Freaks or geeks?

[Ambrosious]

In high school were you considered a freak, geek, jock, nerd, brain, prom queen, cheerleader, or for the younger set, gothic? How many of each do we have posting here. I'll start by admitting I was both brain and geek (iq=170 and loved the chess club). I took all of the college courses I could in 11th and 12th grade and used to skip lunch for more library time! Now I'm a disc jockey, stand up comedian, writer, and on-air personality.

Just so you know a disc jockey works weddings, an on air personality is on the radio.

P.S. I also went to both of my proms dateless. Man did my life suck in high school.

[Edited by Ambrosious on 09-23-2000 at 07:19 AM]

 

[Savage Kitten]

Geekoid

totally, I coulda been a nerd too but I tried hard not to study and with great practice I was able to bring my grades down to average. It was bad enough being a geek, being a nerd was something I felt I had control over haha

**P.S.**I got stood up for my Jr. Prom, should been smart enough not to go but I wasn't. Went to my Sr. Prom with my hubby, that sure got everyone's attention! haha it was weird, guys didn't know I existed until they found out I was married.

[Edited by Savage Kitten on 09-23-2000 at 07:12 AM]

 

[Naked Hunny]

I was a brain, I wasnt the most popular person in school but that was because I talked to everyone not just those who were the jocks, brains, or rich bitches. I played Field Hockey so you could call me a jock!! Actually My field hockey days went downhill a little when i started doing coke which introduce me to a whole other group of friends!! Ya know how can you catagorize people in High School, you change personalities at least once a year!!

 

[Juliangel]

I was very smart in high school but I was in that in between crowd. Not the popular group but not he geeks either. we didn't belong to either group but could mix with both.

I was in chorus, took spanish and french and would eat lunch in the computer lab so I could watch Ryan's Hope while I ate.

*On a side note Ambrosious I notice that it says you are from Snellville (Everybody is somebody in Snellville) I only live about 10 minutes from there in Conyers.

 

[Ambrosious]

Yes everyone is somebody here in the Metropolis. Love this area though and it is so nice to meet you, you being from Conyers and all.

 

[Pepin]

Hmmmm... lemme think... High School... grades at the time didn't seem all that important to me...My concern was to get out of school to go into the service...I was part of the "head" groups...as I was told at a young age that if i didnt like my fathers rules, I could move out... what prompted this? I still dunno, but i took that chance and moved in with my older brother....writer... I like to write... have written in the past.. and told to keep writing, that i would one day be published... but i havent pursued that much...
PROM? I went to 6 of them.... 2 my Sophmore year, 2 my Jr year, and 2 my Sr. year, (my girlfirend went to a different high school, but we worked together)
Stood up, sure, werent we all at one time? But not at a prom... please forgive my punctuation, and the like, as i have been using a computer much longer than i have been writing...

by the way... i know that i use the "..." alot, and I know that it means "and so on" if you read this post by saying "and so on" where the "..." is, it realy wont make much sense.

 

[teresafannin]

Freak. I was on the track team, but that wasn't exactly a cool sport in those days. I hung out with a freak crowd. I was the kid whose parents were always told she had so much ability & a very high IQ, but brains weren't considered cool, either. I did the minimum of worok in high school, but carried a 4.0 in college. I was a classic late bloomer.

 

[Stormystarr]

Goth all the way!

I was more into the Goth crowd. And yes, i even wore the *cringing* black lipstick! My hair is still black though, but it's longer now (waist length). *sigh* Oh how I miss those days of staying out all night, getting drunk and whatever else with a few friends.

 

[Cheyenne]

Definitely "brain." And an easy target since we were separated into a group for kids with "higher ability". We were given special teachers and classes. I'm glad I was given the opportunity to have great teachers and more interesting classes, but I didn't like being separated from the mainstream kids. Like most teenagers, I never did feel like I fit in anywhere in high school.

 

[ComfortablyNumb]

Lets see... everyone thought I was pretty cool in Elementary school... then boom, in JR High, nobody liked me. You know, the chubby kid that likes wrestling, has asthma, and couldn't be in sports? Hehe...Dat was me... then, as I got older... I wasn't so much of a nerd. I pretty much had girlfriends from junior high thru graduation, so that was not much of a problem for me. I didn't get into the dances or proms, I always seemed to be single when those came up. But, by the time I was in SR high, I was considered a druggy (odd, didn't smoke or anything)... but I guess that is what the opposite of the "preps" were. And I was reminded that I wasn't one of them on a daily basis. I guess I was what people now a days call 'a goth'. I always wore black, and it went well with my black hair. I hated highschool...but i want to go back.. odd huh? Better yet, I party with alot of those people that hated me so much in school, now. Weird, huh?

 

[Ambrosious]

You know what the cool part is? With my career choice, I've been able to travel extensively all over the country and Carribean. Got to see the world. Well, we had our 15th reunion recently and to see the popular kids still in that small town in NC that have never been as far as Raleigh, that was mind blowing. I mean, one of the most popular guys in high school has just made asst. fire chief! Girls I would have killed to date are working in the sausage plant. Just doing the daily grind(hehe). I am so glad that I got to see some of America's treasures. I am so glad to be out of there.

