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preppy
|     | 13 | 15.29% | |
nerd
|    | 46 | 54.12% | |
stoner
|    | 6 | 7.06% | |
loner
|    | 34 | 40.00% | |
jock
|    | 20 | 23.53% | |
god squad/jesus freak
|    | 3 | 3.53% | |
rocker
| | 19 | 22.35% | |
cowboy/girl
| | 3 | 3.53% | |
artist/thespian
| | 20 | 23.53% | |
band geek
| | 10 | 11.76% | 
08-01-2006, 11:51 PM
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#1 | | Senior Member
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| F.Net High School
I was thinking about high school, and I became curious about f.netters' high school crowd. Even if your high school wasn't as cliquish as mine, I imagine most people found themselves fitting into a few groups. So what were yours? I predict alot of nerds.
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08-02-2006, 12:00 AM
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| I was the AV geek. Teachers knew who to come to for technology problems! Needless to say I ran with the geek crowd. 
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08-02-2006, 12:06 AM
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Originally Posted by restlesscheese I was the AV geek. Teachers knew who to come to for technology problems! Needless to say I ran with the geek crowd. | I think that would put you in "nerd." Show some pride, man!
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08-02-2006, 12:14 AM
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| ....I don't know how to say this...
I was home-schooled...
therefore... this Foll is Plawed! | |
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08-02-2006, 12:53 AM
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| lol.. hmm... i was captain of the fencing team for likw 2 years.. does that make me a jock.. i was in teh band for 3 years (marchign band) so thats band geek, i was president of the latin club for 2 years, member of swing dance club and swing performance team so thats.. idk) lol.. i think i go under "other" lol.. or like.. random... or somthign.. idk.. | |
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08-02-2006, 01:02 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mountain Home, Idaho
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| We perfer to call ourselves "The Cool Losers"
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08-02-2006, 01:06 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Carlsbad, CA
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| Nerd, definitely nerd. Though I also checked "artist/thespian" because I was in the Drama Club, which let me meet other weirdos and outcasts and, thus, manage to make it through high school without completely losing my mind.
The good thing about being in my 30s, now, is that I can be a geek and proud of it. I embrace geekhood, and delight in astounding my friends with literary or Star Trek references or discourses on obscure topics of grammar. But then, in the Real World Outside of High School (a world I never dreamed of, back in the day), there are plenty of people who (gasp) actually LIKE to learn stuff and talk about interesting things. Heck, I'm reading The Brothers Karamazov now because some of my clubmates were talking about how good it is... and they, too, read it for pleasure, not because someone forced them to for a grade.
Geekhood is good. Having grown-up geek friends (even ones who are honorary geeks because they don't quite admit it) is even better.
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.) | |
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08-02-2006, 01:53 AM
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| I guess nerd. My friends and I weren't actually part of the nerds, but we didn't really fit any other category either, and we're all sort of into computers. | |
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08-02-2006, 02:07 AM
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| Where's the other stoners?
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08-02-2006, 02:27 AM
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| Band geek.....all 4 years! | |
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08-02-2006, 02:48 AM
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| Fatfencer was a rocker!!!
and proud of it!!!! | |
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08-02-2006, 03:06 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Columbus, OH
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| These people that were jocks AND nerds are kind of weirding me out...
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08-02-2006, 05:14 AM
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Originally Posted by TrainingDummy These people that were jocks AND nerds are kind of weirding me out... | Agreed (althoug I'm about to enter similar categories). I think for clarity that we should establish that captain of the fencing team probably DOES NOT count as jock. If you weren't a baseball, basketball, football, lax, soccer(maybe), softball, or fieldhockey player north of the Mason-Dixon or a STUD/ETTE in another sport (read: at least made states and were recognized by at least 45% of the student body for playing said sport) you probably weren't a jock. I know there are people that fit into alot of different categories but really people?
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08-02-2006, 05:22 AM
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| I've just always seen the two terms as being very close to mutually exclusive as far as American high schools are concerned.
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08-02-2006, 05:26 AM
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| Edit: Unrealistic self- labeling isn't really a problem yet. Consider my rant provisionally cautionary until an appropriate number of violators pop up. 
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08-02-2006, 05:47 AM
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| Well, the agora was BELOW the Acropolis, so it wasn't really a "high" school. Hence I am not quite sure how to answer.
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08-02-2006, 05:56 AM
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| I thought, to get to the Agora, that you went left at the Acropolis (down Olive Street) and right past the goatherds. Not so much as below as more to the left.
According to the fnet females you only ever went to the Platonic school.  | |
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08-02-2006, 06:09 AM
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| Actually I was taught by Chiron. Before the unfortunate arrow incident. His school was the centaur of the academic universe at the time. 
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08-02-2006, 08:40 AM
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| I was a preppy-nerd-loner-rocker. Most of my friends were stoners. (I went to a prep school... so the preppy part was kinda required. Anti-yay for uniforms.)
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08-02-2006, 09:36 AM
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| I'm the UBER anti-social. I belong to the group that thinks that the world is out to get us so it's only fair that we go out of the way to get the world.
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