What happened to the 'popular kids' from your high school?

[Anonymous]

Most are doing just fine. There aren't really any notable graduates from my class.

There's one guy who is a minor actor. He had one speaking part in a big blockbuster movie, but the rest of his work has been small, nonspeaking roles and background work. He seems to have stopped acting according to his IMDB and has been producing and writing Indie stuff the past few years. Nothing I've heard of, and no actors attached to any of the projects that I recognize. I follow him on Instagram and saw that he's releasing a kid's book in 2025 but that's self-published.

But yeah, most just went to the usual VA colleges - UVA, Tech, JMU, GMU - and got normal 9-5 jobs. They married average spouses and have average families in the DMV area from what I see on social media.

One did make headlines 4 or 5 years ago (maybe longer) for embezzling money from the PTO, but it wasn't even an impressive amount, ha. Kind of like the equivalent of someone getting caught stealing the silverware at a fine dining establishment. Like, if you're going to do something wrong, DO IT WRONG. Don't steal and end up embezzling less than $18k over the years. That's embarrassing, IMO.

But please tell me why all the mean girls became nurses?? My parents still live in the same town where I grew up and several of my dad's doctors have nurses I graduated with. And every single one of them were the mean girls that were responsible for all the bullying and teasing. I had to go to urgent care when I was back home for a holiday maybe 10 years ago and I requested a new nurse because the one who came in was someone who bullied me SO much in middle school. Thanks but no thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most are doing just fine. There aren't really any notable graduates from my class.

There's one guy who is a minor actor. He had one speaking part in a big blockbuster movie, but the rest of his work has been small, nonspeaking roles and background work. He seems to have stopped acting according to his IMDB and has been producing and writing Indie stuff the past few years. Nothing I've heard of, and no actors attached to any of the projects that I recognize. I follow him on Instagram and saw that he's releasing a kid's book in 2025 but that's self-published.

But yeah, most just went to the usual VA colleges - UVA, Tech, JMU, GMU - and got normal 9-5 jobs. They married average spouses and have average families in the DMV area from what I see on social media.

One did make headlines 4 or 5 years ago (maybe longer) for embezzling money from the PTO, but it wasn't even an impressive amount, ha. Kind of like the equivalent of someone getting caught stealing the silverware at a fine dining establishment. Like, if you're going to do something wrong, DO IT WRONG. Don't steal and end up embezzling less than $18k over the years. That's embarrassing, IMO.

But please tell me why all the mean girls became nurses?? My parents still live in the same town where I grew up and several of my dad's doctors have nurses I graduated with. And every single one of them were the mean girls that were responsible for all the bullying and teasing. I had to go to urgent care when I was back home for a holiday maybe 10 years ago and I requested a new nurse because the one who came in was someone who bullied me SO much in middle school. Thanks but no thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most are doing just fine. There aren't really any notable graduates from my class.

There's one guy who is a minor actor. He had one speaking part in a big blockbuster movie, but the rest of his work has been small, nonspeaking roles and background work. He seems to have stopped acting according to his IMDB and has been producing and writing Indie stuff the past few years. Nothing I've heard of, and no actors attached to any of the projects that I recognize. I follow him on Instagram and saw that he's releasing a kid's book in 2025 but that's self-published.

But yeah, most just went to the usual VA colleges - UVA, Tech, JMU, GMU - and got normal 9-5 jobs. They married average spouses and have average families in the DMV area from what I see on social media.

One did make headlines 4 or 5 years ago (maybe longer) for embezzling money from the PTO, but it wasn't even an impressive amount, ha. Kind of like the equivalent of someone getting caught stealing the silverware at a fine dining establishment. Like, if you're going to do something wrong, DO IT WRONG. Don't steal and end up embezzling less than $18k over the years. That's embarrassing, IMO.

But please tell me why all the mean girls became nurses?? My parents still live in the same town where I grew up and several of my dad's doctors have nurses I graduated with. And every single one of them were the mean girls that were responsible for all the bullying and teasing. I had to go to urgent care when I was back home for a holiday maybe 10 years ago and I requested a new nurse because the one who came in was someone who bullied me SO much in middle school. Thanks but no thanks.

+1 Teachers and psychologists too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I recently got dinner with an old friend from high school. We were reminiscing about our high school days and started discussing the 'popular kids' who made us feel so insecure at the time and were somewhat mean. We realized that very few of them ended up doing much of anything, for example:

Girl 1: Never graduated college, works various part time jobs.
Girl 2: Despite always having a serious BF throughout HS/College (who always gave her elaborate promposals, fancy gifts, etc.) is unmarried - posts ad nauseam about various men and her relationships that never seem to last long.

It makes me realize how silly it was to care about these things back then.

What are the popular kids from your school days up to now?

Did you go to a working class public high school? The most popular students at my private high school were attractive and charismatic overachievers - academics, volunteering, clubs, and sports - and went on to good colleges, married well, the whole nine.

[Anonymous]

Fat and turned MAGA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I recently got dinner with an old friend from high school. We were reminiscing about our high school days and started discussing the 'popular kids' who made us feel so insecure at the time and were somewhat mean. We realized that very few of them ended up doing much of anything, for example:

Girl 1: Never graduated college, works various part time jobs.
Girl 2: Despite always having a serious BF throughout HS/College (who always gave her elaborate promposals, fancy gifts, etc.) is unmarried - posts ad nauseam about various men and her relationships that never seem to last long.

It makes me realize how silly it was to care about these things back then.

