Mostly fighting games. Street fighter, Mortal Kombat, King of Fighters. Either at the arcades or at home. We branched out a bit in playing Magic the Gathering and D&D as well , but video games were always number one.
No one liked me. I had about 3 friends. I played basketball but I did not fit in with the jocks. I was smart but not nerdy enough for the smart kids. I wasn't cool. I was a musician, but not a stoner or a big drinker. Basically, I hated high school and was glad the second it was over.
Honestly, that is just sad. Most of my best friends I still know from high school, or some iteration of it. We had a group that was 60 strong when I graduated. And considering I went to literally dozens of schools before I found Bellaire, I can say that the locale of a school does make a difference.
When I was at Magnolia (Freshman and Sophomore year), there were tons of people from all over, so cliques were hard. I hung around with a group of about 20 kids that were jocks/nerdy/skaters/whatever. I basically straddled the line of most of the school cliques. When I moved to New York, my Junior year, people knew me as "Texas." It was weird because all of a sudden kids from all over the county knew who I was (that's what a county of like 100,000 will do for you.). There, I also straddled all the cliques, with many friends that were jocks, punks (or skaters), and nerdies. It's funny how once high school ends, cliques are pretty much done,
Not really. Cliques in college and even office politics still go on. Adults are somewhat more tolerant of others not in their cliques but I've noticed people still tend to clump together in cliques well past adolescence. One other thing is that people in general perceive themselves as being less locked into a clique than others might. So while we might say that we transcended cliques or were in multiple cliques since we would hang out occasionally with people in other groups others might not think so. Since afterall a cheerleader might talk to the president of the chess club every now and and then that doesn't mean that either would be considered being part of each others clique.
I agree with all your points. About the cliques being pretty much done thing, I was speaking about how once you graduate high school (from my perspective, I graduated a year and a half ago), you see someone that graduated with you, and no matter how much you talked to them in high school, they're friendly towards you - like you've always been friends. Or maybe that's just me...
i guess i was in some sort of my own clique. my senior year i was the only indian guy in my grade and the two grades below me. (there were like 5 indian girls in the entire school and one other indian guy who was a freshman when i was a senior) so i was like the school novelty item. but i was one of the smart guys who took a bunch of ap classes so i knew all the smart kids but since i was the only indian and somewhat of a smart mouth i was kind of known all around the school. i hung out with the same 4-5 guys most of the time who were i guess kind of the guys who never did anything, no sports, no clubs no nothing. my best friend was the only other really smart guy in the group we just hung out really the 5 of us. played ball, goldeneye and caused general disarray and chaos. the thing i remembered that did suck was that since i was the "popular" one in the group i would get invited to all the parties but my friends wouldnt and if they crashed people would get upset since they werent invited and not part of the "in crowd" and i didnt even like the "in crowd" people but i kept going because there were a crap load of cute girls, free drinks and it was a sure fire way to get some.
It's not sad to me. I'm thrilled because I'm happy with the friends I have now. [rant] I went to a religious high school. Most of the people I knew are now either living in the suburbs with their kids active in their church or actually in the ministry. I literally am still friends with two people from my graduating class - one is my CPA and the other is a guy I've been friends with since kindergarten. I seriously doubt I'll go to my 20-year reunion (coming up - ugh) because I have very little interest in knowing what most people are doing. No offense to them or anything. My life just evolved in a completely different direction. After I left, the instituted a strict dress and hair code and fired the best teacher in school because he wasn't religious enough (teaching English lit). I've been back to one homecoming (the first year after I graduated to see friends still there) and for two career days 4 or 5 years ago. My cousin's wife is still the counselor and she and I NEVER saw eye to eye on anything. She actually acosted me at my grandfather's funeral to debate politics - they're conservative and I'm obviously not. I liked a lot of people in school, but I had zero in common with them the minute I graduated. I look back on high school as something I just had to deal with and move on. I am MUCH MUCH happier as an adult with friends I chose because of interests or personality, not because they were wedged into a little school I went to for four years. [/rant] Oh, and if you think I'm overreacting, ask St. Louis. He knows.
I tend to agree and disagree with a lot of the above posts. Look, I am a dick. I'm fully aware of it, but I'm nice to anyone who doesn't try to be an alpha-male in front of me. I'm not saying that I don't have great friends who may try, but it is the only thing that will make me ostracize you. Being nerdy or dorky means absolutely nothing to me these days. I'm welcome to enjoy your friendship.
Actually, I find this both sad and sort of refreshing. Besides I'm too damn old and concerned with other things to think about who the alpha male is in my group of friends. Last time I checked, no one had tried to piss on my possessions or club my girlfriend over the head, so I'm not too worried about it.
My closest friends in HS were the smarter crowd. Graduating 5th and 7th, etc, in a class of 600. Doctors now. I would be the dumbest of the bunch. Hehe. I was also in band but only hung out with a handful of those people. I was more math and science club. My best friends remain the two I knew from 3rd grade and 8th grade. I have some friends from college but not a lot. The rest of my good friends I knew from throughout my working life. Not sure how cliques work as adults but those friends from work would have been from all sorts of cliques growing up. Long, haired rocker dudes to jocks. I guess in our case the cliques did sort of fade since sports is a big thing in common for all of us.
We unfortunately are from two different worlds. I met you at the Smeggy thing. My opinion of you was that you were shy. I'm sure that your opinion of me was "obnoxious." And I'm fine with it all. The one thing I know we agree upon is that we are Rockets fans, and Houstonians. And, believe it or not, I'd take your back in any situation, (although, chances are that's close to 1/million) I will say that anyone who has ever met me in person knows damn well that I behave exactly the same as I do here. Jeff, I still luv ya!
I went to a small high school so there really weren't that many groups. The kids I hung out with more mostly athletes. I played basketball so a lot of the kids I hung out with were on the team. Most of my friends were football players. Some of my other friends didn't play sports. They are all nice kids but some of them can be very annoying. I think it is because they were mostly all way too insecure. If I could go back I would have only hung out with a few of them.
