GTKY- tell me about you in HS/college!

[mrsmonogrammed]

Were you in a sport? Play an instrument? Did you smoke a lot of weed?

Let's relive those "glory" years;)

[Widget123]

I was a total nerd in high school. I was in the band, 2 honors societies, Spanish club, etc. I went to a private religious high school and my parents kept me on a really short leash so I was about as goody-goody and as unpopular as you can get. Also where I'm from is very rural.

I went to a large public college in a city for undergrad. This was the first time I had any real freedom from my parents so I went pretty crazy the first two years. I was still in the band for all 4 years but the band was large and partied a lot. I was also involved in Greek organizations stemming from the band. By the time my junior year rolled around, I got my act together enough to discover I wanted to major in accounting (before I was science) and complete all of my business classes with mostly A's so that I could still graduate in 4 years with a 3.5 GPA. All of those AP credits I racked up in high school helped to make that possible.

I would not consider any of those years my "glory years". I was not one of those people that never moved on from who they were in high school and college. Once I graduated from undergrad I moved to a different city in a different state and changed into a completely different person (in some ways) again.

[mrsmonogrammed]

In HS I was a cheerleader, and had a steady boyfriend for most of soph-senior year. I was also like @kej0004 in that my group of friend went out and partied/drank on weekends but did it smartly and didn't get into trouble. (Usually in someone's basement and the parents always knew). I also took AP and honors courses (which made it easier for parents to trust all of us!) I had a good time in HIgh School:)

College I went to a huge public university, and was in a sorority. That took up a lot of time (philanthropy and parties) plus my social work major so I didn't really get much else in. I also had a good time in college;)

[bendherova]

Total nerd in HS-- Veep of the Latin Club, Student leader in the Marching Band and Indoor Percussion, National Honor Society. School was easy, so I did my HW in homeroom and at lunch. (all but my AP calc, which DH who was then my bestie helped me with after school)

I was too busy with band to get into much trouble.


Went to a public university and had no study skills and no real self control and failed a class. Big wake up call. ended up taking the better part of 4 semesters to figure out how to study. I still had too much fun and not enough studying in college, but I still did nerdy things-- I earned an engineering degree afterall. (we're talking Engineering School tour guide, orientation coordinator and member of the concrete canoe team)

I wish I could do the academic parts again.

[tiffbot]

I'm living in the same small town I went to school in. We're small enough it's a K-12 school. I had an average of 26 people in my grade at any given time (people moved in or away)

I was pretty shy and quiet in HS, but made my best friends there who I am still close to today. It's funny because I met my H when he got a job here and he's the VP now, so a lot of his co workers are my old teachers and now friends. My HS BFF is also a teacher there now too haha. Basically, kept pretty close ties with the school/community!

We weren't real crazy, but because of that all the teachers loved us and we really got away with anything haha.

Volleyball was my favourite sport to play, and would be in the dessert theatre every year (and now as an adult have done the local dinner here theater 5 times!)

[pghtruelove]

I was a troublemaker. I got pregnant young(gave her up for adoption) and then both my parents passed away so I was put in foster care. I was on the soccer team until Jr. year and then quit the team to worker a dry cleanes. . I skipped a lot of school and barely passed. I briefly smoked pot but was too paranoid about is and stopped. I didn't drink until I was 20 but got by faking it in highschool as those were the people I hung out with. I went to a very small high school in the Pittsburgh area so pretty much everyone in town I grew up in knew I was trouble. I'm a completely different person now. I'm no longer as outgoing and badass as I used to be... Sometimes I miss high school me.

[wink568]

In High School I played the violin and participated in an after school Fiddler's program. Socially, I didn't really stand out. I had my group of friends that I still see when I'm in town. I don't think I stood out too much,  beyond the few best friends I spent time with after school. I worked at Subway until I moved away for the last two years of college.

My long term BF went to a different school, so I also spent time with him and his circle of friends (which included my now DH).

