What Were You In High School?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Poll question: What Were You In High School?

[mac56]

1. Nerd

Band nerd, to be precise.

And there were no jock-stoners when I was in high school. The hybrid hadn't been developed yet.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. You Were In The Band...

There were certain groups that had a stigma attached to them:


Band


ROTC


Future Farmers Of America....

[mac56]

11. If there was a stigma, I wasn't aware of it.

That's how much of a nerd I was.

No FFA or ROTC at our high school, either. So I guess we had the stigma all to ourselves.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

18. I Grew Up On The Edge Of Where Suburban Meets Rural Florida

circa mid 70's


The kids that behong to FFA and ROTC had to put up with a lot of crap...

The ROTC guys had to keep their hair short when all the guys were growing their hair long... Now they could get a fade and fit in...

[Left Is Write]

27. FFA didn't have a stigma for my dad...

Of course, my dad went to school in a rural community in the 50s and half the kids lived on farms. :D

[mac56]

28. That's still the way it is here in rural Georgia.

I'm astounded at how much of an "in crowd" the FFA kids constitute down here.

[Misunderestimator]

31. Same for my brothers... in rural Texas

Band/Music, any kind of academic accomplishment = nerd ... FFA, no stigma.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

36. Some Of My Classmates Were Kids Who Moved To FL

from NY, PN, MI, IL, et cetera and some were native Floridians who grew up in a rural environment... That's how we basically split up into groups though of course there was overlap....

[tigereye]

66. the band folks were pretty rowdy when I was in high school

never thought of them as nerds. But I guess to the jocks, nerds were everyone else. I was one of those arty/drama/yearbook nerds.

[kslib]

53. Me too!

Only my band-nerdness exteded into college.

[Lost4words]

2. Freak.............................................n/t

[Feathered Fish]

3. I second that one

You should probably throw that one in.
Freak Power!!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. Freak=Hippie=Stoner...

I guess there were hippies who didn't get high but then why bother being a hippy....

[trotsky]

4. NERD

About the only nerdlike qualities I didn't possess were a pocket protector and allergies.

[ZoCrowes]

5. Played guitar, listened to Led Zeppelin

and smoked a whooooooole lot of pot..wait I still do all three of those

[Beer Snob-50]

6. President of the Business Club

and manager of the student store. However, I also played Santa on the half day before Christmas vacation and I had all the cheerleaders sit on my lap telling me what they wanted for christmas.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

goody goody 1962......goody goody stoner in college

[IrateCitizen]

7. I was actually somewhat of a nerd/jock...

I was a decent baseball player and golfer, but I also did well in school and played Dungeons and Dragons in my spare time.

Then again, I had friends who were stars on the football and basketball teams who also played D&D regularly, so it must not have been too strange a combo in my neck of the woods.... ;-)

[terrya]

10. Other. Pretty much kept to myself.

I didn't really have any friends in high school...because I didn't fit in any of the categories you mentioned. Plus, I was dealing with the issue of my being gay...and Eisenhower High School, in Decatur, Illinois, from 1970 - 1974 wasn't exactly an enlightened oasis of acceptance at that time. High school was basically hell for me.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

13. I Think Young People Are Way More Tolerant Now...

but homophobia still exists...


I know anecdotally and statistically that young people are less homophobic than their elders....

[Z_I_Peevey]

16. Another other

My senior year was absolute hell. The entire (tiny!) school shunned me, because I broke up with the popular jock. He was a racist, and I couldn't take it.

So nobody, I mean nobody, talked to me. It was good preparation for working in a government office, where insanity rules.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

57. "High school was basically hell for me."

Me too.

[Beware the Beast Man]

12. Free Radical.

In my last two years of school, anyway, I got along with jocks, stoners, nerds, alterna-teens, trust-fund hippies, and the whole lot.

[Cuban_Liberal]

14. I was a jock/nerd.

I was an athlete, but I also did very well academically.

