F.Net High School

[Aqua_volans]

Oh yes, and we do stuff to grab attention, for example, i threw a pork something at the fan, hell lot of clean-up but hell lot of fun too. Especially when my muslim classmates watch on in horror as the see pork flying around the class. Needless to say, i got into trouble.

[poor_nizzie]

It's a shame there are only three preps so far.
My job in highschool was to look my best.
Now that I'm in college, my job is to look better than the public-school grads.

[little_old_me]

where I take the opposite approach and now try to blend in with the public-school grads.

[Inquartata]

Oh yes, and we do stuff to grab attention, for example, i threw a pork something at the fan, hell lot of clean-up but hell lot of fun too. Especially when my muslim classmates watch on in horror as the see pork flying around the class. Needless to say, i got into trouble.

You're just lucky it wasn't a piece of flaming bagel.

[MyrddinsPrecint]

It's a shame there are only three preps so far.
My job in highschool was to look my best.
Now that I'm in college, my job is to look better than the public-school grads.

{This is a general rant that will indicate to you who I was in high school.....}


Gee, my job in high school was to get amazing grades and be in every presdigious after school activity I cared about to get into a good school.


And, Gee, now my job is to get decent grades at my good college so that I get into an amazing graduate program (somewhere..... doing something....).


Personally, my opinion is thus: Cleanliness is important. The friend that I had in high school that heard that "your hair looks better if it's been a little while since it's been washed" didn't realize that "a little while" meant ... a day. Maybe two, depending on personal biology and what you've been doing---- not two weeks!!! -------- But one you don't actively smell----

I tend to HATE people who judge you by the brand name of your clothing before your personality/intelligence, etc. So I don't wear brand name clothing, because then I'll know who to hate quickly and easily by the people who don't bother with me because of the lack of brand name clothing. The same goes for Makeup. It's all just a self-selecting policy that makes my life easier.




---- I was never, ever, in my life, Popular. My response my entire life has been to organize and lead groups of the formerly unpopular people.

In high school, I dated all (but one) of the decent guys in the computer club. (and dated one or two of the not really decent guys.................). I was usually involved in the theatre department. I was always in the top 10 in class rank (mostly due to the fact that until junior year, they didn't differentiate all that much, after freshman year, there were 7 people tied for first place...).

The cafeteria was set up into a "big caf" and the smaller connected room referred to as the "little caf"---- supposedly, the smart kids sat in the little caf, and the jocks and popular people in the big caf....... but this belief was only held by people in the big caf....................

[RITFencing]

Incidentally, for a great look at the whole "popularity in high school" and clique issue, I highly recommend the essay Why Nerds Are Unpopular by Paul Graham. (He's my favorite essay writer.)

Fascinating essay. I do disagree with one part of it, however; I don't think that nerds in school are really that much more mature... nerd groups are subject to the same petty bickering, politics and status grubbing as the cool kids. It continues into college, actually. Going to school at RIT has been very enlightening as a case study in nerd culture, and believe me when I say that while the details (what clothes to wear, what goals to achieve, what slang to use, etc) have changed, it is fundamentally the same.

I think that cool kids want to be cool, nerdy kids want to be nerdy. Sure, us nerds would love to have hot gf/bfs and friends all over campus. We'd love to not get picked on. But, especially at that young age, kids are still developing their identities, and often come to identify with a group. They grow up liking computers and thinking math is interesting, so they start hanging with the preestablished nerds, and from there stems their place in the social scheme of things. Trust me when I say that kids work just as hard to look and act like stereotypical nerds as others do to look like jocks, preps, goths, whatever.

I'm just glad I grew out of trying to identify with these various groups and began to focus more on the things that I enjoy, vs what my friends enjoy.

[EpeeConvert]

I put rocker because I genuinely dont remember a good deal of my senior year at school. Not cause i was a stoner but because I would just not go. The best concerts are on tuesday nights. College friends in boston made finding a floor to sleep on easy. And for the record I knew MP in highschool and i think deep down she wanted to be in the big caf

[Peach]

Artist (art major, theater geek) Preppy (Main Line prep school, uniform) Jock (hockey team, lacrosse team, basketball team, softball team) Loner (God, you're so weird, how do you do that?). Too genuinely peculiar to be a proper nerd. I'm much nerdier now.

Hey, it was a small academic girl's school. You had to fill several slots at once because there weren't enough people to go around.

[MyrddinsPrecint]

And for the record I knew MP in highschool and i think deep down she wanted to be in the big caf

Yeah, because I wanted Fencing to be a funded sport!

