What were you like in high school?

i skipped the normal classes... but i pretty much always went to my horticulture class. sophomore year, we had to pick a pathway of the 5.
food science, animal science, agricultural finance, mechanical technologies, or horticulture!
then junior and senior year, we had a double period of whatever we chose. it was awesome! although i was one of few who actually went into that career path, lots of goofing off for the other kids.

 

That sounds amazing! Even though you said a lot of kids just goofed off, I think it's a great idea to have possible career paths starting in high school. It gives students an incentive to want to do better. We didn't have any kind of career/college prep classes in my high school, and most of the kids I graduated with (including me) still have no idea what career they want or what they wanted to major in in college.

 

Oh god, don't get me started. Small town drama is a major reason why I'll never live in one of those places again. I can't deal with it anymore. Life is too short to waste a minute of it on that bullshit.

At my high school, everything is less than it used to be, mostly because it's one of those former industrial towns where everybody has moved out because there are no jobs anymore.

 

Oh man, tell me about it! I lived in a large town during high school, and there were a lot of kids in my class. In college, I moved to a small town and a very small college. It was ridiculous how much drama there was! And you would think that in COLLEGE the drama would be less than in high school, but that was not the case with mine. Everybody knew everyone, and people always knew your business. It was crazy.. I don't like small towns!

 

i'm in chicago, so its not so much small town drama, as there will always be drama no matter where you look.

 

That must have been a really hard transition!

For me, small towns are tolerable only if they are close enough to big cities to be bedroom communities for commuters. Then they function just like another neighborhood in the city, but with lower crime and taxes.

If Facebook someday turns the whole world into a small town, I may have to drop my computer in a river.
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A small school in a small town is like a small town within another small town; double trouble; a social pressure cooker.
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I'm glad I got into a larger college.

 

whats a small town

 

Mine in particular has one stoplight. One pizza place, one cafe, one fast food place, one Subway, one highway through town, 4 cops, and graduating classes of anywhere from 50-75. We have no McDonald's or Wal-Mart. Do have a dollar store. lol

 

What you were like high in school

 

I was the cutter. My nickname was "the tourist."

Edit: I also had a huge fro. Don't judge. We all made mistakes in the early 90s.

 

Eccentric? This poll's results really are quite interesting: It seems that most people (here) were eccentric and/or stoners in high school. I suddenly feel less alone. LOL.

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i was the hoodlum on my school bus, in elementary school anyway. i was a sweetheart in the classroom, then i just let go and made myself a huge pain in the ass on the school bus. and also in sunday school.

by high school i was in sports after school, and was too tired to cause trouble in the mornings. plus i wasn't such a sweetheart in class anymore. and i got my license in the first half of sophomore year, so the bus became a non-issue.

hmm, i assumed most schools had ag and shop programs. although our ag program was mostly just a way to recruit people for ffa, and the actual classes were basically free time.

i would think the opposite about the sports teams though. farmers are usually the best athletes.

sounds a lot like my town. two stoplights, no fast food, and the cafe recently closed and was replaced by our first subway. yet we have like 12 cops. pain in everyone's ass.

 

How do you use the multiple quote feature? I've tried a dozen times, and it never works for me.

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you just click the little multiquote button next to the regular quote button. it should turn orange to show that that post is multiquoted, then you can go on and click that button on the next post you want to quote. then when you are ready to make your reply you can either hit the regular quote button on the last post you want to quote or just the post reply button, and all the posts that have orange multiquote buttons should be there already quoted in the reply box.

if that's not working, it may be an issue with your browser or something.

 

I'd never judge. I still remember what I looked like in the early 1980s: A twisted combo of Bryan Adams and Boy George.

It looks like this just might work. Thanks! You've helped me to appear more intelligent than I actually am. LOL.

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A stoner & drop out

 

Cool. I was an eccentric & a drop out. :cheers2:

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Complicated question, if you're talking about the notorious kind of small town. They can be as big as 20,000 people, but it isn't just about population. I think it has to be the kind of place where few people ever move in or out, and it has to be in an area where people don't have much to do with their spare time. You aren't likely to find that mentality in a college town or at the beach or a mountain resort area.

I can see that. You could have been one of the guys on a weekend church retreat with one of my friends, where she lost her virginity. They used to sneak out to get away from the adults and play spin the bottle for sex.

Not around here. We were taught that ag was the past; manufacturing was the future. Now all those factories are gone.

Nah, too many white guys.

Did I say that out loud?
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any more eccentrics and the term'll begin to lose its value...

 

There were no such groups in my high-school. People played sports for fun, nobody played the princess part and most people were very normal. Nobody was popular or unpopular, and eccentrics and goths got along with regular, plain people, as well as with the rich kids.
I said nerd in the poll, but I suppose everyone in my school was a nerd to some extent, considering I went to one of the three best high-schools in the country.
I suppose people got along because everyone had the same goals - survive and pass school, and get into a University (and have some fun along the way).
Also, I think our schools are very much different than those in America. We don't really have sport teams, nor cheerleaders, nor various clubs, and all that stuff. In order to get to a really good high-school, you have to be excellent (great grades and behavior) in elementary school. There are also private schools, but they are mostly for rich kids who didn't get into a good school, but still want to go to a gymnasium (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnasium_(school)#Former_Yugoslavia)