If you could go back to High School? [Archive]

tapestrybabe

08-09-2002, 08:34 PM

OMG, high school, my teenage years... was one of my worst, tormenting, times for me... I was so unpopular and such a reject... you know, not feeling so attractive, not wearing the right clothes cuz i was kinda poor to afford what everyone else was wearing... and not fitting in with the cliques and all.... I'd rather not relive those times...

So like, if anything.. i would change how the boys treated me... god, they were so damn cruel... Or i would change myself... in terms of wanting more self confidence, self esteem, and courage...

wylin

08-09-2002, 10:07 PM

i'd start a pyramid scam like 2by2 or NTC and be a millionare now! dammit shoulda started one, bak in HS we even thought of one.

that or pursue this one girl i always liked named debbie lee, she was a hottie and korean tho.

SunWuKong

08-09-2002, 10:54 PM

hmmm... i was pretty happy during my high school years. not sure what i'd change. maybe be less of a dork. but even that i grew out of by my junior and senior year.

Arex

08-10-2002, 05:17 AM

When I was in high school, I kicked it with the group of people that would've been considered the trench coat mafia at our school. While entertaining, I think I'd probably have had more fun (not to mention success with the ladies) if I was more mainstream.

Also, I would've kissed this one girl when I had a chance. We "went out" for maybe a month in the 10th grade but I never mustered up the courage to kiss her. I was so fucking shy/stupid then.

Dumbass Alex

deez nuts

08-10-2002, 06:50 AM

I would definitely try and mack it more with the white chicks! :D

Saiko

08-10-2002, 09:29 AM

I like the trenchcoat mafia. The ones at my high school are pretty nice too, once you get to know them.

Ayers

08-10-2002, 10:39 AM

Hmm, it's funny seeing how some people change. A friend of mine in HS was kinda into the 'trenchcoat mafia' thing. He's now doing the consulting-thing and really changed outwardly. Haven't been in touch with him to know how much he has really changed.

I'd have probably tried to travel more.. Asia, Europe, South America, etc. -- seen the world while i had a chance

princess

08-11-2002, 03:11 PM

i HATE high school....i just want to get OUT...who cares about looking back?

Saiko

08-11-2002, 07:39 PM

What's so bad about high school for you? I'm curious.

karizma

08-11-2002, 09:19 PM

>> high school had its perks? but im near dropping out so ummm...

>> if i could start high school over and change things around id goto class more. socially i was the girl youd see with the in-crowd and making fun of everyone...alright so i was the cruel heartless bitch you always see getting screwed in teen movies...my bad. but i switched schools and suddenly everything was different because i was the "new girl" who supposedly stole boyfriends and slept around. kids can be so cruel. i had friends mostly guys since just about every girl hated me for one reason or another and its pretty much how it still is. its karma i swear. ive learned the error in my ways and yknow...i look at life a little differently...

>> high school is a like world within a world but a lotta its inhabitants only recognize one and its not the real one.

deez nuts

08-12-2002, 04:52 AM

Originally posted by karizma@Aug 12 2002, 04:19 AM
>> high school had its perks? but im near dropping out so ummm...

>> if i could start high school over and change things around id goto class more. socially i was the girl youd see with the in-crowd and making fun of everyone...alright so i was the cruel heartless bitch you always see getting screwed in teen movies...my bad. but i switched schools and suddenly everything was different because i was the "new girl" who supposedly stole boyfriends and slept around. kids can be so cruel. i had friends mostly guys since just about every girl hated me for one reason or another and its pretty much how it still is. its karma i swear. ive learned the error in my ways and yknow...i look at life a little differently...

>> high school is a like world within a world but a lotta its inhabitants only recognize one and its not the real one.
Yeah, I think high school was definitely harder for the ladies than the guys.

princess

08-12-2002, 06:59 AM

Originally posted by Chasiubao_Boy@Aug 12 2002, 11:52 AM
Originally posted by karizma@Aug 12 2002, 04:19 AM
>> high school had its perks? but im near dropping out so ummm...

