what were you like in high school?

[7875]

i was the guy who would fall crazy in love with a girl but let those feelings stew for months at a time. finally, i'd tell her and she'd never talk to me again.
i was the one who was able to hang out with both the mods, goths, skaters and jocks but never really knew any of them very well.
i was the guy who spent alot of time drawing on desks and never anytime doing actual homework.
had girls as friends but they never had any interest in me other than be a serrogate brother.

who were you?

[phil]

i had no friends, the girls thought i was an ugly cunt. i experimented using radio controlled car servos to create booby traps for our cleaner.

[piscaries]

i was apparently your twin 7875, however i wore more polyester back then.

[aleks]

i was the guy most of the girls pretended they didn´t like because i wasn´t fresh enough but they did... i was the guy everybody thought he had a serious drug problem... i was the guy who spent a lot of time drawing on desks and never anytime doing actual homework... :)
i didn´t change that much from school till now, except for the fact that i have to shave more often

[Loz]

I was the least popular guy in school. No one would even talk to me at school until I was 16. I was lazy, never did any homework, spent quite a bit of time in my own little world.

It's strange really, since I've left school, I really don't have much trouble getting on well with people.

[MUX]

i was a high grade student in my art subjects and i totally skipped the rest of my days lessons. i only wore black and had a petty cash poker addiction that took up most of my day, win like a couple of pounds and spent double on the tekken machine in the back of the shop.

[thetonewrecker]

Preoccupied with music and skateboarding/snowboarding from Junior high/high school/college. Went to summer school just because I wanted to learn more and didn't sleep much at all. Didn't associate with any "one" group other than the skaters. I could roam and associate with whomever since I thought everyone was pretty interesting. People probably viewed me as a loner, but that's fine.

Studies were great with subjects that interested me, otherwise I passed classes I found boring and unnecessary.

Never dated anyone until college.....parents were worried I was gay I think. All of the girls at school liked being friends, but nothing more and I didn't push it. Worked a lot after school to buy studio gear.

And still through it all and to this day, I remain one happy bastard. :-)

[Mui]

My dad was the Physical Education teacher at my high school, the scariest bastard teacher there, I didn't cop shit from anyone, but dealt it frequently. I was good at all my classes without having to try very hard, I was shit at sports, but since my dad was the PE teacher I still got high marks for it. Obviously everybody hated me. School was fun.

[Marolo]

drug freak

[spencer]

School? What was that?

[deccard]

the dreamer type. i was the quiet guy. always drawing in my books. only had some friends in school. was to shy to approach a girl i liked. (u know the game. she stands infront of you and you just can´t say something cool. )
played the most time a card game (magic, was new and uncommercial at that time) and started to go to the first clubs and getting my first renessaince.

[dirtyho]

I went to a fucking public school there were no girls at school, I wasn't very good at rugby either - so no luck there really.

[invisibleplanet]

I studied Latin throughout highschool, wore over the knee white socks and flat shoes..and wore my hair in two plaits...i played cello in the boys and girls grammar school's orchestra, and used to walk the long way home just so i could walk past the boys school.
When i moved north, and changed schools from girls grammar to a mixed comprehensive, i had to give up the cello, and the boys there nicknamed me 'the milk maid' and the girls bullied me, so ducked out of home economics and needlework, and studied technical drawing, control technology and woodwork with the boyz - I was the first girl in the history of the school to do this. I was taunted for being really clever, but honestly my dad wlll tell u I didn't work at it, iot came naturally to me. I used to get the boys in woodwork to make cams and other things for my electronic projects. They used to bring strangely-turned wood(which looked a lot like enormous penii) to show me, and i would smile and say 'very nice, and wink at them. I was top set for everything I had great fun, but eventually penny miller the gorilla beat me to a pulp, and i didn't go back after that, except to take my exams...which i passed in a lazy but intelligent fashion. before i even took those exams, i had been offered a job, so i left school for the world of work. I used to have a big crush on my technology teacher, but my fave subject was english literature. (I went back to college 2 yrs later to sudy for 5 a levels)