I spent two years of college at a Community College where a lot of people I went to High School with also went to. I didn't really have any extracurriculars there, so I spent time between classes in the student union (because my classes were always randomly spaced throughout the day). This was actually the highlight of the experience. Somehow, we made a large group of friends just hanging around. There was always several of us there, so people would just dump their stuff and grab the books they needed for class and come and go throughout the day. It's a shame I don't see too many of them anymore since I've moved away.

My last two years of college was at a small state school. The first year I kept to myself, spent the majority of my time with one friend that came with me from my CC group. Worked in campus food service, hated it and quit as soon as I'd secured a summer internship. My last year there two of my best friends from high school also started school there, so that's when I started to really embrace the whole party scene. I also started to date DH that year. Worked in the mailroom (loved that job). My current workplace hired almost half the class from my program, so I still see a lot of people I went to college with, and since we all transplanted to a new town, we've since become really good friends.

[Deleted]

I was an over achiever in high school, as far as activities go. My big focus was my horses, so I went to a boarding school where I could ride on campus, and that saved a ton of time so I could do other things. I was editor of the school paper, played varsity basketball in the winter season, did a little bit of theatre, and made average grades. I guess I was popular but it was a small school so the social structure was a little different that big public schools.

In college I was a lonely, liberal hippie at the world's biggest Baptist, very conservative university, because that's where my family has gone for generations and I never thought otherwise about it. I loved the school but it took me a while to really find my groove and the right niche of friends there because I thought much of the student body was just ridiculous. Once I did find my space there, I loved it. But it took me five years to graduate because my second and third year I spent too much time partying. When I finally got my shit together for the last two years I had a 3.7 GPA for the last part, enough to save my ass and allow me to still get into graduate school, even though my cumulative was low. I double majored in neuroscience & sociology, with a French minor. I wasn't involved in any campus activities other than going to football games.

[erbear]

I was a quiet nerd in HS. I was in the travel chorus and musical and national honor society and ap/honors classes. I got accepted to college first out of everyone and I only applies to one school so I l coasted through senior year haha.

In college I partied more. I was really depressed freshman year after my grandpa's death and I nearly failed cause I didn't take it seriously enough. I buckled down and made the dean's list by the end of my sophomore year again. I lived at home senior year and commuted, which cut into my social time. I worked two work study jobs before getting a job in the university bookstore my sophomore year; I stayed there for five months post-graduation. I loved that place!

[belle0720]

I was pretty much the same, liked to drink/go out with my friends and was boy crazy but also did well in school. Except that I was awkward, insecure, and very shy around guys(which is funny considering how boy crazy I was. And insecurity + boozing were not good for me which I learned pretty quickly my sophomore year).

I still like to hang out with my girlfriends and drink on the weekends(a glass or 2 of wine/beer instead of shots of Smirnoff vodka though lol). And I consider myself to be successful career-wise and financially at this point. During college I gained a lot of self-confidence and finally got the hang of hair, make-up, & dressing for my body type. My best friends are still the ones I grew up with, plus my roomies from college. And boy crazy still applies, but to H and my celebrity crushes

[periwinkledaydreams]

I really enjoyed high school, had tons of fun, was super busy all the time and was really involved in everything. I was a cheerleader, played tennis, ran track, danced and sang in a few of the choral groups. I was in the outdoor adventure club and was a yearbook editor my junior and senior years. I also had a job with the YMCA afterschool care program, and then in the summers at an amusement park in town.  I had a group of 5 close girlfriends from elementary school who stuck together all the way through, and we each had our little different branches of friends we were involved with, and then one big group of "the boys" who were like our motley crew. Those were fun times. Lots of basement parties. Lots of beer pong. Lots of me driving drunk ass people home. I really didn't drink at all until the very end of high school.