What are the popular kids from your school days up to now?

Did you go to a working class public high school? The most popular students at my private high school were attractive and charismatic overachievers - academics, volunteering, clubs, and sports - and went on to good colleges, married well, the whole nine.

I went to a private HS, and I know you’re embellishing the truth.

[Anonymous]

I went to Churchill so I imagine they’re relatively successful or married rich.

[Anonymous]

I grew up in Hawaii and graduated from a private school. One of the most popular girls became a moderately successful actress and married John Travolta; she recently passed away. One of the most popular boys became a president of the United States, to the surprise of everyone who graduated with him.

I don't recall any bullies; most kids loved their school and their classmates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fat and turned MAGA.

Everyone who stayed local did this, yep.

Others left and had normal lives. A couple appear to be well off, but it’s hard to know the truth from social media.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I recently got dinner with an old friend from high school. We were reminiscing about our high school days and started discussing the 'popular kids' who made us feel so insecure at the time and were somewhat mean. We realized that very few of them ended up doing much of anything, for example:

Girl 1: Never graduated college, works various part time jobs.
Girl 2: Despite always having a serious BF throughout HS/College (who always gave her elaborate promposals, fancy gifts, etc.) is unmarried - posts ad nauseam about various men and her relationships that never seem to last long.

It makes me realize how silly it was to care about these things back then.

What are the popular kids from your school days up to now?

OP, you still seem to care...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Expensive private school, class of 1998. The "popular" clique aka the more naturally confident and often hard partying kids, have mostly normalized and are doing well. Some extremely well. The confidence in HS years can be a strong indicator of future success. For a few kids, that confidence did lead to unfortunate experimenting with drugs with not a happy outcome but those are the exceptions, not the rule.

The whole popular kids peaked in HS and became losers afterwards always reeked more of jealous stereotyping than reality.

And, no, I was not one of the "popular" kids, being more bookish, but am pragmatic and realistic.

This. It's cope and so cringe.

The popular kids in my 1991 private Alexandria HS have done extremely well, myslef included. I'm sitting in a 3M house in Great Falls right now and run a very succesful firm. My wife is a VP at a well known defense contractor. We are both still in excellent shape and way more attractive then our peers. We have one kid at an ivy and another entertaing options at the service academies.

I never bullied a single kid. I drew hate because I was smart, good looking, and a stellar athlete.

You were not popular if you drew hate.
The popular kids often had emotional maturity that’s beyond their age. They are not necessarily the best looking / football / cheerleader. They were loved by most therefore “popular”.

Sorry but you cannot be liked by every single person unless you’re a massive people please bending over backwards all the time. Or simply not known by most.

You cannot be respected by all. But like “liked.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most are doing just fine. There aren't really any notable graduates from my class.

There's one guy who is a minor actor. He had one speaking part in a big blockbuster movie, but the rest of his work has been small, nonspeaking roles and background work. He seems to have stopped acting according to his IMDB and has been producing and writing Indie stuff the past few years. Nothing I've heard of, and no actors attached to any of the projects that I recognize. I follow him on Instagram and saw that he's releasing a kid's book in 2025 but that's self-published.

But yeah, most just went to the usual VA colleges - UVA, Tech, JMU, GMU - and got normal 9-5 jobs. They married average spouses and have average families in the DMV area from what I see on social media.

One did make headlines 4 or 5 years ago (maybe longer) for embezzling money from the PTO, but it wasn't even an impressive amount, ha. Kind of like the equivalent of someone getting caught stealing the silverware at a fine dining establishment. Like, if you're going to do something wrong, DO IT WRONG. Don't steal and end up embezzling less than $18k over the years. That's embarrassing, IMO.

But please tell me why all the mean girls became nurses?? My parents still live in the same town where I grew up and several of my dad's doctors have nurses I graduated with. And every single one of them were the mean girls that were responsible for all the bullying and teasing. I had to go to urgent care when I was back home for a holiday maybe 10 years ago and I requested a new nurse because the one who came in was someone who bullied me SO much in middle school. Thanks but no thanks.

+1 Teachers and psychologists too.

Pink collar jobs.

Psychologists or therapists? Big difference

[Anonymous]

My medium sized public school, the popular kids were the smart sporty honors class ones. Many are doing well and live all over the country and some in europe. Engineers, finance, consultants, sales.

Then popular looker type are still back in the hometown region, had kids early on and are out of shape.

Now we’re mid 40s and divorces are popping up but it’s. It with the smart popular types. Yet. It’s been with the high drama types.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I recently got dinner with an old friend from high school. We were reminiscing about our high school days and started discussing the 'popular kids' who made us feel so insecure at the time and were somewhat mean. We realized that very few of them ended up doing much of anything, for example:

Girl 1: Never graduated college, works various part time jobs.
Girl 2: Despite always having a serious BF throughout HS/College (who always gave her elaborate promposals, fancy gifts, etc.) is unmarried - posts ad nauseam about various men and her relationships that never seem to last long.

It makes me realize how silly it was to care about these things back then.

What are the popular kids from your school days up to now?

Did you go to a working class public high school? The most popular students at my private high school were attractive and charismatic overachievers - academics, volunteering, clubs, and sports - and went on to good colleges, married well, the whole nine.

Same

- Chicago burbs originally, bethesda now

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fat and turned MAGA.

Everyone who stayed local did this, yep.

Others left and had normal lives. A couple appear to be well off, but it’s hard to know the truth from social media.

Thank god! Some people stayed sane.