:)

[Lerkfish]

15. hmmm...difficult to answer: goody goody freak nerd popular

I was a bit nerdish: honor society, etc.
a bit goody goody: didn't do drugs
a bit freakish: hung out with kids who did drugs because they were more interesting, and I was an artist
popular: was friends with all groups to some degree, became senior class president, voted most likely to succeed, etc.

but boy did I look like a gawky beanpole: 6.4" and 140 lbs. Now, at 46, I'm 6/4" and 300 lbs.

There is no justice in the world.

[babylonsister]

17. How 'bout

Nerd-Stoner? :shrug:

[miss_kitty]

106. "Nerd-Stoner"

or Stoner-Nerd. that was me!

:hi:

[Dr Batsen D Belfry]

19. None of the above

I was the master of the fringe. I belonged to no group, unless loners were a group, but I think that is an oxymoron.

I was in Jazz Ensemble and Band, but I wasn't one of the "in" crowd there either.

DBDB

[Stew225]

20. Gee, I'm the only jock?

I wasn't a jock/stoner but I set Ohio records for underage alcohol consumption.

[ScreamingMeemie]

21. I was a choir babe. Everyone knows that the people in choir were way

cooler than the band people. ;) I really didn't "belong" to any groups. MrG (we went to highschool together) was the James Deanish, smoked filterless at 15, lonerish type. He was sooooo cute. Even then.

[izzie]

22. Oh dear. I guess with the jocks-- cheerleader

and I did all the history reports every one copied. So nerd also.I also was the one girl caught under the stairs smoking. So what is that?

[laheina]

112. My long lost twin!

Izzie, where fore art thou? (see my post!!) :hug:

[HeeBGBz]

23. Stoner

[La Lioness Priyanka]

24. popular and rebellious

but also a nerd...i was strange

[WoodrowFan]

29. was??

:P ;)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

40. and still am

no longer popular though!

[WoodrowFan]

52. but we love you here at the DU! (NT)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

60. why thank you

:D

[Left Is Write]

25. None of the above.

I was the "good" kid with great grades; I was also a nice kid and teachers liked me.

However, I also ran with a questionable crowd, I smoked, and I hung out in the smoking lounge before school and at lunch.

I was far from athletic, and I didn't do illegal drugs.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

73. Kind of the same here.

I really was a good kid. I never did drugs or smoked, and I was very responsible. I managed to be valedictorian of my graduating class, but I certainly was not a kiss ass. I was very modest, and I usually didn't draw much attention to myself (except I was into dying my hair a lot and wearing silly, outlandish outfits to school). The principal at my school thought I was a freshman (because he didn't remember me) during the very last week of school of my senior year. I had lots of friends from many different social groups (even the druggies), but I was never the center of attention. My best friends tended to be very eccentric people. I think a lot of people were perplexed by me because I wasn't trying to be popular with my peers or trying to win favors from the teachers, yet I still had many friends, and I was one of the best students in the school.

[RaleighNCDem]

26. Nerd / Jock?

I was a band geek, but friends with all groups. I was also on the swim team. I guess you could label me as a 'floater.' :shrug:

[MissMillie]

30. Band

We had a lot of fun. Some of the kids with whom I played in the Jazz Band raised more hell than the stoners.

[TransitJohn]

32. Well

Smoked a lot of weed, lettered two years in varsity basketball and 4 in varsity soccer, still have the highest ACT ever out of my high school after 15 years, took 3 years of physics 3 of chem 2 of calculus, 3 of lit, etc. I'm the nerd stoner jock, in that order.

[scarlet_owl]

33. Major nerd. I was in Scholastic Bowl, yearbook, youth and

government, and newspaper. Not to mention drama.

[DBoon]

34. You needed a stoner-nerd category

Smoked lots of dope. Worked on high school literary magazine. No good at sports. Smoked lots of dope...

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

35. Young. Very young.,

And stupid. And yet, smarter than I give myself credit for.

[mondo joe]

37. 1/2 Nerd, 1/2 Gay

[Tafiti]

38. Hmm, this is tough.

Somewhat of a nerd, I guess, 'cause I got straight A's and graduated 7th in my class. But, that wasn't considered "nerdy", at least in my high school...

Popular - most of my friends were "jocks", even though I, myself, only played football 2 of 4 years.

Again, somewhat of a nerd 'cause I was in choir - but the ladies loved it.

