did you like High School?

[vash]

it was okay for me. fun as always. learned a few things, did a few things. regular.

i didnt hate it.

i signed up for Facebook to contact a knife seller. i admit, curiosity got a hold of me and i extended a few friend request..and accepted a lot of them. i good portion are people from high school. some fat chicks that used to be hot chicks, some fat dudes that used to be studly jocks. no big stand out surprises.

i just checked and there is a surprisingly huge high school "glory years" thing going. pics from yearbooks, letterman jackets, etc. they kept them!! if i had mine, i might use it as a jack pad to lift my 911. good and sturdy.

was it great for you? high school? i sure as hell dont miss it. (not that i would turn down some magic pill that flips me back to 16years old..i wouldnt mind a redo, since i have better lady picking up skills..)

i didnt respond to the facebook glory year thread. the guy that started it was the most popular football player. he's like ted bundy now!

[HardDrive]

Yes, I enjoyed them. I was captain of the track team, I always had a girlfriend.

But I was also an angry kid well on his way to years of drug and alcohol abuse. In my later 20's, when I was working as a network engineer, and decided to get my masters degree, those were my glory years. I got my masters while working full time, paid for it myself, and got a 3.5 GPA.

I'm facebook friends with some of my HS friends. The successful ones.

[Scott R]

I loved it, where else can you meet that many girls at that age?

[winders]

I had a blast in high school. My Freshman and Sophomore years were the two least fun. Once I got my driver's license and car, high school became incredibly fun! I started on Varsity in three sports, dated all the hot girls, and was one of the class leaders.

If someone told me I would have to do it again, I would be okay with that!

[ckelly78z]

I didn't mind high school, I just wished I wasn't so timid around all the cute girls. I was a guy who could hang with the stoners in shop class, and had many jock friends who also played basketball/track, but I just was so self conscious, I couldn't approach girls, or even speak up in class. At 5'9" and 135 lbs, I was one of the smaller guys in my class. Now (32 years later) at 5'11 185 lbs, people still say i'm skinny...It wasn't until after high school, that I got confident.

My son is probably one of the jocks in his small high school, he's good looking, starts on the football team, lifts weights, and the same height and weight as me now, and he's only a Sophmore who will get his license next week. I do see him having problems with speaking more than a few words at a time like I did, but he has really cute girls hanging all over him....I think the whole cell phone/texting things helps him out, where I had to stand in a busy kitchen to talk to any girl on the phone when I lived at home.

[Vipergrün]

Yeah, I liked it. Had a diverse set of friends and hung out with everyone, including jocks, preps, mods, surfers, rednecks, etc. My best friend and I were basically the 'glue' across the groups. I encourage friendship diversity with my kids too. Always a friend around. I probably surfed too much, and studied too little, but am successful in the end. I always had girlfriend(s), or a 'harem' as some called it...LOL. I'd do it again.

[masraum]

I liked being that age, but not a huge fan of HS. I still have year books. Not many people from HS that is probably want to talk to or meet, but maybe a few.

[scottmandue]

Hated it... I was shy, had two older brothers who berated me so low self esteem (yeah, I know that gets beat to death).
Looking back I did have a small group of good friends and I was a band geek so not like I hide in a hole in the ground, wish I would have applied myself more, wish I would take playing the trumpet more seriously, wish I would have studied harder, wish I would have asked girls out.

But as they say, hindsight is 20/20.

YMMV

[Rick Lee]

I went to an all boys prep school that went co-ed my junior year. We had a huge pool of talented musicians, even a Grammy winner (when he was a kid), lots of kids of the rich and famous, professional-grade performing arts and athletic facilities, even a skeet range. Yeah, it was pretty cool. I had a GF through high school and not a whole lot of adult supervision. One of my best friends from senior year has lived near me for about three yrs. and we still hang out a lot. Having that school's name on my resume is what landed me my first job out of college too. I didn't go back for my 25th reunion, but Facebook makes that stuff a lot less important these days.

[Evans, Marv]

Loved high school. I played football and was captain of the track team my senior year. Lots of friends and fun times. My GF & I had some really great times. It was hard economic times for my family & I wasn't a good student. Starting my junior year, I got a job working four nights a week from after school/practice until 10 to midnight (depending on the work load) loading diesel trucks with milk & milk products at local dairies. Consequently I spent a lot of time in class with my head on my desk. My sister & I (sister worked at a senior care home after school) had to help support the family. Friends at school didn't know the situation. I was lucky I had enough money left over to do things on weekends. I would do it over again, especially if I didn't have to relive the bad financial times. Went to my 50th reunion a few years ago. It's amazing how the personalities of people remain the same, once you get past the fact they are old people and you don't recognize some at first, it seems like old times.

