High School doesn't mean anything!!!

[steppinthrax]

So I'm 32 now, I found my H.S. yearbook from the class of 2000. I have most of my H.S. alumni on facebook. It's pretty interesting seeing the contrast of where they were in H.S. and where they are now!!!!!

-The H.S. bully who was big shit works in construction making a few hundred dollars a week and was on facebook recently crying about how he makes so little due to child support payments and his vehicle is becoming shit!

-A stuck up girl who did very well for herself, was in the high social bee, she now works for the Dollar Store.

-A whole slew of jocks working mediocre jobs (wage based, low autonomy).

-One person is incarcerated, popular kid (another big shit).

-One other person I knew was a genius, he would build circuits etc.... His grades were much better than me! He achieved a near perfect SAT score. Now he's installing residential solar panels on top of roofs.

-Many other examples that include most of the 260 or so graduating class.

-One person got into the Naval Academy. Made a big deal about it, bragged about it to my face!!! A few months later I saw him at Advance Auto Parts in rough shape. I asked him about the Naval Academy, he mumbled and said he was at community college!!!!

The H.S. I went to made a huge deal about the performance of the students. The school had an above average SAT score, high average GPA and high number of valedictorians. They published this data on the front of the yearbook to show how good their students were. Yet many of them went to community college and/or in general ended up mediocre.

 

[NetWareHead]

Out of curiosity, what was your standing in HS vs now?

 

[steppinthrax]

Out of curiosity, what was your standing in HS vs now?

Social or Academic?

 

[dabuddha]

Social or Academic?

both.

 

[Drako]

Why so bitter?

 

[NetWareHead]

Social or Academic?

Both? Preferably judging yourself with the same criteria you are looking at your HS peers.

 

[Kadarin]

Social or Academic?

Both, given that you're alluding to both in your original post.

 

[steppinthrax]

I'll be honest

I was the nerd in H.S.

Yes, Low socially. My graduating GPA was around a 3.6...

 

[Pantoot]

How does a school have a "high number of valedictorians"?

 

[madoka]

If I were to look back at my high school, most of the smart kids went on to college and graduate schools. They have good paying professional jobs now. The dumb kids ended up working at gas stations, car washes and other menial jobs.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

On the other hand, at my school, the popular kids were the smart ones.

 

[steppinthrax]

How does a school have a "high number of valedictorians"?

Straight A's all the way down the line.

They hung their portraits all around the cafeteria (entire perimeter) to show off the quantity.

 

[Slew Foot]

i havent kept up with many people from HS. My friends were mostly from the top 5% of the class, most seem to be doing well enough.

 

[steppinthrax]

If I were to look back at my high school, most of the smart kids went on to college and graduate schools. They have good paying professional jobs now. The dumb kids ended up working at gas stations, car washes and other menial jobs.

I went on to graduate school as well, receiving a M.S.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

I don't think I could find my HS yearbook if I wanted to.

We had an absurdly high graduation and college attendance rate, though, and lived in a ritzy suburb, so I'm sure most of the classmates I gave two shits about are doing pretty well for themselves.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Straight A's all the way down the line.

They hung their portraits all around the cafeteria (entire perimeter) to show off the quantity.

Might just mean you lacked academic rigor.

 

[steppinthrax]

Might just mean you lacked academic rigor.

I was responding to the previous person's thread who questioned valedictorian quantity.

Personally I don't care, I'm doing well.

If you saw what many of them are doing today, you would be surprised if I told you they were valedictorians.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

If I were to look back at my high school, I have had literally no contact with a single person I went to high school with since college. I've seen a couple show up in the news randomly; one is a lawyer and one is an assistant coach at a local school. Apart from that, I have no idea, so I'm forced to assume they've all banded together to form a fearsome gang of space pirates.

 

[z1ggy]

It's true, most of the "popular" people from high school are nobodies now.

I was fortunate enough to hang with the jock crowd and still be smart. I'm pretty sure I make more than almost all my friends back from high school.

But yeah, OP is a bit bitter. Curious what he does now.

 

[steppinthrax]

It's true, most of the "popular" people from high school are nobodies now.

I was fortunate enough to hang with the jock crowd and still be smart. I'm pretty sure I make more than almost all my friends back from high school.

But yeah, OP is a bit bitter. Curious what he does now.

I believe I posted in here a few months ago.

I work in IT, I'm a software developer. I work from home. I do mainly 1099. combined I pull down around $260 a year.....

 

[Imp]

As far as I know, no one's done anything exceptional from college or high school -- one died of cancer at ~25 though. We're all mediocre, yay!

 

[pontifex]

and this is news how?? this has been happening since like forever....they even make movies about this kind of thing...

 

[Platypus]

Judging by your thread title it sounds like you're right.

 

[Printer Bandit]

Remember that girl from HS that was hot as fuck? Well, she's still hot as fuck today. Tip my hat to her.

 

[Carson Dyle]

And then there's the kid who always sat in the back, nobody really knew his name, but they did kind of wonder if he might bring a pipe bomb to school one day.

Fifteen years later he's still reliving the slights of high school like they were yesterday...