[gunjack]

high school in america is such a waste. like a fucking prison. i went to so many diferent schools. got jumped many times til i learned that there is nothing wrong with hitting your tormentors first. i finally started sucker-punching first and asking questions later. got kicked out of many many schools. then, when i got caught with a firearm in my locker, i just dropped out and took the GED exam. best decision ever. entered college for midi/electronic music at 16, and rarely look back.

the los angeles unified school district breeds psyco after psyco. all of the racial segregation, drugs (read meth)............... being white in the l.a. school system was interesting at the very least.............

[7875]

i never really did shit in high school.
probably why im not doing shit now. never a very good student. too much dreaming. and drawing. and trying not to get myself beat up. or shot. those things happen. in retrospect, i should have just told everyone to fuck off and immersed myself in studies. but, at the time, with ADD running rampant on one side of the brain, depression making her sly entrance on the other..what could i do?

[aleks]

dreaming and drawing was the thing to do at school...
my old french teacher that fuckin told my parents that i will never ever finish school...the day i did i would have loved to spit in her ugly face...

[Basic 2: The Revenge]

I was a total model student until I was about 14 and then we moved to a different area. I discovered a few things, met new friends and realised the world was a bigger place......the up shot of it all was that I was suspended and then eventually asked to leave the school for a variety of things like fighting and drug dealing. I never got busted as I never had anything to get busted with (you would be stupid to be caught red-handed) , but all these pathetic kids and parents had some anti-Jamie campaign going on after some kid tried to strangle a teacher whilst tripping - blame me if you want parents but you need to look closer to home for your kids issues. Anyhoos, the school bent under this pressure and I was sent packing. To be honest the only reason I wasn't thrown out straight away and expelled was my unblemished record. Best thing that ever happened, went on to college and uni and obtained diplomas and degrees (obviously I had to tell a white lie or two to get me into college).

[tsr_tomas]

guess i´m like most of you.
never dated anygirl´s until collage, did make alot of music, never sleept at night´s. had 3hour a sleep before school. never did much homework.
that´s basicly what i was up to.

[dirtyho]

I fucked my A-levels going to too many exodus raves in luton. ;)

[wheezer]

up till I turned 14 I didn't comb my hair, kept it clean otherwise but combing was too much of a bother really. I cheated my way out of computer class by figuring out how to get my score in Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing waaaay beyond what was needed to pass the course, then set up the lan for the school. Played a lot of football, only sport I was ever good at.

Then I moved to Finland and I switched from industrial to speedcore musicwise, plus I noticed that one can have teachers eating out of your hand if you know what to say when and how. Started doing drugs and cutting class, but always maintained a very high grade average, till the bitter end lol

[invisibleplanet]

Left my A level ccourse after one year, scoring A+ Eng lit, A Govt. & Pol, A Sociology, A Economics, but failed my Gen. Studies Course! ...got an unconditional offer to study Lit. at Cambridge on the strength of my coursework alone, so even if i had failed my exam i would have still had a place, but my first b/f of 18 months had an affair with a friend from college, and I went a bit insane...so followed him to london in a weird emotional state. Applied for a job in the Smoke which was advertised in the Guardian, and spent a wild time working in the West End, earning too much money, warehouse parties, dancing to hip hop and hanging out at students union in ucl where he worked. Saw alot of bands from around the world..had adiet of dub and hip hop. Salif Keita, Alpha Blondy & the Solar System, Jules Holland.....and loads of others...left london after getting knocked over by a taxi driver and ending up on crutches for 3 months. Police prosecuted him for dangerous driving as a Diplomatic Policeman from an embassy saw the incident, but I didn't claim damages.

What an idiot - being academic didn't make me streetwise :|

[Basic 2: The Revenge]

The more clever the person is, the less common sense they seem to have.

