More Browncoat demographics: What were y'all like in High School?

POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Monday, September 25, 2006 18:07
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CHRISISALL

Friday, June 2, 2006 7:35 PM

A) Popular, a regular Cordelia-type, tons of friends, not much more than fun on your mind.

B) Loner, unliked and ostracized- with thoughts of blowing the school up.

C) High IQ nerd, Trek or Star Wars obsessed, able to breeze through school without trying.

D) Take-charge type, could defend yourself in a fight, and talk your way into getting your way. Few, but important friends, very independent.

Myself, I started out as a B in Junior High, but switched to a combo of C/D in High School. Could not abide A types.

Any one else? I suspect many C types are here...

Chrisisall, workin on a thesis (uh-huh...)

COPILOT

Friday, June 2, 2006 7:42 PM

Um I've always been a nerd. Not a terribly bringht nerd but a nerd none the less. Never could normal out enought to be popular or cool but at least they didn't make fun of me. Basically I was that wierd girl that's always singing and dancing. I did have lots of differnet groups of friends who had nothing in commen.

An I carried such a torch.......For the Dark Lord

DEEPGIRL187

Friday, June 2, 2006 7:46 PM

I was a combination of B and C. I've always liked to learn, so school hasn't been extrodinarily hard for me. What was hard was socializing. Even though I had friends, once I got to high school, I felt as if I couldn't relate to them. I also was diagnosed with clinical depression, which made it hard just to get up in the morning. As I got older (and changed schools), I did become somewhat more comfortable around people. Though truth be told, I still really don't talk that much, and I'm definitely not that outgoing. Oh well, I guess somethings never change.

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SAMEERTIA

Friday, June 2, 2006 7:49 PM

GIR!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can I be a Mongoose dog????

Sorry... got excited to see another Zim fan.

I was voted most revolutionary in high school. I didn't belong, really, but I had some really good friends, who remain so to this day.

MONOLYCUS

Friday, June 2, 2006 7:51 PM

I would have been the Type "D" you described. I guess I haven't changed all that much.

DEEPGIRL187

Friday, June 2, 2006 7:52 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SameErtia:
Sorry... got excited to see another Zim fan.

It's okay. It's actually PhoenixRose's fault. She had all these shiny animations on the Forsaken thread, so of course I had to get some of my own...

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"I'm going to sing the doom song! Doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, dooooooom...."

PAGANPAUL

Friday, June 2, 2006 8:11 PM

I would have been a Type Z. None of your profiles fits.

I was out on the school porch smoking with the heads, on the playing field talking with the jocks, hanging out with my VERY high IQ girl friend, playing D&D with the nerds (long before it was cool to do so) and still got pretty good grades.

Basically, I was the bridge between all of the groups you've described above.

Go figure...

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Liou coe shway duh biao-tze huh hoe-tze duh bun ur-tze.
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MONKSDAD

Friday, June 2, 2006 8:27 PM

I would of been a A,C,D as long as you throw athlete on top of that and not a huge amount of friends but everyone new me, i was the rare athlete that didnt get along with other athletes because i was a starwars/comic book geek but the athletes had respect for me because of my athletic ability, I always had friends in every type of click in high school (clicks included the standard, preps, prep jocks, band geeks, drama geeks, comic book rpg geeks, gang bangers, Metal heads, goths)

"And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic lowlife community."

SAHARA

Friday, June 2, 2006 9:02 PM

option C - Wow, it's like you were there!

Add Monty Python obsessed to the list, though.

Blackbird fly into the light of the dark, black night.

CHRISISALL

Friday, June 2, 2006 9:20 PM

African, or European?

Chrisisall

AZHEA

Friday, June 2, 2006 9:27 PM

C, for sure. Only sci-fi obsessed. Charter member of my HS Science Fiction club. Amounted to watching movies together, but it was fun.

I'm still a geek, btw... as if you hadn't noticed.

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TRISTAN

Friday, June 2, 2006 9:50 PM

I was a C/D...leaning more towards the D at the end of high school. Always had the C streak, though.

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NCBROWNCOAT

Friday, June 2, 2006 11:47 PM

deepgirl187 I was a lot like you. Add that I was slightly overweight and had glasses and the high IQ nerd/geek loner picture was complete. Graduated #10 in my class of almost 300 without studying very hard.

I didn't begin to blossom until way after high school. College, 4 years in the military, a child with learning disabilites, a very nasty divorce and finally coming to recoginize my own predispostion to depression has all made me a better person believe it or not.

I still won't go to my high school reunions though.

One day.
One plan.
One army of Browncoats.

On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.

DAVESHAYNE

Friday, June 2, 2006 11:50 PM

E) Deeply bored and waiting till I could legally drop out, Take the GED, and move on to college.

David

"Not completely as well as the series of Firefly..." - From a review of Serenity at amazon.de

CHRISMOORHEAD

Saturday, June 3, 2006 12:04 AM

Closest to B, and I suppose I could entertain ideals of being D, but I doubt anyone else would describe me as such.