Theeennnnn college. I hated college. I applied to one school, got in on half scholarship/half loans, so I just went there. I thought I was having SO MUCH FUN and doing what I wanted to do at the time, but in reality I was just going through the motions. I went to class and held a job, but I was drinking way too much and in retrospect was probably depressed through most of it. I had tons of "friends" but they were really just drinking buddies, and we drank A LOT. I realized I wanted to get my shit together and move on during my junior year, so I took as many credits as I could, like piled them on in between semesters, sat down with an advisor and figured out what major I could graduate with quickest, since I had switched 3 or 4 times. I somehow managed to graduate a full semester early with a 3.7 GPA and left that mess behind.

I would absolutely not call those my glory years!! My life really opened up after college, when I moved across the country (a few times, east to west, north to south and back again) and started really exploring and finally living for myself

[billyhorrible]

I'm pretty much the same in that I filled up my days - I was always busy. I moved in the middle of high school so I had 2 different experiences:

High school 1 - I played the flute in the band and the the soprano sax in a jazz group, sang in a couple school choral groups, acted in all the plays/musicals, french club, student government, and color guard. I was on the swim team/diving team. I was a super happy person, with a great social circle of friends that toed the line between being "good kids" and knowing how to have fun.

High school 2 - Miserable experience for me. I didn't want to move, I was happy where I was. I wasn't exactly welcomed with open arms by the new school and basically my friends were the people who didn't fit in to any group. And they were very sheltered girls who barely talked to boys - whereas most of my friends have always been guys, so eventually they all turned on me because the guys they liked, liked me better (not in a romantic way, just because I didn't act like a weirdo around them.) I couldn't get involved in anything for a while because I moved in the middle of the year and everyone had their "place" whereas I didn't really have time to move up. I did Drama club, french club, and a couple school choral groups. Senior year I got into student government and that was much more my style with people who were more like me.

College - Back to my usual self, friendly and outgoing. Freshman year was the best, my entire floor of 90 people were ridiculously close. We had sleepovers almost all the time, you were hardly ever in your own room, and we ate most of our meals together - a giant horde in the cafeteria or gathered in the common room on the floor. I was a theater major, so I did a lot of work on the shows on campus (mostly backstage, although I met DH when we both did a show together). Sorority, Campus Guides, and I helped initiate the Dance Marathon at UCLA.

[kemdupuis]

High School- I was involved in everything. I played softball and field hockey, was part of the ski/ride club, played trumpet in the jazz band and concert band, sang soprano in choir and select choir, made All State and All New England and both trumpet and voice 3 years in a row, held leading roles in many of the school musicals and award winning one act plays, was a member of the debate team, Latin club, and took all honors or AP courses. I graduated 13th in my class of close to 300. I dated mostly older guys, and spent most of my time on the weekends and during the summers drinking and doing things that I probably shouldn't have. I worked as a waitress at a local diner, and later on, started working at Ben and Jerry's.

College- I continued with my love of music and was a double major (trumpet/voice in music education/performance). I was definitely a party animal in every sense of the word. I drank a lot, and smoked A LOT of weed, and probably should have studied a bit harder- but I LOVED college and wouldn't trade a second of my experience. I made some amazing friends, and we did some pretty stupid things, but I still graduated with a 3.5 gpa and was on the Dean's list almost every semester. I served as a T.A. for one of my professors for 3 years, worked at the GAP, Ben and Jerry's and babysat for a bunch of my professors. I dated guys that were MUCH older than me, but totally loved when they took me out for nice dinners and on fancy dates.

ETA: Grad School was about more tame than college, but not by much. Graduated with a 3.8, though!

[ThePalindromicOne]

High School: I went to a fairly big public school - graduated with 505 in my senior class. I was a 4.0 student, captain of the cheerleading team, and a baseball groupie. I didn't do drugs or smoke, and I started occasionally drinking alcohol just prior to my senior year of high school. I wouldn't say I was Miss Popular, but I wasn't an outcast either. I was perfectly happy being a middle of the pack kinda gal.

