Oh yeah, and from 7th grade-part of 12th, my social life was a walking Dawson's Creek.
What did YOU do in High School?
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Yeah, I thought my high school experience was a waste of time.
If I could do it over I would have taken classes at the Community College where they allow as young as 14. I could have gone for another degree with the time that I piddled away.[/QUOTE]
I was taking college credits between my junior and senior year. I really wished I would have taken the exam to skip my senior year and jumped straight into college. That last year was a total waste.
Nothing really, other than softcombat and being the school's nerd activities coordinator.
I only a single full year of high school (tried to do 3 years, but I've already gone over why that didn't happen), but it was mainly choir, drama, and In-The-Know (It's a game show thing for high school kids). Think Jeopardy, but low budget and the best prize you can get is a scholarship.
Played Football defensive tackle, and threw the shot-put in track and field.
Lettered in Academic Decathlon, and Thespians. Won a couple of prose readings in speech competitions. Did One Act play and 2 Fall Play productions. Came in second in the Library Club's State Quiz competition. We lost to the other team from our school.
I was President of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Also an officer in the Art Club.
My senior spring semester I did not spend a single Friday on campus, I was always at some sort of a competition.
I was much more interesting in High-School.
Lettered in Academic Decathlon, and Thespians. Won a couple of prose readings in speech competitions. Did One Act play and 2 Fall Play productions. Came in second in the Library Club's State Quiz competition. We lost to the other team from our school.
I was President of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Also an officer in the Art Club.
My senior spring semester I did not spend a single Friday on campus, I was always at some sort of a competition.
I was much more interesting in High-School.
ElJuski
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If we're talking socially...yeah, I was pretty nerdy. Hung out with a bunch of my chums and tried to score with the ladies (oh that always worked in highschool >:|) and got drunk with my Lithuanian friends.
I was always the smart-ass (go figure) nerdy kid (go figure) who had a good reputation with the teachers (go figure) and could always smart-ass to them with impudence (go figure).
I was always the smart-ass (go figure) nerdy kid (go figure) who had a good reputation with the teachers (go figure) and could always smart-ass to them with impudence (go figure).
No music in high school--I didn't pick up the tinwhistle until I was around 25.
I was in all the nerd clubs: Jets (physics), National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta (Math), Academic Decathlon. I lettered in academics (which you could do at my high school). I was also a member of the martial arts club, but it wasn't a bona-fide athletics program.
Did my share of drugs, drinking and sex, too
I was in all the nerd clubs: Jets (physics), National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta (Math), Academic Decathlon. I lettered in academics (which you could do at my high school). I was also a member of the martial arts club, but it wasn't a bona-fide athletics program.
Did my share of drugs, drinking and sex, too
Dude, where'd you go to school? This sounds like the same kinds of extra-curricular programs offered at my old high school..
A Rich School in NE Texas.
All of this minus getting drunk with Lithuanians. I got drunk with other band kids.
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Yeah, I thought my high school experience was a waste of time.
If I could do it over I would have taken classes at the Community College where they allow as young as 14. I could have gone for another degree with the time that I piddled away.[/QUOTE]
I was taking college credits between my junior and senior year. I really wished I would have taken the exam to skip my senior year and jumped straight into college. That last year was a total waste.[/QUOTE]
Money was tight for me, but I could have worked a little more, it's community college tuition so I would have only needed 1000/year. That college is big on telecommunications too, so I could have done all the work in class or lunch at the Highschool.
I forgot stuff in high school I knew before so basically anything would have been an improvement.
Ah...I thought FCA might've been a more local phenomenon.
BAND NERD!!
I played Bari Sax and French Horn. I was also the Mayor of Munchkin City in the Wizard of Oz my Senior Year, my best friend was the Cowardly Lion. Did choir a few years as well, my friend and I sang "We Are The Champions" at our Senior Rally. Wasn't really stand out at anything. The only thing I was kind if better at than most was marching. I won quite a few "Drill Down" competitions during marching practices. Woopty-crap!
I played Bari Sax and French Horn. I was also the Mayor of Munchkin City in the Wizard of Oz my Senior Year, my best friend was the Cowardly Lion. Did choir a few years as well, my friend and I sang "We Are The Champions" at our Senior Rally. Wasn't really stand out at anything. The only thing I was kind if better at than most was marching. I won quite a few "Drill Down" competitions during marching practices. Woopty-crap!
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Played Tenor Sax with the band. Did regular band, marching band, was in the jazz band, performed with quartet groups for UIL.
Outside of that I got to drive around most of my friends as I got a car at 16 in order to lug around said instrument, and as such was the person that gave everyone rides home from school..
Outside of that I got to drive around most of my friends as I got a car at 16 in order to lug around said instrument, and as such was the person that gave everyone rides home from school..