I once sawed my arm to the bone in shop class because a girl was talking to me. I did it without flinching, and she didn't even notice until my blood was spilling on the floor. That was my idea of trying to get someone to stop talking to me.

Headbutting lockers was a favorite passtime, as well as throwing myself down flights of stairs.

I couldn't fight with a spit, but no one ever took the time to find that out. People were generally nice to me, but only in a "he's mentally challenged" type of way.

COPILOT

Saturday, June 3, 2006 12:05 AM

Good luck Daveshane!!!
I tried starting college at the begining of my senior year of high school didn't work out for me but good luck to you!!!!

An I carried such a torch.......For the Dark Lord

COPILOT

Saturday, June 3, 2006 12:07 AM

Darn double post!!!
But I wanted to tell Chrismoorhead that he frightens me anyway. You kind of remind me of one of my best friends from back in the high school days.

An I carried such a torch.......For the Dark Lord

GUNRUNNER

Saturday, June 3, 2006 12:11 AM

Type B/C/D
Unliked High IQ nerd, Sci-Fi and Military obsessed, able to breeze through school despite thoughts of blowing the school up with antimatter weapons in self-defense with my important friends.

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DAVESHAYNE

Saturday, June 3, 2006 12:11 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by copilot:
Good luck Daveshane!!!

It's about 24 years too late but thanks for the thought.

David

"Not completely as well as the series of Firefly..." - From a review of Serenity at amazon.de

COPILOT

Saturday, June 3, 2006 12:19 AM

Ah ha I screwed up the past tense there.
Damn me!!!!!! Sorry Daveshayne!
I'm leaving the original post for others to point and laugh at though.
Oh goodness life is sooo beautiful!!

An I carried such a torch.......For the Dark Lord

COMICGIRL

Saturday, June 3, 2006 12:46 AM

I think I was a mixture of C & D. Every report card I got said 'Quiet, consciencious pupil' I still shudder at those words!

I don't care what you believe in, just believe in it.

JASINEE

Saturday, June 3, 2006 1:24 AM

I guess C would be closest, but really was actually a band geek (though I have always enjoyed a good bit of SciFi!) School was no prob, .... Until I learned how to be a slacker! (can we say 'how to slack'?) It was the homework and the actual "attending" that got me!! ^_^ so didnt get as good of grades as I could have... Plus the fact that I bugged out for my senior year and went overseas as an exchange student ^_^ (ahh what fun!) College has been a lot shinier anyway, even though discipline still isn't my strong suit :-p

There's no place I can be,
Since I've found Serenity

CHRISMOORHEAD

Saturday, June 3, 2006 1:43 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by copilot:
Darn double post!!!
But I wanted to tell Chrismoorhead that he frightens me anyway. You kind of remind me of one of my best friends from back in the high school days.

An I carried such a torch.......For the Dark Lord

Even though this is very much inviting comments concerning another thread in a different forum, I'll recount this story anyways, just to better fit the image you're forming of me.

I also got arrested from 10th grade English class for assault and posession of a deadly weapon. Handcuffs, county officer, holding cell, the whole shibang. Spent the rest of my high school years at a private school for trouble makers. Not anywhere near as bad as it sounds, though, the other kids there made me look like a golden child and I essentially cruised through respected by staff and student alike.

IVY

Saturday, June 3, 2006 2:24 AM

I was a strange combination of just about all of them.

I was a mostly A student.
Had lots of "friends" but only a very few close confidents.
I was in choir/theatre,played a sport, was a cheerleader and did student counsel.
I was a TOTAL geek and loved D&D and SciFi/Fantasy.
I hung out with jocks, stoners and geeks (not so much the "beautiful" crowd).
But it was the geeks who had my devotion and still do!

Ivy

I've been sane a long while now, and change is good...

DAVESHAYNE

Saturday, June 3, 2006 2:38 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by copilot:
Ah ha I screwed up the past tense there.
Damn me!!!!!! Sorry Daveshayne!
I'm leaving the original post for others to point and laugh at though.

No sweat. Hey perhaps there is somebody else out there staring down the business end of the intelectual vacum that is high school in america that can use your well wishes. If just one person is saved I think it's worthwhile.

David

"Not completely as well as the series of Firefly..." - From a review of Serenity at amazon.de

DAYVE

Saturday, June 3, 2006 2:51 AM

i forgot the question... but actually i can trace my humble beginnings as a anarchist back to jr hi or the 3rd grade really (during a heated game of red rover i called for everybody to come over, thereby creating my rebel persona)... by high school i was blacklisted by every teacher on campus and had to work a little harder than most to maintain my C average... maybe due to the fact that i was constantly distributing pro-castro and communist literature whenever possible... my nickname throughout that miserable time in my life was Red Rover....and i wore it with pride...

CHRISISALL

Saturday, June 3, 2006 2:58 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by ncbrowncoat:

I still won't go to my high school reunions though.

Me either!!!
Bunch of clods.

The jerks who picked on me in Junior High knew at least to leave me alone in H.S. due to the fact that my hero at the time was Bruce Lee, and I mimicked him -in moves- very well.

