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What Was (is) Your Social Status In High School?

Great question, I have changed immensely social status throughout this year.
I started as a fresh man this year at a high school and I though I would get along with people great since I'm pretty creative and its an arts school. But I had lots of friends in class and such but no good/best friends. For the first half of the 1st semester I tried fitting in with the nerdiest kids i could find but I did not know them very well so i felt like i did not fit in. So for the other half I spent on the 6th floor of my school eating alone with my mac or my iPhone and very little if ever social contact. I was really sad and felt the challenges of academics and social status. Then once the second semester started rolling, one of my good class friends invited me to come and eat lunch with him and his friends some of who i new (met before only really) and the first time he invited me I made an up an excuse that I had to make up a test and later I was really angry at my self for not going with him. The next time I went with him and I was shaking so much my legs and I tried to make it not obvious but I was so so nervous. and over a few weeks I became great friends with the rest of the group and I was so happy and relieved my social status went way up! I got a nice hair cut and started dressing slightly cooler (but not like that amber crombie crap, that stuff does not fly at my school and I would never wear that, we tend to like bright colored second hand cloths and v necks :D )
So, over all I've made the jump from being alone on the 6th floor of my school to eating out on the street with all the cool guys and gals and I have made some really great friends. and I my school I love it because popular kids are not the normal typical popular kids of highschool at my school we are the think different-ers (the crazy ones) and were kinda like the kids who would be "un-popular" at normal schools.
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DISCLAIMER: I don't go to a fancy private school I got to an amazingly cool public school that focuses on many different fields of art and you must audition in one and pass to get in.
 
iJesus said:
That always gets me in the halls of my highschool...

Like when I hear:
"JESUS! I left my homework at home!"
in the halls, it always gives me the, "should I turn around and see if they're talking to me" instinct.
:p
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Wait, is your name actually Jesus or are you so absorbed in your MacRumors persona that you think they're talking about you? :p

Also, if you're iJesus and I'm your future self, themadchemist, does that make you a Christian Scientist?

Things that I ponder in order to avoid studying dilated cardiomyopathy.
 
ingenious said:
i had my own group, but i talked with everybody: i.e. i was the "nice" guy who smiled all the time.

i was also the smart kid who everyone thought was a nerd until they got to know me.

also, i was student council pres and involved in a ton of clubs (basically all of them except the athletics... i wasn't coordinated enough for any of the sports we had. bring on the soccer (football for you europeans) and swimming!).
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I totally agree.
 
themadchemist said:
Wait, is your name actually Jesus or are you so absorbed in your MacRumors persona that you think they're talking about you? :p

Also, if you're iJesus and I'm your future self, themadchemist, does that make you a Christian Scientist?

Things that I ponder in order to avoid studying dilated cardiomyopathy.
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Haha, my real name is Jesus.

Hmm, Christian Scientist... is that possible? haha. j/k.

yeah, I avoid school work as much as possible too :p
 
themadchemist said:
Yes, procrastination is a wise choice, but not with a week left 'til the boards (see my related thread on this subject if interested).
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Yeah, I still have to get started on a book for my AP Government/Politics class for next year. Hella lame.

lol, I saw that thread earlier today. It sucks (the situation).
 
I was the only girl in the jazz band. :)

I guess you'd say I was a band geek/orch dork. But I took a lot of science classes -- anatomy and physiology, biotechnology, environmental science, etc, so maybe just an overall nerd.
 
iJesus said:
Yeah, I still have to get started on a book for my AP Government/Politics class for next year. Hella lame.
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Good luck. Next year is far away--enjoy your summer (one day, believe it or not, summer vacation disappears...You don't even see it coming. Last summer was largely a "working vacation" for me, and it was the closest thing to a summer vacation I may ever see in my life. That didn't even really hit me until this summer.)

iJesus said:
lol, I saw that thread earlier today. It sucks (the situation).
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It's life.
 
We have quite a few "nerds" here. Not surprising considering what website we're on. ;)

Count me among those that was friends with everyone. I was more of a jock than anything I guess because I played baseball and was a bit of a gym monkey, but I didn't hang out with those guys off the field.

