<p>I was a Band Geek (oboe and english horn), and proud of it. We hung out in the band room all the time…we hated the cafeteria</p>
<p>My friends were from all walks, cause the band kids were kewl</p>
<p>So what were you and are you still that way?
I am still a bit of a geek/nerd/dork type</p>
<p>But I am still kewllll</p>
<p>Indie artistic kid. But I also played a lot of sports and ended up being in charge of our rallies so lotsa people knew me as well. Im am still very much an indie artistic kid.</p>
<p>I was a fringe kind of person. Not driven enough to be an intellectual nerd. Was on the drill team, but they were desperate for warm bodies when I tried out. I suppose, as the winner of way too many quiet awards, I was the silent type. (please note the irony of a silent type having a daughter who is unable to stop talking)</p>
<p>I was president of the Science Club (I really was). That should tell you everything about my social standing in high school.</p>
<p>And nothing has changed. Today I work as a scientist.</p>
<p>Well I was in high school in the late 60’s & I guess I was a revolutionary. Started an underground newspaper. Had an SDS-kind of thing going. Me & 2 others, living in the midst of a jocks & cheerleaders world.</p>
<p>No surprises here. I was a “stopped by the cops and searched twice a week longhaired unrepentant sinner”. Wasn’t that political. Just your typical wouldn’t go to prom, pep rallies, awards banquets, class…kinda high schooler. Wore the same ol blue jeans, flannel shirts, chukka boots with no socks. Read Mother Earth News (is that right? ads for wood burning stoves, back to the land movement?Not the catalog, this was a magazine) and Rolling Stone, Thompson and Vonnegut. My wife said after hearing high school friends of mine describe the 17 year old me that I was the “kind of guy she would have avoided like the plague”. That’s about right.</p>
<p>I was a responsible bookworm that was into every club and activity you could imagine - tried out for sports, majorette, but didn’t make it. Walked on in college and was a jock there, finally, even serving on IM Board, and was Sprots editor of the newspaper. Editor of literary magazine in HS. Guess what my major was???</p>
<p>really smart, nice kid/jockette</p>
<p>another responsible bookworm, but not a jock. in lots of clubs because I wanted to go to a good college, but very shy and lonely. I did write for an underground newspaper, however, as well as for the school newspaper.</p>
<p>theatreperson/ski freak with a soupcon of pure nerd</p>
<p>In a word: Confused? I’m not sure. Maybe? I just don’t know…:)</p>
<p>Jack of all trades, master of none. I was a band geek, edited the school newspaper, and was a joiner for any club that would have me (which excluded anything athletic 
). Was aware of lots of cliques, had friends in most of them, but didn’t feel part of any of them. I was a pretty straight arrow most of the time, and still am.</p>
<p>And today … I’m still trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. Meanwhile, I teach piano and write freelance. My degree is in nursing…</p>
<p>drama rama, hippie wannabe very much an activist! I fought city hall when the parking behind my HS school was eliminated. We WON. I didn’t even have a car Still have lots of opinions…and I’m mostly in sales!</p>
<p>Ditto on confused. </p>
<p>Jock who didn’t really like the jock crowd. Hung out with another like-minded jock, a bandgeek who didn’t really like the bandgeek crowd and a cheerleader who didn’t really like the cheerleader crowd. We were all four pretty much square pegs with those respective groups because we <em>gasp</em> were relatively intelligent, liked school and actually had college plans. At our HS, that made us, well freaks is too strong, but definitely unusual. LOL. </p>
<p>Activism?? The only activism at our school happened when Louisiana briefly considered raising the drinking age to 21 (that didn’t happen until years later), and some students began a letter-writing campaign. Not sure why we even cared, it’s not like anybody was enforcing the 18 y.o. limit! </p>
<p><em>sigh</em> Being a teenager in south Louisiana – laissez les bons temps rouler indeed. </p>
<p>Being the PARENT of a teenager in south Louisiana back then? I can’t imagine how mine did it with as much good humor as they showed.</p>
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Physics! No, wait. Did you go J-school or English?</p>
<p>I hung out in the school newspaper room, with lengthy forays into the orchestra room, and several sojourns with the drama crowd.</p>
<p>Just a regular really smart girl. On the debate team. Since mine was an all girls high school, we didn’t have much stratifcation. Only the best 1 or 2 athletes had the “jock” handle. We didn’t have band, newspaper etc. There were a couple of <em>bad</em> girls, though ;). In my day and place, rolling up your uniform skirt and applying eye makeup in the restroom before leaving school at 3pm could easily qualify you as a “bad girl.” Whoever was doing <em>worse</em> stuff than that kept it to herself.</p>
<p>I was a “brain” who spent lots of time in the school newspaper room, but I was involved in everything else except sports: visual art, select choir, orchestra and band (violin and sax), tutoring of ESL students. Loved it all. Wore my black armband to protest the war. </p>
<p>Haven’t changed much! Didn’t have short-term memory loss then, though. ;)</p>
<p>Kind of a hippie girl. Flannel shirts in the cold weather, t-shirts in the warm weather. Very much a feminist. handed out political flyers for a democrat for senator and a republican for govenor at the same time. Not real interested in school - I wanted to get out in the real world. Speaking of Mother Earth News, my to-be husband and I answered an ad in there and moved to upstate NY to live on an old farmhouse and do repairs in place of rent.</p>
<p>Bookworm/hard-working at being a student (not sure whether responsible. irresponsible or non-responsible), played in the orchestra (we didn’t have a band but I did play in the band in college)</p>
<p>My H says he was a super jock hero who brought his soccer teams to championships in Ireland, but as for classes, he doesn’t remember that much</p>
<p>He was a bit of a bad boy, but in a Catholic Irish School, that could be having long hair</p>
<p>I was a very hip dresser though, I had Earthboots, socks that matched my vests, with my knickbocker pants…also desert boots, big old fat down jackets (lived in Upstate NY as well), and lived in my redtag levis</p>
<p>My band instruments needed cigarette papers to dry the pads, so I was kewl, I had contraband in my oboe case</p>