So after that little test thing on the left or right brained site thing. I was wondering what everyone else was (of course until I read what they posted hehe) and thought that this reminded me somewhat of those little things we do in high school that are in the year book. You know the Most likely to succeed and stuff. Sooooo I thought we should do our own little set of most likelies and see what we come up with.
I figure this will be a fun and unique way to pass the time and learn a little more about each other and how we perceive each other.
So I figure we all have great ideas, so we should all contribute. I'll put up a few that I thought of and you guys go ahead and do the same. We can post it in the form of polls so that we can keep it anonymous .. if we want lol.
Oh man I can't remember everyone ... I feel like such a dope.
haha, normally I don't mind. But just thought you would like to know...A lot of people put the extra E because they think shelly is short for Michelle, but it is not.
I was a complete geek in high school... I also worked to pay my own tuition. My parents moved when I was a sophomore, and the new public school was hideous. My junior and senior years were spent in a catholic high school, which was wonderful, but my parents could not afford the tuition, so I worked two part-time jobs to pay it myself, and to pay for a car to get myself there.
Most popular in high school, me? I don't think so, LOL. I had some nice friends but if you didn't drive a Corvette or some souped up sports car, you didn't make the "A-list". Damn school is still like that - my kids all went there too.
Edited to add - Jess, tmars and cocoluvme are the same person, I think. She just changed her user name once when she lost her password.
Well, since there were only 14 students (all girls) in my freshman class, and only 35 in my graduating class, it would be difficult to pick out a "most popular" from our population. Since we all lived together, we knew each other very well. I would say that it would be easier to pick out the VERY few who didn't quite fit in than it would be to pick out the opposite.
I was really, really, really SHY when I went off to that boarding school (not even quite 14 years old, since I have a November birthday), but blossomed fairly quickly. I was lucky enough to become a bit of a school leader, even in my freshman year, which NEVER would have happened in my HUGE co-ed public school (I can assure you), so I really credit the atmosphere at my boarding school, and my amazing classmates for giving me the chance to come out of hiding almost right away!
However, if forced to put a microscope to my senior classmates, I would say that I was not the most popular in our little bitty class. I can think of one girl who was officially given that title, back in The Dark Ages when these things actually appeared in yearbooks, there were several others who also come to mind (close friends of the one who wore the title), and my own former roommate of two years who was named Miss (name of school). She was also the head of the Honor Council which was the same thing as being the head of school. She deserved the honor!
If I had stayed at home, and had attended the huge neighborhood high school, I can say with confidence that I would have had plenty of friends, pretty much from all the different "groups" since I like everyone (geeks, artistes, class clowns, geniuses, etc., etc.), but would definitely NOT have been the most popular...!!!
I'm just grateful that I didn't have to fight any of those meaningless battles since my father was wise enough to find the right place for me. If I had gone to a different boarding school, it might have been a different outcome. I still count those as four of the best years of my life!
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By my senior year in high school I was editor in chief of our school paper. So I was known but wasn't really a part of any of the in crowds. I couldn't tell you who our Prom Queen was, though if I remember right our Prom King now plays for the New Jersey Nets. I guess I was more among the nerdy crowd since I spent my days working on the newspaper.
Last spring, I went back to my school for a very significant reunion, and a couple of the "girls" who probably wouldn't have been counted among the "most popular" were also there. While they hadn't been at the TOP of that superficial heap, they were certainly well liked; they were just quiet.
At lunch that Saturday, one of them told me that she always felt that everyone else around her was confident and accomplished, and she was actually shocked when I told her that I had been a shy person who had crawled out of my shell. (She had joined our class our junior year, so she hadn't known me from the beginning.)
The second woman (who also joined our class our junior year) has this wonderful aura about her that makes you immediately feel safe; she's very serene...
I can't tell you how much I enjoyed seeing these two women at our reunion. They are amazing! (The one who mentioned her feelings at lunch has worked at Virginia Tech for years, and the shooting on that campus was the day after she returned from our reunion.) It's hard to believe that these two women were, as girls, somewhat "invisible" back then because they're both so kind, so stable, so caring, and so interesting. It just underscores the fact that much of what we feel during those vulnerable years is shared by our classmates, whether we're aware of it or not.
That's why those kinds of "most popular" labels aren't worth remembering...
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