring and everything.

[mariahlullaby]

What exactly is a class president, and what do they do?
I don't know either. I'm not sure my school has a gov't...we've never had elections or anything.

[Doctor Q]

The highest athletic achievement possible: high school table tennis champ! Oddly, they didn't give me a school letter to put on my jacket. :confused:

Also president of the computer class, trumpet player in the marching band and orchestra (even had a solo in the spring musical), and publisher of my own humor newspaper.

Hey, I used to be cool! I wonder what ever happened to me?

[the_mole1314]

FIRST Robotics

I'm a nerd, what can I say? :p

[neildmitchell]

God i really want to get out of the Midwest ASAP. The only place in the Midwest I can really stand is Chicago or NYC. The part where I live I just cant stand the way some people think. There way to arrogent and closed minded.
I was in the 'burbs of Chicago, Villa Park to be exact.
"Open Bible & Close Mind" was a favorite saying of mine.

[Cooknn]

Marching band all 4 years - played trumpet. We were the best high school band in California for halftime shows at the time. We won all the competitions we entered in So Cal, then traveled up to the northern part of the state and beat the bands in a competition up there - which really surprised us. We did LA Rams, Oakland Raiders and San Diego Chargers halftime gigs + the Rose Parade a few times. It was a blast. The Letterette's (flag girls) were hotties :p

Also, jazz band, tennis (first team all league + league champs my senior year) and football (my sophmore year). Great time of my life, but so long ago :D

[runninmac]

I was in the 'burbs of Chicago, Villa Park to be exact.
"Open Bible & Close Mind" was a favorite saying of mine.

Ha I live in Rockford Mich. and 1/2 (probobly a little exageration but it seems that way sometimes) the people here have that exact same philosophy (sp?) except somepeople call them the holy rollers... (dah brain not working but 2 other sayings)

[keithpetey]

i put "4 yrs. high school"

[Vster]

I did Wrestling and Baseball All Four years.

Baseball was fairly easy not too much work, but Wrestling is by the hardest sport I have ever done, especially when you have to cut weight.

Has anyone else done wrestling that can back me up?

I Wrestled and played Football (both varsity) and a little Lacrosse. But Wrestling was so hard, especially cutting weight.

[mbdamdg]

The only place in the Midwest I can really stand is Chicago or NYC.
If by NYC you mean New York City then i think you are slightly confused as to what the midwest is. :)

Well anyway, I'll be a senior in HS in a few weeks. For sports I do Cross Country and Track (I did wrestling in 7th grade and I totally agree that it is very difficult), and I work on crew for the winter play. I'm also one of two editors of the Yearbook , which takes up insane amounts of time - I spent 30 hours at school last week finishing up last year's yearbook :( (last years seniors didn't finish it on time) (well at least we work on macs) :D
Random other assorted clubs and stuff....

[xsedrinam]

Pretty much everything with the following exceptions:
homework
X

[runninmac]

If by NYC you mean New York City then i think you are slightly confused as to what the midwest is. :)

Yeah... its late :D

Mad Jew if you dont know what a class president does then that person sucked at there job (but then again our student council is alot more active then most schools). In easy terms the pres. decides what projects to do and themes for dances (my least fav. part about being on student council is you still have to pay for the $20 ticket).

[zelmo]

Duff-Man says...absolutely none. I had no use for the place and the last thing I wanted to do was spend any more time there (or with the people) than I had to. It was only after I graduated and started in the "real world" that my education really began....oh yeah!

Damn straight! I hated high school, and did nothing beyond the bare minimum required to graduate. My HS was full of pretentious idiots only concerned with making sure they were cool enough to be part of the right crowd.
Heck, I never even went to graduation and, 26 years later, I still haven't bothered to pick up my diploma.

[mad jew]

Thanks for the briefing runninmac. I guess we just didn't have an equivalent at school. Well, not an official one...

As for Duff-Man and powermac666, it's kind of sad that you didn't get the best possible time out of your high schools, but I'm glad everything's cool now. I suppose I must have just been lucky and gone to a friendly school. It was actually a very fun experience for me and I've kept quite a few friends from HS. :)

[Duff-Man]

Damn straight! I hated high school, and did nothing beyond the bare minimum required to graduate. My HS was full of pretentious idiots only concerned with making sure they were cool enough to be part of the right crowd.
Heck, I never even went to graduation and, 26 years later, I still haven't bothered to pick up my diploma.
Duff-Man says...I didn't go to the grad either and who knows if I ever got the stupid diploma! By the time I reached my final year I had thoroughly sussed out the the way things worked there and very cleverly selected my classes knowing that I only needed 4 more credits to graduate...I found out that a few classes only had one option and that was in the afternoon so I signed up for those in addition to the others I needed...then dropped the afternoon ones early in the year....so I ended up with afternoons off for my whole last year...gave me lots of time to play music like I wanted to do....oh yeah!

