Have any of you been watching on VH1's My Coolest Years?

So, besides being in the closet in school, were you a ...

B-Boy or B-Girl

One of the Rich Kids

I can see Gator Jamie be this ... One of the Bad Girls

One of the Jocks or Cheerleaders

A Dirty Hippie

A Thrashing Metalhead

or were you like me, a Geek.

Even what you did on your summer vacation & how your first time went down ... so to speak.

It's fun watching this and going down memory lane, but I'm glad I am NOT in high school anymore.

What about you guys? Did you fit any of the cliques (besides being a closet case.) ?

Band geek here.

and here!

3 for 3! Band geeks unite! :cool:

I left band after the 8th grade - I was the token boy in the clarinet section - and became a theatre nerd in high school. It really raised my popularity, though ... all of a sudden I was good at something and by the time I was a senior, people really liked me. See what happens when you leave the band!! :cool:

Come on!! No one was a hippie nor a jock?!?!!! We can't be all band geeks!!

I was a geek, but not a band geek.

My claim to geekdom, was being on the debating team.

I remember the year the school decided academic teams, like debate, could letter just like the athletic team.

That really pissed the jocks off.

You could letter in the arts at my high school. But our sports teams sucked, so no one was too jealous. The arts wing was where it was at!!

I had to work part-time in highschool to support the single-parent income. I didn't have time for "school spirit". I had a swimmer's build cuz I was a swimmer. I could talk to cute girls and teach senior jocks the understanding of computer programming. So I didn't get beat up. I didn't go to dances not even my own prom. My entire desire was to get the paper and escape all other trivial rights of passage. I didn't have time for music. Though my best friend was in orchestra so we could get in a play with synthesizers during our open periods. I refused to wear school branded clothing. I was really confused by liking girls and boys. There was the super-buff 4.0GPA cute swimmer my size that was checking me out at practices. Then there was the cute female twin that told me I looked nice in Spanish class. I just forced everyone to a safe distance. From that distance I could still be fun to talk to and be around. I could still concentrate and learn. I just remember being really bored in high school. I grew weary of being treated like a child by adults dumber than a lot of students. That and going out to local shows in basements and small clubs to see bands until wee hours. The catharsis and original music surplanted the need for drugs. So I made it.

I don't fit any of those categories. I spent most of my time in school by myself, counting down the days until I could leave.

Based on the choices given here, I would have to say I fall into the jock category. I was the second guy in my class to letter as a sophmore, with a state meet qualifying time in swimming the first meet of the year back in the fall of 1985.

I was actively involved in student council and was editor of the school newspaper as well. But I was somewhat geeky as well taking several AP classes and begin involved with activities like model U.N.

I do think most people at my school would have put me in with the jocks....

Mike

Do you think Jim and Cyd, our fearless leaders, were the jocks during their coolest years?

To paraphrase the famous description of the 1960's: if you can remember your high school years, you didn't live through them. wink I was a hybrid (as were most people): a jock on the track team and a hippie/drug user--and like any good hippie, I always shared whatever stash I had.

~Adam

Just seems too hard to group yourself into one category. In all 4 years of high school I lettered on the swim team, and I was in the band. 2 of the years I was class president. I took AP courses but at my high school the smart kids were most popular. I had a car at 16 so maybe that helped? I kinda hung with all the groups. Swimmers weren't really thought of as jocks at my school only football, basketball & baseball. I started going to gay bar senior year and rumors kinda started flying cause some chick saw me out. But I never lost any friends or got any shit about it.

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I had friends in all the circles pretty much. But most of my free time was devoted to fottball in the fall, basketball in the winter and baseball in the spring so if I fell more into the jock category.

Sounds like my first couple of years at University (in rural Nova Scotia). 4 of us started to drink Tequila about noon on Friday. I remember (vaguely) phoning for pizza about 6pm. The next distinct memory I have is Sunday morning, and I woke up in bed with 2 men and I was in Boston.
Apparently I earned the nickname "Amazing Grace" that weekend. I just with I could remember some of it.

And I have not drank hard liquor to this day!!