<singing> Glory days, well they'll pass you by...

 

[Stormystarr]

WHEW

I thought for a few minutes there, I thought I was the only Goth here. I always hated being the only one.

 

[Xander]

Started out as a complete failure. Geek AND nerd at the asme time. Always wore all the wrong clothes, and had the most awful hairdo.
Then turned 180 degrees and became the drug using, skating, guitar weilding fuck up. With long hair in a ponytail.
When I left school I was the one, none of the others were allowed to hang out with.

 

[Patryn]

Geek. No comment on the rest, really. I was just a geek, though in my defense, it was mostly beyond my control. My family was shit broke, so I really had no choice.

 

[CreamyLady]

Hmm. Stratospheric test scores, basement grades, socially retarded, introverted to the max, intense, glasses and braces and physically different; what would that make me?

Freak? Probably.

 

[Wizard]

I was always the one into art and silly stuff ...hung with the wrong crowd....(or was the wrong crowd).........I would have to say I was a freak....still am and like it...........
In the 80's the title we had were burnouts.................

 

[Myrrdin]

I had what you could call a photographic memory. I could sail through exams without much bother. But the British education system was turning to the more politically correct comprehensive system. Classes of mixed ability students all lumped in together. To fit in the brighter ones soon learned to dumb down and to get their tests marked down. Hence avoid being picked out as different from the average and called swots etc.
Classes were geared to the speed of the slowest, which made them boring and slow. Teachers struggled to control classes where those who were'nt interested in learning made life difficult for others.
I sometimes wonder what i could have gone on to do, but i got as many bits of paper qualification as i could, and quit school as soon as i could.
I never went to the school reunion. School was the lowest point of my life. Nothing i wanted to revisit there.

 

[SeXy ReDHeD]

Started out a loser (not the geek kind, the burnt, gang-banger kind) and finished up a geek. Long story.

sidenote: I spent about 20 minutes on the damned response, and look what I ended up with!

 

[Cheyenne]

Hmm. Stratospheric test scores, basement grades, socially retarded, introverted to the max, intense, glasses and braces and physically different; what would that make me?

Freak? Probably.

?? When I was in school, "freak" referred to the kids who were on drugs,usually mostly smoking pot. No offense, but you would have been in the "geek" category.

I'm betting different generations have different categories that they remember.

 

[Guest]

I was a brain

SO WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED?!?!?!?!?!

 

[Naked Hunny]

Blue where the hell are you I thought you were going to get rid of these annoying guests!! I hate people who dont have the guts to post under their own name!! What the hell is the damn point!! Afraid you are gonna piss off the few precious friends you made online!! Im pretty sure with your attitude you dont have many friends IRL!!

 

[Silverlily]

It's kind of hard to say. High school started with me having a 3.8 GPA, in marching band, being the class president and the art club president. It ending with me being expelled, but that is a long, long story.

Before I, uh, left, I skipped class contantly, but remarkably wasn't failing, got high with my "friends" and a few of my teachers, and drove my counselors insane with high tests scores and low achievement. Somehow, I also got the reputation for putting out, funny, I didn't sleep with anyone from school. What category does that put me in? I would have to guess burnout.

I find it fascinating the we all have high intelligence factors and still were social misfits. Here we are now, on this BB; sexy, vibrant adults. What wonderful swans we turned out to be! I'm sorry, I'm in a very lovey mood (((((HUGS)))))

 

[KillerMuffin]

I was a brain

SO WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED?!?!?!?!?!

Guh sweetness, only two things are infinite, the Universe and your stupidity. Well, astronomers and physists aren't sure about the former.

Lets try for some originality. 'Kay? Such as a modicum of intelligence. I'm impressed with your use of happened. It has two whole syllables and its even in the proper tense. You must be getting straight C's in 1st grade by now! Let your teacher know you deserve a gold star.

I hung out with the fringe crowd, the ones that took D&D too seriously, the ones who wore the trenchcoats they got from JRROTC everyday, the ones even the serious gangbangers stood clear of. It had something to do with my bad attitude and sarcastically rapier wit. No idea why they thought I was so viciously tongued. I'm a sweetheart, really I am.

I did have a German exchange student for a boyfriend for my entire junior year. I miss him. He was my boyfriend during the lunch period only, so he could watch me eat. I never figured that one out.

 

[Bliss]

Out of the mouths of babes!

Afraid you are gonna piss off the few precious friends you made online!! Im pretty sure with your attitude you dont have many friends IRL!!

There ya, Hunny! Your next job could be at an ammo store and you can keep us all loaded for Trolls. This particular troll seems to be under the ignorant misconception that stupid and rude are synonyms. The real Dee was rude all the live long day when he first came on the scene. Stupid he ain't. Get a clue, Schmoo!

 

[CreamyLady]

When I was in school, "freak" referred to the kids who were on drugs,usually mostly smoking pot. No offense, but you would have been in the "geek" category.

I'm betting different generations have different categories that they remember.

Very likely. Whatever, I didn't fit anywhere, not even with the other geeks.

I must say, anyone who wants to do high school again probably deserves to.