College: I went to a large public Big 10 University (bet you can't tell which one =P). While I had the time of life in my dorm and my sorority and houses with lots of partying, smooching slut days, no real drugs in my life, I'd really have to say my glory years followed college in graduate school.

[mcp6286]

In high school I was home-schooled and my mom didn't allow me to socialize with anyone outside of our homeschool group or church. I was your stereotypical sweet little overachiever who rebelled quietly but effectively. I was the "bad kid" in our very conservative circle. My BFF and I still laugh about how I was actually such a good kid - A's in Honor/AP/college classes, did community service and extracurriculars, played competitive sports, and worked - and she was such a bad kid, but we had opposite reputations because I refused to hide my true colors and she was an expert at it. I had an ongoing relationship with one of the guys from my youth group that lasted for years. My mom referred to him as a juvenile delinquent whenever she couldn't pretend he didn't exist, but he was actually a really sweet guy in a really bad family situation (he had an abusive, alcoholic dad so he dealt/did drugs, drank copiously, and skipped school to copy with life...his mom forced him to come to church to try to straighten him out). As tumultuous and heart-wrenching as our relationship so often was, I have never once regretted it. He gave me the courage to stand up against everything all the authority figures in my life were telling me I had to do/be and just be myself.

In college, I worked full time at Victoria's Secret and took 18 credits a semester. My partying happened with my girlfriends from VS rather than my college friends, since I commuted to campus. I miss the days when I could work a 10-hour shift, go out till 2am, and do it all again the next day! I graduated in 3 years and got engaged to DH right after graduation. We got married the next year, when he was a senior in college.

[neongreen]

In high school, I was Queen of the Nerds/Geeks. I was the drum major of the marching band, in the honor band on a different instrument, involved with the theater productions, and so on; while I may not have been "popular" in the grand scheme of things, I definitely achieved a high social ranking in those groups. By senior year, all the younger girls wanted to be me and all the younger boys had crushes on me. (And in some cases, maybe the other way around. ) I dated plenty, but wasn't really into the party scene, and got mostly As in my classes.

In college, I continued on with music and majored in music education (hi kemdupuis!), which doesn't leave a whole lot of time for shenanigans. I don't even know how I had time to eat and sleep sophomore year, it was so crazy. Junior year, I discovered alcohol, and though I wasn't getting trashed every weekend, I definitely had some crazy nights over those last two years. I dated the same guy for most of college, but started slutting it up a little bit halfway through senior year. (I can pinpoint the exact night I had my slut awakening, but THAT is a story for a different thread.  ) Again, I got mostly As, and graduated with honors.

Grad school was about the same, but I didn't drink/party as much (though there were still a couple crazy nights in there), and obviously I toned it down a bit when I started dating DH about halfway through.

Court reporting school, we had just gotten married and we wanted to buy a house, so I wanted to get done with that and back to work as soon as possible. No sleeping around, of course, but I did have a wild girls night out hitting the bar scene with one of my classmates when DH went away for a week on a school trip....

[leenziepops]

I was definitely one of the nerdy kids since I was one in 5 doing accelerated maths but known as one of the funny kids. I was also the type to get lead roles in drama plays and productions because of my extroverted and goofy character. I was leader/captain of something. I was hopeless at sport but thankfully never got picked last. Never smoked or did drugs. I was more good than naughty. Wasn't cool but was popular amongst peers across all groups and walks of life. High school was pretty darn sweet for me.

[leenziepops]

Apr 20, 2015 15:55:14 GMT -5 ThePalindromicOne said:

High School: I went to a fairly big public school - graduated with 505 in my senior class. I was a 4.0 student, captain of the cheerleading team, and a baseball groupie. I didn't do drugs or smoke, and I started occasionally drinking alcohol just prior to my senior year of high school. I wouldn't say I was Miss Popular, but I wasn't an outcast either. I was perfectly happy being a middle of the pack kinda gal.