Stoner. Drinker. Smoker...you know, the cool shit.

[noonwitch]

39. I was a goody-goody, and in orchestra

I had friends in all social groups. In elementary school, I was the kid with cooties and was an outcast because of it through middle school. In 9th grade, I lost weight, got my braces off and got pretty good at the violin. I had friends who were popular, who were geeks, who were D&D playing nerds, and black kids, who formed their own group at my high school. I didn't have many stoner friends until college-my mom knew who those kids were and I wasn't allowed around them. There were a bunch at my job at IHOP-I would have to handle the work while the rest of the crew would get high. My mom didn't know about that, and I didn't work there very long.

I was a goody-goody, though. I dressed preppie (it was the early 80s)and went to Young Life. My closest friends were all goody-goody, too, for the most part.

[regularguy]

Stoner, guitar player, depressed goofball.

It was theoretically all sex, drugs and rock-n-roll. But in reality the "sex" part wasn't really happening yet so I just doubled up on drugs and rock-n-roll. Let me take this opportunity to thank God for creating pot; I don't know how else I'd have made it through those years. MHS class of '80.

[pdx_prog]

41. Cool musician / stoner type....

Our school had several niches...

FFA (pig farmers)
Auto Mechanics (stoners)
Band geeks
Math geeks
Jocks
TTI (house builders / stoners)
Pure stoners
Clowns
Cosmetology girls (usually butt ugly, but nice hair)
nerds


I graduated in '76
I made good grades, but never really tried much.....

[DemocratSinceBirth]

44. Wow - I Graduated In 76...

Those were the groups right down to homebuilder/stoners...

[ElectroPrincess]

42. Local Track Star / Nerd - Graduated H.S. at age 16 ...

Um so ... I could party longer in college. LOL

[Nikia]

104. Me too, except I didn't graduate early

Track was my saving social grace. There were some people who only talked to me at practice or meets who wouldn't give me the time of day in school, imagine that. I went to a college with a bunch of nerds so I fit right in.

[redqueen]

43. Nerd, then later Freak

Wish I'd have stuck with the nerds!

[johnnie]

45. I can't decide

I would say "stoner" fits me the most out of those, but I always think of a stoner as smoking dope. I had quit that shit by the 10th grade, but I ingested many other type of things that were around back then.
I played in a rock band, wore a biker jacket, carried tons of books that weren't school books (philosophy, poetry and spirituality), dated a varsity cheerleader/gymnast (so I was at the football games and gymnastic meets), carried a flask of vodka in my coat pocket, hung out in the smoking lounge and went to most of the jock party's. So, I guess I was just me.

[sniffa]

46. banger

[Lone_Star_Dem]

47. Is there such an animal as nerd/cheerleader?

I was really into all the geek things in HS.. Yet I was a cheerleader. My first thought about me back then was nerd so I am going with that. :eyes:

[laheina]

113. Have you noticed that there are several of us? nt

[Lone_Star_Dem]

116. This is nice to see.

There goes the stereotype of cheerleader=airhead. :)

[laheina]

119. That's what I'm sayin'. nt

[semillama]

48. definetely an outcast, so I guess that makes me a nerd

I was the only metalhead in my class, and one of a handfull in the school. And I was the only guy in school with long hair.

I was involved in the drama club and I took photos for the yearbook, but other than that I kept a very low profile.

[curse10]

49. Goody-goody band nerd

the worst kind!!!!

[qnr]

50. Where's quitter? I dropped out after 3 months n/t

[Zuni]

51. stoner, but also hung out w/jock stoners and skaters

[skippysmom]

54. Goody-goody nerd

I was such a square. Still am. The only reason I got through high school was because I ran with an entire crowd of goody-goody nerds. We were a huge group.

[RagingInMiami]

55. A stoner/rocker with an attitude

who also wrote for the school newspaper

[skygazer]

56. None of the above

I was a very intellectual stoner who was a lone wolf and free spirit and spent my spare time riding in horse shows.

I have always been a bundle of contradictions.

[kmla]

58. I was none of the above....

Got along well with the nerds, stoners, jocks, and most everyone else. But my identifying high school class characteristic (that I'm still remembered for, to this day) was being the class cut-up/class clown/class smart-ass.

I guess it actually is not undeserved, in retrospect...

[fluffernutter]

59. friendly, got good grades, did cheerleading, drill team,

track, and gymnastics. didn't smoke or get high ... goody-goody i guess.

of course that stuff all changed in college ;)

[loudestchick]

83. I think I speak for all of us....

I'm so glad you threw off those terminally perky influences!:silly:

[fluffernutter]

97. ooo baby, so am i!!!

[Longgrain]

115. Wow...

You learn something new every day ;)

Here's a characture of me in High School...sans glasses...

[fluffernutter]

125. neat picture.

did you do it?

[Longgrain]

126. You guessed it...

It's from an illustrated version of my book that I'm making for a friend as a Christmas present...

Here's another one, It looks sort of like my last love interest, which is interesting because I drew it before I even met her...

[fluffernutter]

128. neat!

i love how you drew this before you met the person it looks like. i totally believe in stuff like that tho :)

why did you originally draw it?

[Longgrain]

129. It was an Illustration for my first book

Written almost two years before I met her. I tend to have a very firm mental image of what my characters looked like so I was stunned when I first met this girl because she looked almost exactly like way I pictured the character in my story. The girl in the book was actually supposed to be a bad girl, kind of a characterture of the pretty popular girl at school. The real life girlfriend was actually nothing like her, she was very nice. I know you've already seen this but here's a painting done from life...

Maybe you can see the similarities in the faces. I always thought she looked like Natalie Wood...

[nytemare]

61. Band Jock

There are many of us, I'm sure. How come no category for the poll??

:)

[jobycom]

62. All of the above, but not really a jock, and I was a sober stoner

I hung out with everyone. I had friends in the preppies, the nerds, the jocks, the stoners. I got invited to all the parties, not as the "popular" guy, but as one of the fringe elements of each group. I was a long-haired honor roll college prep student who went to every rock concert and wore black concert tee shirts and jeans every day. I was friends with the valedictorian crowd and the pickup/hunting crowd. I was friends with the top five students in my class, and with the student who was expelled for trying to blow up the school.

I had girls who wanted to date me from every group, too.

I still hate labels. They limit, they dehumanize. Take a bite of everything, life's more fun that way.

[LDS Jock]

63. goody goody/jock/nerd

I was very active in church in my younger days, including high school. In fact, I was somewhat self rightous about it, proud I had never taken a drink, smoked, or done any kind of drugs. I never even kissed anyone until I was 21. At the same time, I have always played sports and been active that way. I also did very well grade wise, and anyone who knows me knows I'm still a nerd about many things. I'm the king of useless triva.

[WMliberal]

64. maching band (check) scholastic bowl (check)

thick glasses (check) Model UN (check)

definitely qualify as a nerd. It didn't stop me from being popular, though. The group I'd been friends with since elementary school were jocks. My sister was homecoming/ prom queen, so I was popular by association.

[anonymousdemocrat]

65. loner... n/t

[mr_hat]

67. Jock/musician. The combo didn't work

when my mouth was busted up or when my fingers were broken.

[SiouxJ]

68. sort of a snobby loner

thought all the cliques were stupid. I actually didn't belong to any of them but hung out with people who belonged to most of them. I just sorta "floated" around but never really got involved with any except for a short stint with the stoners. I got tired of smelling like smoke though so quit that pretty fast. :-)

[u4ic]

69. I marked Goody Goody

but that doesn't quite describe it...it's almost as if I was born old, and am aging younger as the calendar flips over. So, at that time, alot of the high school 'culture', I thought, was nonsense.

[catmandu57]

70. Stoner/loner

I hung out with all the druggies and spent most of my time in the library educating myself. It was the early seventies, and, I went to class when I felt like it, went out and hung out, and got high when I felt like it.
I and about a hundred others were all suspended on the same day, we moved the following year and I never went back, just did the G.E.D. thing instead.

[KitchenWitch]

71. Total Stoner

and Loner too!

