What type were you in high school

[johns0]

I was a stoner type.

[Moontrash]

nerd and brain are kinda the same, but for me, none of the above....I was quiet, kept to myself except during lunch(friends I ate with whom I still know to this day...20+ yrs later)..and after that, it was back to being semi-quiet and anonymous till school got out a 3..not a loner, just stayed outta the way

I just wanted to graduate and get the hell outta there..and I did when I was 17

[sum_guy]

I fit into multiple categories, I was the somewhat popular guy who played the unpopular sports, I was the guy who could problem solve and fix a friends car, I was the party guy who drank and occassionally got stoned. I was the pulling harmless pranks and sometimes got into trouble. I like to think I was well rounded in my youth.

[redwudz]

I had a lot of stoner friends. And a few jock friends, and some nerd friends and some brain friends and a few trouble maker friends. (That's what my parents said. ) Not sure where I fit in between them all. I left as soon as I had enough credits to go to a prep college for some real education.

[fritzi93]

I was a nerd/jock/stoner. You could be anything in the late sixties, or everything at once.

Cross-country running was an unpopular sport I guess, not a spectator sport at least. Our practices usually started with a 3 mile run on a winding loop road through woods. Several of us would hang back a bit, then duck into the woods to our stash for a doob and a couple beers (Piels Real Draft "quickies", 7 oz bottle that looked like a hand grenade.) Then a short cut and come out right behind the rest of the team (the straight arrows) to finish the warm-up run.

Coach figured it out finally and caught us, or maybe we got turned in. We did hill charges for a week solid, no warm-up run. We did all letter for the team though and always won our meets. All except one team from a much bigger school that we never did beat.

[gadgetguy]

I didn't really fit into any of the categories listed. I had friends from all of the different groups and no one ever had a problem with me showing up at any of their events, but I also wasn't on the invite list (if you know what I mean). I just endured until I didn't have to be there any more.

[filmboss80]

I also have to go with the multiple category crowd. I wasn't a jock, but played football my freshman and senior years, getting banned the 2 middle years for disciplinary issues, as I was also a bit of a stoner and trouble-maker. I wasn't a nerd or loner, but a little of everything else. Too bad you can't make more than one selection at a time in this poll.

[hech54]

If I had to pick just one I'd say class clown....kept me sane. I often say I hated school but looking back I just hated many of the people in the school. I've never been to a single class reunion. I had quite a few friends in school....they rarely or never went to a reunion either...

[chowmein]

Trouble-maker. Hated the jocks and the nerds with equal passion. Had a small group of misfit punk mates who I've never seen since (I think a couple are dead).

School was a joke, all I got from it was how to hate with a vengeance. I did all my "real" learning afterwards, in my own time. Teachers are dumb shmucks.

[lacywest]

Well here goes ... I graduated from Hanford HS ... class of 71 ... I dont feel old at all ... but I'm not young anymore neither.

What did I do in HS ? ... in my Freshman and Sophmore years ... I ran Cross Country in the Fall and Track in the Spring. I could run a mile in 6 minutes and 42 seconds. I definitely built up my leg muscles but stayed skinny looking.

I got my Varsity Jacket in my first year at Hanford High School. In my Junior Year ... I did a change ... I went out for Water Polo instead. Now that is one hard sport ... training was not easy in the beginning ... I had to swim non-stop ... 16 laps of 25 yards ... which is what ?? ... about 380 yards ... almost the same as being in Track and running a 440 yard dash. No fun when I got a cramp in the leg !

All that swimming built up my shoulders and my lung capacity.

The Spring of 1970 ... my Junior year ... I hooked up with Scott Marcellus and we started doing Light Shows for the Rock Bands in our area.

We used Clock Crystals - 10 inches wide ... we needed two of them and put colored oil and water and squish them together on top of 1000 watt or 500 watt overhead projector. Same effect you saw in Iron Butterfly concerts and Jefferson Airplane concerts.