[JavaBrewer]

No. My lights didn't really turn on until College (which was awesome). My parents have my yearbooks somewhere in their attic. I never ran in any of the popular crowds and was not athletic. Very shy around girls. I don't have any contact with HS friends and have never attended a reunion.

[widebody911]

No

[wdfifteen]

Those were the worst 8 years of my life!

Seriously, High School was OK. I was ready to get busy and get started on my life when I was 16, so I was about to explode by the time I graduated.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Hated it, couldn't pay me to go back. Fortunately life just keeps getting better.

[Z-man]

Hated my high school years -- until a couple things happened AFTER high school.

I went to a predominantly Dutch private high school. I was an outcast, bullied, and basically told by all my peers that I am a loser. I would tense up my stomach as I walked the halls because I knew someone could and would punch my stomach at any given time. Girlfriend? No way. Not a chance - I was looked down upon, even though I wasn't fat, ugly -- I just didn't fit in with the 'in' crowd.

So the message thay all told me was that I was a loser, and would not accomplish much of anything. Pretty hurtful thing to hear as a teenager. Funny thing is that the only major difference I had in high school vs. my peers was that I was Hungarian, and not a blond-haired, blue-eyed Dutchman. So I did my best to ignore them, and started to build up part of my personality that questioned the norm. I started to dress differently (Capezio shoes and skinny ties - hey, it was the 80's), listen to different music (U2 instead of Van Halen), think outside the box. Over time, this ideal became a bigger part of my personality.

Fast forward to after high school and these defining moments happened:

1. In my freshmen year in college, I continued to 'dare to be different' and instead of being mocked, folks were cool with it. It wasn't a big deal for them: folks embraced my uniqueness. There were folks from so many different backgrounds and cultures that being different was the norm!

2. One of the kids from high school went to the same college as I, and sure enough, he started with the punching me in the stomach - so one day I stopped him and asked him why he is still doing that. His response, "'Cause you never punch back." Next time he punched me, I punched him back, and that was the last time he punched me. Lesson learned. (but 4 years too late).

3. At my 10 year (?) class reunion, I gained the least weight, lost the least amount of hair, and had the prettiest wife. These aren't the best measures to determine if one is a loser or not, but it was an observation that stuck with me...

4. At my 15 year class reunion, I actually had a couple of the 'in crowd' folks apologize to me for being so mean to me in high school. Stuff like "We really abused you and did some bad things to you..." That's a long time to hold onto that guilt... By then, I had an established IT career, and was working for one of the most recognizable brands in the world, Mercedes-Benz. I was also heavily involved in the Porsche club, so while the folks were talking about how to get their soccer team to fit into their Dodge Caravan, I was talking about SL's, 944 track suspensions, and taking the downhill at Lime Rock with just brushing the brakes...

5. At the same 15 year reunion, I found out that Scott, one o the leaders of the 'in crowd' and valedictorian in high school, finished college, and since then, couldn't land a job because he was still searching for his meaning in life.

Would I go back to high school? No thanks. I learned a lot, and have applied a lot to my life, and took that very negative experience and turned it extremely positive things in my life. And while I don't wish ill upon anyone, it is very satisfying to know that those that made me out to be a loser did not predict my life's outcome. More importantly, I refused to accept their judgment. Rather - I became what I consider to be a successful, accomplished, and recognized person. And while I never measured myself against them, in the end, there were many who called me a loser whose lives didn't turn out as they desired...

Whoa - that's a lot -- sorry to get all heavy on you folks...
-Z-man.

[flipper35]

Even though I lettered 2 years in football and in track, have awards from band and jazz band, cruised through without taking a book home and got along with most everybody I hated it. Had some good friends, but hated school itself from day one. Mom had to drive me to Kindergarten because I would brace both legs on each side of the bus door when when tried to get me to board. It all went downhill from there.

[RANDY P]

I went to a white bread school. The HS popular crowd were all dorks, and still are. They were just discovering at 18 what I considered old hat at that age. I stay in contact on FB, but still it's like:

"Oh BFD, you guys still sitting in that crappy little tavern down the street?- No, I'll pass..."

You didn't see them at the hotspots downtown, they never left the area- like I did. I prefered the big city.

rjp

[M.D. Holloway]

It was good - I was the captain of the conference winning track team, drum major of a corps style HS competition band, had friends of all types - heads, jocks, geeks. Had a girl friend most of the time. Little drama, lots of fun.

College was way better...

And yes, the hotties are not so any more and the high flyers crashed...those who were solid but didn't soar did the best to date.

[vash]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

Those were the worst 8 years of my life!

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ahhahah...thanks for drafting my facebook response!!! .hahhahhah

[RANDY P]

Funny, they are all living their 2nd childhoods and buying new Accords and discovering downtown.

I'm kicking it between 3 states

rjp