what were you guys like in high school?

I was the kid in the library at lunch.

Was a mix between athlete, musician, academic, socialite, leader, trouble maker and nerd.

Urkle but chunky, white, and with 20/20 vision

I was a strange mix of an unpopular misfit loser nerd who also happened to be pretty damn good at two sports. I'm sure it made my parents extremely confused.

As a student? A- student and all the way through college. Never spent too much time studying because I thought it was a waste of time. Still did well enough because I did my homework and did well on tests.

As a person, I was in this weird grey area. First of all, I was a quiet kid who no one except my dorm mates knew well. That's saying a lot in a boarding school with 400 students. Even nowadays, I write more than I speak. I focused a lot on rowing, fitness, and music. Funny thing is that I was the school DJ so people knew who I was, but absolutely no idea about what kind of person I was.

I was a pretty insecure kid who wanted terribly to fit in somewhere, and in those efforts managed to not really fit in anywhere.

I grew up in vanilla middle-class suburbs, and my high school was very average. I was a good student - I ended up as valedictorian of my graduating class, although I'm afraid that says more about my classmates than it does about me (especially since I got demolished by my freshman year engineering courses that fall).

I was a decent athlete, good enough to play in college, but certainly not a star. I wasn't really "one of the guys" on my team because I was on a different path academically than they were and that was alienating.

I made a lot of choices that were driven explicitly by how I thought others would perceive them, which is too bad. I'm not saying anyone looks great with frosted tips, but I definitely did not.

Who fucking cares. Why are you living in the past?

"Oh I was this sick quarterback jock, who was in the musicals, and a secret nerd who tried to win over the band geek" like gtfoh this isn't a late 90's romcom

Do you really want to know what high school was like in the late 90s?

I went to an all-guys' school in HS and played 2 sports. I surprisingly liked it better than my earlier co-ed school. I was also suuuuuuper "intellectual," reading philosophical texts for fun and studying psychology and foreign languages. I was also a history and geography geek. Didn't care much for school, but did well enough to rake up some academic honors, and went to a university where I thought I could fit in, have fun, and make a lot of new friends. I was well-known and had a lot of friends in HS, but never had a group of guys that I'd call my bros for life. I had a very set plan for what I wanted after graduation and think I had a stronger sense of self back then.

In college, I started losing that sense of self and chasing "preftige," which was a shitshow. I was always competitive, but this took it to the next level. I think not having sports around for an outlet really made me put that competitive energy into shit that didn't matter. Now, I'm working on being more chill, getting back into sports and fitness, listening to EDM and rap, and being scared of books over 100 pages (actively trying to reverse that, though).

got banned from rugby training cuz i didn't do my homework

No need for some drawn out response like some of these dudes.

Athletic, academically unmotivated, started drinking/smoking pot by 16, only cared for the bros and chasing girls. My life has changed since then but I loved my HS experience and would do it all the same again.

Angry kid, overly competitive about grades, bored to death by everyone and everything. Honestly would have benefited from better role models but I guess things turned out to be okay.

Rather interesting. I didn't play any sports for whatever reason, I just never signed up. Kind of wish I played football, but I'm also 5'7 and kind scrawny. I was more into BMX and snowboarding, but still had a really active social life with everyone. Really tight with all the traditional sport kids because we had classes together and would hang out on the weekends. Definelty a cliquy suburban upper class vibe, but for the most part everyone was super chill. As long as you were funny and a had a decent personally you most likely had friends and were well liked, I also graduated with a 2.3 gpa (lol) but got my life around through CC and my state school.

I graduated about 10 years ago and I'd say I regularly hang out with and talk to about 20 people from my highschool, ranging from stoner kids that were a couple years younger than me to sport kids that are a couple years older. I'm going camping this weekend with 6 other friends from HS, and I just realized none of them were in my graduating class. For example one of the kids is kind of a hipster and into drugs, and another was pretty into greek life at a private LAC, but we all just happen to get along really well. It's really strange and I think about it pretty often.

a stoner

I went to a school that can make an argument for being the best HS in the US, and graduated dead last in my class.

I was smart in my suburban religious grammar/middle school, but generally unliked. I was diagnosed as ADD/OCD at 6 and put on ritalin. It let me concentrate and get good grades, but completely fucked up my social skills. I was frequently picked on, and even though I loved baseball, I was so unathletic that my position on the team was "Left Bench."

I remember being in a two hour detention in the principal's office when my parents got the acceptance letter in the mail. I was picked up, and when the nuns that were principal and vice principal heard the news, they hugged and congratulated me, being only the second student from my school ever accepted to that HS. (Accepted students attended ~99% of the time)

I got to begin to commute from my boring suburban town into the big city every day, which is a big deal for a 14 year old w/o a car. I kicked the ritalin habit that my parents and shrink had forced on me at 6, and began to have an amazing time. Puberty also hit me hard in a good way. I was in constant academic trouble for not doing homework or doing enough studying for tests in subjects I hated, but I blossomed due to not being driven insane by the mouth-breathers, or finding every class painfully slow-paced. I met a half dozen great friends that I still keep in touch with to this day, and was friendly with almost everyone, despite my only consistent extracurricular being chess club. We also have happy hours in Midtown twice a year, that are normally attended by almost a quarter of the class, despite having dispersed across the country, and to two other continents.

