What Stereotype Were You Closest To In High School and How Did Life Turn Out?

[Anonymous]

Bookish, Tracy Flick in laid-back surfer-cool CA highschool. Now a lit professor in DC married to a gov't atty with one child. Funny how being a humanities prof in DC makes you more "hippy" than the norm--in CA I'm still seen as uber-straight laced.

[Anonymous]

I went through a goth phase from 14-16. I liked poetry, smoking cigarettes, reading and playing music. Was drawn to kind of dark themes and was a bit more adult than I should have been then. Got it out of my system and ended high school a pretty, popular slutty party girl. haha.

By the time i got to college I was so tired that I shaped up, stopped partying as much, got good grades and transferred to a better school.
Graduated w/ honors, was already engaged , had my pick of jobs.
Settled down kind of young and now I'm still married to my college sweetheart, we have 2 kids, live in the city, both have great jobs.

And I don't look like a goth at all now. Nor a slutty part girl

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, is this more about you or more about DD?

Really, let it go.

Reread OP's post. You may need to go back to HS for reading comprehension.

[Anonymous]

Interesting. In HS, not easily classified: bounced around different cliques every day. Got good grades, but liked to party. Liked films, but played soccer. Read a lot, but drove fast. Boyfriends also ran gamut from studious to stoned. The bouncing around annoyed the hardcore in some of those cliques, but most others didn't mind my blurring of the lines.

Now, pretty much the same, though no soccer because worried about popping my ACL. DH basically same as me and was the same in HS (though did not meet till early 30s). While we are very different in some fundamental ways, most of our habits, interests, and preferences are quite similar. That is a real advantage in child-rearing : )

While my life is a lot different than most of my HS classmates, I am able to integrate myself fairly easily when I see folks. There were a few folks who were mean to me then (didn't liked that I partied but got good grades or whatever) and are still sour now, but being happy is probably the best revenge.

[Anonymous]

Wow, can I be some of you who outsmarted everyone?

[Anonymous]

Stereotypical Asian. Quiet grind, got all As, never cause a ripple of trouble, and was never really noticed. Stayed that way throughout college. Job after school took me to Minn. I was the only Asian for miles around, and for many, the first Asian they'd ever met. I think I took this opportunity to break out of my mold. Ditched the glasses, changed the wardrobe, forced myself to be more social. It worked. Became quite popular and also met the man of my dreams. I moved back East over 15 years ago a changed person. Still cannot get myself to go to any high school reunions, though.

[Anonymous]

Also gamma type girl in high school. Friends with everyone, all advancec placementlasses, pretty but not gorgeous. I would say I am the same now though college was very good to me and I did well in my career. Married a nice gamma type guy and am now a sahm with a secure marriage and two great kids and a handful of good friends. Lest it all sound too perfect, I battle depression and I come from a very troubled background. I battle those demons at times too

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah but was it really necessary to attack her for posting who she was back in HS and who she is now? Why hate her for who she is?

Apparently she was still IN high school last week.

[Anonymous]

Good reflective thread. I have no idea what stereotype I was but this is what I did: band, cheerleading, drama, literary magazine, huge reader, philosophy-lover, followed stocks, talked politics with my parents all the time but at the same time was a very mediocre student (A's when I wanted to, usually C's) who had terrible SATs and had to FIND a school that would take me. Wanted to own an art gallery. Partied all the time by sneaking around behind my parents' back and never got caught. By the time I went to college was not interested in "going wild." Got straight A's for undergrad and grad. Paid for school on my own, with only encouragement from parents. Now am a diplomat married to a total HS nerd who is also a diplomat and we have 1 child. I look back at my high school days and wish someone had taken me to a university to show me the possibilities -- I may have tried harder or cared more but I really thought I was on the "free spirit artist track". Still, I am okay today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids are my priority, as is shaving.

Anonymous wrote:

My kids or clipping my toenails? My kids or clipping my toenails?
Gotta agree with you, it's a toss up!

Now, belly button lint, hmmmm.

[Anonymous]

Band geek, A/B student, into jazz and blues, insecure w/opposite sex, good writer. Now a Ph.D., married to an immigrant, one child a bit later in life.

[Anonymous]

Grew up in Asia and the Middle east but ended up in high school in the middle of nowhere, Montana. Am half asian, half white and was one of four non-white kids at my HS (one of them was my sister). Definitely stood out as the foreign kid though I spoke perfect English. I had a few good friends but never really fit in and loathed small town life. Got decent grades, was in theatre and was really into art. Went to a top art school for college in a large city, then another top school for my graduate degree. Am now a professor of art.

DH was the popular, pot smoking hipster type who played bass and sang in a band. The band was quite good and pretty well known in the DC area. Also went to art school (where we met) and is now a nerdy hipster graphic designer with a VERY good job.

I guess I was pretty normal in high school but in college went through a punk/rockabilly faze that lasted a good 7 years. My parents thought I was totally weird but I look completely normal now

[Anonymous]

16:19 - I know what group you belonged to - HAHAHAHA!

[Anonymous]

PP, never understood wanting a country home. Unless of course, you now live on a Beltway median strip or something. Now a beach house, that's what I'm talking about.....

[Anonymous]

oooh, I get to be the stereotypical success story:

Total loser geek in high school. Never fit in, got straight As, top 3 student.

Got my MBA at top 10 school. Married brilliant and handsome lawyer. Incredibly high HHI that we don't squander on acquisitions and consumption. Plan to retire by 50. Three lovely and smart children. Happy as all get out.