What were you like at high school?

[Ravenholm]

I was just thinking about this a few minutes ago and thought I'd post a thread on it to see what others on here were like at high school.

Me I was the only kid that had Iron Maiden type hair in a high school that had about 400 kids or so at it. This was from 1990 to 1994 where I then left high school (here in the UK you start high school at 12/13 depending on when your birthday falls on and leave when you are 16. So you can imagine the sort of snyde remarks I had to put up with but I ignored them. There was comments made to me like "hey you do know there is like five barbers in this town. get a hair cut ya hippy." and of course there was always the temptation to punch them in the face but I never did. I just ignored the clowns and stuck to my guns.

And ever since 1990 I have lived the Heavy Metal lifestyle. That's 21 years and counting. A diehard fan to the end, bitches!. Diehard... to the fucking end! :banger:

There was supposed to be a dress code at the school as well. And one time I came into school wearing Iron Maiden's "Fear of the Dark" t-shirt. The deputy headmaster saw me in the corridor with it on. And he said something like "J**** you do know that there is a dress code." I just said something like "Yes sir. But I was late in coming in today and never had time to prepare the clothes." and he was like "Well ok then. Don't make a habit of it. That's a nice design by the way even if it is a bit out of place here." I still think the picture for that t-shirt (which is also the album cover) is kick ass. It's easily in the top three Iron Maiden covers of all time IMO.

 

[bahodeme]

The term that was used for me was "Academically Lazy". Never did homework except for Math & Science, participated in Spanish, U.S. Govt.,Business Law, etc. Could really care less about English. The screwed up part was (and this pissed off the teacher to no end) was I passed the Final Exam with a score of 96 out of 100. Needless to say I failed the class.I was involved in a few fights but they were me intervening for others. An example was some one placing the books on something tall so she could not reach. I gave her books and the dumbass that did it got mad. So words were said then fists, then a 2 day suspension for me, 10 days for him. Clothes varied from slacks & dress (girlfriend at the time liked it) to urban/night camo BDU pants and black t-shirt. Hair varied from a mohawk to Jherri Curl. The majority of my teachers liked me, even the teacher that failed me. Played middle linebacker as a senior and, since the football coach as the baseball coach, played catcher for our baseball team. By the way, I couldn't stand baseball, but if you were on the football team you were "encouraged" to go out for baseball. Took the ASVAB (test for the military) my senior year, signed up for the Air Force 5 months before graduating.

 

[ApolloBalboa]

I was the quiet wallflower that nobody probably ever noticed. I transferred to the public high school in my area during the middle of my sophomore year so by the time I started, all the cliques had been made, people already knew each other from middle school, etc. I pretty much was by myself for the rest of that year. I made some acquaintances in some of my classes, but nobody that I ever ate lunch with or hung with outside of school. It wasn't until my junior year that I made some people who I thought were my friends, but now I realized just kind of took advantage of me because I would do stupid things to make them laugh. As for looks, I had big huge glasses, hair that was probably somewhat greasy and needed to be trimmed, and was fairly overweight, so that pretty much cut down any chance of getting girls to notice me.

It really wasn't until after I finished high school that I slimmed down, bulked up, lost my glasses, became more outgoing, etc. For the most part, I'm pretty happy with how my life's turned out in the almost 4 years since I've graduated, especially when I hear how so many of the kids I went to school with (popular mostly, but also the ones that were mean to me) have, for the most part, done shit since they've graduated, flunked out of college, gotten or gotten someone pregnant, all that shit.

Life's little revenges can be so, so sweet.

 

[Mr. Numb3rs]

... looking back, i probably should have been institutionalized back then. i was like a mix of stiffler and jonah hill in superbad. cripes

 

[Jack Davenport]

Long hair, never took drugs. Played soccer and baseball and surfed a lot. I had a few close friends but not many. But I seemed to get along with most everyone. I studied hard and graduated early at age 17 and entered college that year. I wasn't one of the popular kids and had one girlfriend while in high school for a year and a half until she moved back to Hawaii. I think she liked me because I surfed. That's all I got.

 

[Red Spyder]

Well, I went to.... let's call it a non-catholic religious private boarding school.... and I was a heavy metal fan, and that was during the late 80's to early 90's, and there was a whole "heavy metal is satan's music" scandal going on. Still, I was a bit of a class clown. My freshman year, a bit of a quiet, shy guy, by the time I was a senior I was not exactly Mr. Popularity but a lot better. Freshman year and sophomore years, talking to girls was kind of awkward but by senior year somehow it became like second nature, I'd see a girl, I'd walk up to her and talk to her. I didn't have a high school "sweetheart" since being in that school where couples were watched more closely by the teachers and chaperones I considered it a waste of time (but college...oooh, baby!!! Made up for all that time) so I guess because I decided not to have a girlfriend then it sort of took all of the pressure off me and I was able to chat chicks up, heck, even had some secret admirer or two. And by the way, I sort of looked like a combination of a young Patrick Dempsey/Mario Lopez (his Saved by the Bell hair) back then I do miss my friends from back then, even if most of them are the Will E. Worm kind of religious types.