[dirtyho]

Ahh - those scatty professor types that live in their own heads and forget to eat and tie their shoelaces. ;)

[mr franks]

i was innocent at school - damn the real world!

[grobelaar]

I can't remember much of it - which is probably bad...

Parents were in the army - they dragged me around Europe, moving every 2-3 years.

The bit I do remember is being quite clever, but not too popular, I was always in competition with two other lads, they were popular. Then it all went pair shaped - GCSEs came in, and I never do homework or coursework - girls started asking me out, and to this day I don't know if they were serious or taking the piss - I said no... Fucked up A-levels, fucked up college, got a job designing games (much to amazement of my mates) and fucked off to Nottingham...

Took me 7 years of living in Nottingham before bumping into a group of people to call friends and finding a place I can call home... and then what do I call....

...go and fuck of to London and start all over again...

(well that's not totally true, still have the Notts posse to fall back on)

[bitch one]

me= clever cunt and clown

top student in most things, but always in (petty) trubble. really wound up the teachers that.

[bitch one]

ps, i think i had already imagined IP as a cello/cambridge type.

[dirtyho]

Playing the clown was definitely the easiest way to avoid getting a kicking for not being good at rugby. Most of my teachers also disliked me for "wasting my natural talent" - of course it had nothing to do with them being boring, pedantic cunts ;)

[V Knid esq]

I was a small meat pie. I got left under one of the bookshelves in the chemistry lab and started to smell after a few months.

[Tomoki]

I was the quietest guy in my class.
My motto was “better say nothing than something wrong” and it worked, although I was a bit of lazy.
From the 9th to the 12th grade my remove was in danger, but it worked every time to walk into the next grade.

I didn’t like these “blah-blah” –subjects like German, Sociology and so on.
My favourite was the sports class, especially Badminton; in this case I began to bloom.


Found a wonderful girlfriend out of the parallel class and it stayed for nearly two years until the 12th grade.

In review: School wasn´t bad at all. It was a good time to look back.

[thetonewrecker]

Seems we are all top notch screwballs. ha ha Brilliant!!

[Mirsha]

I was a good student, I went to school every day and did all the work I was supposed to do to the best of my ability. I had few friends becuase I was very quiet and shy and women were a mystery to me.

[Sheridan]

school was a joke for me. I went to a high school that was very rich. all the kids came from a lot of money so I found it a bit hard to fit in because of that. my life revolved around skateboarding, graffiti, and music. I was a total loner. I didn't have any friends in high school. all my friends either went to other schools, were out of school, or just didn't go. I was hanging around a very fast crowd of older people who taught me more about life then I ever got from school. started going to clubs very young and experiencing that side of life. I ended up skipping a lot to go skating in DC and wound up roaming the streets of the city since I found it much more interesting then the suburbs. I didn't participate in school at all. I was a bit of ghost there. I didn't get along well with anyone so people learned to steer away from me. I would get into fist fights a bit as well, but then again people learned not to bother, not because I would beat them up. it was more because I enjoyed it, even if I was getting my ass kicked.
I would just keep coming back for more and that kind of scared people. I excelled in english, creative writing and art. the other classes I did what I needed to to get by. I ended up graduating with a 2.0 grade average but scored remarkably high on my sats. so I was/am certainly no dummy.
I found the people at my school just very uninteresting (the opposite of tonewrecker). I just laughed at how serious they took their lives. they would worry about which abercrombie and fitch shirt to buy and I just found that so one dimensional. espescially because of the other things I was experiencing at the time. I just felt that everything moved too slowly for me. people always would say about how your high school years are the best of your life. and I dissagree. I have had more fun in my life after high school. the day I graduated I stood out in front of the school so my parents could take their photos then I left and never looked back. and I haven't talked to anyone from there since, except for my best friend Bryan. he was the only person who I really formed a friendship with there and we have remained steadfast friends to this day.

[thetonewrecker]

my school days....

[kungfoo]

hehehe.. i also painted on every desk 'til it was more black than white.