>> if i could start high school over and change things around id goto class more. socially i was the girl youd see with the in-crowd and making fun of everyone...alright so i was the cruel heartless bitch you always see getting screwed in teen movies...my bad. but i switched schools and suddenly everything was different because i was the "new girl" who supposedly stole boyfriends and slept around. kids can be so cruel. i had friends mostly guys since just about every girl hated me for one reason or another and its pretty much how it still is. its karma i swear. ive learned the error in my ways and yknow...i look at life a little differently...

>> high school is a like world within a world but a lotta its inhabitants only recognize one and its not the real one.
Yeah, I think high school was definitely harder for the ladies than the guys.
well even when kids are younger it seems easier for the boys to get along. u can give them a ball and watch them run off to play together, but girls were harder to get to play nicely together. or at least thats how it was at my school.

SunWuKong

08-12-2002, 07:30 AM

Originally posted by karizma@Aug 11 2002, 11:19 PM
>> if i could start high school over and change things around id goto class more. socially i was the girl youd see with the in-crowd and making fun of everyone...alright so i was the cruel heartless bitch you always see getting screwed in teen movies...my bad. but i switched schools and suddenly everything was different because i was the "new girl" who supposedly stole boyfriends and slept around. kids can be so cruel. i had friends mostly guys since just about every girl hated me for one reason or another and its pretty much how it still is. its karma i swear. ive learned the error in my ways and yknow...i look at life a little differently...
so you're the girl that all the boys love...

i remember while i was in college and i was looking back in high school. i was pretty happy in high school, but i still couldn't understand how i could stand being herded around like cows day in and day out.

Saiko

08-12-2002, 08:46 AM

Originally posted by princess@Aug 12 2002, 08:59 AM
well even when kids are younger it seems easier for the boys to get along. u can give them a ball and watch them run off to play together, but girls were harder to get to play nicely together. or at least thats how it was at my school.
Yeah. You'd see the girls all splitting up into groups, and even in those groups they hate on each other. If you want to hang out with one and they don't think you're worthy enough, they brush you off. Hooboy. I feel guilty now. :( With the guys, it's almost as if they're all friends. I mean, they kick each other's ass to the moon and then they start playing basketball together. You wanna hang out with them? Whatever, knock yourself out. But they might leave you out to watch. Better than being told to get out of their sight.

deez nuts

08-12-2002, 02:48 PM

Yeah looking back now High School was kinda traumatic. The delicate balance of wanting to be cool, trying to be bad ass and trying to impress the ladies vs trying to do well in school and not be labeled as a nerd. Oh man, I'm glad high school is a thing of the past for me.

amietron

08-12-2002, 11:24 PM

WHY can't being a nerd be cool, dammit?

CrX3183

08-13-2002, 02:08 AM

It's very cool because i was a jock and a nerd... :lol:

AliBabaIncorporated

08-13-2002, 02:55 AM

high school was the time of being a wannabe. I was a wannabe jock even though the only sport I was any good at was volleyball, a wannabe nerd even though I couldn't sit still in the library for more than half an hour before wandering off to talk to some girl or have a smoke on the roof, and a wannabe FOB even though I'd been in the US for 7 years.

but i wouldn't trade it for anything else. college requires too much effort to make it as fun as high school. only thing i could think of changing would have been building up the courage to ask this senior girl to the prom during my sophomore year (hey ... i had a thing for older girls ...).

bigwong235

08-13-2002, 03:58 AM

Originally posted by Chasiubao_Boy@Aug 12 2002, 09:48 PM
Yeah looking back now High School was kinda traumatic. The delicate balance of wanting to be cool, trying to be bad ass and trying to impress the ladies vs trying to do well in school and not be labeled as a nerd. Oh man, I'm glad high school is a thing of the past for me.
haha that was me too! well, without the ladies part cause i went to all boys catholic school, and the trying to be bad ass part cause well, i'm just not bad ass, and i think that it'd look really awkward if i tried it. if i could go back, i'd say screw caring about image and find some real friends, like i only figured out to do my senior year.

