were you popular in high-school?

[Krigloch the Furious]

I was popular IN highschool, but once it came weekend time I was only with a couple friends.
I was a loud idiot in highschool, moreso than I am now.

 

[Dead Winter]

Is there something wrong with listening to Britney Spears?

Not if you're a fucking douchebag.

Maybe that was a little harsh...


Nah.

 

[Ryan VH]

Not if you're a fucking douchebag.

Maybe that was a little harsh...


Nah.

HEY! she has the same birthday as me

 

[Will Bozarth]

popular... not really.. actually, kinda yes. people loved my weird colored suits and the fact that I look like Jesus and Orlando Bloom... and yeah. whatever.

 

[Enemy242]

considering i dress metal, have long hair and don't get along with most people and i'm considered to be one of the drug kids, yeah i'm not that popular at all. not hated by everyone, but not exactly someone you'd invite to hang out or go to a party. its fine though cause i have some friends and the internet is entertaining. a lot of the jocks love me though which is kinda funny.

 

[ScientistOfDarkness]

I was the most popular kid at my school.



























...I home schooled.

 

[Lunar Still]

i'm considered to be one of the drug kids

a lot of the jocks love me though which is kinda funny.

The first one explains the second.

 

[firewalkjen]

you still had to take english all four years right? there are some classes that you have to take all four years

I took two english classes my last year.

 

[Spikes]

What is homeschooling really like? DO you regret not going to school?

 

[Ryan VH]

I took two english classes my last year.

oh wow you really did some serious business. do you think its worth doing? i want to get it all done with ASAP though im only a freshman

 

[ThePhilosopher]

Most people tolerated me. I got along with most people and most of them knew me pretty well. How I managed this is a mystery to me considering I was involved with almost nothing in my high school until senior year.

It's hard to measure your popularity in a college with 27,000 people. I guess I have friends.

 

[ScientistOfDarkness]

What is homeschooling really like? DO you regret not going to school?

Honestly? Well, I left school in the second semester of 7th grade and homeschooled, then went back in 8th, and left in second semester again. The Dallas school system is a fucking joke and I could have learned more from watching soap operas all day. Which is actually what we did in computer and home ec classes at my middle school. FUCKING. JOKE.

Anyway, I studied what I wanted to study for the first year or so as much as I wanted to. So basically I read a bunch of weird shit. Then I tested to go back into high school when I was 15 and I tested at senior level so they let me take the GED. In short - I fucked off after 7th grade and traveled all over the place until I was 18 and started working.

I don't regret any of it. Not going to high school has probably fucked me up socially in some ways, but I wouldn't change any of it. Well, the only regret I really have is not being able to take advantage of college prep stuff and scholarships, I probably would have gone on to a university and had an actual career at this point instead of my shitty job. But I run into people from elementary and middle school who have 4 kids and work at the mall, so I guess I'm okay.

 

[Captain Beard]

University is no guarantee of success like many would have you think. I'd say it's more who you know and a bit of motivation. A degree only plays maybe half the part of any given success.

 

[NeverEarth X]

Im sure nobody on this board was . I can admit i wasnt and i didnt care.

Bradley

 

[mReEtTaIlRsEkD]

Im sure nobody on this board was . I can admit i wasnt and i didnt care.

Bradley

Hahahahaha.

 

[derek]

University is no guarantee of success like many would have you think. I'd say it's more who you know and a bit of motivation. A degree only plays maybe half the part of any given success.

I agree. As someone who teaches in an establishment of higher learning, I often recommend to some very smart kids that they leave university - before they get into a lot of debt - and invest their energies elsewhere. University just is not for some people and it's certainly not for everyone. Indeed, it shouldn't be for everyone.

It's a product of poor governmental education management that thousands are pressed into higher education when it does not suit then. The dichotomy that all smart people go to university needs eradicated.

Some of the most intelligent and vim-filled people I've ever met never attended school past the required level, my hardworking and very successful father among them.

 

[ScientistOfDarkness]

University is no guarantee of success like many would have you think. I'd say it's more who you know and a bit of motivation. A degree only plays maybe half the part of any given success.

True but people tend to like their funeral directors to have a bit of education. A trocar in the wrong place and KABOOM. Alas, I am a dead people dropout.

 

[Bacchante]

Wow...It just dawned on me that I graduated high school in 2003. That really wasn't that long ago, but it feels like its been years! :zombie:

Weird.....carry on

 

[NinjaKitten]

I dont think I was "popular" but I definietly wasnt a huge dork or anything. My brother was really popular though and he is a couple years older than me so everyone kind of knew me as his little sister. Im not so sure that made me "cool" or anything, but basically, most people knew who I was.
My circle of good friends has always been pretty small and tight and I like it like that. I've always had a lot of casual friends too, theyre usually friends of friends or something like that, people you cant talk to about everything like you would with your good friends.

 

[Dead Winter]

I agree. As someone who teaches in an establishment of higher learning, I often recommend to some very smart kids that they leave university - before they get into a lot of debt - and invest their energies elsewhere. University just is not for some people and it's certainly not for everyone. Indeed, it shouldn't be for everyone.

It's a product of poor governmental education management that thousands are pressed into higher education when it does not suit then. The dichotomy that all smart people go to university needs eradicated.

Some of the most intelligent and vim-filled people I've ever met never attended school past the required level, my hardworking and very successful father among them.

Well said. I've also noticed that the best education a person can get is learning of other cultures. Travel. See the world. There's just something to be said for going to see the Sistine Chapel in person over reading about it in a college history of art class with some prof who's never been out of his hometown.

Also, one should discover what he/she does best and enjoys, and capitalize on that. For instance, I have not finished my degree in English, but I teach English to Italians. Ok, there are rigorous exams you must take in some institutions to determine that you really do know the English language well, but we're not talking quantum physics here...we're talking the book is on the table. Of course it's much more advanced than that, but instead of finding some average job in some place, I deduced that since I like to teach/instruct, I speak good Italian for someone who's been here for three years, and the most desperately sought-out job in this region is a mother tongue English teacher. Therefore, I capitalized on that and took advantage of the situation. Now I have a good job, low hours, decent wage, and I can basically do what I want because I'm freelance. I bounce from company to company.

Culture, experience, and travel in my opinion is the best education any person can get. I'm not denouncing university because I'm still pursuing my degree, but it's not to make a lot of money or anything...it's because I want to actually learn something and enjoy it. I never bought into the idea of going to university for 4-6 years and taking a bunch of classes you hate in a major you hate just because you can make a lot of money. Fuck that.