Me too, although it had more to do with my parents having made me play clarinet because they had. If I could've played something "cool" like drums, who knows?

I was kind of a theater nerd in high school, but also a student council geek -- and mostly a school paper geek, all four years. (Plus French Club and Ecology Club -- yeah, it was that long ago. ) I was on the fringe of a lot of quasi-cliques but not really hard-core in any, because I kept everybody at a bit of a distance (a habit that continued long into adulthood -- and yeah, the closet had something to do with that eek! ).

[quote]Lksimcoe:
[QUOTE]Sounds like my first couple of years at University (in rural Nova Scotia). 4 of us started to drink Tequila about noon on Friday. I remember (vaguely) phoning for pizza about 6pm. The next distinct memory I have is Sunday morning, and I woke up in bed with 2 men and I was in Boston.
Apparently I earned the nickname \"Amazing Grace\" that weekend. I just with I could remember some of it.

And I have not drank hard liquor to this day!! [/quote]Man, what a story! I have had nights without any recollection of what happened but a whole weekend? I too finally gave up hard liquor after one too many nights like that during high school and throughout my college years. I couldn't stand the motification of not remembering a damn thing about the night before anymore!

Getting back on topic, I was definitely a jock in high school, an all-girls' school, and was nominated all-catholic 7x (soccer, softball and basketball). But I was also a bit of a trouble-maker, part of the student gov't. and a decent student, in love every year with one of my female teachers, and at the same time convinced I was called to be a nun!

For high school I was a scholarship student at a prestigious boarding school in Mass. Boy, did that suck. I missed NYC, where my family lives.
And I was awkward and geeky and trying to outgrow my Steve Urkel phase. And being around bratty rich kids all day wasn't fun.

But by the end I was on student council and achieved some minor level of popularity. But I never did shake off the geekiness, as evidenced by my AP classes.

After graduation I went to college back in NYC, got some contacts, started bulking up, and found all my inner fabulousness.

Although I would hesitate to call high school my coolest years, I definitely floated in between groups. I think that the geeks thought of me as a jock because I lettered in sports every year. However, the jocks, especially from the track team, thought of me as a geek because I had good grades and took advanced level classes. Neither group was disrespectful about it though, so I was able to float in between groups without feeling uncomfortable. I think I still do that -- floating between social spheres -- to this day.

I am one of those people who would never, never, EVER call my high school years "the coolest".

Picture me then. 5'9, 120 lbs, curly red hair, thick tortoise shell glasses, and the cherry on top was my father made me carry a briefcase. Add to that musical talent, and generally sucking at team sports.

Now, stir in a rural high school, with my parents having above average incomes (and the biggest house in the town at that time), and I was a target. I hated high school, and damn near killed myself over some things that happened.

University was better, but still not the coolest.

My coolest year?

The first year I moved to Toronto after University. My second night there I went to a Leather bathhouse called The Barracks (this was 1979), bought the largest bottle of lube they had, and climbed into a sling. (I hadn't had sex in 2 years by that point).

Looking back it probably wasn't the best choice for a night out, but I was an out gay young man, living in the heart of the gay village, had finally dealt with the murder of my lover, and was having fun.

And I never looked back.

Just goes to show you Hate and Ignorance is everywhere, so sorry Lake Simcoe.

I swam all thru high school and was sports editor of the school paper, but I'd hardly call those the best years of my life so far. That I'd reserve for my mid-20s, right after I got out of the Navy and had finished u-grad and had come out. I was living in Ann Arbor, making decent money managing a small business, traveling for work when I wanted to, and generally just reveling in being free from military and college life.

My first years of practicing law in SF were pretty fun, too, but even then I reflected on the period between u-grad and law school, when I was footloose and fancy-free, as a time of true relaxation. I relived a bit of that when I took a sabbatical from work in 99-00, but it wasn't as good as my time in A2. That's why I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for Michigan - and why I'll always be rooting for the Victors Valiant in one sport or another. :cool:

I was the high school fag. High school basically sucked for me and not in a good way. I couldn't wait to get out. And I was a band fag as well