Thy Geekdom Come Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 [quote name='StThomasMore' post='1360836' date='Aug 16 2007, 11:31 PM']Wow... I'm not looking foreword to highschool...[/quote] STM, I've really got to tell you...you need to tone it down before you get to high school. Not meaning that in a judgmental way, but you're gonna get pummeled if you talk to seniors the way you sometimes post here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thy Geekdom Come Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 [quote name='Brigid' post='1360891' date='Aug 17 2007, 12:16 AM']do you pretend, or do you actually know a ton? and btw, iggy, if you are smart everyone notices but no one actually dislikes you for it. just so you know. [/quote] Well, I do actually know a ton, but I kinda boasted about it (probably pretended to know a little more than I did, too). I actually had a teacher take me out of class and yell at me for being so proud. I'm glad she did...believe it or not, I was way worse then. As for being smart and no one disliking you...yeah, it's true, as long as you don't boast. Oh, and stereotypes will be rampant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thy Geekdom Come Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 Let's see...my first day of high school...I can't remember it. I remember trying to be really cool (but I was a loser...couldn't help it). I had Tommy Hilfiger clothes (which I made my mom buy specifically for the occasion) and Doc Marten shoes. I had my hair spiked and I kept trying to act like everyone else: around the "dudes," I tried to be a dude, around the Jesus freaks, I talked about Jesus, around the cheerleaders, I tried to be dumb (okay, I'm not saying cheerleaders are dumb, my fiancee was one, but the first cheerleader I met in high school taped herself back-to-back with another cheerleader and tried walking around, only to fall into a trash can head-first). Last but not least, I remember my first Latin class...my teacher tried to make us do vocab drills on the first day. I can still hear her, "surgite...that means "rise"...go on, rise." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sojourner Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 What a great first day! I mean school smells of elderberries and all, of course, but all in all not too bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Wednesday Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 Basically, my first day and year of high school was summed up as: "DON'T DO ANYTHING STUPID! DON'T EVEN DO, SAY OR THINK ANYTHING EVEN REMOTELY STUPID! BLEND IN AND DISAPPEAR AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE!" My first day of high school was approximately 17 years ago.... wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sojourner Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 [quote name='Ash Wednesday' post='1361071' date='Aug 17 2007, 09:20 AM']Basically, my first day and year of high school was summed up as: "DON'T DO ANYTHING STUPID! DON'T EVEN DO, SAY OR THINK ANYTHING EVEN REMOTELY STUPID! BLEND IN AND DISAPPEAR AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE!" My first day of high school was approximately 17 years ago.... wow.[/quote] me too ... you graduated in 1994? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Wednesday Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 Yes ma'am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sojourner Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 [quote name='Ash Wednesday' post='1361074' date='Aug 17 2007, 09:22 AM']Yes ma'am. [/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Wednesday Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 Gotta love it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thy Geekdom Come Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 Wow...that's...wow...you're both old. I mean that with the most possible respect. ...old fluffy air extractions... I gradumatated high school in 2003. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Wednesday Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 [quote name='Raphael' post='1361078' date='Aug 17 2007, 10:25 AM']Wow...that's...wow...you're both old. I mean that with the most possible respect. ...old fluffy air extractions... I gradumatated high school in 2003.[/quote] Meh, whatever, diaper boy! Yep, 94...the year that OJ Simpson, Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan were all over the papers (yes, papers, NOT internet) and if you had a cell phone you were WEALTHY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaime Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 You're lucky to have preserved animals in jars. In my day, we had to dissect each other. I miss my gall bladder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totus Tuus Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 (edited) This is all very fascinating. I was homeschooled so these stories are like a movie! I did take quite a few classes outside of the house. The weirdest kids were in my high school computer science class, which I took at a community college. I was really nervous and eager to fit in, but as the classes went by I didn't really ease into it. It got a little better but I was very self-conscious the whole time. I had a girl with a really bad attitude (but she was pretty nice to me) on one side, and a boy who never spoke on the other. I had one of my best friend's neighbors across the way so that was some consolation. My favorite class besides Philosophy was dissecting/biology. We learned how to use microscopes. The teacher was a blast. She always called scissors "skissors"... it's nice when they have a good sense of humor, but all of my teachers in classes I took were nice to me if I was obedience to them, even if they didn't overall have a humorous attitude in general. But this biology teacher was great. We dissected cows' eyeballs, Australian earthworms, and some other things. We watched our eyeballs dilate in little compact mirrors when she turned the lights off and on. We learned how our pulses worked by running through the classrooms. It was great. Edited August 17, 2007 by Totus Tuus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thy Geekdom Come Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 [quote name='Ash Wednesday' post='1361080' date='Aug 17 2007, 10:27 AM']Meh, whatever, diaper boy! Yep, 94...the year that OJ Simpson, Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan were all over the papers (yes, papers, NOT internet) and if you had a cell phone you were WEALTHY.[/quote] Ah, yes, 94...the year I first learned about biomes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thy Geekdom Come Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 [quote name='Totus Tuus' post='1361088' date='Aug 17 2007, 10:35 AM']This is all very fascinating. I was homeschooled so these stories are like a movie![/quote] No, what's more like a movie was "Freshman Kill Day" hosted every year by the seniors. They would link arms together and stampede through the hall, trampling freshmen under their feet. Then there would be rumors flying around about poor innocent freshmen being duct taped upside down inside of bathroom stalls...and swirlies...oh, the humanity... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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