strawberry05

08-13-2002, 11:16 AM

I guess I was really lucky because my high school was really diverse and pretty much everyone mixed well together. Of course there were cliques and whatnot but people could go from one clique to another. Some people were annoying and fake or whatever, but on the most part everyone respected everyone else for doing their own thang! Very rarely was anyone pigeonholed into one particular category except for some asian kids (the wannabe gangsters). btw i'm from boston
:)

krissy

08-13-2002, 11:46 AM

I was pretty happy in high school, but if I could go back, I would probably pay more attention to boys (not that I was paying attention to girls). I was very shy & probably came off as stuck up. I wasn't extremely nerdy (was cheerleader, ASB historian - ok so those are nerdy, but elected) but I'd say moderately so (school plays, FBLA, honors crap - more nerdy). I wish that I had had a lot more confidence then.

During college, I actually got a couple of emails from guys I didn't even know (who found me on those classmates/high school alumni pages) telling me that they had the "biggest crush[es]" on me in high school. While in high school, girlfriends would tell me that "people notice [me]" and that so-and-so "thinks [I'm] pretty," but I was completely oblivious. Not to toot my own horn, but I just really had no clue. So I think that's what I would do differently, as it affected my boy behavior once I got to college. I was happy enough in high school, but the experience would have been good for me in retrospect.

JadeMirage

08-13-2002, 07:26 PM

I only left high school a few months ago....and I want to go back already!

Maybe it's nostalgia or the realization that some of the best people I know are going away from here. I'm the hometown girl. They're leaving for basically every other UC besides the one here....

Anyhow, I was rather emo[quote]tional in high school. Most of the drama is hazy, but I'll never forget the random moment of laughter. Those are what I want to go back to.

I think the only thing I would change is....my attitude towards the guys, especially for dances. I'm not sure what it is about high school guys as dance dates, but they weren't my cup of tea. Once a guy hinted at the upcoming "dance," I would revert to ice queen status and become standoffish in their attempts. It was terrible. I always thought I had to keep the image of "independence" by showing up alone (since not too many people choose to go to dances by themselves at my school). Earlier, I had alway asked the guy - and inevitablly, some mishap would happen - and I would go alone anyhow. I just made it a habit. Thus, I missed out on potentially embarrassing/memorable evenings that would forever brand my social memory

Oh well....^_^

artsfartsyjanet

08-14-2002, 11:36 AM

As much as I didn't want to go to an all female Catholic high school, I enjoyed much of my time there. i hated the fact that i was one of two "pure breed" Asians in my class, but in a way, I made that distinctness my strength. I was one of those ambitious people in high school running for class exec office positions. A lot of people respected me.... So, I wouldn't change anything.

Saiko

08-14-2002, 12:09 PM

For one year, I tried hard to fit in and make friends. It was horrible. I dreaded every day of school then. I guess trying to fit in unsuccessfully is one of the worst. Now I don't care. I'm spread among "groups". I'm friends with people from the in crowd, but I wouldn't consider myself in that crowd nor would I want to be. I have my own crowd that I stick to the most. I'm pretty much friends with everybody except for the odd few that I just cannot stand. Still, it's not like I like everybody. I'd more of say that I'm acquaintances with everybody. I couldn't give more of a shit of what they thought of me. I don't like any of them because the girls are sickening (99% are either teenyboppers or addicted to the crappy kind of rap like Nelly and Ludacris; no offense to the ones that are fans) and the guys are downright stupid (95% were wannabe gangsters or wannabe players). There are a few exceptions though. Very few. Call me spiteful or picky, but wait until you see all the people from my school that I know. Yuck. I also feel sorry for the ones that crave to fit in and be like everybody else. I want not to be like everybody else. My God, anything but be like them. I like being unique and crazy even if they think I'm dumb and insane. Screw them. :rolleyes:

lethal

06-25-2003, 07:07 AM

If I could go back, I'd be more outgoing and confident. If I could go back 10 years as who I am now and knowing all that I know now...HS would've been a lot better.

