Would I have hated you in high school? - Page 2

melidasaur · 08-10-2005, 07:27 PM

Involved in band, orchestra, theatre, yet kept an edge. Dressed funky, had friends outside of suburbia, etc.

I was pretty moody - I hated high school and couldn't wait to get out. I went to Libertyville High School in Libertyville, IL which I frequently deem the:

1) Vortex to hell
2) Hell on Earth
3) The umpteenth level of hell...

Yeah, didn't like it. If you went to LHS... sorry if I just pissed on your memories

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SteveDallas · 08-10-2005, 07:56 PM

You would probably not have noticed me. I was quiet, retiring, and geeky.

lookout123 · 08-10-2005, 08:09 PM

are my small group of friends, and i, the only ones in existance who absolutely loved high school and didn't want it to end?

Griff · 08-10-2005, 08:26 PM

Yes.

Elspode · 08-10-2005, 10:22 PM

Oh, fuck no. I would *still* gladly return to high school. I had a blast. I was smart enough to do what I wanted and get away with it. I worked just as hard as I had to in order to get by, and spent the rest of my time being a freak and having glorious unprotected sex, drinking and smoking dope in the lighting room during school productions (I, too, am a Thespian, thank you), being excused from class to go shoot pictures for the yearbook and newspaper and then spend hours in the darkroom developing and printing them. We got excused from school to go pick up equipment, went on road trips for forensics/acting competitions, wrote plays about selling drugs in Spanish which we subsequently performed stoned on our asses during our first hour class...

I could go on, but it is going to depress me something fierce. Real life doesn't quite compare in many ways.

melidasaur · 08-10-2005, 10:37 PM

yeah, I think the people who loved high school and never wanted it to end are nuts.
I have worked with college students for a long time now, and the ones that crack me up the most are the ones that never let go of high school. High school was just way lame... I did attend a lame school, but even if I would have gone somewhere else, I just don't like to be confined.

I would never go back and do it again... College on the other hand - hell yes.

08-10-2005, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by lookout123

are my small group of friends, and i, the only ones in existance who absolutely loved high school and didn't want it to end?

High School had a couple of moments for me, but I mostly hated it and was delighted to be done with it. College was a whole different thing. I had an absolute and total BLAST in college! I still remember my college days with great fondness. Drugs and revolution and my first love - staying up half the night and reciting horrible poetry that I had written and listening to my friends' awful poetry in return - we all thought we were the new Allen Ginsberg's and Sylvia Plath's. Deciding to take off for Taos, New Mexico or Moab, Utah at 11:00pm and arriving at these places at 6:00am. Having the firm conviction that WE would CHANGE the world!

Oh, I miss those road trips into morning, that passionate intensity, and sense of discovery. It was like being freed from prison after my boring high school years!

Elspode · 08-10-2005, 10:49 PM

Oh, don't get me wrong. I wanted to get the hell out of school when I was there. It was only after about 20 years of "The Real World" (tm) that I realized what a sweet deal high school actually was.

I also just realized that I never answered the original topic question. Would you have liked me in high school? Yeah. Everyone did. I ran with the jocks and the freaks, the geeks and brainiacs, the cool kids and the school outcasts. I did (and still do) get along very well with everyone, everywhere. I seem to have the sort of demeanor that makes me approachable. A long time friend of mine (dating back to high school, actually...someone whom I have spent a lot of time both back then and ever since) once commented, after seeing me asked for the current time one day on Kansas City's Plaza, that people had *always* done things like this with me. Strangers talking to me unbidden, that sort of thing.

I'm a real lucky guy in this way.

wolf · 08-11-2005, 12:25 AM

Total Band Geek, Jazz Band, Concert Band, Marching Band, Bux-Mont Band and District Orchestra, Pit Orchestra, in the years that I wasn't in the play (had a feature role in the Pajama Game) as well as into as much as I could manage otherwise ... Future Teachers of America, Junior Historians, World Affairs Club, Drama Club, Chorus, Chess Club, National Honor Society, Newspaper, Softball Manager and Scorekeeper, and probably a couple other things that I can't think of without finding the list of crap I did from my Yearbook. Oh, yeah, with a couple other outcasts from the band crowd started an underground newspaper in our senior year.

Known by everybody, but never in the "popular" clique.

I decided in Junior High that I was going to do my own thing, and have as good a time as I could muster, and didn't give a good goddamn about what anyone else thought about it ... therefore I ended up pretty much impervious to and free of bullying.

BrianR · 08-11-2005, 08:02 AM

You would have hated me. I was an overweight computer nerd, chess club, uncool car (The Tank) and eclectic taste in music. I dressed much the same then as I do now.. Tshirt and jeans. Rarely dated, had few friends and am probably STILL on the principal's shit list for the snake incident. Wanted out then and still would if I were there.