Sweet revenge Chrisisall

FUTUREMRSFILLION

Saturday, June 3, 2006 3:15 AM

I was A,C and D. Most of my friends were male though.

I am on The List. We are The Forsaken and we aim to burn!
"We don't fear the reaper"

SAFEAT2ND

Saturday, June 3, 2006 3:26 AM

Me, I was a mix.
-Not good enough grades to be an IQ student, I got B, B+s without ever doing any homework or studying (except english class).
-Not a tech, never liked "computer science" I hated having to write the programs down.
-Not quite a jock but was atheltic, Track and field and swim team, wanted by the football coach for my speed but never had the time (which I will always regret)
-Band member.
-never quite a D&D guy, apparently I didn't take it seriously enough.
-never made any enemies though.
-funny thing. I ran into a bully that picked on me on the school bus. I am a good foot taller than he is now and at least twenty pounds heavier (muscle, not fat) He looked nervous for a change. (I will remember that to the end of my days)
-went through High school as the a typical 90 pound skinny guy. Working out with the University football team changed that in a hurry.
-generally a happy go lucky guy. Still am.
-went to my high school reunion, with a bit a trepidation, and was hit on by the "popular" girl. My wife got a chuckle out of that.

Safeat2nd, Chief Handyman of Destiny

JOSSISAGOD

Saturday, June 3, 2006 4:05 AM

I had an average IQ, and had friends but didn't obsess about them. Obsessed with Star Wars until 2002 when my Star Wars obsession was dwarfed by my Firefly obsession. I suspect I could hold my own in a fight(Edit: Except with the Almighty Chrisisall!), though I never have been in one.

Well, there you have it, me in a nutshell.

JOSSIS(Most Definitely)AGOD

KANEMAN

Saturday, June 3, 2006 4:33 AM

Started as an A...ended and still am a d

RIVER6213

Saturday, June 3, 2006 4:36 AM

D. I was very resourceful and was all over the place.

KANEMAN

Saturday, June 3, 2006 4:43 AM

Started out as an "a"...ended as a "d"...Still am today....always got good grades, wouldn't consider myself a high IQ nerd..although I try.

JEDINERD7

Saturday, June 3, 2006 4:42 PM

Much like JOSSISAGOD, I too was a SW fanatic. Still am. I have a closeted love of anything sci-fi and even my friends make fun of me for it. High school... fat, funny girl; choir and theatre, newspaper, shy at first, became increasingly more outgoing. Good grades. Golf in ninth grade, but that's it. The usual.

Goodnight, and have a pleasant tomorrow.

SASSALICIOUS

Saturday, June 3, 2006 5:33 PM

I'm kind of a combo of C/D, with a splash of something else.

Super smart, graduated 2 in class of 406 without really trying. Got bored applying to college so I ended up at a state school, oddly enough with an essay all about this perfect appearing girl who was actually an alcoholic crackwhore. Liked star wars, but wouldn't say obsessed. X-files was my obsession. I was involved in some clubs and played softball for the city league, but my friends and I mostly sequestered ourselves in the music/theatre department and voluntarily avoided interacting with anyone else. Worked a lot, played a lot of violin in the city youth symphony and at school, developmed my obsession with travel.

Graduated and the next morning I was on a flight to AK to work for the summer. Been back to visit for a total of less than 6 months in the 4 years since I left.

Can't wait for the 10 or 15 year reunion. My friend's mom is a total gossipy bitch (I almost hope I run into her in the next few days so I can have words). I can't wait to prove her wrong and shatter her illusions about the world. And laugh at certain people.

Vindictive? Me? Nah . . .

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"We don't fear the reaper"
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PDCHARLES

Saturday, June 3, 2006 5:50 PM

Prolly D…

Tried to bridge all the cliques… was mostly referred to as weird and funny. Had spurts of popularity. Played football and wrestled… got in a couple of fights but made friends with both later. My obsession was x-men. Was in a club called DECA where I was able to travel to competitions across the country which opned my eyes.

Got mostly A/B+s until senior year where I skipped school a lot cause I thought I was cool.
Wasn’t worth it. I missed some scholarships. And knowing is half the battle.

Wha?!?... *sniff sniff* OH.... IM ON FIRE!!!

STORM

Saturday, June 3, 2006 6:05 PM

At the end of Junior High, I was a C, which led to also being a B. Then I somehow added D to the mix.

TAYEATRA

Saturday, June 3, 2006 6:50 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by ChrisMoorhead:

Headbutting lockers was a favorite passtime

Yep, right there with you on the locker thing. Also headbutted the wall and desk on occassion. The desk thing was kind of funny because I did it when frustrated and then carried on like nothing happened and everyone else was looking around for the source of the bang.

Definitely started out as:
C) High IQ nerd, Trek or Star Wars obsessed, able to breeze through school without trying.

But then I realised I didn't need to try, got very bored, developed a deep hatred of all type A people (mostly out of fear, I admit... frequently picked on). So, yeah, by age 13...
B) Loner, 'possibly' unliked 'by some' and ostracized- with thoughts of blowing the school up (Not that I let people know about it!).