[CompUser]

I'm going to be in 9th Grade.

Fall: Soccer: Forward usually but I'm not bad at Defense

Winter: Skiing (non competative) with my Atomics

Spring: Either Lacrosse or Track, but I haven't decided. I was on the A-team lacrosse league in my town (there was 1 A and 2 B teams), we came in 2nd or 3rd in the state. I'm a very fast sprinter (fastest person on my lax team :cool:) but I also have $500 worth of lacrosse gear.

For you up to date Lax players I have:
Razer + Harrow I-Beam for my short stick and a Triton + DB803 (<<lightest D-stick) for my D-stick (i play D. more).

[CompUser]

If you want to know what class president does, in middle school at least, I can answer that. I hate to admit this but the president and the other members of the student governement (including me) pretty much would just talk about gossip and what not durring the meetings.

There was only one person who really really cared if we accomplised anything. He was sort of a messed up kid and the only reason he was elected was because he is a radical politician (the teachers hate that :), especially when he knows more histry then the history teacher). He was kicked out in 7th grade because he always started fights in the government and in 8th grade he resigned because the student government didn't accomplish anything.

We put on dances but few people ever went because when you dance you are not allowed to have any physical contact with other people (i.e. slow dancing), or else you'll be thrown out. We can't have bake sales because it would interfere with the lunch company's contract with the school.

So basicly student government does very little.

[jefhatfield]

Just wondering what Macrumors community did in high school for fun or what you parents forced you to do.

For sports I run cross country and track.

For the academic side im on the class treasurer and a student guide

All them are fun and Im happy that my parents dont force me to do anything so what did you do?

sports...soccor for one year where i was a bench warmer and track for two years which i was so-so at and both were my parents' ideas

music...marching band for a year (drums), stage band (electric guitar), and rock and roll music club (guitar) and those were my ideas

academic...key club which i did for some now unknown reason

my grades through most of high school were terrible so besides a good sat score, i needed to have extra curricular activities in order to make myself qualify for university

[zelmo]

Thanks for the briefing runninmac. I guess we just didn't have an equivalent at school. Well, not an official one...

As for Duff-Man and powermac666, it's kind of sad that you didn't get the best possible time out of your high schools, but I'm glad everything's cool now. I suppose I must have just been lucky and gone to a friendly school. It was actually a very fun experience for me and I've kept quite a few friends from HS. :)

It's all good. The school was a boor, but at least I had quite a few really good friends from the neighborhood, most of whom also went to the same school. We were just in different graduating classses, so we didn't get to hang together during school. So, the HS itself sucked, but the HS years were fine. At least, what I can remember of them. ;)

[mad jew]

Glad to hear it powermac666. So long as you have fun in your youth, in or out of high school, it doesn't matter.

By the way, isn't a boor a yokel? That's a pretty cool image. :D

[MacFan25863]

Oh, gosh, I do everything. I'm in:


ASB
Marching Band
Concert Band
TV Production
Key Club
Future Business Leaders of America
Humanitarian Society
Honors Society
Youth Advisory Council
Youth In Government
CATS (peer help group)

[oldschool]

well let's see...

what did i do in highschool...

•sometimes i went to class
•i drank out of the water fountain a couple of times
•ate cafeteria food four times.
•ate cafeteria BREAKFAST once...was only $1.50 for bacon, eggs, hashbrowns, but they cooked it on a grill so disgusting that i almost lost my appetite. (I did eat it anyways because of the low price).

that's about it.

not one single activity.

had lots of friends, graduated in the top ten percent, got into a good university, and enjoyed myself.

I found the activities mostly to be contrived wastes of my time.

Getting into university here is all about grades. They just look at your final average and then let you in or deny you based on that. My school had the first (or maybe second) highest entrance average in the country. Yes, that's right all you Queens and McGill students, look it up, theres a ministry chart somewhere that explains it all. Don't think you're so great now do you? Didn't think so. :D

[mad jew]

•i drank out of the water fountain a couple of times


Well that explains a lot.


;) Joking, I just would never dream of doing the same.

[EJBasile]

-Soccer
-Golf
-Lacrosse (good to see a couple other players here)

I never really liked baseball or basketball.

[Guitarius]

Oh...lets see now.

