Interesting dynamic in my HS. The “popular” group were the jocks, cheerleaders and affluent kids. I hung out with an adjacent group of the smart kids who were athletes, but not in the popular sports like football and basketball (we were pretty much the soccer team). I was friends with many kids in the popular group but my close friends were the smaller group of athletic nerds who ended up going to Duke, Cornell or studied engineering at UD. We spent Saturday nights playing Risk, pool or ping pong vs drinking beer or smoking weed at some permissive parents’ house. All in all, I enjoyed high school and am still friends with many of my classmates.
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