*****
Taya
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I'm going to S3!!!
(*Insert hysterical celebration dance here*)

MEANGOLDFISH

Saturday, June 3, 2006 6:56 PM

umm, i always seemed to be quite popular, even though i hate using that term, because it makes people think of bubble gum cheerleaders and stuff.

it was kind of odd, because i've always been a nerd at heart. hardcore about x-men, video games, star wars, movies, and so on. i even played magic: the gathering.

also, i was editor-in-chief of the school paper.

NUCLEARDAY

Saturday, June 3, 2006 7:39 PM

Quite a variety of types in here. Who knew we weren't all nerds in high school?

Me, I was more of a geek than a nerd. I was a B average student. (Never really got the hang of that whole homework thing, even in college. :) I took orchestra all through Jr. High/ High School, and I was pretty much the wierd artsy guy in school. I found out early on that I could get attention from doodling in class, so I'd draw portraits of people and the like.

I was never all that outgoing back then (still not, come to think of it,) but I knew enough people in the various cliques that I didn't get picked on too much.

Most of what I remember is being absolutely obsessed with a girl in my grade and being too bashful and awkward to ask her out until the last week of my senior year. (And go figure she'd land a boyfriend two days before I poured my heart out to her :)

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SOFI

Saturday, June 3, 2006 7:53 PM

eek! still at school!

but still, im an odd one. i am friends with most people (am president of sixth form (woot!)) but i have about 10 very close friends who are i suppose the "alternative people" mainly.

in the last few months though i have been becoming increasingly geeky! i blame my boyfriend. he introduced me to star wars. then i started playing magic: the gathering (!!) with some guys at school. but apart from that (and i suppose unheathly obsession with webcomics and firefly) i'm not a geek and pretty "popular" (if i'm allowed to say that)

...can that be option e or something?

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CAB1729

Saturday, June 3, 2006 8:53 PM

I was mostly C. But it was pre-Star Wars and pre-PCs and pre-cable, so while I watched Star Trek the first time around, if there were any Trekkies out there they were still in their parents' basements. *shrug*

I was a reader and non-studier who started hanging out with the freaks halfway thru HS. At that time, there were freaks, nerds, and greasers. Geeks wasn't coined until after I left HS.

But as a side note - the HS that Freaks and Geeks was based on? 6 miles and 5 years from mine. And literally nothing had changed.

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Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace?
Calvin: Too few role models.

JEDINERD7

Saturday, June 3, 2006 9:02 PM

Dude, I love "Freaks and Geeks" and this whole thread made me think of it.

Goodnight, and have a pleasant tomorrow.

SERENITYINSCOTLAND

Saturday, June 3, 2006 9:20 PM

Interesting thread! I think I was pretty much a D, I had a few friends I was really close with (only guys though, Freud would have loved it). I was obsessed with and pretty good at water polo, but seeing as I played for the district cos there was no school team meant bugger all to most people!!

GWENHARKER

Saturday, June 3, 2006 9:45 PM

I graduated about two weeks ago and Imma have to go with B.

RIVERGIRL

Saturday, June 3, 2006 10:58 PM

shy still am
but got good grades-and was on the cheerleading team

Also, I can kill you with my brain.

GRIZWALD

Saturday, June 3, 2006 11:06 PM

Another Z-type here, only female this time.

Hung with the druggies in school but not out of school and was too smart to do drugs myself, played first chair violin so hung with the music geeks, was unathletic so did not speak the same language as the jocks. Did not care much about the social scene in high school as I was living for getting out of there and going to college. I'm glad for that; I find it really sad when the high point of someone's life is high school and everything is downhill from there! Oh dear.

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go back the next morning and see it again.
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RHYIANAN

Sunday, June 4, 2006 7:32 AM

mix of b and c.

I never studied....and still usually got the highest score in the class. I didn't even study for my AP bio test and I still got a 5. And because I was so obviously smart, the other kids at school didn't like me (well, that and the fact that I'm socially retarded).

Blowing up the school actually did cross my mind.....but only because it was falling down around us anyway and it would have given them a reason to build a new one.

MAGDALENE

Sunday, June 4, 2006 2:31 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by PaganPaul:
I would have been a Type Z. None of your profiles fits.

I was out on the school porch smoking with the heads, on the playing field talking with the jocks, hanging out with my VERY high IQ girl friend, playing D&D with the nerds (long before it was cool to do so) and still got pretty good grades.

Basically, I was the bridge between all of the groups you've described above.

Go figure...

Though I didn't smoke and didn't hang out with the jocks I was kind of wacky and a bit of a go-between myself so maybe I am .... oooh, lets pick a letter "... could I please have an 'M' for Magdalene, Larry?" Yes an "M" for me - I was a brilliant drama and literature student (in my mind, at least) and had a small group of hillarious, intelligent and very loyal friends! We made animal noises in class and drove our teachers mad, but I really just found the work so boring that I didn't even try hard and mostly just passed subjects I should have been straight A in (again possibly in my mind...) We weren't intimidated by the goths, the 'wogs' (their term, not mine - and that meant Greek or Italian) the high IQ students who were straight A, the popular Miss Cordelia types who knew they couldn't impress us so sometimes they just let us be themselves with them just being themselves. I came from a very multi-cultural area - Melbourne...aaah! Loved it all and hated it all .... you could call it a 'love/hate relationship' I guess.... hmmmmm... that's too deep - think I'll go to bed in case I start making sense again !!