[emef]

i was one of the odd kids who walked around the school playground always carrying my gary numan / soft cell / depeche mode records with me, wearing black (still do) and make up (too old for that now)
keeping myself to myself
would get picked on now and then, and occasionally i would go mental at who was picking on me and end up with an appointment to see the school psychologist.

ho hum !!

[wheezer]

Originally posted by thetonewrecker
Seems we are all top notch screwballs. ha ha Brilliant!!

this hardly comes as a surprise :)

[marcel]

i always joked on everyone at school, i was kind of a clown. not that rude like our local troll but rude enough to make me some parttime enemies, strange days back in the time.
i also remember that there was even no 'cool' group at our school like hihoppers, skaters or so. it was deep in the wood... just some neonazis(you now east germany in the nineties..).

[pille'ocheoni]

i was a die hard skater/graph artist,and dressed like your typipcal skater, listened to some punk, and stuff like primus, etc...then 8th grade was the discovery of " tecno 'electronic' music " my father always listen to good stuff over the way and some interesting stuff like the pet shop boys and others. then tangerine dream came into my life and the future sound of london and meat beat manifesto. my life changed after that point. did my schooling sort of, just barely got through. got into lots of fights in middle school, but havent had one since. had my first g/f when i was a freshman in high school, then broke up a week later, then the un-comfortableness left me. i didint play any sports. except soccer for fun, and some la-cross. i was a clown of sorts, the talky guy, that i still am, ive just learned to except it at this point. school sucked, but now school in college is allright, i took a 2 year break after high school untill i came back, and im glad i did. the number one thing i hated in school was the retarded behaviour, so many stupid ignorant " joe's " doing stupid shit. i hate that.

[filthydave]

i hated school
i never did homework and got the shit kicked outta me on a regular basis
spent most of my time avoiding detention for not doin any work and hanging around with all the other sad grebos listening to metalica and slayer et al
got a G for technology and ended up workin in electronics for 5yrs

the spotty kid with glasses who was hated by everyone and the most unlikely candidate in the world for what i do now

[Small Paul]

I was quite similar to Filthydave, although I didn't get the shit beaten out of me cuz I could run really fast when I was in me teens. I was one of those weird heavy metal kids into metallica, slayer and anthrax. I think I survived partly through running ability and partly by becoming token metaller friend for the really hard kids at school, which helped.
I actually quite liked school and did the work pretty well so I didn't get stress from teachers. In fact my head of year is now a labour mp, one of the real socialist types, not one of these ridiculous neo-labour tory lookalikes, so that might explain some of my views, heh heh.

[aleks]

we all would have been friends in school :)

[jess-ssej]

I was ....different...but got along with everyone *must be my charmig personality* ;) I went to private Catholic HS so I think it was a little bit odd for them when I started there with purple hair, combat boots and Skinny Puppy t-shirts...didn't quite know what to make of me and...they had a dress code (no ripped jeans, no band shirts, etc) but somehow I always got away with it...hehe

Did well enough in school, A's and B's...got on well with almost every teacher and spent most of my days in the art rooms the last two years. For the most part I stayed out of trouble...though there are some escapades I could tell you about...another time... ;)

[namshub]

i sold drugs to tha primary school kids.

[amble]

i can't say that i liked school very much. i always hated this kind of just learning stupid facts for an exam and then forgetting about it cos you never need it again anyway. but i was quite good actually although i never did very much. when i think about it i was only sucking at the lessons that were held by teachers that sucked ( in my case physics, chemistry and french).

the people in my school were idiots most of them but i came around with almost everyone (i'm a libra you know). i only had a handful of really good friends (male and female) and they are the only ones i still see now.

i have never been a very chatty guy like pille but i'm not shy either, i just say something when i feel that i need to. i never really made the clown but i made people laugh. and i was the only one listening to techno so that was a bit hard for me. i was exchanging tracker-files with some people but they never got what i was doing and said that i was mental. wise words.

[pille'ocheoni]

hehe