[Fencergrl]

Where's the other stoners?

There... so you don't feel lonely. I don't really know where I fit in those categories. My friends were definitely stoners... I remember one was trying to teach me how to roll a joint in the back row of law class.

I ran into this friend several years later. She was teaching native kids on the reserves. We both found this funny as she and I skipped a lot of classes together, yet for some reason she decided to go to University and get a degree, then take up a job in a school.

Then again… she found it equally amusing that I spent most of my adult life taking evening and weekend courses or going to college full time. I’ve got degrees /certificates in several fields, none that I currently work in, but I thoroughly enjoyed learning.

I didn’t cut as many classes in grades 11 & 12. Our Senior High school was more like University or College… but much cooler.

We had sofas around the room; you could sit/ lie in, instead of desks. We got rid of the pop vending machines and got one the dispensed fruit. No one smoked in the washrooms, the students sent the smokers off to the smoking area. The teachers were exceptional and allowed us to deviate from the curriculum if there was something of particular interest. Plus we had a kick-ass soccer team where quite a few players got picked up by the professional teams.

[D+F+P=Hadouken!]

I'm homeschooled, so I guess I don't really belong in this thread, but whatever.

As far as the people I hang out with, the majority of them are nerds or rockers. Me? I guess I'm a nerd.

[Fencergrl]

Okay... I'm seeing a pattern here.... all the nerds out of the pool! Shut off your computers and proceed immediately outside.... yes... that place that turns your pasty white skin and nice shade of brown.

Now that you're outside.... Wait a minute! I said shut off your computers.... do you ever listen??? No you cannot stay on f-net on your wireless laptop! That's not being outside (well properly).

Wait! Before you go, you have a mission buy yourself one or more of the following:
1) A joint to become a stoner.... we seem to lack those here (or some of you *cough cough Swordwench* are not being totally honest.

2) A cowboy hat... really they've been the latest rage while you've been glued to your keyboard.

3) A bible & leather sandals.... we seem to lack Jesus freaks here as well.

Now go! Shoooo! Feel free to mix and match.

[latenight]

Okay... I'm seeing a pattern here.... all the nerds out of the pool! Shut off your computers and proceed immediately outside.... yes... that place that turns your pasty white skin and nice shade of brown.

Now that you're outside.... Wait a minute! I said shut off your computers.... do you ever listen??? No you cannot stay on f-net on your wireless laptop! That's not being outside (well properly).

Wait! Before you go, you have a mission buy yourself one or more of the following:
1) A joint to become a stoner.
2) A cowboy hat... really they've been the latest rage while you've been glued to your keyboard
3) A bible & leather sandals.... we seem to lack Jesus freaks here as well.

Now go! Shoooo!

I volunteered for Jesus Freak.....Yup that's me

[Fencing Jesus]

I volunteered for Jesus Freak.....Yup that's me

Back of the line, Bud.

[Fencergrl]

I love how you appear when I call.

[latenight]

Back of the line, Bud.

Gladly....I'm all for public service but that was a stretch.

[Fencing Jesus]

I love how you appear when I call.

You might be surprised how often I'm lurking around when people are calling my name.

[Fencergrl]

Gladly....I'm all for public service but that was a stretch.

Well you are the reflecting God... we accept people of all denominations and faiths. And you have had more than one woman on her knees yelling "Oh God, Oh God"...

[seven6ty]

Yeah, god I fit a few of those. I'd probably mainly say skateboarder though, as those were most of the people I hung with in my off time and how I dressed and blah blah, but that's not on there, so I suppose I too shall put stoner by association.

But yeah, definently in the nerd/geek category, with lots of AP/HP classes and junk, as well as being one of those oddballs who actually enjoyed math and science. I guess most of the people in my classes were either preps or nerds. But yeah, I've always loved art and drawing, so that's always been there as well. Also spent a good deal of my time alone, so fit into the loner category as well. Ooo, and I went out to all kinds of punk rock shows in the area and was in a band or two and had a best friend who was my next door neighbor that is still in one today, Lorene Drive (the name of the street we grew up on), that is playing the Warped Tour right now.

Now that you're outside.... Wait a minute! I said shut off your computers....

Blasphemy! There's no reason to EVER turn off your computer! Unless if it's broken/requires a reboot.

[bigdawg2121]

Prep, nerd, artist, thespian, jock....started HS in an elite private school after completing grade 6 and forms I and II also at an elite prep school (q.e.d. I was a prep), definitely a huge nerd by pretty much any definition, football, wrestling, track, basketball (and fencing), choir, chamber singers, musical...