'night - Magdalene x x

"I love my captain!"

BRANDONLUTZ

Sunday, June 4, 2006 3:26 PM

I was sort of a D in that I had only a few close friends in HS. Mostly because several years earlier, I had developed all my friendships at a different school, and because of where I lived I was still friends with those people.

More than anything I was the common guy between the two schools that particularly did not like each other. Guess I was the diplomat that kept things in step at baseball and basketball games.

LITTLEALBATROSS29

Sunday, June 4, 2006 9:16 PM

I was none of the above.
I started out ok , honor classes & all.But soon rebellion took over. I dyed my hair black, wore only black. Listened to depersssive music ,smoked cigarettes,wrote poems about death. Had weird looking friends.Somehow I never got in too much trouble. Eventually dropped out. Got my ged & went to college, got an associates degree .Had many a good time, many bad. But REALLY wouln't want my kids to do it that way.
But I also met my husband in sophmore year english class.
Bryce

I swallowed a bug.

ANGIEBABY

Sunday, June 4, 2006 10:03 PM

I was type A and D hard to grasp but I changed when I changed schools, now I'm definatley a D

Life is like a box of chocolates......You're always left with the nutty ones!

MARAZ

Sunday, June 4, 2006 10:38 PM

Probably closest to A. Perhaps C in that I have always had good grades and often enjoy fantasy/sci-fi type things. Mostly in my school being intelligent wasn't a barrier to popularity. Like others have said I moved quite easily between groups - I had close friends who were A, B and C types (not so sure about D). To be honest I think my school was probably quite different from the average high school, firstly because I live in the UK the last two years of school (Sixth form) are optional, so most people there are quite bright. Secondly because my school had large number of people from well off backgrounds. Also many of us came from different schools (in sixth form you often change schools) which meant there were lots of connections between different friendship groups. The result was basically that although there were different cliques of people there were loosely defined and fluid.

I hope that's not just boring :)

AFTERGLOW

Monday, June 5, 2006 12:00 AM

Hmmm...how 'bout catigory "U" for Unpopular. I had a few friends (and lots of pen pals) but for the most part high school was a terrible experience and I'm glad it's over. That aside, there were some bright spots:
-Junior Classical League (nationwide Latin & Greek club...anyone here alumni?)
-Debate team
-Community theatre company (did everything from a little acting to building and tearing down sets, box office sales, ushering, selling refreshments at intermission...anything that meant I could be involved)
-Frequent road trips in my 1983 Nissan Pulsar NX (with sun roof and flip up headlights...though I was driving it in 1991 )
-Mock Trial team (we even got to state once!)
So I was a hippie classics debate sci-fi wierdo.
Now, I'm proud of my geekdom.
And even prouder to be a Browncoat!

13

Monday, June 5, 2006 12:32 AM

Let you know in two years!

Junior high:

Mostly a clown, with one good friend, although everybody knows me, although I've been prone to fits of depression and brooding. Prodigy, on good terms with everybody, sort of athletic, hung out with only that one friend.

High school's going to be the same, I think.

Although there is about 50-65 people in my entire school, K-9, so moving to a city will be an adjustment.

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13, First Mate of the 'Heart of Haven'
and Honorary Forsaken

KAYNA

Monday, June 5, 2006 2:27 AM

B/C/D combonation. The ostracisim started in elementary school and never really went away, though not as bad in high school. Less open at least. Still wanted to maim them horribly. Hated my school and ploted destroying the place.

I only ever had a few real friends at a time but was willing to be friendly with anyone that was friendly back. No self-esteem in 9th grade but eventually got to the point of fu** you, I'l do my own thing. Hated social gatherings. Spent most of my spare time by myself.

Made select choir a year early and got A's in every art class I took so pretty artsy. My obsession was less any Sci/Fi thing than Fantasy. Especially fantasy books. Huge reader, still am, anything and everything with fantasy on top of my list. Still love most classic sci/fi though.

Problems with depression (really hit me hard my junior year of high school) and lazyness. I always aced tests without studying but never did homework. Who's heard this speech from a teacher? "We know you can do so much better. You have so much potential..." They all liked me though, cause I participated in calss and had real, intelligent discussions on nearly any given topic.

This should illustrate some of the situation.
I once presented a "bill" to my government class (we were doing a mock Congress thing) on legalizing prostitution just to get a rise out of them all. They were mostly ignorant, Mighigan redneck, uber-christians that sent horrible threats to wiccan friend of mine. They collectivly voted to legalize pot and lower the drinking age but voted against mine just because "it's wrong"

I have no plans to ever go to a high school reunion.

...Wow. I'm sorry that that got so long.

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Mal: Yeah, well I'm known for that.

