High School doesn't mean anything!!!

[destrekor]

Students.

You seriously thought the age ranges were 25 - 30 for a high schooler?

No...

I was wondering if you were referring to people you knew in the 25-30 age bracket from your high school.

 

[Smoblikat]

Fuck my entire high school, with the exception of a few people. I hope they are all homeless and starving right now.

 

[edro]

Many popular kids in high school are popular because they are edgy.

They are either more aggressive, lead a more dangerous life (drugs, smoke, drink), stay out late, party, sleep around, focus too much of athletics, or any combination of these.
This is often due to a poor family life at home.

They peaked socially when standing out simply meant rebelling.
It's no surprise that these same people tend not to do as well as adults, since rebelling isn't beneficial for social and economic success.

 

[steppinthrax]

Yeah, but I didn't want to hurt OP's already fragile ego. His GPA and salary aren't bad, but their not great either. So, they are decent.

Last I checked that salary is in the 90th percentile (conservatively)

Once you entered and graduated college no one gives a shit about your H.S. GPA. I was asked this and provided it. I knew some in college that graduated with a 2.0 gpa, went to

Community College --> Good College --> Graduate School

 

[rh71]

Even the first bullet point shows precisely what has irked me for a long time. How do you become FB friends with people who were not your friends while in hs? Why do it? This is why people complain about FB not working out for them. They friend people they're not even friends with and then complain about what they see from these people they don't care about. Maybe the OP is viewing open profiles and not friends, I don't know.

This is an interesting thread though. From open profiles I've seen, jocks from my class became: a police officer (making 6 figures), gym teacher, a few self-employed, musicians, etc. and one particular bully probably makes enough owning his own used car business. A few really smart kids became: a NASA engineer (worked on that parachute for the last Mars landers), a Google engineer, a brain surgeon (valedictorian), a scientist turned SAHM, a small role in a big movie, and another on Broadway. Some people I couldn't stand became NYC finance people probably also making a lot of money. A good friend who used to manage McD's is now a franchisee for Planet Fitness. I haven't found anyone doing a dead-end job like a dollar store. It's probably because we're not in the middle of nowhere and were a solid middle to upper-middle class area with focus on schools. Only families willing to pay these exorbitant school taxes wanted to be here.

 

[madoka]

Last I checked that salary is in the 90th percentile (conservatively)

Don't worry. You're only 31. You've got plenty of time to increase your salary to something more respectable.

 

[z1ggy]

Even the first bullet point shows precisely what has irked me for a long time. How do you become FB friends with people who were not your friends while in hs? Why do it? This is why people complain about FB not working out for them. They friend people they're not even friends with and then complain about what they see from these people they don't care about. Maybe the OP is viewing open profiles and not friends.

This is an interesting thread though. From open profiles I've seen, jocks from my class became police officers (making 6 figures), gym teachers, self-employed, etc. and one particular bully probably makes enough owning his own used car business. A couple really smart kids became a Google engineer and another a brain surgeon. Some people I couldn't stand became NYC finance people probably also making a lot of money.

Because the more friends you have on fb, the cooler you are, duuuuhhhhhh...!

But yeah, OP only has a small sample size. I graduated with 400+, and most of my friends all do fine. I never had a bully really, because my friends and I were probably the bullies. I was also friends with geeky people, because I still managed to have half a brain and get into AP classes. Those people generally speaking, did better in life thus far than my non brain gifted friends.

However, that's not the end of the story. It's almost certain, my non brained friends had a better college experience, and quite possibly a better time in their 20's thus far. They likely made more friends, hooked up with more girls, and enjoyed life a bit more than my nerd pals. I can attest to this because I went to an engineering school and made friends with the most athletic people there, for the most part. We had the most fun, hands down. I had classmates who I knew sat around all weekend playing WoW or D&D. Even if they made more money now, don't you think they look back and think of the "bullies" having all the fun and getting more out of life?

It's not all about the money or the job you have, at any given time.

 

[steppinthrax]

Because the more friends you have on fb, the cooler you are, duuuuhhhhhh...!

But yeah, OP only has a small sample size. I graduated with 400+, and most of my friends all do fine. I never had a bully really, because my friends and I were probably the bullies. I was also friends with geeky people, because I still managed to have half a brain and get into AP classes. Those people generally speaking, did better in life thus far than my non brain gifted friends.

However, that's not the end of the story. It's almost certain, my non brained friends had a better college experience, and quite possibly a better time in their 20's thus far. They likely made more friends, hooked up with more girls, and enjoyed life a bit more than my nerd pals. I can attest to this because I went to an engineering school and made friends with the most athletic people there, for the most part. We had the most fun, hands down. I had classmates who I knew sat around all weekend playing WoW or D&D. Even if they made more money now, don't you think they look back and think of the "bullies" having all the fun and getting more out of life?

It's not all about the money or the job you have, at any given time.

I was in AP as well. I took AP Chem and AP Calc....

 

[z1ggy]

I was in AP as well. I took AP Chem and AP Calc....

Congrats...?

