Genuine mentioned Randi's Ramblings concern over blog cliques and how high school never really ended. Trust me, high school ended, I have the pretty little diploma to prove it. *winks*
The whole conversation had me reminiscing about my high school days. It seems that most people either loved the whole high school experience or hated it. Oddly enough I'm indifferent. For me there were more good times than bad but I wouldn't want to go through it again. The only bad experience that comes to mind was my freshman year when this one girl decided it was fun to push me into the lockers between 4th and 5th period. After a few days, I stood my ground and demanded to know what her problem was. She backed down and never did it again. To this day, I still don't know why she picked on me or why she stopped. At 5'3", 115lbs I wasn't that intimidating.
I've always thought I had a rather unique high school experience though. I grew up in a small town in southern Indiana. Think the movie Hoosiers set in the present. Basketball is everything, the high school gym seats 6,000 (note: the town is 2,000) and the head basketball coach was the winningest high school coach in the state (he retired a few years ago). Everyone knows everyone and the kids I graduated with were all there from kindergarten. There were cliques but for the most part everyone was civil (no Mean Girls). And being in the band was cool. I know everyone will laugh at me but a huge chunk of the high school (100 out of the entire 330 students) were in the band so it had to be cool, right? I played the flute and no, I never went to band camp. *sticks tongue out*
I suppose for the sake of classification I was the cute brainy band chick on the dance team. I was the class salutatorian and the guidance counselor stuck me in the all the advanced classes with the top 5 who happened to be 3 Brians and Kerri. Although Advanced Physics and Calculus were Euchre 101 and Euchre 102. We were in a distance learning program where the 5 of us sat in a room without a teacher to watch classes on TV for 2 hours in a row. So everyday, someone would bring a deck of cards. Somehow I still learned enough to ace college physics and calculus.
The dance team... Now there was a clique and I wasn't truly a part of it. But I made the team every year because I was a good dancer so they put up with me. If I had it to do over again, I probably wouldn't have tried out. It was fun but not worth the uncomfortable feeling of not being popular enough to hang out with the other girls after practice.
My high school years in a nutshell. I've barely kept contact with my "best" friend from high school, we send Christmas cards. My 10 year reunion will be next year and I don't plan to go. If anything the cliques have grown worse (I went to my 5 year reunion) but now it's "those who stayed in town" and "those who went to the same college." I was the only one who went to an out of state college and stayed here, that tells you how far removed I am from the rest of them now. *shrugs*
Maybe if I'm bored later, I'll scan my high school Senior pictures. Now college... That was fun and I'd go back in a heartbeat! *grins evilly*
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