SINGATE

Monday, June 5, 2006 8:33 AM

Kayna, you sound like a younger, female version of me. Though I never joined any clubs or participated in school activites.

I was a sci-fi/fantasy geek from the time I first saw the original Star Trek reruns in my childhood. Then Star Wars came along and fully cemented sci-fi as my favorited genre. These things added to my being overweight and wearing glasses did not make me a popular boy.

I played D&D and was able to maintain an A/B average without even trying. There were two guys I went to school with who were troublemakers but I got in good with them by helping them pass a few classes. This insured that few people would mess with me. Unfortunately one of them got sent to drug rehab and the other was expelled for nearly beating some kid to death. There went my protection. Yeah, it's selfish of me but I never felt much empathy for my classmates and I assure you no one else ever helped me out.

Moved to a new state just before the start of junior year which ended up to be a blessing in disguise. I really embraced the fuck everyone else attitude, dropping F-bombs like I was getting paid for it and generally not giving damn what people thought about me. The weird thing is that for some reason people responded in a positve way. I ended up having friends who were sci-fi nerds, athletes, business wannabes(guys who wore suits to school!), and some bonafide geniuses. Go figure.

I still have no interest in going to any reunion and have not been in contact with any of my former classmates.

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SHINYGEEKET

Monday, June 5, 2006 9:42 AM

My freshmen year of high school I was kind of an A/C combo, minus the Cordelia-ness and the Star Trek obsession (though there were and are other geekier obsessions, which I shan't discuss here). The school I attended that year was tiny, barely hundred students, so I had a lot of friends my age and older. That was also the year that most of my friends were in bands so there where a lot of shows to hang out at.

Sophmore year I became a B/C type mostly because I moved to a new area and shortly before moving by dad passed away, so I sort of retreated into myself. I spent the last three years of high school just studying and hanging out with a core group consisting of about 5 other people. Towards the end of high school my group of friends kind of imploded mainly due to my toxic former best friend. I sure everyone has had that relationship that started out good, but eventually went horribly, horribly wrong, right? Well if this person has been my boyfriend, the relationship would have bordered on abusive.

So now here it is, almost exactly a year since my high school graduation and I guess I would call myself a D type. I've got a pretty good group of friends (many whom which I went to high school with, but never really hung out with) and I'd consider myself independent what with the college life and a spanking new job .

"We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land'."

THATWEIRDGIRL

Monday, June 5, 2006 10:58 AM

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Originally posted by copilot:
Basically I was that wierd girl that's always singing and dancing.

Huh. thought that was me...maybe i'm you...

Not that it matters anymore what we were back then, but i was a dork..a dork everyone knew...and made fun of...i was not a geek back then, and i couldn't be called a nerd because though i took the nerdy classes with all my trekkie friends, I didn't study...ever.

So count me as a dork...band, latin, french, student council...the list goes on...but who cares? I'm cool now.

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CHRISISALL

Monday, June 5, 2006 1:33 PM

Nice to see you around, TWG.
*misses the pre-BDM days*

BDHChrisisall

MAL4PREZ

Monday, June 5, 2006 3:24 PM

I'm a B/C/D mix. Definitely down with the smart part, liked sci-fi, but just to read and watch on little or big screen, not fannish. I was a BIG band geek. At my high school, it was actually kind of cool to be a smart band geek, because our band was really good, and, it being the armpit of the midwest, getting into a far away college was viewed as a good thing.

But, as far as me personally, I was so not cool! I tried, did activities galore: all the various little bands, the school musical, soccer, even a little stint with pompoms (shudder) but I didn't bond with the locals, except a few friends. I guess, all in all, I was pretty invisible.

The summer before my senior year I met some people I really liked. People not from my school. So then I bailed on all my activities to could hang out with the funner people. I hated my senior year - I was counting the days until I got out. And life has been so much better since - high school was just so lame!!

Good thread Chrisisall. It's fun to revisit - I haven't thought about high school in years! Seems like it all happened to a different person.

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SAFEAT2ND

Monday, June 5, 2006 3:30 PM

Mal4prez, My school was the same. Band wasn't a bad thing. Ours was quite good too.

Was a Star Wars fan and original Battlestar Galactica fan but not a trekkie, so I got most of my sci-fi input via books. Stephen R Donaldson was my favorite in high school.

Kinda ages me... sigh.

Safeat2nd, Chief Handyman of Destiny

BROWNCOAT1

Monday, June 5, 2006 4:49 PM

Started out in elementary and junior high as a "B", ended up as a "D".

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JIBREEL

Monday, June 5, 2006 5:51 PM

It's hard to fit into one category - I was a rebel in high school, obsessed with going to punk shows on school nights and averting athority whenever possible. I was still popular though, because I was extroverted and a class clown. Eventually left high school my junior year because I couldn't take any more - went to junior college the next year and never looked back. Now I have a degree and a white collar job and couldn't think of my high school days any less if I tried.

"Jayne, try not to steal too much of their sh*t!"

SAHARA

Monday, June 5, 2006 7:31 PM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
African, or European?

Chrisisall

I don't know.

AARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHhhhh...

Blackbird fly into the light of the dark, black night.

ZZETTA13

Monday, June 5, 2006 7:49 PM

I was very quiet and reserved in HS. Guess I could have been called a lurker before there was even such a term.

I have made up for it now though. The squeaky engine part gets the grease so to say, and if its Kaylee doing the greasing well....ha..ha

Z

LEOPRINCESS

Saturday, September 23, 2006 8:32 PM

I was an odd mix of B,C and D. With a couple of extrations, but never an A.

DQBABY76

Saturday, September 23, 2006 9:32 PM

I was A,B, and D. I cheered and did all the popular stuff but I also liked being alone with my thoughts and pondering stuff with different people. Being popular was fun but its sooo fake, people either feared you or kissed your ass.

I liked hanging out with the goth,sci-fi,nerdy,rock band people. they were very accepting and always had something interesting to say. Out of all my friends from high school they are the only ones I still talk to. Well, except my best friend who was "The Hot Chick/Prom Queen" in school, we still talk like we live next door, even though we are about 3,000 miles away.

High School was good times but I dont think I'd relive any of it again.

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DARKFLY

Saturday, September 23, 2006 9:58 PM

Probably closest to a C,I had a few friends in school so I wasn't a complete loner,I also like playing games on my Sony PSP & Dell laptop,& I love watching movies espically sci-fi ones.I never was obssessed with Star Wars even though I liked the orginals but I was a big fan of Star Trek but not a Trekkie,& cause I've just finsihed school recently the last year in school I became a BROWNCOAT.Only thing which would have made my school years perfect would have been to have a girlfriend,I dob't count my girlfriend when I was 4-6 years old.

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Saturday, September 23, 2006 11:12 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by ncbrowncoat:
I didn't begin to blossom until way after high school. College, 4 years in the military, ...

I still won't go to my high school reunions though.

Amen to that! Blossoming late, the military, and not going to reunions!

TOBEDOG

Saturday, September 23, 2006 11:34 PM

I was the typical B and C student in school. Hung out in a small group of friends which still keep in touch to this day. All of us where in the NJROTC unit for 4 yrs and on the Rifleteam. Now most people think of rifleteam as spinning and throwing the dummy fake ones but we shot 22 cal pellet rifles competitively in school. We're ranked number 1 in the state of WA from 1994 - 1998. We did our own things. We didn't do the traditional HS things. Football games on friday nights, homecomings, proms none of that stuff. We had more interest in 4-wheelin, drinking beer (when we could get it), watching movies and playing video games.

"Six men came to kill me one time. The best of 'em carried this. Its a Killhan Full-Bore Auto Lock, customized trigger, double-cartridge thorough-gage. It is my very favorite gun."

KINGHENDRICK

Sunday, September 24, 2006 9:20 AM

i was the most popular girl at school.. oh wait.. im a boy.. dang

Hail to the King baby!

RCAT

Sunday, September 24, 2006 11:33 AM

A total mix. I thought I was a geek but I was too much of misfit and too lazy to be in the honor-roll crowd and only attempted sports for a year (HS coaches are freaky). Years after HS I met a girl at party, several cities away who blurted out "hey you went to my school, you were that smart stoner." I guess if there have to be labels for those years I'd rather have "smart-stoner" over the image I had of myself at the time.

MEGMAC

Sunday, September 24, 2006 1:16 PM

I was equal parts B and C.

I absolutely hated school, I never fit in at all. My group of friends were kind of semi-popular, but I was always on the outside looking in. The 'popular' crowd would always find something to pick on me and my best friend about.

Also, being asexual meant that while other girls became interested in boys I was still more interested in the next series of Buffy, which meant being labelled 'frigid'. I've also always been mature for my age, so I used to read books that most of them hadn't heard of yet so I was a 'swot'.

Basically, the whole school experience turned me into a nervous wreck with social anxiety, which still effects me now three years out of school.

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MARINA

Sunday, September 24, 2006 1:48 PM

D, of the choices you list. I went to a very small high school (our graduating class had something like 30 students) and I got along with people tolerably well, I just didn't like very many of them. I think because it was such a small group it wasn't as clinically divided along clique lines.

In college I retained that same...aloofness...one might say, but developed the ability to mask it. I actually dabbled at being an A (or rather, befriending people I didn't actually think much of) for a few semesters, only to find it exhausting. I then reverted back to a D and find myself still quite content.

I'm very smart.

CYBERSNARK

Sunday, September 24, 2006 3:51 PM

C all the way. Honour Roll, straigh As, top of the curve --all of which sounds impressive until you realize that 99% of my high school was completely and utterly stupid. Like "make Jayne look like a criminal mastermind" stupid.

I was kinda the "stealth rebel" --I quickly learned that being an Honour Roll student means the teachers will let you get away with anything. Skipping, lateness, accusations of vandalism (though, to be fair, I didn't start the fire, I just happened to be nearby when the Principal arrived), disrespectfulness, fights, sneaking off mid-class to the darkroom with a cute brunette (who also happened to be an honour student). . .

Uh, where was I?

There were a few shining lights, two of whom ended up being fairly close friends, and one of whom became my first love, though I haven't seen any of them for years.

Hung out in the Art room a lot, with a handful of other geeks and loners (who weren't necessarily any smarter than everyone else, they were just wierder). I wouldn't call myself popular, but looking back, I realize that a lot of people knew me by name.

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STEAMER

Sunday, September 24, 2006 9:39 PM

Ohhh boy, was I a B. Never interacted with anyone. Wanted to blow up the school, the lousy teachers and every gorram punk, druggie, and football jock who once laughed in my general direction. (To say nothing of the fat, obnoxious hormone-bags who wouldn't give me a moment's peace...)

High school - too many characters, not enough plot.

Serenity flies
At a hundred per
Is Wash nervous?
Tsai-bu-shr!
FIREFLY

MIRACULOUSBUMM

Sunday, September 24, 2006 9:53 PM

Lessee, I dunno if this'n 'll make any sense, but a mix of A and D. A small group of close friends, can definitely defend myself in a fight (I've take 7 years of Kung Fu). Always thinkin' about fun. And most importantly, an Independent (in both meanings of the word)

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WHIMSICALNBRAINPAN

Sunday, September 24, 2006 10:18 PM

A very strong D, with the IQ of C (but not into Star Trek and while I like Star Wars was never obsessed), and the loner element of B at times without the desire to blow up things (for the most part).

"Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle." http://whimsicalnbrainpan.blogspot.com/

CAPERCAILLIE

Monday, September 25, 2006 12:33 AM

life was easy back then....

voted "Friendliest girl" and "Class chatterbox", straight A's and 3-season letter winner - liked (not loved) Star Trek and was best friends with the school dealer

I'm a high school teacher now - gee, what a surprise!

BELOWZERO

Monday, September 25, 2006 2:09 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
A) Popular, a regular Cordelia-type, tons of friends, not much more than fun on your mind.

B) Loner, unliked and ostracized- with thoughts of blowing the school up.

C) High IQ nerd, Trek or Star Wars obsessed, able to breeze through school without trying.

D) Take-charge type, could defend yourself in a fight, and talk your way into getting your way. Few, but important friends, very independent.

Myself, I started out as a B in Junior High, but switched to a combo of C/D in High School. Could not abide A types.

Any one else? I suspect many C types are here...

Chrisisall, workin on a thesis (uh-huh...)

Cross between C and D. Helped that I didn't really give a shit about what others thought of me, and that I started a rebellion in PE one day when I was unfairly punished for something I didn't do. (Instant cool, ya know. Standing up to authority.)
I was a straight-A student, and a band geek,I got away with murder.
My close friends were mostly guys, and in my d&d group. Of course.

"Do not go gentle into that good night....
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. . ."
--Dylan Thomas

Though my soul may set in darkness
It will rise in perfect light.
I have loved the stars too fondly
To be fearful of the night.

RMMC

Monday, September 25, 2006 2:32 AM

Huh. I thought I'd replied to this earlier.

B & C mostly.

Was in the advanced classes & got A's & B's. Had a few friends, but there were folks who went out of their way to make my school life hell. Never thought of killin' 'em though. I just wanted the gorram hell out of there.

Like a few other folks, it'll have to be a glacier in Hell before I'll go to a reunion. Anyone I liked, I've kept in touch with; got no interest in the rest.

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MISBEHAVEN

Monday, September 25, 2006 3:09 AM

Perceived as a D, but really a C. I had no trouble defending myself, which I only had to do once. Apparently, I made an impression. But at heart, I was a total nerd. High GPA and a sci-fi and D&D freak.

Buy the ticket. Take the ride.
-Hunter S. Thompson

TRIGGERHAPPY

Monday, September 25, 2006 5:05 AM

Well considering i am in high school now, i wanted to delurk for a change and answer. At this point i'm a sophomore and i haven't changed much since 8th grade. I would say i'm a mix...

I mean i'm definately not the smartest person in my class. I have high IQ but i struggle with my honors classes right now. I'm pretty athletic I.E. waterpolo and swim. And I play the violin. I guess you could describe me as a geek/jock. But what would that make me? A Gock? A Jeek? Hmm.

I'd definately say i was a tomboy. I mean i love video games and i like guy things. And i get obsessed with things very easily. Never anything like Firefly though. *sigh* All started with those darn pokemon! I always had a fairly large amount of friends after my wussy elementary school days. I can take care of myself now but i was definatelly bullied in elementary school. (i'm sad to say...) But i guess i've toughened up now. No way anybody's gonna mess around with me anymore.

So i guess i'll end this increasingly large response and ask you guys what you think i am. A, B, C, D, or none of the above?

CHRISISALL

Monday, September 25, 2006 1:48 PM

C&D Jeek.
(love that term, can I use it?)

Gockisall:biggrim:

HOBBLEIT

Monday, September 25, 2006 6:07 PM

I was C, definitely. wasn't obsessed with star trek or star wars though, buffy mostly.

"did the titanic bend? No!"