Theatre
Air Force JROTC

That's about it really. I kinda wasted high school. No...I didn't. I hated high school.

[scem0]

Played basketball for 2 years, but I didn't really enjoy it, I just took it to satisfy physical education requirements. I didn't dislike it though :cool:.

I was a member and the webmaster of the computer club. That was fun :).

I was a member of the green (environmental) club. I must admit, I stopped going to meetings halfway through the year. :o

I was a member of the French club, although I don't speak a word of french. Well, I know the basics like "hello", "what time is it", and even "the monkey is on the table", but I never took French. My best friend was president of the club, which was why I was a member :).

I was in the math club, but I didn't go to a single meeting. It was more of a 'if you make the grade, you're in the club' kind of thing.

I was a 'teacher-aid' for the computer science teacher, who totally rocked. One of my periods during the day was spent doing stuff for her. I was expecting easy computer stuff, but she usually had me lifting heavy objects :p.

Thankfully, high-school is over and I don't have to do any of that stuff any more. It was fun when I did it, but I don't want to do it again (I think that statement applies to all of high school in general ;)).

scem0

[tangerineyum]

Wow high school seems so long ago even if it was only 3 years ago. I like to be well rounded.

4 years varsity Football- Fullback and Linebacker
2 years varsity Track - Shotput and Discus
Tried wrestling but it was freakin hard.

Honors/AP all 4 years everything except calc... bah
Academic decathlon- 1st place art 2nd lang and lit 3rd interview 2nd place all county. 4 of the 11 possible awards and my team still only got 4th place... another bah.

Tiger cubs- a peer tutoring group for underclassmen.

All these lovely credentials and i dropped out of school after 2.5 semesters.

[lem0n]

well, high school was soooooo long ago [what? 1 month?] i was in:
* Art Club: just because I needed community service hours and drawing seemed like an easy job [got 2 murals done, a lot of fixing other people's mistakes and it was not easy]
* Band: being a music student, it's obligatoire that we joined the band or our teacher will minus our marks :mad: but it was fun, sometimes...
* Student Council: figured I would just go for the job, spent one whole year getting sent to leadership camps [which was fun, met my bestfriend there] and drawing a lot of publicity posters
* Chess Club: official observer, nah, it's just the coolest room [temperature] to go to for lunch

[Chubypig]

What exactly is a class president, and what do they do?

At my school the class prez is elected by their peers, and then helps organize things like a homecoming parade float, fundraisers, proms, etc.

[iGary]

Cross Country, Beer, Cigarettes and Marijuana.

Still graduated in the top 15% :p

[takao]

let's see:

* half a year of table tennis

well that's it .. they all were voluntary so i skipped them all

was voted for class president once as a joke from all the others but i refused it ;)

we didn't have much club etc. stuff over here anyways .. they are not that popular (especially with the older ones)
most prefer hours off the school than additional ones

[eva01]

Baseball for 4 years
Basketball for 2
Soccer for 1
Volunteered at hospital for 3
National Honor Society for 2

[iBlue]

Cross Country, Beer, Cigarettes and Marijuana.

Still graduated in the top 15% :p

haha, thank god someone said it! ;)

i took my SATs totally stoned and got a 1400, i often wonder if it was because i didn't think "too hard" about it and had an easy-going approach to it all. [shrugs] i don't know but i was pleased with the results, all things considered. (i don't recommend this necessarily, but this was the case for me)
lot of good it did me, i am too lazy to even use capital letters while typing on a forum :D

[eva01]

I took my SATs hung over like a dog and got a 1300 :P also did that with my AP test in Biology, got a 4 on that

[puckhead193]

i played on my high school hockey team from freshmen to JR. year and i hated it. Their was no "team" everyone thought of themselves, coaching, their was non and what really annoyed me most was when you made a mistake (everyone dones) they would say why did you do that and b!tch at you when 2 shifts ago they made a mistake. And what was funny was that we sucked! :rolleyes:

[iGary]

haha, thank god someone said it! ;)

i took my SATs totally stoned and got a 1400, i often wonder if it was because i didn't think "too hard" about it and had an easy-going approach to it all. [shrugs] i don't know but i was pleased with the results, all things considered. (i don't recommend this necessarily, but this was the case for me)
lot of good it did me, i am too lazy to even use capital letters while typing on a forum :D

In my senior year, I often showed up to cross country practice with a cigarrette hanging out of my mouth (the good old days when you could smoke at school :p). Pissed my coach off to no end.

To all the kiddies out there - I'm not advocating this - I quit smoking, and haven't done drugs since college. Quit drinking three months ago. Sheesh I'm boring.

