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What role did you play in high school?Geek, drama, stoner, jock, prom queen? l was never cool at any of the schools l went to growing up; they were usually conservative (Christian/Catholic) and international, and l was the kid from the liberal humanitarian commune. At those schools, l was just the heathen outsider. Then when l moved back to the States, l was the international kid, and due to severe culture shock after having left the States at two, immediately immersed myself in everything illegal, so l was the weird stoner kid for the last year or so of high school. You?
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It varied by the hour of the day, the class I was in, and the people I was around. I was the strange little nerd kid who sat in the magazine room of the school library with the serious geeks at lunchtime. I was girl-Spicoli tumbling stoned out of the van full of smoke during gym class. I was the copy editor of the school paper and the grammar nazi that managed to offend everyone on the paper at least once by red-penciling their work to death. I was the overly-serious Sarah Bernhardt I'm-only-interested-in-performing-Macbeth drama geek.
I was a dork in all my incarnations.
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I was stoned for most of it but not part of the stoner culture and not academically advanced enough to be a geek or nerd. I was president of the drama club so, my role was faggot.
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I didn't know what I was then, and looking back I'm still not sure what I was! :)
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Benny Southstreet (Guys and Dolls), Frederick Fellowes (Noises Off), and chorus (South Pacific). I was tech crew on The Mousetrap and The Fantasticks. I was awarded with the "B&B" award my junior year, which was an award for excellence in both the tech and dramatic sides of theatre, so I guess you could say I was a bit of a drama geek.
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A totally different person.
I'd call it 'imprisoned musician/filmmaker/pothead'. I had friends from all over the social spectrum though, which was cool. My main group of friends were the 'pothead art kids' though visual art was never my medium. The only thing I did as much as getting high was go to shows, the latter of which I still do regularly.
To me - they put us in a little box and shrunk the box more and more over time - training us to either go to the local UC or CSU (the counselors were WORTHLESS unless you were transferring 20 minutes up the coast) or join the workforce straight out of high school. I had friends who were told 'wow, really? you might want to rethink that' when they told the counselors they wanted to go to college. But it's no secret that CA public schools leave much to be desired.
For me, that combined with a lot of stuff at home made for a potent apathetic fail-fest.
I barely graduated HS and then got to college and was like 'now that I can pursue my academic interests might as well try'. The last semester of HS I got a 1.7 - first semester of college I got pretty much straight A's.
I was definitely a hipster, a fact I'm not at all proud of. But few seem to be proud of what they were in high school? Everyone's so awkward and unsure of themselves...
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I started off as just... normal. I had nice, normal friends, and was in a few advanced classes. I wore clothes from GAP and Delias, and all the usual, normal 14 year old girl places. I rarely missed class, I usually did my homework and I was a fairly B student. Sophomore year my group of friends changed, and while most of them were all still "good" kids- they were older, and most didn't have a full schedule. I started skipping a lot more, dating (kind of), cut all of my hair off and dyed it hot pink (ooh!) and started identifying as something along the lines of "punk". By the end of junior year I was going to class maybe twice a week. My group of friends was solid, but I didn't have any friends outside of them. We ranged from Stu-co kids, to band kids, to stoners. I grew up in a small town, where being "weird" by any standards was an absolute curse. I was never really a bad kid- I didn't skip class to smoke pot or have sex- I just didn't like being there. I did all of the typical experimental high school kid things, but aside from my appearance and the fact that I never went to class I was still a pretty good kid. My senior year I went to an alternative high school, where I figured out that I actually wanted to do something with myself and stopped being such a slacker. There- there weren't any cliques or cool kids- we were all fuck ups and we all liked each other.
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Hopeless Geek...I hung out in the library with a very small group of girl-nerds who were into art and books. None of us had a date to the prom, or a feathered haircut. Most of us wore glasses, and Gunnie Sax. No self respecting stoner would have dreamed of sharing their drugs with us.
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I was Anthony Michael Hall in Sixteen Candles and the Breakfast Club. I mean, exactly like him, and also it was the mid 1980s.
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Loner geek/nerd.
Though this was largely a self imposed role. At the time I thought I was a loner BECAUSE of my geekiness, I now know it was because I wasn't a particularly self confident one.
Still consider myself geeky, and, in fact, it really has influenced a lot of what I find worthwhile and fun in life.
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I was the weird, smart girl who had friends in all the cliques but dropped out halfway through to go to college because she thought HS was stupid. Then she found out that college was still stupid, just older.
Being 30-ish is *still* stupid and *way* older, but now I know a little bit how to not care about it.
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Faggot freak. And drama geek.
I went to a small-down hick-infested high school. I listened to Prince when Nirvana was cool, and wore purple satin pajamas when I was supposed to be wearing flannel. I didn't even fit in with my friends.
Not much has changed.
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The male Allie Sheedy.
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I was the nerd that, for whatever reason, nobody ever messed with and many people liked.
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I was a geeky stoner jock who loved DRAMA!
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I can't believe I missed this question!
I was an intense teenager. I went to a catholic girls' school where the social landscape was fairly bleak: there were the wealthy popular girls who threw intimidating all-night parties every weekend, or there was everyone else. I fit into the latter category, and we were a band of misfits. One friend wanted to be a linguist, another a CIA assassin (she now works for a hedge fund in London), and I thought I wanted to be a novelist (nevermind that I can't construct a plot to save my life). I drifted towards intense, artsy things: playing in a handbell choir, painting sets for school plays, singing in an award-winning children's choir, staying up all night reading novels.
The choir, actually, absorbed most of my attention; I met my first (and, really, only) girlfriend through the choir, and I took her to my senior prom - which seems way braver in retrospect than it felt at the time. I was intensely sheltered, and deeply geeky. My peers regarded me as the "responsible" one, but that was more of a burden than a privilege -- it took me until college to shed my finger-wagging ways.
I dunno, at the time, I didn't feel under-socialized, but when I got to college, I realized that much as I had loved my high school, it hadn't done me many favors in the meeting/dating people part of my life. I feel like I'm still trying to figure that part out.
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High school was 10 years ago, who cares?
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