Then I was also the kind that was always doing mischief.... but NEVER got caught :tongue:

Oh, wait, I did get caught a couple times, even got myself suspended but that wasn't for regular kind of mischief but for sticking it to The Man kind of mischief. Heck, I even took a gun to school once (didn't show it off, didn't shoot anyone or even had the intention to shoot anyone) and didn't get caught, just wanted to see if I could pack it without anyone noticing it. Anyway, I graduated salutatorian, would have made valedictorian if I hadn't gotten myself suspended for..... well, my lawyer tells me to shut the fuck up about it but needless to say that suspension wasn't gun related, it was something completely different that I can't talk about but it was kind of like a Ferris Bueller parade type of thing... that involved the whole school, and I wasn't even the leader in that, I just participated in it along with about 60% of the school!

And another thing, my freshman peers HATED me. I was the kind that would sleep through class, wouldn't bother to study, instead of joining a study group would go out and spend the whole afternoon playing sports with my friends, and still made honor roll. Junior and senior years, still would sleep through class, wouldn't study, would spend all afternoon out playing after doing my homework, but I wouldn't make honor roll as often, mostly A's with some B's that would pull my GPA down a bit but it was still as high as a stereotypical contemporary college student.

 

[StanScratch]

Remember all of the nerds and geeks from Revenge of the Nerds? I got beat up by THOSE guys.

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

Confused.

 

[STDiva]

Music nerd/basketball jock. Accepted by everybody. Generally pretty quiet with a few good friends.

Dressed in jeans, hoodies and band shirts that nobody ever heard of.

 

[alexpnz]

Drank Brass Monkey
Drank St. Ides
Wore Cavariccis and Chess King shirts
Listened to the Beastie Boys, Freestyle and Hip Hop
Drove a Trans Am
Followed my G/F from class to class
Seldom went
Stayed back my Senior year due to bad attendance


Yes, I was a Guido alchoholic who thought he was black.

 

[luis1972]

outstanding nerd

 

[Mr_Balls]

I was a nerdy kid and I rode my BMX bike everywher. I also was on the golf team.

 

[El Perro Mayor]

Played baseball and soccer, but not a jock. Had only a few friends, dated about 5 girls. Never really got picked-on or bullied.

 

[LeyaFalcon]

Pretty much exactly the same only I kept my star wars obsession quiet from being made fun of so much for it in elementary school...I was a slut, I was too smart for my own good, I didn't smoke do drugs or drink (now I only drink) ... yep still a slut (only now getting paid for it and being safe about it) I am still too smart for my own good and still a geek...oh I also used to have my binder covered w/ pix of ludacris and jenna jameson...

 

[Ravenholm]

Another thing I failed to mention in the first post was how I had no real interest in girls when I was at school. It was all about Heavy Metal, Video Games, Movies and going on as many mountain bike trips with my friends as possible as we live in the countryside (a village of about 5 to 6 thousand population). It's still like that today lol only I like women as well now. Looking back at my school days there was some nice looking girls in school then. But I failed to notice them. One of them her name was Laura. She reminds me of Jennifer Love Hewitt (only Laura's boobs were not as big) the only thing that would have put me off of her was her attitude. Her attitude reminds me of lyrics from a Guns n' Roses song called Back Off Bitch "Face of an angel with the love of a witch". She thought she was better than you. The kind of looking at you like your dirt on her shoe attitude.

I remember one time in the school grounds on a break we were all standing around. I was with a couple of pals and she was across a few feet from us with her pals and her "social community" and she heard my cassette player playing loud. I had Iron Maiden's "From Here To Eternity" blasting out of the headphones. And the snooty cow shouted across to me something like "Turn that down!" all because she was a popite (pop music fan). I think I just said something like "no!" and that was the end of it as far as I was concerned. Who the fuck did she think she was telling me to turn my own music down because she could hear the music coming from the headphones a few feed away. Laura was gorgeous but her attitude stank so it did.

 

[TheSpokenWheel]

fuck high school

 

[Ravenholm]

Yeah school is for fools.

lol

The truth of school is it is the best days of your life and you never realise it untill they are over. By that I mean you have no worries about bills and food and clothes and everything else. It's usually given to you by your parents or by saving a little and your parents adding the rest to it depending on how your parents do things. But once you leave school and enter the big bad world you are on your own in most ways. You have a lot more to worry about when leaving school than when at school.

 

[BCT]

I was a football/baseball jock, I was pretty much cool with everyone but there was only a handful of friends that I actually ran around with on a regular basis. I was liked by the girls more than anyone which was cool with me. lol I was who you could say was a cool likeable guy in High School, nothing spectacular just your typical HS athlete.

 

[squallumz]

whats this "high school?"

 

[gunslingingbird]

whats this "high school?"

It's where papagmp hooks up with chicks.