Strobes ?? ... we used Neon lighting tubes and use a motor flipping a relay switch to create a strobing effect.

Mirror balls ... nope ... but we did have a 8 inch wheel spinning at 1RPM and had broken mirrors attached to the wheel and shined images from a Kodak or Argus Slide projector onto the revolving mirror ... really great effects doing that.

We were hired by a Ballet Dance Studio to provide the Special Effects for a showing of ... The Wizard of OZ ... that was fun.

We used ... Green Polarized Slides for the Emerald City. We used our Mirror Wheel to cast a image of the Wizard on a large White Sheet from behind in the back portion of the stage ... back then it was called ... Rear Projection.

Do you remember ... reading Marvel comics ... X-Men ... one of the villians was ... The Warlock ... we took a picture of him on a black background and shined his image on to the mirror wheel and the result was very similar to the real thing. Because the mirrors were glued on with Silicone Rubber .... none of the mirrors were aligned up exactly and so we would get a very nice effect of ... The Wizard ... breaking up and re-appearing ... in multiple images.

Oh and we also did a light show for a Rock concert at the Hanford Civic Auditorium [same place where the Wizard of Oz was done at]. Joy of Cooking ... Aum ... and ... The Elvin Bishop Group ... performed there.

Joy of Cooking made at least one album and Aum too. But ... The Elvin Bishop Group ... made the most albums ... you all remember the song ? ... Fooled Around and fell in love ... dont you ?

We also did the Light Show for ... Big Brother and the Holding Company ... in Visalia CA ... but Janis Joplin had already left and was doing stuff on her own.

The Hanford Civic Auditorium ... has a nice stage ... and years ago it was a theater ... when we did a Rear Projection effect ... it was easy to put up our Rear Projection screen [4 large king size sheets sewed together] because their was already a screen there ... we lowerd it down ... attached ours to it and raised it back up and used our homemade screen.

We also did the lighting for a Battle of the Bands concert. Fat and Sassy ... vs ... The Forth Oncome ... played and we did the Light Show effects for that too. But this time we did something different ... we had our female friends ... "Groupies" ... up on a platform behind the screen dancing. The people in the audience could not actually see the girl but her silhouette was there to be seen dancing in the middle of the screen. Ha Ha Ha ... great method to talk a girl into coming back stage and join in on the fun.

Oh yeah ... I was a very busy person in my High School years.

[yoda313]

I take the fifth....

I fear any response will only harm me.....

[tgpo]

Dear Mr. johns0,

We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole post for whatever it was we did wrong. What we did *was* wrong.
But we think you're crazy to make us post telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us... In the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basket case, a princess, and a criminal.

Does that answer your question?... Sincerely yours, the VCD Club.

I was a skater in advanced classes who liked computers, yet made poor grades and didn't hang out with computer nerds.

You figure it out, because I still haven't.

[Ditka1985]

Truth is, I was a combo of brain + loner + nerd (although I'm old enough to actually pre-date the widespread use of the term "nerd"). I ended up voting for "brain" because I guess that is how most of my classmates would remember me.

[budz]

big time stoner! .....but i turned out fine.

[johns0]

Dear Mr. johns0,

We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole post for whatever it was we did wrong. What we did *was* wrong.
But we think you're crazy to make us post telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us... In the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basket case, a princess, and a criminal.

Does that answer your question?... Sincerely yours, the VCD Club.

I was a skater in advanced classes who liked computers, yet made poor grades and didn't hang out with computer nerds.

You figure it out, because I still haven't.

Huh?

[Bodyslide]

I was the Nerd/ Brain Type......My nickname was Professor......

[Noahtuck]

big time stoner! .....but i turned out fine.

I knew i liked you for some reason!!


I was a major stoner in high school, yet I had excellent grades and people/the establishment used to say i was hopeless and a lost cause

Yet i stopped drinking before i was 21 and stopped smoking weed and doing every other drug known to man by 23, i have owned my own home for 19 years and my kids have made it to ages 24 & 25 with NO kids and their own homes