We didn't rank, but did an informal estimate, and figured out I was dead last in class in GPA, despite being a decent chunk above my school's 1400 average SAT score. I went to a good liberal arts college and got a partial ride there to study Econ, and had a good time as well.

A huge shithead. But tested well and usually could charm my way out of trouble. College was same story, but “into a a job” replaced “out of trouble.”

I was a lot like Drilla.

Was very STEM and poor at communicating

I was pretty quiet in high school

I was completely unmotivated at school - just drifted along and no one ever expected more than average performance from me . Everything clicked when I watched a random matinee movie on the beginning of Muhammad Ali, the lead up to Liston fight. I had never seen anything or anyone like him ever before. I did not even understand what ambition, discipline and tenacity were till I had watched that movie. Literally at that moment I decided I too could be ambitious and I worked my ass off for my exams, waking up at 3 am to study on the kitchen table & got AAB in my A levels. The joke was that I exceeded my predicted grades (C C D) as well as the stupid references my college had written so I made a new application to LSE that was accepted for the next academic year and spent the year off in NYC to study dance formally at Broadway Dance Centre ( amazing classes). My parents were literally so dizzy that summer at the turn of events of my life!

The moral of my rambling is - don’t believe the BS story ppl tell you about you at school. Ever. The same tutors that called me a vacuous bimbo all of a sudden wanted me as student of the year on their website.

NB. If anyone has an online version of the movie I mention please message me will pay for it. I have been trying to find it for ages to rewatch. thanks https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0219857/

I was kind of nerdy. I went to a pressure cooker high school where the lunchroom conversation was often about who got into which college, or what someone got on their SATs. I did all of the overachiever things, went to nationals for debate, things like that. I was really competitive with everyone, but I think it was just the environment that made me like that.

Finally, my senior year I made it onto the soccer team, and met a lot of chill kids that I hung out with and then I finally got a lot more social and started drinking. I got into a HYP in December, and so I spent the rest of the year just trying to have fun for a change.

Got good grades and played a varsity sport, but didn't really vibe with people outside of a small friend group. Didn't drink or do drugs and mostly avoided trouble.

i was not a leader in high school. i played lots of sports, but was below average pretty much all around (still had a blast participating tho). Had a B+ average in grades...struggled with the attention to do homework or study. My parents didn't let me take the ADHD drugs, even tho i was diagnosed at an early age, and again in my early teen years, and again in college....so that was a real struggle. ADHD makes it hard for me to concentrate on any activity for any significant amount of time. I had a few close friends...everybody in the school knew who i was from various classes and activities...but i only had a small number of close relationships. I thought of myself as "average" all around. I wished i was stronger, faster, smarter...i had an active imagination my whole life and delusions of grandeur (still do). I had lots of interests (typical of ADHD) but didn't go very deep into any one thing except for karate.

I joined an old school karate dojo when i was 15 (i was lucky...my sensei was a legit grand master that just happened to live nearby...he still holds the world record for breaking a stack of 18 bricks with no spacers, flat on the ground with a single hand slap, even tho he died a number of years ago...he could also slap a stack of bricks, and only break the middle one, and could stab his fingers thru a brick wall...just amazing to have been able to been his student...i think of him often...he was a marine in the 1960's and also taught hand to hand combat in the marine corps for a number of years)

College (state university) was similar to high school....but i had a blast and would love to do it all over gaain.

knew the freaks, knew the geeks. somewhat popular.

smoked & sold weed with my friends and sometimes got into fights. Maintained ok grades and I found common topics with everyone. played lots of video games, thought about starting businesses to help my family with money, never knew that White Collar world outside of my Eastern European country offered lots of interesting jobs.

was a decent runner too.

now im about to graduate from a non target with a 4.0, CFA Level I, and decent work experience. hoping to get into a target uni for Masters.

Mostly an outsider. I was part of the varsity football team and had the cheerleader gf for all 4 years of HS. But I never fit in, never attended a single party, and resented my relationship. I also studied AP Calc and AP Physics and enjoyed my time hanging out with those people. I didn't exactly fit in with them, really didn't fit in with the football guys, and kinda found life pointless at the time. Senior year we broke it off, I injured my back from football (spent 8 months in physical therapy because I couldn't even touch my knees), got rejected from MIT because they didn't see past my subpar grades despite my high SAT (3.7 GPA weighted, just found my old transcripts yesterday), and decided I would join the Marine Corps. HS was the most miserable 4 years of my life (yeah, I've had harder moments but not for that consistent agony).

I didn't join the military, for no real reason other than I just didn't go through with it. I went to a non target school in Southern California and started to take college seriously. I changed from Pre-Med Chemistry to Business with hopes to get into IB. Then realized I didn't want to do that, had no idea what I wanted to do, and starting selling homes in Orange County. Got a job as a Project Engineer after college, hated it, changing careers to tech focusing on distributed systems and AWS infrastructure. And I got married after college too, so life is pretty good.

Now vs high school is night and day.