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Ooh, I also had the full time job of embarrassing my friends in front of their crushes. But whatever, they were too shy to approach them, so I'd go in, make an goofy idiot of myself, and SWOOP! In come my pretty friends who longed for the awkward touch of a 16 year old boy with greasy hair.
With the whole blossoming movies and spielberg obsession, I also thought I was Dawson Leery a lot.
North_Ranger
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High schools in here don't organize much extracurricular activity, so you could say I was an all-purpose nerd guy: the only roleplayer in the tri-county area, an avid doodler, a nigh-straight-A's student.
Which meant I was pretty much alone. Thank God I went to school before all this emo bullshit...
But, some things I did:
- Scouting (quit because our new scoutmaster didn't know squat how to run a troop).
- Arts (oil painting, mostly. Results were slightly animé-esque fantasy)
- Choir (for one semester; I love to sing but I hated having to go with the choir to perform after-hours, so I quit)
- Also, I was one of the 15-or-so students in our high school who took part in the European Union's Euroscola programme, which basically meant that our high school was selected to represent Finland in the programme's get-together in Strasbourg, where we learned about how the European Parliament worked. Doesn't really count as an extracurricular, since it was a one-time, week-long gig and the members were chosen by the teachers and the rest of the spots filled with first-come-first-served basis.
Which meant I was pretty much alone. Thank God I went to school before all this emo bullshit...
But, some things I did:
- Scouting (quit because our new scoutmaster didn't know squat how to run a troop).
- Arts (oil painting, mostly. Results were slightly animé-esque fantasy)
- Choir (for one semester; I love to sing but I hated having to go with the choir to perform after-hours, so I quit)
- Also, I was one of the 15-or-so students in our high school who took part in the European Union's Euroscola programme, which basically meant that our high school was selected to represent Finland in the programme's get-together in Strasbourg, where we learned about how the European Parliament worked. Doesn't really count as an extracurricular, since it was a one-time, week-long gig and the members were chosen by the teachers and the rest of the spots filled with first-come-first-served basis.
was a part of the go club
made fun of the anime club that met simultaneously in the same room
ate their food
hang out with dudes who had girlfriends and be a perpetual third wheel
made fun of the anime club that met simultaneously in the same room
ate their food
hang out with dudes who had girlfriends and be a perpetual third wheel
I had an extremely small HS (graduating class of 17 people, k-12 population 150), so we didn't have a marching band, but I was definitely a band geek in pep band, stage band (it's kinda like jazz band), and concert band. Clarinet, Alto Sax, Tenor Sax, Baritone Sax, Piano, Trombone, Bass Clarinet, and drums.
Also, yearbook and newspaper freshman and sophomore years. After that, I had a job after school and was too busy for much of anything except stage band, which was early in the mornings, and pep band, which I always requested game nights off work.
Also, yearbook and newspaper freshman and sophomore years. After that, I had a job after school and was too busy for much of anything except stage band, which was early in the mornings, and pep band, which I always requested game nights off work.
GasBandit
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Computer club, Chess club, Chemistry club, Track and Field (more field, really.. shotput and discus)... uh... designated school miscreant. Brought homemade firecrackers to dances (ammonium triiodide, that kind of stuff, stains purple when it pops). Was voted most likely to go postal.
Lessee, I was in JV football as Center/Nose Tackle. I did a pretty good job seeing as I had a low center of gravity and was pretty immovable.
I was also a huge church geek. I was lead tenor in my church choir, president of the youth group, secretary of the synod youth council and youth delegate to the synod council. I even represented the whole northern great lakes area at a Lutheran UN conference. I was also a bible camp counselor.
I was also on the High School Bowl team (the state quiz show for sholarships) specializing in religion, pop culture, and classical literature.
Graduated with honors and pretty much got accepted to any school I applied for.
My lord, it's depressing when I think about all the potential I wasted.
I was also a huge church geek. I was lead tenor in my church choir, president of the youth group, secretary of the synod youth council and youth delegate to the synod council. I even represented the whole northern great lakes area at a Lutheran UN conference. I was also a bible camp counselor.
I was also on the High School Bowl team (the state quiz show for sholarships) specializing in religion, pop culture, and classical literature.
Graduated with honors and pretty much got accepted to any school I applied for.
My lord, it's depressing when I think about all the potential I wasted.
GasBandit
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Holy crap. Forgot about that stuff. You just made me remember I went to state in the "bridge building" contest. And that was before Pontifex even existed.
Holy crap. Forgot about that stuff. You just made me remember I went to state in the "bridge building" contest. And that was before Pontifex even existed.[/QUOTE]
I didn't do the bridge building, but I did the "keep the heat" one, and the one where you have to build a car to deliver an egg as close to a wall as possible without breaking the egg. And the one where you had to identify a bunch of random powders and crystalline structures with various chemical tests.