Which reminds me, my 20th reunion should be coming up soon, and I ain't going unless I can go in full dress leather! hehehehe

Brian

Queen of the Ryche · 08-11-2005, 08:49 AM

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Originally Posted by BrianR

Which reminds me, my 20th reunion should be coming up soon, and I ain't going unless I can go in full dress leather! hehehehe

Brian

Can I be your date?

LabRat · 08-11-2005, 09:37 AM

I was in band 4 years because I loved marching band, didn't care for the rest. Played flute freshman year, and was colorguard the rest. ("flag girl" to you unPC types

) Ran track 2 years before getting a job my junior year, was good, but not great. Had some school records freshman year, but not good enough to go to state. Partied some, drank some, never didn't have a date or a good time at a dance. Found out later I had a reputation for being easy-- heh heh. Our popular crowd was the rich kids, which I wasn't, but I did have a core group of friends from different backgrounds--theater, orchestra, school paper, jocks etc. Mostly hung out with band people tho. My nicname was Mouth, because I was rather loud and obnoxious. Probably cuz I also got a lot of practice using it in backseats.

and golf courses, and parks, and hotel rooms, and ...

I liked high school, could/should have been a valedictorian, but was having a good time instead. Most of the valedictorians were my good friends tho, (class of 400+) so I was definately a nerd. Would I go back? Yes, only this time I would have participated in more activities and worked less. That's my only regret.

Clodfobble · 08-11-2005, 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by LabRat

Most of the valedictorians were my good friends tho

Ah hell, you went to one of those politically correct schools that has more than one valedictorian?

SouthOfNoNorth · 08-11-2005, 10:25 AM

The details of my life are quite inconsequential.... very well, where do i begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I highly suggest you try it.

oh, yeah....i was also a huge dork with no fashion sense, i loved reading and playing video games and......*gasp*.....dungeons and dragons. bad home life. honor society and quiz bowl. i had a pretty good smart ass sense of humor and it kept me in good graces with people, although i was never part of any one group. like someone else mentioned, i had a lot of disdain for people that "fitted in" or embraced a stereotype, but i think that's because i came from a backwater school (graduating class of 72 peeps) that didn't have the stereotypes i would have liked. by my junior year i managed to both have sex and...duh duh DUH...discover alcohol. these two discoveries started me down the path of radical personality change and wanton drug abuse and hedonism that was to become my college career. high school sucked and i wouldn't repeat it if you put a gun to my head.....but college, ahh college. that i could do over a coupla times, with gusto.

plthijinx · 08-11-2005, 10:53 AM

I was the shy quiet kid. but I did play football, soccer, race motocross and supercross. I mostly went to private schools and couldn't stand the rich kid mentality. I grew up in a rich neighborhood but was raised not to be snobby. most of the people i went to school with and grew up around were and I couldn't stand that. and still don't.

08-10-2005, 07:27 PM	#16
melidasaur Traded your soul for pogs. Join Date: May 2004 Location: Champaign, IL Posts: 646	Involved in band, orchestra, theatre, yet kept an edge. Dressed funky, had friends outside of suburbia, etc. I was pretty moody - I hated high school and couldn't wait to get out. I went to Libertyville High School in Libertyville, IL which I frequently deem the: 1) Vortex to hell 2) Hell on Earth 3) The umpteenth level of hell... Yeah, didn't like it. If you went to LHS... sorry if I just pissed on your memories . __________________ I love England, what can I say?

08-10-2005, 08:09 PM	#18
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	are my small group of friends, and i, the only ones in existance who absolutely loved high school and didn't want it to end? __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

08-10-2005, 08:26 PM	#19
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Yes. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

08-10-2005, 10:22 PM	#20
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Oh, fuck no. I would still gladly return to high school. I had a blast. I was smart enough to do what I wanted and get away with it. I worked just as hard as I had to in order to get by, and spent the rest of my time being a freak and having glorious unprotected sex, drinking and smoking dope in the lighting room during school productions (I, too, am a Thespian, thank you), being excused from class to go shoot pictures for the yearbook and newspaper and then spend hours in the darkroom developing and printing them. We got excused from school to go pick up equipment, went on road trips for forensics/acting competitions, wrote plays about selling drugs in Spanish which we subsequently performed stoned on our asses during our first hour class... I could go on, but it is going to depress me something fierce. Real life doesn't quite compare in many ways. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

08-10-2005, 10:37 PM	#21
melidasaur Traded your soul for pogs. Join Date: May 2004 Location: Champaign, IL Posts: 646	yeah, I think the people who loved high school and never wanted it to end are nuts. I have worked with college students for a long time now, and the ones that crack me up the most are the ones that never let go of high school. High school was just way lame... I did attend a lame school, but even if I would have gone somewhere else, I just don't like to be confined. I would never go back and do it again... College on the other hand - hell yes. __________________ I love England, what can I say?

08-10-2005, 07:56 PM	#17
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	You would probably not have noticed me. I was quiet, retiring, and geeky.

