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Old 07-07-2008, 03:10 PM   #46
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I stay away from people who wear shirts 5 sizes to large, pants down to their knees, baseball cap with sticker still on it at a 45 degree angle, and $500 basketball shoes. Most of them are really bad at English, too.
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Old 07-07-2008, 03:28 PM   #47
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Well, in my school, I'm perceived as the "smart" kid who wears normal attire...

On special occasions, I do wear AE collars or whatever.

Haha, my lil bro was wearing an AE or Hollister shirt that was vibrant orange, so I called him a "starburst". lol
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Old 07-07-2008, 03:47 PM   #48
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modest mice: ferris beuller.

liist: i can read 1337, but i can't (or dont take the time to) write it. its a pleasure to "decode" though.
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Old 07-07-2008, 09:22 PM   #49
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My school has 'cliques' but they're not solid. People hang out with each other regardless of their 'clique'. I'm probably considered the "smart asian" since they're aren't many asians in my school compared to others. But we're not nerds or popular, we're just kind of in there. People make fun of us jokingly, not offensively.
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Old 07-07-2008, 09:36 PM   #50
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based on my clothes prep, based on who i hang out with, nerddd.
i hang out with the asians but wear lacoste/burberry/abercrombie/hollister with jeans and nice sandals
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Old 07-07-2008, 09:39 PM   #51
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^ You must be hella rich if you wear Lacoste and Burberry to school lol.
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Old 07-07-2008, 09:59 PM   #52
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I wear second-hand hand-me-down Burberry and Tims.
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Old 07-07-2008, 10:24 PM   #53
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My school doesn't really do the whole clique thing. However, there are social spheres (divided into levels of intelligence), but that's because people tend to make friends with people taking the same classes and isn't necessarily based on dress/income.
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Old 07-07-2008, 11:59 PM   #54
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My school is too big to have "popular" kids like the kind you see in Hollywood movies, but there are definitely people who are well-known among the school population. I wouldn't call myself popular, but I guess I'm well-liked by the people I do know.

I just dress like whatever, but I try to dress myself more like a lazy artsy indie type. My friends I hang out with dress, according to the rest of the school, like "rockers", so I guess I'm grouped in with them just because I hang out with them.

At my school, we have virtually little to no people rocking Abercrombie/Hollister/American Eagle (maybe it has to do with the extremely small white population + low income of most of the kids here). Nearly all the girls are freakishly stylish in the Forever 21-H&M-Wet Seal sense, while the boys stay fitted with Jordans, jerseys, white tees, and sidekicks around their necks.
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Old 07-08-2008, 12:11 AM   #55
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Well I fall into various classes, very diverse classes in fact:

1. Prep (way I dress, personality, talk, etc)
2. Jock (varsity swimming, water polo, weightlifting, working out)
3. Nerd (grades, math contests (amc, aime, usamo, arml, etc, etc), debate contests, political presentations, mun, hmc, mock trial, etc)
4. Popular (class president for three years running, etc)

But most people would classify me as a prep...
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Old 07-08-2008, 12:16 AM   #56
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I find that the most popular girls in my school are whores. Is this true for anyone else?
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Old 07-08-2008, 12:31 AM   #57
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Well, the whores are generally the group that gets talked about the most. So I guess that makes them the most popular?

Anyways, going to a Catholic school, attire usually has nothing to do with it..

I'm with the cross country/track kids, we all just hang out with each other for some reason, but our circle is usually open to the nearby groups, which include the indie kids, the rich druggies, and the theatre kids. It's much more deep than that, since some of the rich druggies are class whores, the indie kids are usually also theatre kids, the rich druggies attract the skaters, and let's not even get into all the random floaters that stay for a few months.

I used to be popular in a sense, class council freshman year and I talked to everyone. Now i'm "just there" in a sense, and I couldn't be happier. However, it does sting a bit when I don't get invited to the popular groups parties. Even though they pale in comparison to the parties the indie kids take me too, I can't help but feel shunned walking past their tables and bitter when all of the pictures are up on facebook/myspace. :[
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Old 07-10-2008, 10:44 AM   #58
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let us use the system of social class used in the days of President George Washington. So, lets see I weigh about 295 pounds. This means I am high upper class
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Old 07-10-2008, 11:18 AM   #59
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I think I am in multiple groups..
I would say I am in the popular group for the most part but I still go to study parties with the IB nerds and stuff. I have a lot of different styles as well...One day I would wear lacoste/abercrombie polo but another day jordan shirt and a new era hat or something. But I am friends with a lot of people since a lot of people know me. (being the Leadership Guy for several years and all)

but yeah, if I had to pick one, the "popular class."
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Old 07-10-2008, 11:41 AM   #60
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I'm the nerdy jock. I wrestle and hang out with a lot of the athletes at my school, but I'm the one who cares about school more than most of the other athletes. Only one other kid is similar to me by being an athlete and caring about school. I wear mostly AE or wrestling shirts and jeans or some basketball shorts(not the ones that go to start at my knees and end at my ankles).

Going to an all-guys school, cliques are not as common. Everyone does have their group that they hang out with on the weekend, but no group hates another group. In my class ('09), everyone is pretty chill with everyone else. Although many of us don't hang out together on the weekends, we generally are able to relate to each other. A handful of kids from different groups are unanimously hated by everyone in the school.

When we have an argument, it usually is over pretty quickly, and everyone is friends again within the week. My brother's class ('10) had tons of fights this year for stupid reasons.
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