But I loves me some Pontifex, or better yet, the original Bridge Builder. Really wish the level packs were more reliable for that one.
Marching band, pep band, jazz band, jazz band 2 (called stage band, for the lunch hour), and one year playing in the pit for Bye Bye Birdie, all on the alto sax. One year I appeared in the chess club yearbook photo even though I never competed or anything. I was socially awkward, short for three years then really tall my senior year, braces AND headgear, bookish, and known only for "being smart". Meh. At the time, I didn't want to graduate high school. I wasn't ready to "grow up". Looking back, my experience lacked in many ways. Never had a high school girlfriend, didn't get into trouble, really, except for goofing off. I don't think I needed to get busted for things, get drunk or experiment in any way to learn about life, but I could have exposed myself to more viewpoints. That's what college did for me, though.
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I was legend in high school. No, literally. People didn't think I existed, and I'm pretty sure some of the stories told about me weren't true.
The last half of my freshman year I went to a new magnet school trying alternative learning/teaching methods. However, by the second semester of the school I had to drop out due to health problems. So, along with tales of bean-bag chairs, no class schedules, getting credit for bullshit (scraping gum off a shoe, writing a paper on the theoretical applications of a Wonkavator, having a religious argument, etc.), death-threats turning into a friendship and doing shots of Tabasco at lunch, the new students also heard stories about "Bruce" who they were assured would show up for lunch and needed a seat saved for him. When I finally did show up at a Christmas party, several people actually asked me if I was an actor hired to play Bruce.
Yeah, I sang in a school musical, wrote a humor column for the school newspaper and other stuff, but none of that compares to being a freaking figment of the collective imagination of a school.
The last half of my freshman year I went to a new magnet school trying alternative learning/teaching methods. However, by the second semester of the school I had to drop out due to health problems. So, along with tales of bean-bag chairs, no class schedules, getting credit for bullshit (scraping gum off a shoe, writing a paper on the theoretical applications of a Wonkavator, having a religious argument, etc.), death-threats turning into a friendship and doing shots of Tabasco at lunch, the new students also heard stories about "Bruce" who they were assured would show up for lunch and needed a seat saved for him. When I finally did show up at a Christmas party, several people actually asked me if I was an actor hired to play Bruce.
Yeah, I sang in a school musical, wrote a humor column for the school newspaper and other stuff, but none of that compares to being a freaking figment of the collective imagination of a school.
Heh, somewhat along the lines of the Legend story:
By the time I was in 12th grade, only my friends (and sometimes not even them) knew my real name.
This comes mostly from Going by my last name (Miller) for several years, as well as people calling me nicknames like Dennis Miller, Reggie Miller, etc. One of my teachers was convinced my name was Mike.
Eventually I learned to answer to several names, it was kinda fun.
By the time I was in 12th grade, only my friends (and sometimes not even them) knew my real name.
This comes mostly from Going by my last name (Miller) for several years, as well as people calling me nicknames like Dennis Miller, Reggie Miller, etc. One of my teachers was convinced my name was Mike.
Eventually I learned to answer to several names, it was kinda fun.
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I played trumpet/cornet in band (1st chair) for three years, started the Chess Club, restarted a debate club where debate on serious issues was encouraged to replace the useless "Debate" club, was a Thespian and worked on or in twelve different productions, did choir for two years, and played alot of Dungeons and Dragons. Oh, and I spent most of my free time studying World War II.
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No clubs, no extra-curriculars, minimized time spent at school to a maximum without it affecting my grades.
Despite that, 4.2 average GPA, A+ citizenship, and have been in the seminar program since 3rd grade (99.5th percentile on critical thinking/puzzle solving test)
I generally hang out with friends 2-5 years older than myself, been that way since age 13 or so.
Note: Still a senior, taking
AP English Literature
AP Physics
Ceramics
Government/Economics
4 Classes, only at school 3.45 hours a day.
Despite that, 4.2 average GPA, A+ citizenship, and have been in the seminar program since 3rd grade (99.5th percentile on critical thinking/puzzle solving test)
I generally hang out with friends 2-5 years older than myself, been that way since age 13 or so.
Note: Still a senior, taking
AP English Literature
AP Physics
Ceramics
Government/Economics
4 Classes, only at school 3.45 hours a day.
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Philosopher B.
HIGH FIVE MO'FOKKA.
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TotalFusionOne
I built MUDs, was in choir for a long ass time, ambassador for the City of Orlando to most of eastern europe, was in a lot of musicals, chess club.. Then I hit state requirements when I was 15 and GTFO'd.
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