Otherwise, I was the kid who isolated himself socially and never seemed to have any fun.

artsfartsyjanet

06-25-2003, 07:31 AM

As far as friendship is concerned, I only made school friends. None of them were close to me outside of that environment. There's this one girl Maureen I know who I've always had classes with, and we would be partners the entire time. She was going through some tension with another person, and some how I was the only person who knew about it and supported her. I called her one day for help on homework, and her mom picks up the phone. When she knew it was me, she goes, "Janet, even though you're Asian/Oriental, Maureen thinks you're the sweetest person in the world." I didn't think much of it at the time, but now I find offense to that. If I were to change anything during high school, I would've changed my response. Instead of thank you, I'd say, "I know you didn't mean any harm, but what did you mean "even though I'm Oriental/Asian?" But, I guess I was just being polite at the time. <_< Oh well, I can only learn from it. I think the only clique I belonged in is what I dub the "universal hopper." I had friends in different cliques, and they either sat with the thesbians, the athletes, the bookworms, the socialites, the environmentalists, and the outcasts. I didn't really belong in any group. I almost wanted to belong in a particular group, but I had the benefit of learning from every group.

sOKaLiBoY

06-25-2003, 07:50 AM

as long as i can go back with what i know now. that way i'll have a lot more game then when i was in hs :lol:

ChinaLama

06-25-2003, 07:50 AM

Most of my current friends are ppl I met in or while I was in high school, so if anyone's "stuck in hs," that's me. :P

etcj

06-25-2003, 10:04 AM

Probably nothing, since I loved high school as compared to college. However, I guess I would have preferred to be less mean to some people.

Emperor_Mike

06-25-2003, 10:43 AM

I wouldn't change anything either. High school was very good to me and I did a lot, met many interesting people, etc, etc. Socially, I took the middle road (that is, not everyone knew who I was, but the "people that mattered" did. :lol: ) and was involved in many clubs and two teams. Nothing traumatic or remote disturbing, but I chalk that up to my painfully boring existence.

moschikat

06-25-2003, 12:17 PM

"I'm pretty/ I'm cute / I'm popular to boot! / I'm cool / I'm hot / I'm everything you're not!"
- Kristen Dunst, Bring it On

High school in Bangkok and senior year at Hockaday (private Catholic, all girls bording - opposite from St. Marks - private Catholic, all BOYS bording) - I wouldn't change much. I had it pretty damn good in high school.
:P

coagulated fat

06-25-2003, 01:32 PM

I wasn't popular at all. The only people who acknowledged my existence were my immediate circle of friends and maybe some acquaintances. I'm pretty sure that a lot of people thought I was weird, even though I didn't try to go for any kind of weird "look." Wouldn't change anything, but I wish I could have gone to my prom. I tried to get a date really hard, but no. I was pretty desperate in high school boy-wise, but I had great friends. Loser pride. :lol:

537

06-25-2003, 02:25 PM

I would have stayed out of trouble.

AliBabaIncorporated

06-25-2003, 02:30 PM

I would have made a serious effort not to set the roof of my dorm on fire.

Emperor_Mike

06-25-2003, 02:35 PM

Originally posted by AliBabaIncorporated@Jun 25 2003, 01:30 PM
I would have made a serious effort not to set the roof of my dorm on fire.
Pyromania? Yes, we've all been through that phase in life.

VV o n g B a

06-25-2003, 03:08 PM

if i could, i wouldn't. i find thinking about that part of my life very tiresome. too much pettiness and jocking for standing in the cliques i hovered in and around. too much time spent studying for shit that would have no impact on my future.

rakovlam

06-25-2003, 03:46 PM

As I found out in a couple of graduation parties last week, I could have been the most popular kid in high school if I stayed awake during the day and went out at night. Oh well, didn't really like the sudden rise in stock anyway.

nonamerasian

06-25-2003, 04:20 PM

If I could go back, I'd make my guidance counselor do his job and actually work for his paycheck.