Oddly enough my 10 year reunion is next month, but I don't think I'll be going. The people I actually care about I still stay in contact with.

My dad went to his 40 year reunion a few years back, he said by the 30 year it's no longer a brag fest. He said it simply turns in to a contest to see who's still alive. ;)
 
evilgEEk said:
We have quite a few "nerds" here. Not surprising considering what website we're on. ;)

Count me among those that was friends with everyone. I was more of a jock than anything I guess because I played baseball and was a bit of a gym monkey, but I didn't hang out with those guys off the field.

Oddly enough my 10 year reunion is next month, but I don't think I'll be going. The people I actually care about I still stay in contact with.

My dad went to his 40 year reunion a few years back, he said by the 30 year it's no longer a brag fest. He said it simply turns in to a contest to see who's still alive. ;)
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i think facebook has made reuinions not as interesting anymore lol
 
All round person.

Played two sports per year, not a "jock" though. Did well in school, not a 4.0 because I didn't want to study all the time, but still cared about my grades. Had friends in different social groups, so I wasn't really categorized into just one.

I'm in college now, trying to forge some kind of identity in the mass of thousands.


EDIT: Really interesting thread.
 
I was average. Not good with people though and am still not. It was almost like thing about it now people wanted to be friends with me. :eek:
 
I started out as one of the "emo" kids (honestly, I have no ****ing clue how that happened.) and now I'm one of the band nerds. I take Orchestra, band, and any other music classes I can get ahold of. Not sure if I'm too liked, but, hey. I'm a Senior now, so, screw all the underclassmen! :p
 
Was kind of all over the map in high school. Was pretty nerdy my first year: dressed like a dweeb and hung out in the computer lab at lunch, but played baseball and ran track.

Later on I became more of an outsider who got along with everyone well enough, did well in school and had a modicum of coolness (a vintage blazer in a sea of Hard Rock Cafe t-shirts), but didn't really have many close friends at my school itself -- everyone who I truly considered a friend were people I knew outside of high school, quite a few of whom I met on local BBSes (yes, this was 20 years ago!).
 
I was a reclusive broody overweight antisocial nerdy type.

My entire life turned around in a matter of months after leaving school I left all the ***** behind and didn't look back.
 
I was a geek til junior year. Then I turned into a cross between a "smart kid" and a "jock". Weird combo, I know. Got fairly popular too. Then I went to college and came out of the closet, making me a reject once again. ;)
 
Incredibly awesome, but humble.



tresbien said:
I have a lot of friends at my school, but its really big, so there aren't really any "popular people" here. I'm president of my class, and involved in a lot of different things, so I know a big variety of people. I'm in the top percentile of my class, and am really academic, liberal, etc (apparently I'm the future president as well, haha)..so yeah, I don't know what my "ranking" would be...
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I was the exact opposite. Just take everything you said, and flip it upside down (except the "liberal" part). Funny enough, I went to a new university (and new country), and now I'm all those things. My second university experience was far better than my first.


ingenious said:
i had my own group, but i talked with everybody: i.e. i was the "nice" guy who smiled all the time.
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Me too. I wasn't super-nerdy. I was nerdy, had a number of high school friends, and (almost) none of them were in the upper 10% kids considered cool, and didn't really care at all. I wasn't picked on, I had friends, and I had fun. Oh well.
 
If there was a group right below the "popular" crowd, that is where my friends and I would have been. I dont really know what that means, but I knew people and people knew.

HS status is overrated anyways. It means nothing the moment you leave.
 
themadchemist said:
Boundary spanner. Got along with the popular and unpopular kids. But was definitely a well-recognized uber-nerd.
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i guess boundary spanner is the best term for me. i was known for being smart, but was hardly called a nerd. but at the same time as being very popular and known around school for school spirit, i was picked on alot by many of the same students. most of my friends in high school attended different school districts.

and for those of you in high school who aren't as popular and liked, it gets better in college (virtually no bullies in college). high school is fun while it lasts, but it's not the bar for the rest of your life.
 
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