Sarah, I know it is so frustrating to work hard in high school and get no recognition for it. I was in the top 10 of my class and only got a piddly $50 scholarship. We need to rethink our priorities in this country. But don't let that frustrate you now that you are in college. Your future is wide open and good grades in college will make a difference in what job offers you get. It'll be worth it.
Princess Sara, I've been curious about what happened to everyone in high school too. My mom saw the parents of a guy I had a HUGE crush on. His dad said he's bald and fat now! I couldn't believe his dad said that. I still can't imagine it. I'd like to see how some of the others turned out. But I don't plan on darkening the door of any class reunions anytime soon, lol!

oh man. I am gonna sound like a total idiot, but...

My friend Amy and I were ultra cool. We were too cool to hang out with the popular kids. I totally sabotaged my reputation when I dated a junior my senior year. but i was happy :rolleyes:

Too funny Kristy! My daughter did the exact same thing and she's still dating the little turd! I told her she does not want to start college with a BF still in high school. But she doesn't listen to me. Can ya tell I don't like him??? So how do I convince her to lose the dead weight and move on...I know, I better just keep my mouth shut, lol!!!

Funny thread, iheartyorkies. I dunno about geeks ruling the world, most of us geeks would rather just never show our face... ;)

I'd never think we'd have such a rebellious crowd, especially you, Junebug! Heh heh...

I had the same thing happen. The girls used to always want to be friends with me because they wanted to date one of my 3 brothers. Then they were scared to death of me when they broke up with him. LOL I protected my little brothers quite well ;)

Wow,,,,,, I just realized that it's been 19 years since I graduated. OMG!!! Well back in the day,,, I have to say I was deeply into the new wave thing,,, then turned a little gothic dressing like Mortisha from the Adams Family,,, and ended up turning into a disco queen who wore her hair a little bigger then I care to admit. LOL Living in Montebello and attending Montebello it was one big party and if we were not doing our party thing we where out cruising Whittier blvd. I don't know how I graduated,,,,, it's all a blur,,, lol but I did it!!! "Class of 86"

I thought that I was something special when I was a junior though. I was dating a college guy. LOL I thought that I was just sooooo cool for that. :rolleyes:

See, I knew you guys needed to help me with the categories. I forgot the mean girls! Mindy, that's so funny what your vice principal said!! My best friend was a bi*ch to a girl who tried to steal her boyfriend. I was really self-absorbed. A lot of people in my HS just didn't exist to me. My sister is forever saying 'Do you remember so and so??? And I say 'No'. And she's like, 'You're kidding! He/She was in your class!' I kinda regret that. I'm sure some of them woulda made awesome friends.

vms1177, I agree. High school is such a weird place. We were so young and 99% of us were so insecure. Good for you that you're going for your masters.

Latuya, we'd love to see some pix of that Pat Bennetar wannabe hair, lol!!!

Kelly, me too! My boyfriends were always a couple years older. I got to 'car date' way before my friends. I went to Prom all 4 years! My how things change. My daughter wasn't allowed to go to dances till she was a Sophomore.

I went to 4 different highschools (my dad worked in the oil industry and was always being transferred) so I never really had time to fit in or become part of a group. I guess I was mostly a Band Geek since that was the one group I was in all 4 years. Music was my thing so I stuck with it because I wanted to be a music major in college.. even though that didn't happen I'm glad I was in band because at least I made a few friends where it would have been really hard to make friends being the new kid every year of highschool. I was also a major Braniac.. I spent more time doing homework and getting ready for college than I ever did socializing. I was pretty much the same throughout college too.

Iheartyorkies - My marching bands were also way more succesful than the football teams.. my SR. year the football team won one single solitary game but we took tops in all of our competitions and people came to the games to see the band, not the football team! :p Tell your daughter that trumpet players rule! (I played trumpet & euphonium in HS) :D

I can tell her from personally experience that it is a really bad idea and it will only limit her possibilities for the future. I found a guy in high school that loved me and wanted to marry and since i didn't date a lot and had low self-esteem i thought he was the best i could do. I went to school in state (even though i had always been determined to get out of IN) to be close to him. He called me all the time and would verbally abuse me using things he knew upset me against me. He was sure I was cheating on him (found out later he was suspious of me because he was cheating on me with my cousin). He got me so upset that i ended up losing 18 pounds my 1st semester freshman year (i weighed 102 and i'm 5'7"), i would come home ever weekend (2 hours away) to try and work things out, and my roommate actually told him off becuase she would come in the room and find me crying in the closet because i didn't want anyone to know the way he was talking to me and treating me. I met a guy over christmas break that was wonderful and cute and i didn't start dating him, but it made me realize i was better than my high school boyfriend and didn't have to put up with his **** anymore. A week after i dumped him he started going with my cousin and i started living my life.

Why did I know this was going to happen. Everytime I mention big hair they gotta see. LOL,,,,,,, ok you asked for it. as most of you may know,,,,,, I love sharing pictures but I have to admit I was a bit relented to share these. But since I love my YT fam. Here we go. Luckly I really don't have too many. but here are the few I do have.