College: I went to a large public Big 10 University (bet you can't tell which one =P). While I had the time of life in my dorm and my sorority and houses with lots of partying, smooching slut days, no real drugs in my life, I'd really have to say my glory years followed college in graduate school.

I always thought  captain of the cheerleading team would put you right up there on the popularity ladder! (BTW, I'm fascinated by the cheerleading thing and demanded that it was my theme for my Bachelorette night just so i could wear a cheerleader's outfit out and about. LOL. clubbing in sneakers BEST THING EVER but except everyone thought I was 19 getting married)

[apollo11235]

I was sort of a confusing character in high school and college. I wanted to rebel socially, but loved school and was intent on doing well and going on to college/grad school. So I hung out with the goth crowd in high school, got kicked out of class for talking, smoked a moderate amount of weed (and cigarettes), snuck out of the house and off the closed high school campus, dated older guys, started drinking fairly early, threw a party or two while my parents were out of town... BUT I was in advanced/Honors/AP classes, and no shenanigans occurred unless my homework was done. I did gymnastics in high school (and competitively outside of school) but no sports in college, and I never played an instrument.

[dogmama22]

Apr 20, 2015 15:55:14 GMT -5 ThePalindromicOne said:

College: I went to a large public Big 10 University (bet you can't tell which one =P). While I had the time of life in my dorm and my sorority and houses with lots of partying, smooching slut days, no real drugs in my life, I'd really have to say my glory years followed college in graduate school.

Was it OSU?

[dogmama22]

I guess I was a bit of a lost soul in high school. I started out freshman and sophomore year in color guard, but never loved it or felt like I had good friends there so I left junior year. I was really involved with the service club all four years and served as "co-president" my junior year, which was interesting. Senior year, the advisor found out I was also a member of young republicans so she said she was "worried I wouldn't have enough time to serve as president anymore." Umm, we had like one event a year with YR, but ok. Junior year I did cross country, gymnastics and track and was actually a pretty good distance runner, not so much good at the gymnastics. Senior year I dropped the running as well and just did the gymnastics because it was fun. My grades varied with my moods and by class. Most of my friends were from our youth group so we were pretty tame, but did look for the occasional trouble. All of the girls worked together at a local restaurant where we did find a bit of trouble with the slightly older guys who worked there.
College was much more fun. DH and I met in middle school and started dating within the first few days of college. He was in a fraternity and I joined a sorority. The sorority was fun once and a while, but I spent most of my time playing mom at the fraternity. I pretty much moved into that place and those guys are still our best friends. Junior year of college I started student teaching and missed out on a lot of the fun experiences from being on campus, which was rough. Freshman and sophomore year were awesome, though!

[Deleted]

In high school I was a B student artist type. Not super popular but not unpopular. More like I was into my own crowd of friends and we did our own thing. I went to a high school of the performing arts school that was pretty progressive for it's day. This is going to date me so bad as a 90s HS girl but I loved music and would go to shows on school nights ( sneaking out) and on weekends. I saw nirvana live back in the day, pearl jam, minor threat, siousxie and the banshees, ACDC, fugazi, red hot chili peppers. I was really into punk bands. I was also hard working so I worked nights at a restaurant 4 nights a week while in HS. I honestly don't know how I did all that and maintained my grades! Smoked some weed and drinking but not anything out of control.

For college I went to a private art school and graduated with a bachelors in fine arts degree. Hense my career as a design director for a large company now. I worked my ass off. My friends and I refer to our college experience as a Russian gymnastics school to explain how hard it was. Just a lot of tedious projects that kept you up all night that the teachers liked to give at the last minute and if you flaked or didn't do it they made it clear they would fail you. So there was no room for error. Not a lot of time to party. We all missed out on the typical college experience since there were no dorms or frat parties.