 

[SamQuint]

Straight A's all the way down the line.

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

You do realize the Valedictorian is the highest ranked person in your graduating class. This means there is only one per year. That is why the question was asked how a school could have many.

I assume you meant that the pictures represented the Valedictorians throughout your schools history? One for each year your school has been open?

 

[ControlD]

You do realize the Valedictorian is the highest ranked person in your graduating class. This means there is only one per year. That is why the question was asked how a school could have many.

I assume you meant that the pictures represented the Valedictorians throughout your schools history? One for each year your school has been open?

You can have more than one if they all end tied at rank #1. As I recall we had three students with perfect marks in my graduating class, so they were all named valedictorians.

 

[ponyo]

Don't worry. You're only 31. You've got plenty of time to increase your salary to something more respectable.

OP has something better. He has rental property. :hmm:

 

[NikolaeVarius]

You can have more than one if they all end tied at rank #1. As I recall we had three students with perfect marks in my graduating class, so they were all named valedictorians.

My school had like 6 kids with straight A+s. They had a vote to choose a single valedictorian based on extracurriculars and popularity.

It worked pretty well.

 

[SamQuint]

You can have more than one if they all end tied at rank #1. As I recall we had three students with perfect marks in my graduating class, so they were all named valedictorians.

Funny, my school had a long set of tie-breakers. There could be only one valedictorian. Sounds like the OP's school is giving away the honor like a participation award.

Did you have sit through 3 valedictorian speeches at your graduation ceremony. Man that would suck.

 

[SearchMaster]

I'm 47 and I can't think of a single person from high school that I know a single thing about. Well that's not entirely true...I was curious about a basketball player and Google'd him once, and found an article about him being "the world's tallest clock repairman". There was also another girl who ended up a modestly successful Hollywood actress (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0575977/, she was in the infamous Seinfield epi "The Switch") but has since retired. But I've lost contact with my high school friends and really couldn't care less.

But to the OP's point, he's right. Most of the truly financially successful people I know today struggled in high school and were neither popular nor book smart.

 

[highland145]

Because the more friends you have on fb, the cooler you are, duuuuhhhhhh...!

Damn, I'm doing it wrong. I don't FB.:$

 

[ControlD]

Funny, my school had a long set of tie-breakers. There could be only one valedictorian. Sounds like the OP's school is giving away the honor like a participation award.

Did you have sit through 3 valedictorian speeches at your graduation ceremony. Man that would suck.

LOL, yes I had to sit through three speeches.

I also graduated awhile ago (1988). The next year my school implemented some changes, mainly due to the bitter speech given by one of the above mentioned valedictorians. They went to some kind of weighted system depending on if the classes were college track or not. Two of the three valedictorians in my class were taking basically secretarial classes (typing, consumer math, etc.) while one was taking all AP type classes. He was more than a little pissed to be sharing his award I guess.

 

[dainthomas]

"I'm peaked in high school Rob Lowe."

 

[vi edit]

I'm 37. Most of the popular girls in my high school (small, rural town) now have asses the size of dumpsters and the popular guys went on to basic physical labor and construction sort of jobs and will likely be dead or close to it in the next 10 years from either heart disease or liver failure.

 

[preslove]

-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.
.

I bet he makes great money. I'd trade my office job for that in a second.

 

[ControlD]

I bet he makes great money. I'd trade my office job for that in a second.

I was thinking pretty much the exact same thing.

 

[HumblePie]

My school had like 6 kids with straight A+s. They had a vote to choose a single valedictorian based on extracurriculars and popularity.

It worked pretty well.

Not all schools do that. Most schools base it off GPA. The one with the highest GPA for the graduating class is valedictorian. If multiple students tie, they are all valedictorians.

I graduated with a 3.9 in both HS and college. Didn't care to have perfect 4.0. Doing well enough as is and I don't remember a single job asking what my GPA ever was.

As for my old high school graduates, I don't keep up with any of them really. I met one who was working as an assistant manager for Drury Inns. She was in some of my AP classes and was smoking hot back then and when I met her again. Actually she recognized me as I didn't remember her at first at all.

Personally I don't care too much about where people I was in highschool classes with ended up right now almost 20 years later. I'm pretty sure there are a few dead, some are losers, and some are doing well for themselves like I am. Even friends from high school I haven't really bothered to look up as they aren't friends with me since we all split ways back in high school. I'm pretty sure they are different people now and I am not sure we would still be friends. Maybe, and maybe not.

 

[Mixolydian]

High school is a fucking joke.

 

[Kadarin]

46 here, did reasonably well in high school, but I was something of an underachiever in that I didn't put maximum effort into it. After high school, I dropped out of college thanks to the fact that I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, then did nothing of note for the next 10 years. Now I'm an SRE for a tech firm and do very well.

In high school socially I was neither in with the popular crowd, nor was I hanging with social outcasts. I knew and was friendly with everyone. I haven't had anything to do (other than facebook) with anyone I went to high school with.

 

[JM Aggie08]

OP's responses are painful to read.