My transformation,,,,,lol from littlest to bigest.

1 jr prom not all that bad

2 at the beach,,, a little bigger

3 oh lord,,,,,, what was I thinking? yyyiiiikkkksss

4 just when i thought it couldnt get any worse,,,,,,,,,,, not a very good pic to say the least!

I was a total princess and very popular. But I also loved school and always got really great grades. I was also a comedian -- always cracking jokes and the center of attention. I really loved high school ... it was so much fun and it wasn't that long ago. :D

This is a cute thread. I loved high school, I had a great time. It was not a weird or awkward time for me at all. I guess I would have been categorized in the Brain/Princess/Popular groups.

In high school I was definetly 'too cool for school.' I was always really mature for my age. When I was a freshman I went to prom, homecoming and all those other highschool events with the older kids. Then they graduated and I felt I had done all the highschool things and I was ready to move on. Unfortunatly, I still had 3 years left before I could graduate! So, I skipped a lot of school. Went to the beach, mall, waited for my parents to go to work and laid by the pool... SO, I missed a lot of school and when I became a junior I got work experience and I was leaving school at lunch time to go work. I've always had really good work ethic. I bought a new Mustang and was really serious about paying for it. My senior year I only had two classes, science and english. After that I was done at 9am. Honestly, I just thought kids my own age were pretty silly and I was just too cool. :)

You know what though... I kind of feel like I missed out a bit. I was in such a rush to grow up that I missed out on the whole highschool experience. I don't have any real close friends that I still talk to from highschool like my sisters do... I kind of regret not being there more and being a part of what was going on...

That being said, I AM SO GLAD IT'S OVER. I would never want to go back. And although I am SUPER proud of who I am now, I don't know if I will go to my 10 year renunion in 4 years...

I always end up having peers tell me that they didn't like me at first. I seem to eminate "BITCH" but later on we just laugh about it. I'm the friendly one and I never associated myself with the spoiled brats. I would constantly be caught in the middle of a squabble between the brats and the nerds and geeks. I hated it when my friends were looked down upon on because their social status isn't up to par with the brats. I was good in school but still had days were I didn't feel like going and ditched school. Yeah, those were the days.

i was in the band in high school, i think. it's been SOOOOO long ago!LOL seriously, tho', i was in band. the "popular" crowd all wanted to be my friend, mostly the girls, because of my older brother, they all thought he was hot. NOT!! he was just my brother!

band geek that partied a lot

Around here the band geeks were the partiers.

I was pretty popular in HS. I was and am the type of person that can get along with ANYONE. I didn't get in a lot of trouble except I did get caught skipping school the second half of my senior year and got licks but hey, it was all fun! :D

Believe it or not i got the class standout they called "Beat All Around" and I think it was because I hung out with everyone and I got along with all the cliques. I was a cheerleader but I was nice to everyone even the geeks and the nerds and I tried to include everyone and make everyone feel good about themselves.

Latuya, honey that is definately some of the biggest big hair I have ever seen, lol!! I bet everyone wished they could get their hair that big. I never could get my hair big unless I had a perm and that fried it. I was a big hair wannabe.
Mari, I kinda did the same thing as you. I went to prom all four years, part of the time I ran with kids two years older and by the time I was a junior, I'd already done all the kool stuff. My boyfrend had already graduated and I had to reconnect with all my friends. That was kinda tough cause they were like, "Oh so now you have time for us". My senior year I attended HS 1/2 day, then my 4 best friends and I left and took a couple classes at the community college each semester. Ohhhh, we thought we were the stuff!!
Kimberley (txshopper), by 'licks' I assume you mean with a paddle...they did that at my school too. At least I think they did in HS. I know they did in middle school and elementary. I only got paddled once in school. It was in the 4th grade. This gouchy old burnt out teacher thought I making fun of another girl. It wasn't. I was falsely accused *sniff*. I hated that teacher after that. But my status with the other kids went up a notch. How pathetic.That seems so strange to me now. No school would dare do that now. My friends and I got caught skipping school our junior year and were called to the office. Since we were all absent the same day they figured we skipped. They were right. We had to go to the principal and tell him where we were. I looked that poor man straight in the eye and said "I was at the dentist, you wanna call him??" He backed off. I kinda feel bad about that. He was just doing his job. And he believed me too. The others got their grades for that day dropped but I didn't.
Kim, you sound like my sister. She was kind to everyone and was elected homecoming queen. I was way too self-absorbed and I regret that.

isn't it funny :D i swear everytime a girl would come up to me and say OH MY GOD ARE YOU DAVE'S OR DAN'S SISTER? me and my friends would just laugh, because it was an all day thing! i was also captain of the cheerleading squad so alot of the cheerleaders made my brothers conversation! i miss it though it was sooo fun going to dances and putting the year books together ahh those were the good ol days :rolleyes: