What was your niche in high school?

[PrincessKsMom]

That would be a yes and a yes I was, in fact, one of those girls and I make no apologies for it, the whole thing couldn't possibly have been more ridiculous or more fun

Jersey girl here -- no apologies necessary. I own my fashions -- parachute pants, capezzio shoes, shirts and pants with zippers, huge mile-high hair, Bon Jovi black leather/fringe jacket... the list goes on and on.

 

[Luv Bunnies]

Band geek and color guard captain my Jr/Sr years!

 

[bumbershoot]

Drama geek. And a bit of a nerd.

I've actually quite liked the reunions, even though I get so nervous I have to FORCE myself to walk through that door. Turns out even the popular people (MOST of them, not all) are just normal average humans who didn't have near the fun time we all thought they did! And often they wanted to be friends with others...that's why FB has been nice. I mean, heck, getting to be friends with people you yearned to be friends with back then? Knowing that they felt just as awkward as you did? Finding out that they thought you were pretty, just like you thought they were?

Heh heh, and...having the junior/middle/high school BANE of your existence (b/c she dated the guy you loved that entire time) nearly flash your husband in the elevator to show all the "work" she had done so she felt decent for the reunion????? And since you weren't even in the elevator to remind her, but she knew who you were anyway? Priceless. So glad I went to that reunion and hubby stayed in the hotel room with DS (b/c our reunions are stupidly expensive) so that he could have that experience "for" me (was in the elevator b/c DS wanted to see me).

 

[Shyvioletisme]

I was a huge theater nerd(a part of every show, One Act, advanced theatre courses) and brain(all AP/Honors courses as well). I had a lot of friends, but wouldn't consider myself popular, though at our HS it was a bit harder to calculate groups as our class only had about 135 people in it(as did all the others as well).

 

[Hollywoodhaha]

I am in high school now. I am neutral.
I am friends with all grades, all groups [except for those I do not like ..] and am generally a well-rounded person.

My best friend is a band geek, though!

 

[Becky2005]

I was "nothing" -- LOL!!! I really don't have any category I fit into. I just considered myself middle of the road I guess. I was on the school volleyball & bowling team but I wasn't a jock. I helped out with the plays but I wasn't a theatre geek.

I wasn't in the music programs but ours didn't have optional ones either -- they forced everyone to try out for choir at the end of 6th grade & you either got in or didn't and that was it for singing unlike my DD's HS that anyone can take basic choir if they want as an elective.

I just figured I was average middle and there really is no name for that as far as I know. I knew people from the "burn-outs" to the "popular" kids and everywhere in-between.

Of course, the scariest thing for me was when my DD was in Kindergarten and the aide she had in class had the same last name as a teacher I had in 7th/8th grade -- so I finally asked if she had a relative that taught in our school system -- turns out it was her husband AND he actually remembered ME!!! I was shocked out of the gazillion kids he would even remember me since there was nothing obvious to stick out for.

The ONLY thing I can think of is I was part of one of "the couple" of HS...I only realized it when a Freshman somehow knew me when I was a Senior as soon as I said my name, he knew me because he knew my boyfriend -- that was kind of freaky.

 

[SCHBR'smom]

I was a nerd, so much so that I graduated top of my class. But, I was also a snob because I looked down on those who didn't do well in school. That is until I met DH at the end of my freshman year. He was a car guy, who took as few academic classes as he could to make more time for shop classes. I credit him with teaching me how incredibly smart people can be without straight A's.

Count me in as one of those who didn't care for high school. I'm married to the best part of it.

 

[wendy46001]

I went to a huge high school, almost 5 thousand kids and 997 in our senior class
there were to many of us to have standard groups

but i guess i was considered middle of the road average “nice girl”
I was on the rowing team, so a jock just not in a popular sport
in honors classes but not a nerd
in the international studies program so i took non standard classes

in the end high school was kind of uneventful, needless to say I didn’t see the point in a reunion
I didn’t know most of those people anyway

 

[bjscheel]

Smart/good kids.

Only 40 in my class, say half were girls, so not a lot to choose from- approximately 3 groups of friends. There was my group, we didn't party, we got good grades, band, music types. One boy in our group, who married one of us...There was the popular group, and the other group, I don't really have a name for them?