[runninmac]

Oh, gosh, I do everything. I'm in:


ASB
Marching Band
Concert Band
TV Production
Key Club
Future Business Leaders of America
Humanitarian Society
Honors Society
Youth Advisory Council
Youth In Government
CATS (peer help group)



Wow quite a list of things what is ASB? I would try to join TV Production to see what its like but you have to either be a senior or junior.

[eva01]

Yes you are very boring :P

I can't drink anymore due to the illness from hell, which we still don't know why i have :/

because of all the medications i am on they don't react with alcohol very kindly

[runninmac]

In my senior year, I often showed up to cross country practice with a cigarrette hanging out of my mouth (the good old days when you could smoke at school :p). Pissed my coach off to no end.

To all the kiddies out there - I'm not advocating this - I quit smoking, and haven't done drugs since college. Quite drinking three months ago. Sheesh I'm boring.

I should show up to my practice tommorow like that. 2 of my 3 coaches are pretty much huge idiots so it would be funny to see what would happen. (the cool coaches resigned 3 years ago for stupid matters :( )

[iGary]

I should show up to my practice tommorow like that. 2 of my 3 coaches are pretty much huge idiots so it would be funny to see what would happen. (the cool coaches resigned 3 years ago for stupid matters :( )

Different days, runninmac. They'd prolly expel you these days.

Good thing about cross country is that it got me into marathoning later in life.

I pretty much hated all of our coaches - one was a frazzled out ex-Vietnam chopper pilot, one was a 75-year old pervert who coached the girls. One was just a toolbox.

[MacFan25863]

Wow quite a list of things what is ASB? I would try to join TV Production to see what its like but you have to either be a senior or junior.


ASB is the Associated Student Body. We are like the school's government, we vote on stuff, organize activities, and so on.


I'm going to be a sophomore and I'm in TV Prod....sucks that you have to be an upperclassmen there...

[devilot]

I did Wrestling and Baseball All Four years.

Baseball was fairly easy not too much work, but Wrestling is by the hardest sport I have ever done, especially when you have to cut weight.

Has anyone else done wrestling that can back me up?
Yes... at least the way the sports are set up in the high schools in my area the two hardest sports are wrestling and water polo.

I wrestled for two years, yes I am a woman, and yes they had a weight class for me, sort of-- 98 was the lowest, I was still under, but eh, not too much under that my coaches thought I wouldn't stand a chance.

Played piano, violin, classical guitar. But violin was my primary. Was involved w/ the schools' orchestras from 3rd grade all the way through senior year. As well as my church's orchestra, and El Camino Youth Symphony.

Church and youth group, community outreaches/ ie community service.

Got all 4s and 5s on my AP exams (bio, spanish, lit, us history)

Did speech and debate, won a couple thingies.

Did Intel's big science fair and got honorable mention (or was it 3rd place? Don't remember) But was glad for the opportunity to work w/ colon cancer cells in USC's pharmaceutical labs (my uncle is the head of the dept and a prof, his wife, my aunt also does research there, and their eldest son is in the Ph.D program).

I think that's it... it's been too long ago. :o

[Applespider]

Combined cadet force (RAF division) which I did so I could do aerobatics
Curling (the one on ice with large granite stones as opposed to hairdressing)
School dramatic productions (mainly scenery/lighting as opposed to flaunting myself onstage)
School magazine
Squash

Strangely, I never did any trampolining there... :p

[ham_man]

Still in High School, but so far I have done...

-UIL math team (for NHS)
-Class secretary/treasure (ran because no one else was and I get free stuff)
-Science Olympiad (free food)

And that is it...

[Plymouthbreezer]

Let's see (I'll be going into 10th grade):

• Class Secretary both this past school year and the upcoming year, Student Council member (but tend to do more work then all the other class officers put together).
• Mediator in the Massachusetts SCORE (http://www.ago.state.ma.us/sp.cfm?pageid=1809) Program (Student Conflict Resolution Experts)
• Student advisor to the History Department Liaison for the City School District
• Student Advisory Committee
• Student Liaison to the Principal/Assistant Principals
• NHS
• Mural Club
• A/V Club
• Graphics Designer for the school (I do the school logos, technical drawings for documents, agenda covers, special events flyers, etc...)
• Unofficial "get-my-nose-in-all-school-issues" Student
• Unofficial Manager of the school's orchestra
• Track/Cross Country
• Music Lessons

Yeah, you could pretty much say I run the school. :D :cool:

Outside of school, I'm involved in the Boy Scouts. I'm currently working on my Eagle Project and am the Senior Patrol Leader of my Troop.