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What Stereotype Were You Closest To In High School and How Did Life Turn Out?
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Me too. Great story. I graduated from a FFX Co. HS and I don't think we really had "cliques" - or at least the traditional "cliques" - at my high school. I just remember us all kinda getting along just fine. Weird, but true. I was athletic, over-involved in school sports, etc. A little Type A back then and still a little Type A now. Did okay in HS (3.5 GPA), okay in college (3.3 GPA) and pretty damn good in grad school. I think I am about where I always thought I'd be - pretty happily married to successful guy, 3 kids that I adore, nice house, great (but stressful) job. My friends from high school all have pretty similar lives. We are all pretty happy and successful - not a divorce among us... |
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In high school - top grades and good at sports, but also intense and stressed out. Then went to a top college and grad school, met wonderful friends, and learned to relax and have fun, not just achieve.
I now have a career that I love, a fabulous DH, and a circle of caring friends who would never recognize the stressed out and intense high school girl I used to be. Wouldn't change a thing! 
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Anonymous
Love it!!
I took a very different path, but I agree 100% that a certain type of rebelliousness can be very beneficial as an adult! We're hoping to raise DD with some of that -- so she learns to question authority and think for herself rather than just be the kind of girl who tries to please everyone and follow the crowd. It's a tricky balance, of course -- there's a risk she goes off the rails a bit when she's younger -- but I think it's an important trait that bodes well for adult happiness. Good for you!! |
Anonymous
| Funny but I've never even heard of some of these "sterotypes." For example, what the hell is a "mountain climbing brooding punk rocker" sterotype anyway? Seems to me that's pretty original but as the typical "don't fit a sterotype" person maybe its just me. |
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Then: Brainy bookish valedictorian. Very lonely. Insecure with boys, though better looking than I realized at the time. Didn't kiss anybody until I was 18.
Now: Still bookish and brainy, but much more social and confident. Married a cute, sweet nerd from college who eventually earned his PhD in history. 2 kids. I had a job I loved but gave it up when we had to move (see PhD in history.) Now I have another job that is just ok. I'm still trying to find my bearings career-wise, but otherwise fairly happy. |
Anonymous
I was a nerd, still am I nerd. Always boy crazy, still boy crazy 
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Anonymous
Just you wait... |
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I was a complete and total nerd. Never dated, never partied in high school. Not many friends, never thought I'd get married.
I partied quite a bit later in college and grad school, after I came out of my shell a little. Now, happily married with a kid and a good, stable job. Nothing super intellectual. |
Anonymous
Try babycenter.com. |
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I was smart, but mouthy. Thought I was smarter than my teachers, so didn't work and didn't get the best grades. Semi-atheletic, dated college guys. Thought I was the shit because I didn't hang out with HS "kids"; thought that following politics and traveling internationally made me better than my peers. Couldn't wait to get out of my podunk town.
DC is perfect for me. Good for my attitude, because I'm NEVER the smartest or most successful person in the room, and I can always find someone really interesting to talk to. If only I'd actually applied myself instead of coasting, I'd probably still be totally insufferable. As it is, I have a better social life than ever, am more challeneged than ever, and have gained the humility to recognize how much of a snot I used to be. |
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Not a good student in HS. Came from an extremely emotionally abusive and oppressive home. No one knew how bad it was. Made growing up absolute hell. No matter where I was I couldn't wait to get away from it. Namely school. Not a lot of friends until teens. Quiet, though often tried hard. Sent myself to an outstanding college. Sent myself to an outstanding grad school. Sent myself to an outstanding law school. All at the top of my class. Have an irrational fear of succeeding. Laugh when I see people snobby about relatively nothing.
Sincerely grateful for me, DH and DC to have our health. It just happens that we have so much more and have come at least as far as I ever expected, in spite of the many naysayers. Found out later in marriage that DH has come from similar background, also to his much deserved credit. Now far more successful than the "successful" in my extremely wealthy home town (we were not wealthy). Siblings have current issues (some extreme) from the past home situation. At my HS reunion, I wonder how many have any idea what I went through and how far I have come, compared to their little effort to stay status quo. Takes much to impress me, usually not those so impressed with themselves. If you were to have told me in HS where I would be today, I don't know if I would have believed you. Yet I always believed in myself. I would really hope that most of us are NOT as we were in HS, OP! |
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I was the popular cheerleader with a great body who had lots of friends (I was nice, not a bitch or snobby).
Fast forward 20 years later: I'm fat and dowdy-looking and don't have very many friends (I'm still nice, though!), but I have a fantastic husband who loves me just the way I am. 
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Anonymous
| Smart, not a nerd, but shy and a little chubby in HS with a nice group of close friends. Never went to Senior Prom, had a few "boyfriends" that never lasted. College was worse - got chubbier - grades not as good - no boyfriends or close girlfriends - low self-esteem, drank too much and slept with too many boys as a result. Low self esteem through twenties - slept around - no real serious boyfriends - ok job but not so great. At 30 - met a nice guy - a physician. Had a nice group of friends. Stopped working to have kids. Lost weight and got into great shape after kids - just keeping busy and going to the gym(free babysitting!). Now if you met me you would think I was one of those lucky, well-off people. Pretty, nice clothes, adoring husband, cute kids, etc. I feel lucky. But wish I could get those old days back and cringe at the thought os some of my "mistakes"...... |
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Math geek, unabashed AV club member and video game freak - this was when Atari was the only game in town. Was too oblivious to truly understand that I was an outcast. Ignorance is bliss. Went to school out west renowned for its math whizzes, and was surrounded by like-minded, mainly boys. Bliss! Bounced around a few high tech jobs in Cali, then landed a job at AOL in the relatively early years. Cashed out early, did nothing for many years, and now just shuttle the kids between school and sports and play video games at night. Bliss.
Alas, all was not bliss, as I did pick up two now discarded husbands along the way. The first, one of the oblivious Atari game freaks who turned out to be clinically depressed and abusive. The second, was one of those boys I could never get in high school who, as it turned out, just wanted my money. Life without these losers - bliss!! |
Anonymous
Defensive much? For a hippie you have a lot of hate. |