TyTea36

06-25-2003, 05:26 PM

high school's awesome. It's crazy, but my high school too boring. No asian culture. I would like to increase my intellegence by a whole lot and keep my social status. I would say I'm doing very good, not yet to the genious mark, yet.... not unknown either. I just wish it were more lively....

ACTION
ACTION
ACTION

Emperor_Mike

06-25-2003, 05:32 PM

Originally posted by TyTea36@Jun 25 2003, 04:26 PM
high school's awesome. It's crazy, but my high school too boring. No asian culture. I would like to increase my intellegence by a whole lot and keep my social status. I would say I'm doing very good, not yet to the genious mark, yet.... not unknown either. I just wish it were more lively....

ACTION
ACTION
ACTION
Start chemical fires and convince Student Government to institute a "Random Knife Attack Day" with suitably catastrophic results.

That'll get you your excitement.

Uncle Tat

06-25-2003, 09:41 PM

I would have taken ChinaLama's love interest to the prom but instead a white friend of our's beat me to it! :pissed:

ChinaLama

06-25-2003, 09:42 PM

Originally posted by Uncle Tat@Jun 26 2003, 04:41 AM
I would have taken ChinaLama's love interest to the prom but instead a white friend of our's beat me to it! :pissed:
yeah i wish UT had taken her too cuz he would've ditched her since he thought she was fugly, and i'd be there to comfort her. :D

tvbdude

06-25-2003, 11:38 PM

fight all the racists that bullied me. the black people when they walk past me, they said "something stinks", "smells like someone didn't take a bath". then the black teacher said, I was at CVS the other day and these africans stink. she was a nice teacher.

kayla

06-26-2003, 12:12 AM

I would've been a bitch to this girl who constantly talked shit behind my back but fronted the nice, fake personality when I'm around. And the thing was, she talked shit behind my back with people I am close to, who in turn, told me all the things she said. Actually, she talked shit about me to everyone. She just couldnt resist leaving anyone out. And the thing about her that cracked me up, was that she would be one of those girls who tells everyone that she loves them. "I love you guys!!" *hugs!!* "...and remember, I love you!!" ugh. What a fake.

But I think she hated me cuz I was close to the guy she had a huge crush on and was rejected by.

suresquared

06-26-2003, 12:41 AM

Originally posted by CrX3183@Aug 9 2002, 07:11 PM
If you could go back to high school and change something what would u change?

- i would've spent less time getting lit with my friends, playing the arcade version of street fighter II at the local bodega.

mr_yang

06-26-2003, 01:16 AM

back-in-the-day...lol...

hmm..

i'd have spent less time conjuring up scams, and more as a diligent student.

I mean, sure, the money, free shit, and the epheremal admiration from jocks and nerds, alike, was great at the time, but i was repaid -- in full -- in freshman year.. Further, juvenile delinquency precluded me from taking an interest in reading.

now, two years post-HS grad, i've made the 180, and just like my fav. protagonist, Mike McD, Rounders, i left the table with an empty roll. Entrenched into a relatively new, unfamiliar setting, the scenery is fat on Geeks and overdone mullets, and calorie-free on Bimbos with racks and incoherent Asian henchmen ...

at times, i yearn for the past, but it guess it's better this way -- or so say my parents..

(of course, we Rounders' buffs know how the story eventually plays out ;)

cftofu

06-26-2003, 11:21 AM

well, i graduated from h.s. in 2000. i probably would've wanted to be more confident and outspoken. i was too shy back then, especially in the classroom..

Faithless

06-26-2003, 04:28 PM

Originally posted by CrX3183@Aug 9 2002, 07:11 PM
If you could go back to high school and change something what would u change? Or if you could have done something else instead, what would it be?
Go back and tryout for the varsity basketball team again.