08-10-2005, 10:49 PM	#23
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Oh, don't get me wrong. I wanted to get the hell out of school when I was there. It was only after about 20 years of "The Real World" (tm) that I realized what a sweet deal high school actually was. I also just realized that I never answered the original topic question. Would you have liked me in high school? Yeah. Everyone did. I ran with the jocks and the freaks, the geeks and brainiacs, the cool kids and the school outcasts. I did (and still do) get along very well with everyone, everywhere. I seem to have the sort of demeanor that makes me approachable. A long time friend of mine (dating back to high school, actually...someone whom I have spent a lot of time both back then and ever since) once commented, after seeing me asked for the current time one day on Kansas City's Plaza, that people had always done things like this with me. Strangers talking to me unbidden, that sort of thing. I'm a real lucky guy in this way. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

08-11-2005, 12:25 AM	#24
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Total Band Geek, Jazz Band, Concert Band, Marching Band, Bux-Mont Band and District Orchestra, Pit Orchestra, in the years that I wasn't in the play (had a feature role in the Pajama Game) as well as into as much as I could manage otherwise ... Future Teachers of America, Junior Historians, World Affairs Club, Drama Club, Chorus, Chess Club, National Honor Society, Newspaper, Softball Manager and Scorekeeper, and probably a couple other things that I can't think of without finding the list of crap I did from my Yearbook. Oh, yeah, with a couple other outcasts from the band crowd started an underground newspaper in our senior year. Known by everybody, but never in the "popular" clique. I decided in Junior High that I was going to do my own thing, and have as good a time as I could muster, and didn't give a good goddamn about what anyone else thought about it ... therefore I ended up pretty much impervious to and free of bullying. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

08-11-2005, 08:02 AM	#25
BrianR Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Dallas, TX Posts: 3,338	You would have hated me. I was an overweight computer nerd, chess club, uncool car (The Tank) and eclectic taste in music. I dressed much the same then as I do now.. Tshirt and jeans. Rarely dated, had few friends and am probably STILL on the principal's shit list for the snake incident. Wanted out then and still would if I were there. Which reminds me, my 20th reunion should be coming up soon, and I ain't going unless I can go in full dress leather! hehehehe Brian __________________ Never be afraid to tell the world who you are. -- Anonymous

08-11-2005, 09:37 AM	#27
LabRat twatfaced two legged bumhole Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 3,143	I was in band 4 years because I loved marching band, didn't care for the rest. Played flute freshman year, and was colorguard the rest. ("flag girl" to you unPC types ) Ran track 2 years before getting a job my junior year, was good, but not great. Had some school records freshman year, but not good enough to go to state. Partied some, drank some, never didn't have a date or a good time at a dance. Found out later I had a reputation for being easy-- heh heh. Our popular crowd was the rich kids, which I wasn't, but I did have a core group of friends from different backgrounds--theater, orchestra, school paper, jocks etc. Mostly hung out with band people tho. My nicname was Mouth, because I was rather loud and obnoxious. Probably cuz I also got a lot of practice using it in backseats. and golf courses, and parks, and hotel rooms, and ... I liked high school, could/should have been a valedictorian, but was having a good time instead. Most of the valedictorians were my good friends tho, (class of 400+) so I was definately a nerd. Would I go back? Yes, only this time I would have participated in more activities and worked less. That's my only regret. __________________ Strength does not come from how much weight you can lift, or how many miles you can run. It comes from knowing that you set a goal, and rose to the challenge. Strength comes from within.

08-11-2005, 10:25 AM	#29
SouthOfNoNorth Colloquialist Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Pittsburgh, Pa Posts: 77	The details of my life are quite inconsequential.... very well, where do i begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I highly suggest you try it. oh, yeah....i was also a huge dork with no fashion sense, i loved reading and playing video games and......gasp.....dungeons and dragons. bad home life. honor society and quiz bowl. i had a pretty good smart ass sense of humor and it kept me in good graces with people, although i was never part of any one group. like someone else mentioned, i had a lot of disdain for people that "fitted in" or embraced a stereotype, but i think that's because i came from a backwater school (graduating class of 72 peeps) that didn't have the stereotypes i would have liked. by my junior year i managed to both have sex and...duh duh DUH...discover alcohol. these two discoveries started me down the path of radical personality change and wanton drug abuse and hedonism that was to become my college career. high school sucked and i wouldn't repeat it if you put a gun to my head.....but college, ahh college. that i could do over a coupla times, with gusto. __________________ Don't you worry about the day-glo orange life preserver, it won't save you. Swim for the shores just as fast as you're able.....

08-11-2005, 10:53 AM	#30
plthijinx Master Dwellar Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 4,197	I was the shy quiet kid. but I did play football, soccer, race motocross and supercross. I mostly went to private schools and couldn't stand the rich kid mentality. I grew up in a rich neighborhood but was raised not to be snobby. most of the people i went to school with and grew up around were and I couldn't stand that. and still don't. __________________ For your dreams to come true, you must first have a dream.

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