How popular are/were you in school?

[Skarvey]

You know what I'm going to miss most about high school? Team breakfasts. I go to a branch campus of my state university so needless to say there's no form of athletics aside from the 500 meter dash to the parking lot in a thunderstorm. Aside from that I've yet to find the time to actually talk to people and become friends with them on my campus so Ms. Mariena, consider yourself very lucky to have those friends, because whenever someone tries to engage me in conversation at school (and its a rare occurance) I end up having to stick a post-it to their forehead with my contact information and a list of times I might be reachable...or conscious.

Thats why I miss team breakfasts. Getting out of swim team practice on a saturday morning and having to go outside and feel my hair freeze wouldn't have been bareable had I not been able to know that I was going to go to one of my friends houses, eat all their food and watch movies until early afternoon. Thats what I miss. I wish I were still cool :[

 

[Jamanticus]

I was the most popular kid in high school..................


I was homeschooled.

Nice.

I was relatively popular in high school... I had a lot of distinguishing features, I suppose...My handwriting, my height (6 feet, 4 inches), my celloing...

I didn't really have very many friends, though (which is usually true for the popular people in a school, even though I wasn't famous around the school or anything....Or was I?)- most of my friends were also musicians, so we never really got together unless music was involved.

To tell the truth, I was quite lonely in high school...Rather a superficial place....University is much better.

 

[PersianLlama]

I'm hated by about half my school because:
1) I'm atheist
2) I support gay marriage

I have a close group of friends though, so I don't really care.

I can never understand why people would be like that to you. Mind you I'm Scottish and most of us are atheist anyway.

People here are pretty ignorant, with quite a few over-zealous religious types.

Edit: Most people here are some sort of Christian, followed by Muslims and Jews. With Hindu's and other religions here and there.

Generally I only get hate from Christians and Muslims, but they're the majority.

 

[orifice]

I was not popular, I was to wierd,poor, and intelligent for them!

 

[Serious_Stalin]

Primary school, me and my friends were the dons man.. Then high school happened and it turned out we were too smart and played to many video games and didn't like pop music.
Fortunately there were quite a lot of people in that situation so we didn't give a rats arse what the majority though.

 

[dijital101]

The best way to describe myself in grade school would be Mikey from the Recess cartoon. For those of you who have never seen it I was tall, overweight, highly literate and fairly passive. This along with advanced learning program I was placed in didn't help my popularity. I had a few friends and I mean few.
Then in junior high I discovered the wonders of mind altering chemicals and just didn't care any more. I hung out with the stoner crowd for a couple of years .
I gave up the drugs and started hanging out with, for the most part, metal-heads. They ended up introducing me to this kid whose parents were foracking rich but he was sort of an outcast/loner. We hit it off pretty well and I started hanging out at his house where I met his sister who just happened to be a cheerleader and by some twist of fate we clicked immediately. Soon I was hanging out with her and her friends (cheerleaders, athletes, student leaders and the general upper-crust of the school).
My popularity skyrocketed. We weren't a couple but a lot of people thought we were which really worked out to my advantage. The girls thought I must have had a lot to offer if she wanted to be with me and the guys hung around me because I have an uncanny knack for getting guys "hooked up" (I'm an amazing wing-man).
It was like the movie "Can't buy me love" without the dirty-dealing and underhandedness.

 

[Xelt]

We have a group of something like..10 of us, i only like 3 of them though, but yeah, overall, i'm unpopular. People refuse to even sit near me, or stand near, apart for these few people i consider firneds, and some of my friends friends who stay wherew we do.

 

[Shizzler]

Im not "hated" but im not so popular, but i dont care im good with what i have

 

[Ago Iterum]

I wasn't popular like, hanging around with the popular kids (The chavs, god I hate them) But I was always involved in the school activities and stuff, which really does make a difference, rather than hiding away and just tolerating your 5 years of secondary education.

Being in the football team, and class president and stuff helps.

So I never really had any problems with anyone, not even those god awful chavs. So I had a pretty good school life. I miss it a lot.

 

[tooktook]

Unpopular untill 3 years ago, two years of the middle of the scale, became quite popular this year however at the same time i dont feel truely close to anyone, its a horrible feeling...

I know how you feel man. I cannot think of a single person in the grade who doesn't like me. Most of them say I'm witty, charming (in an asshole kind of way) and admirable. But I don't really like most of them.

 

[Conqueror Kenny]

Most people know me in some way. There are very few people that don't like me as I am generally quite easy going and unlike a lot of people in my school, can take a joke and not just want a fight at any opportunity.

 

[TheBluesader]

Everyone knew who I was in school and no one hated me, but I had very few friends and couldn't find a date to save my life. Pretty much the exact same thing happened in college.

I keep hoping people will be different now that I'm out of school, but it's been 5 years and I spent the last week sleeping during the day, with my phone off, and no one's noticed.

I'm beginning to think it may be me...

 

[Hippobatman]

My first seven years of school were quite strange as everyone in my class picked on eachother. We had scheduled meetings with the principal each monday to report our behaviour the previous week.

The next three years were ok, I made friends with all of my classmates and almost everyone at school knew who I was.

I'm currently in my second year at upper secondary, and I have two friends who are really close and a group of girls who I occasionally hang out with on the weekends.

Not everyone know me 'cause there's some 6-700 students at my school. I'm on the middle ground I guess, I speak my mind without the backstabbing bullshit which the "popular" female squadron do. And because of that, I don't think they care much for me, they talk to me sometimes, but I think it's just to act like there's nothing between us.

 

[Fraught]

I'm not the most popular, but I'm pretty sure I'm not hated by anyone, and I am friends with everyone, with someone less, someone more, but enemies? No one has the privilige of that. And yeah, while I do play games quite a bit, I'm still considered cool.

 

[Earthbound]

You know what's very VERY satisfying to know...

I live in a totally different city (and province) from the one I went to school in, and I go back to the island on holidays or the odd vacation. I ran into one of the "cool/popular" guys who used to pick on me in Grade 10, he was working at the A&W, cleaning the tables and taking out the garbage when I ran into him. Now this was at thanksgiving 2007, so we'd both been graduated for 8 years. In that time, I've worked multiple jobs, gone to college, and worked my way into a fairly decent career where I now manage a lumber remanufacturing plant. And him, he's just a McJob worker with no post-sec education stuck on an island with very few decent jobs available, none of them open to the uneducated. So yeah, he was Mr. Bigshot in highschool, now he's Lord TeenBurger, master of the grill and servant to those he bullied.

To put it simply, I WIN!

That is possibly one of the biggest twists of irony I've heard in a long time. Heh, as sadistic as it may seem to sound, I hope to be in that same situation one day (in your place, not McBurger's).

 

[PAGEToap44]

I'm cool with everyone in my school, I don't think I know anyone who actually hates me, but I'm always ignored by everyone and I want to be more noticeable to people.

So what about you? How popular are or were you in school? (I used the search button but nothing came up, so please tell me if this has been done before.)

Exactly the same. I'm not much to look at first glance, always in the background so to speak.

 

[D_987]

I was that guy that could hang out just about anywhere without objection, I went to a small school and was well acquainted with just about everyone in my class. Not to say that I was always at parties and shit but, I could basically kick back with anyone. except the wierd emo/goth kids, and the religious nutters.

Pretty much this..^

 

[D_987]

You know that really awesome guy that everyone liked in school? You know popular, good looking, girls wanted him guys wanted to be him, had a nice car, didn't have to work out much to keep in good shape, was never made fun of, had sex with the hot teacher, was a real trend setter. You know that guy right? I was the goofy fat kid next to him =P.

I LOL'ed.