At my 15 year, it was my group that put it together, made roasters full of food, and cleaned up after. The rest decided to bail part way through and go to somebody's house that hadn't come. The others ended up at the bowling alley drinking while we had fun talking and washing dishes. Nothing has changed yet. My parents say by the time you get to your 50th, everybody has a good time with each other.

 

[snapppyd]

Thanks for the .

Sorry high school was so bad for you Snap. I'm sure there are many people who feel that way. I had someone pass a comment to me at a recent high school get-together that a nickname I apparently had given her in high school (of which I have no recollection) really hurt her feelings and bothered her. I felt terrible and what made it worse was the idea that she carried that around with her for 26 years. Believe me, I wasn't a mean girl by any stretch of the imagination. I was too 'average' to be popular and had no 'power'. It's just such an awkward time for so many. Not sure how/where you fit in. My DD will be starting high school next year and I really feel for her.

I went to school in the South Bronx and spent my time trying to be invisible so I wouldn't get beat up. Needless to say, there were no dates and very few friends. I didn't exactly fit in. It's a shame that I refused to go to college because HS was such a bad experience.

 

[Kimberly]

Sports geek, who was a late bloomer. I wasn't that popular, but I did get along with most people. We had a close ring of about a dozen friends or so that always kept in touch, but it was also a very small high school.

 

[bunkkinsmom]

Punk Rock Baby! And in the mid 80's in Climax NC there were, wait lemme count, oh yeah.... 1 of us. Me. I was soooo not cool. Didn't care either. I like me, I really really like me!

If I could have a bright red mohawk again I would. But my kids' friends would make fun of them, so I don't.

 

[PollyannaMom]

Brain/fringe

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I was the new kid...THREE high schools!

I was the academic until I went to a braniac school and became average (in that school's eyes). Freshman and senior year, I lettered in academics--but at that school---too dang hard. I felt like an outcast and ate lunch with the "goth" types. (they weren't goth---but that is he best description I can think of).

I was just...the new kid otherwise.

 

[autumnpalm]

I was a bunhead.... I spent 30 hours a week in ballet class so I really didn't have a lot of time outside of dance for a social life. I got along with people at school, but my real friends were my friends from ballet. We spent all weekend and almost every night after school together and kind of kept to ourselves. I also went to a ballet boarding school for a bit, so all in all I would say I had a pretty non-traditional high school experience.

I was very shy and quiet though, so I think I would have been one of those girls spending her time in the library and with her family had I not had ballet.

 

[NikitaZee]

Fellow stoner. Where I grew up, we were called 'burn-outs'. We all turned out well, though!

 

[fenrir58]

I was the metalhead... in the Catholic school.
I avoided trouble(I hated it there but saw no purpose in making it any harder to be there). I never really made too close of friends there, but I survived and found hobbies(I took up the drums and volunteered at a zoo and a haunted house).
High school was rough for me, but I got out alive.

Oh, and my school was apart of the IB program, so I guess to a certain extent, we were mostly geeks so that wasn't really a label in my school.

 

[themilesfamily]

I showed up to high school as little as possible.

But when I was there I was a band person/brain/with a few "popular" friends. I was very into church youth group.

Honestly, I wasn't happy until I got to college. College and grad school were my thing.

ETA: Maybe it was just my school, but I feel like high school was the closest thing to prison I'll ever experience.

 

[Buckalew11]

I was a tennis player and an A student. I was friends with all kinds of kids but would never, ever date a football player. That was a rule . Then I married one who was the Captain of his team, played every sport except b-ball, President of the Student council and one of the most popular boys of his class. He was definitely NOT someone I'd have looked at twice when I was in HS!
I was quiet and shy and probably thought of as stuck up. I wore blue jeans and surfin' tee shirts & Izods. I was definitely NOT in the "popular" group which was OK by me.

 

[golfgal]

My high school must have been strange, it was cool to be smart and if you didn't get good grades you were not very popular. The "jocks" were mainly the "popular" kids that were the "smart" kids. All of us smart, jock, popular kids were either in band or orchestra too. We had 2 kids in the school that were "punk" and a few "burn outs". We really only had one kid that was a "nerd" who's name, no lie, Eugene.

Our kids' high school is pretty much the same-the smart kids are the jocks/popular kids and they are all in band.