so you were a geek in high school ?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelo...hy-geeks-make-better-adults-than-the-in-crowd

so you were a geek/nerd in high school ?

how is it today ?

how is the adult world compare to high school ?

 

I was popular not the THEE most popular, but I was a popular dude. It was me and three other cats.

Stan
Otis
Chris

...we ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS, fought the football players. We were sort of like the "Lil guy protectors" and I did a lot in Highschool...for me higschool was SO MUCH FUN!

I was boxing
Cross Country
Track
I play the clarinet
Wrestling
...and YES...I was a cheerleader. Folk give me more shit when they find out about now than they did in highschool. I think because I was boxing. Who knows...by the time I graduated higshcool I had more booty than a normal person should have...

..then off to college (for a SHORT TIME) ha ha ha then the Marine Corps.

 

High school? Well, ummerruhhh I still am...I've always been the art geek. I just added some tech about 10 years ago though.

 

I was one of the floaters.. between the jocks, the populars and the geeks. That was never questioned by anybody ever. Thank god, cuz I would never have changed that.

 

Well, I had a hard time in school up until about my junior year. Elementary school, junior high - my parents moved us around so much (like 7 or 8 different schools),that I could never learn to fit in and got picked on a lot. I was beat up at least every other day in 8th grade in the locker room because I was new, a Christian (raised very strict), also made good grades, was a Canadian (different), AND was poor to boot.

In high school I went to a conservative Christian school and FINALLY got to stay somewhere more than a year or two. By the third year, I was a cheerleader, got to go to extra-curricular functions which helped my popularity, and was in choirs, etc. I was really artsy, but there wasn't a place for me to shine, otherwise I think the overall story would have been different.

In my senior year, I insisted on going back to public high school to face my bullies from 8th grade. I had outgrown any awkward stage, had learned to take whatever little bit of money I had and buy clothes I liked at consignment shops. The perm in my hair had finally grown out, so I had long natural curls. That year, I won a spot in the school calendar (Calendar Girl) being one of 13 to beat out over a 100 girls who competed. I was nominated to be on the homecoming court (completely to my surprise -I didn't even think anyone knew who I was). If I could have gone to that school longer, I would have gotten involved in stuff like the Yearbook and Lit Club, but overall it was a good year. All of my bullies left me alone (except out of jealousy - they thought I was a snob lol). I was basically still a loner except that I met my then husband to-be, who was a cool blond jock from California. We spent all of our time together, so basically, I spent too much time in a liplock with him to be a "nerd".

I always made excellent grades, mostly out of fear of my parents. It wasn't cool to be a nerd back then. If there had been art classes or an "artsy" group I'm sure I would have fit in a little bit better - I was always a bit of an outsider (probably due to the trauma of being ostracized as a kid, I just never learned to trust anyone, especially the other girls).

Now that I look at it though I've always been an outsider/overachiever - even in college at art school, I pretty much kept to myself, in part because I was too busy trying to be the best artist I could be than sitting around socializing or philosophizing about art with people (besides at that point, most of them were a lot younger than me)... Again, I think a lot of people stayed away from me because I was perhaps more talented than some of them and it was a very competitive environment. I also am very opinionated and prone to be emotional, so it takes a special person to be comfortable in my world, and vice versa. Nowadays, most of my friends are older artists 10 to 30 years my senior and I am still (you guessed it) a loner although it doesn't bother me as much as it used to.

 

booger!!!!

 

If you had looked up geek in the dictionary, you would have found my picture.
The signs were there almost from the day of my birth. My name was so unusual that it became a story in the local paper, "Baby Boy Born with the most Unusual Name". So, I guess I was destined from a young age to be a geek.

I grew up in an urban area as a pk, (all the Southerners and the brothers will understand that term, lol), but a good one. As a kid in elementary school, first and second grade, I literally wore short pants with elastic waistbands, a bow tie and I carried a book satchel. I even had a first name, and last name followed by "Jr.", that screamed geek because it was so unusual. I qualified for admission to MENSA in the third grade. The thing is that while most young kids might be bothered by being teases as different it never bothered me.

I had long graduated to long pants by the time I was High School, and I was carrying a brief case by this time. My high school was fairly large with my graduating class having more than 500 people. I probably didn't get a lot a flak because I always stayed to myself and I was the smartest kid in school. I always scored the highest on standardized achievement tests and I was a member of all of the geekiest organizations, President of Student Body, V.P. of the National Honor society, member of the F.T.A. (Future Teacher's of America), Typing Club, Year Book Staff.

I was voted Mr. Leadership, was a cadet major in the R.O.T.C. and received a city wide award from the Optimist Club as a "Good Citizen". The day of my swearing in as student council president became a local media event. I was sworn into office by the Chief of Police and they landed a helicopter on the school's baseball diamond. I remember them taking me for a helicopter ride that day. It was covered by the local media and became a news story in the paper. I remember helping older students with math and chemistry in high school.

Despite all that, I was pretty athletic and played sandlot softball and basketball. I could run the 100 yd dash in 9.8 secs. though I wasn't on the track team. I could throw a football 60 yds. in the air. I even "dated" the Jr. High Football Queen when I was in the tenth grade. So, I guess those things earned me a bit of "cred" as well.

Life as an adult is obviously quite different. I still speak more formally than most people. I have always had the reputation of being the intellectual or the smart guy in the office and even in executive circles. But, I'm definitely a more well-rounded guy, thank goodness.

 

I was considered a lame...very unpopular, considered ugly to majority of the ladies, and picked on alot. Had a few friends but carved my own path instead of following the herd. Dropped out and people wrote me off as a complete waste...

These days, when folks see me from highschool or childhood they be like rayer: exchanging numbers, wanting to hangout n shit. I just :smt042 on some fuck you shit even tho I shouldn't dwell on the past, I take great pleasure in seeing past comrades not fairing well in the game of life.

 

I wasn't popular but all the popular people knew me.

 

I was a lil loud mouthed cat who always surrounded himself with bigger boys in case i antagonized somebody bigger than me.

 

I excelled academically but generally did not enjoy high school. Did some track, but was into my own things like mountain biking, swimming, stuff like that. Hard to find kids in high school that loved the outdoors as much as I do.

 

I was a jock and a social, sports, popular and studious

 

im with ya athena, i was totally into the outdoors and did some with friends but did alot on my own. still am but find alot fewer people into the outdoors like Iam--skiing, boarding, surfing, mtn biking, backpacking, fly fishing, hunting, sea kayaking, eco trekking

 

So are you saying not much has changed? lol

 

what highschool did you go to?

 

I was a make believe gangsta.... had to be so that I didn't get my ass kicked on the daily.

 

It wasn't in the Ville, it was in BG. A small Christian school for 3 years, and then the public school for my senior year so I could kick all of my former bullies' asses haha (not really). How about you?

 

I'm a Graduate of Central Magnet

 

I've been pretty nerdy for a long time and I didn't quite fall into the geek category as much as the "weird" category. But, they all felt they were synonymous, so they looked at me as such because of my looks. I never quite left that label, but now I've embraced it, although my physical looks blossomed.

To be frank, I was one hell of an ugly dickling.

 

I knew it. Wait a second - how old are you? My dumbass ex-boyfriend graduated from there I guess in the early eighties (they were bussing white kids in to make it more integrated lol).

Mohammed Ali's alma mater, right? I was supposed to go student teach there but I guess they thought I was a whitey and didn't want me assisting in art class - who knows. I was disappointed - it would have earned me some serious street cred haha.