[musicfrk2002]

Band Geek here. I pretty much lived in the band room my junior and senior years. Junior year I remember being in our wind ensemble (alto sax), both jazz bands (alto sax/trombone) and orchestra (viola) because why not. Senior year was wind ensemble (oboe), freshman band (tuba), and our top jazz band (alto sax). When I wasn't in a music class I was in AP classes, mostly B's due to being completely unmotivated to do any homework or studying.

Also was on our tennis team, made varsity my senior year

[carolyngrace]

These are fun to read!

I went from popular crowd to pothead crowd after my sophomore year of HS. I had gotten my heart broken and was depressed and angry. So the last couple of years of HS I was always skipping class, doing drugs, and slutting it up. However by the end of senior year, many of my old "good/popular" friends were at the same parties I was at, and the worlds kind of merged. It was interesting (also, small town, so I guess it was bound to happen).

In college I was pretty average! Just trying to figure out who I really was and integrating my faith a bit more into my life. I was always a good student.

ETA: I was a really good swimmer in HS and probably could have swam at the college level. But when I went off the deep end, that did too. It's probably my biggest regret about high school. 

[littlemissgrump]

I stayed pretty busy in high school. I played volleyball, basketball, and softball. I was in JrROTC and Fire Cadets where I trained at the fire station for 2 periods a day. I had a close knit group of friends but was friends with a bunch of other groups due sports and cadets. I never partied but did go to a lot of concerts with friends and had a lot of non-drinking get togethers. I had to keep my grades up and stay out of trouble to be in fire cadets and participate in sports.

I didn't go to college until I was 20 but I joined the greek system right away. I am glad I was older when I joined because I can see that I would have gotten into a lot more shannagins that way. As it was I partied and drank a lot and had a few too many hook-ups. I definitely made lots of bad choices but got good grades. I am glad I had the experience but I kinda wish I took it a little more seriously and got a degree a little more sparkly than Leisure Studies!

[wegrowsheep]

I was in 4H, FFA, and had 30+ sheep my senior year. And band.
College- learned to play tuba for marching band, and drank like a fish for most of my sophomore year. Graduated on Dean's List by the grace of God, lol.

[cnumbers]

Mine wasn't glory years at all . I was bullied all through school so I don't have great memories. I will probably elaborate on this. I'm only 20 so I haven't even really done college yet. I'm hoping I can even with a little one. Although I don't know what I want to do. High school was just a mess for me, I was so depressed.. Although the grades I did get are good enough for me to go to college. I had just started college last August when we got our first house together. Then I discovered I was pregnant with this little one. Fast forward to now and my doctor recommended I take time to rest, so signed me off from college.. I don't see me going back for a few years. Plus what I was studying wasn't what I wanted to do I realised.

[ThePalindromicOne]

Apr 20, 2015 18:41:25 GMT -5 leenziepops said:

Apr 20, 2015 15:55:14 GMT -5 ThePalindromicOne said:

High School: I went to a fairly big public school - graduated with 505 in my senior class. I was a 4.0 student, captain of the cheerleading team, and a baseball groupie. I didn't do drugs or smoke, and I started occasionally drinking alcohol just prior to my senior year of high school. I wouldn't say I was Miss Popular, but I wasn't an outcast either. I was perfectly happy being a middle of the pack kinda gal.

College: I went to a large public Big 10 University (bet you can't tell which one =P). While I had the time of life in my dorm and my sorority and houses with lots of partying, smooching slut days, no real drugs in my life, I'd really have to say my glory years followed college in graduate school.

I always thought  captain of the cheerleading team would put you right up there on the popularity ladder! (BTW, I'm fascinated by the cheerleading thing and demanded that it was my theme for my Bachelorette night just so i could wear a cheerleader's outfit out and about. LOL. clubbing in sneakers BEST THING EVER but except everyone thought I was 19 getting married)

Haha! Well I did go to Sadie Hawkins dance with the captain of the football team and occassionally made out with the other captain, so i had that going for me! I love that you had a cheerleader themed event! I bet it was so cute!