[rbnyc]

72. Combo

Stoner-GameNerd-ArtGeek-Brainiac-Punk-Slut-Popular-Scumbag

[devilgrrl]

74. Loser+Freak+Dweeb+Dork+Pig

Pretty much sums it up.

[chefgirl]

75. Music geek/stoner

I was in all three of our HS Choirs plus regional choir. In my senior year, I was a member of N.J. State Choir. Was a vocal ed major in college before switching to culinary.

Always smoked copious amounts of dope.

-chef-

[Minimus]

76. A stoner that had everyone fooled 'cause I acted like a goody goody

I always had high grades, dressed normal, was polite and respectful to teachers, etc. But when that last bell rang, look out!

When acquaintances from school would see me out partying they would be so shocked. They would be like "no way!" It was always amusing.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

85. I'm kinda the same way

nt

[sugar magnolia]

118. Another goody-goody stoner here

I got good grades without trying and never really got into any trouble, but I smoked dope like a fiend. People would have never guessed it from looking at me. Most still don't.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

77. BORED!

[TX-RAT]

78. Football, track, rodeo

[bobthedrummer]

79. I was a musician in HS too and wore mod clothes and dropped acid

and smoked hash that was 37-40 years ago, of course. I was affliated with a HS SDS chapter too.

[Richardo]

80. Band nerd!

A separate category.

[Eyeball Kid]

81. Underachieving gamer nerd / fat kid

Pulled a C minus average and topped it off by beating the class brain's SAT score. I still chuckle about that one.

[loudestchick]

82. What? No catagory for Theatre godess and occasional stoner?

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

84. A HIPPIE

I'm still in high school, I'm a senior...

but I'm something like a hippie. It's weird.

[enigmatic]

86. All of the above...

I was a football player who was also a stoner, and who actually read books for fun. and my teachers hated me; my English teacher in 10th grade and I went at it many times over the stupidity of her choices on what to teach (she wanted Shakespeare and Dickens, I wanted Bukowski and Sherwood Anderson), and I wasn't a happy camper in her class.

The guys on the football team didn't understand me because I read all the time and played in bands, the brains didn't understand me because I loved sports and was on the football team, the stoners didn't understand me because of the football and books thing, and the teachers thought I was corrupting everyone w/ my books and killer weed (which I was, heh...)

In the end, I think I invented my own clique in High School; the "outcasts amongst outcasts" clique. And this was in the late 70's early 80's, so it was even weirder..

[SOteric]

87. Young.

:hi:

[CarbonDate]

88. I was an adolescent male, aged 14-18.

But I always wanted to be a lumberjack....

[CarbonDate]

90. Actually, I kind of put high school behind me....

...I had a number of good friends, but what I considered my identity back then bears absolutely no resemblence to who I am now. Back then, I was a devout Christian, conservative in a lot of ways but also a pacifist (as I believed the Christian religion taught), and involved deeply in theatre. Today, I am a practicing Wiccan, very liberal but also serving in the U.S. Air Force, and am not involved in any artistic enterprises, anymore. The common thread is my concern for social justice and my desire to make the world a better place. Despite all the changes I've gone through, however, I still consider myself the same person; just older and wiser.

Interesting how that works, huh? I'm assuming, based on your question, that you're either still in high school or recently graduated. You'll be amazed how little those labels matter later in life. They're not who you are; they're just how your small-minded peers pigeon-hole you. At least, that's how I've always seen it.

[One_Life_To_Give]

89. Gear Head?

No Category for Gear Heads?

[NamVetsWeeLass]

91. well, you don't have what I was classified as...

I was the Jeans jacket/ boots crowd then kind of morphed into the punk/jeans jacket crowd. They called us Freaks.... But My hometown can also be classified as "Children of the Corn on Heroin". I guess to most other places I would have been a stoner, but I kind of defied classification. I did the "Heavy Metal" look for a long time, then Dyed my hair Jet Grape Purple and shaved it into a Mohawk. Mother was about fit to be tied and wouldn't allow me to wear the thing up around her, so I kept the top of the hawk wide and could cover the shaved sides to not embarass her. Besides the fact that it was Purple did that well enough, it wasn't about Embarassing her anyway... The fact that I did this in the 80's was also kinda odd. There was one other girl in my school that did the punk thing when I did it. She was much more popular than I was. I was a loner, and threw weird vibes. Most people thought that I worshipped the devil, and I didn't say different. (Let them think what they want, it wasn't about them either.) I was simply me.

