I was in the "regular" crowd. To give you an idea, I didn't wear preppy clothes, but at the same time, no one ever picked on me. I guess being taller/bigger (not much but still) than most wannabe people earned me some respect, if you can call that respect.
I tried to be funny, but it wasn't always working Don't ask me why, since I finished HS, it has happened a couple of times that I would go to a hockey game or something, and people would tell me to sit next to them because they said I was funny. I don't feel like I changed since HS, I just think it was because of one person in my group of friends that liked to think everything I did was stupid. The kind of guy that never liked my jokes, but would then go around and tell that joke to other people.
In my junior year, I wasn't going to the club or anything, and I kind of distanced from my friends when I got my first computer. I only began to party a little bit during the last 1.5 years and that's really when I became who I wanted to be (just being yourself and feeling good about your situation with other people). I was nice with everyone, but I never got personal with the girls though. I'd say this is the only thing I regret about high school.
I was getting good grades (graduated with 86% overall) but I wasn't a nerd. All my friends knew I was a computer geek, but the people that only knew me in school never saw that part of me.
I was very close with my personal friends, we would hang out all the time and we still refer to our senior year as the "good old days".
Three years after we graduated, all those guys are still my best friends in the world. One left town for university right after school (we all went to the local campus except him) so he kind of distanced himself from us. But that's it. Of course I have new friends now, but they will never ever replace those friends.