[Bertha Venation]

92. Loner

We were a bigger group than any of the others. Except maybe the stoners.

I was a jock, too, but only on the inside.

[bigwillq]

93. Of those, jock best fits me

I played baseball but only for two years but I hung out with all the jocks.

[mak3cats]

94. I was a "Proud Reject"...

we were band and choir people who got good grades, but still got stoned and were hippies. We didn't fit into any group, so we made one of our own (we even had T-shirts).

[Longgrain]

95. I wish people would stop posting

polls without an "Other" option...I wasn't any of those things...
I was a psduo-hippie-loner-bookworm. 1% of high school students are psduo-hippie-loner-bookworms, why must you keep dissing us like this...jeeze.

[City of Mills]

96. Loner

I kept to myself through high school, since I was one of the smaller guys in my class, and I never felt accepted by any group. Then again, I never made much effort to make friends. I liked things that way, to this day I really don't have friends.

[slutticus]

98. A Nerd/Stoner Hybrid

Trust me, they exist.

[eyepaddle]

99. I'll second that,

I was looking for the option--then just went with "stoner."

[Deja Q]

100. Oy! Where the 'loner' category?

:cry:

I feel so lonely! :P

[AntiCoup2K4]

101. Stoner - (first two years) & Punk

Most of the jocks - and their coaches - hated me because they didn't think I had the right not to join their losing teams (being over 6' tall)

[Beaverhausen]

102. Theater nerd. And a stoner at that

very strange group to be in.

[loudestchick]

107. Me, too. see post #82

[Maine-ah]

103. stoner band member

we did have stoner jocks, I dated one of them. My husband was in band with me. We've known eachother for ever!

[mwdem]

105. Goody goody nerd

choir singing, latin clubbing, friend to every group, not belonging to any group per se, but still kinda popular.

[SarahB]

108. Undefinable.

Just me. :D

[MrSlayer]

109. Metalhead-Stoner

[Aristus]

110. I was the nice guy that all the girls liked but didn't want to go out with

That about says it all.

[laheina]

111. Where's the "other"?

I was a cheerleader, lettered in 4 sports, debater, year book, student body VP, homecoming princess, and I got A's in the AP classes.

Where do I go?

[last_texas_dem]

114. Sort of a mixture

I was a goody-goody 'cause that's just my nature, but I wasn't preachy or anything to anyone else because I think people have a right to be who they are and act how they want so long as they aren't hurting anyone else... kinda the same as I am now.

I was a nerd in that I did care about school, but purposely underachived for the first couple of years of high school because I didn't want to stand out (wish I had that to do over again).

I looked like a hippie- wore a lot of sixties/seventies band shirts and was the only guy in my class with long hair, and I knew was a liberal politically and didn't mind telling people how I felt if pressed... but never smoked weed or any of that stuff so couldn't have been a stoner. Just a hippie-at-heart...

I was in no sense of the word a jock, though...

So I guess I was pretty much a very shy (voted "Shyest" by my senior class), nice but socially incompetent, fairly intelligent but underachieving, goody-goody acting, hippie-looking, liberal-thinking nerd.

I really haven't changed all that much... haha

[HEyHEY]

117. confused

[JVS]

120. Bully among academics

I'm the guy who got a full academic scholarship the 3rd week in October and laughed at the other kids while they scrambled for financial aid.

[the Princess]

121. I wa not a part of any group

But I had friends in every group. That way I never got bothered. LOL

It's called strategy. LOL

[Dastard Stepchild]

122. Alternachick... or Punk Rawk Lite...

Actually a blend of alternachick and punk rawk lite... had a pierced nose, shaved head, ripped tights and combat boots, but still retained a little girlie. In high school, Manic Panic hair dye was my friend.

[katinmn]

123. Stoner full of angst n/t

[gpandas]

124. jock

[mark414]

127. straight edge hardcore kids

those were my friends...i was neither