High School Meme!
11 years ago
General
Because hey, it's been a little while since then for me.
Stolen from the ever-fantastic
Toeclaws
1. Did you date someone from your school?
Yep! Fell into a very delightful boygirlfriendship with my high school sweetheart toward my last year there.
2. Did you marry someone from your high school?
Not in a legal sense, but we're still very close and make up two of the dragons in our four-dragon household.
3. Did you car pool to school?
Took the school bus.
4. What kind of car did you have?
First car was a deeply endearing 1989 dark blue Chevrolet Cavalier wagon, handed down from my grandmother, but I didn't get that until a few years after high school.
5. What kind of car do you have now?
I have co-ownership of a black Peugeot 107 and a classic Saab 900, both of which I share useage of with my partner.
6. It's Friday night then...where are you?
Probably at home hanging out with my parents, having a nice home-cooked dinner, watching evening television, playing with the dog or something. Because I apparently grew up in a Normal Rockwell painting. ;D
7. It is Friday night now...where are you?
Probably at home hanging out with my Special Somedragons, having a nice home-cooked dinner and watching evening television and being happy the work week is over. I am a creature of habit.
8. What kind of job did you have in high school?
Didn't work much back then, just had one summer job helping out at the University's Landscape Entomology Laboratory. Which was a bit different from the usual I suppose!
9. What kind of job do you do now?
SCIENCE. Specifically, modelling urban ecosystems. And all the other associated things that academia hurls at you as a postdoc!
10. Were you a party animal?
Goodness no, always been one for more quiet and gentle spaces.
11. Were you considered a flirt?
Not to my knowledge! Was far too innocent and clueless.
12. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir?
I sang in the high school choir, had a lot of fun with it.
13. Were you a nerd?
Never was great at determining what qualified exactly, but probably. I wasn't exceptionally fantastic at maths or computer programming or anything, but I was definitely closer to nerdy than 'popular.' Managed to fall in with a good crowd of people from the choir and theatre though by sophomore year.
14. Did you get suspended or expelled?
Goodness no. It would've destroyed my little brain if I'd managed something like that!
15. Can you sing the fight song?
I can hum it...? Don't think I ever learned the words to ours.
16. Who was/were your favourite teacher(s)?
Probably would have to say Ms. Munn, the history teacher. Because above all else she was there to see to it that we learned stuff. She pushed us hard and modified the curriculum a little bit to make sure we learned a bit extra historical context that she thought was really important. We learned and we thought about things in that class. Though there were several teachers I really loved there, so it's a close call.
17. Where did you sit during lunch?
Hmm. I think by my second or third year I was usually sat against a hallway wall a short distance from the cafeteria, socialising with a small group of friends while we ate. Found a nice cozy little corner somewhere to relax.
18. What was your school's full name?
East Lansing High School.
19. When did you graduate?
2000.
20. What was your school mascot?
The Trojan (yes, jokes were made frequently around the school about sharing it with a major contraceptive brand).
21. If you could go back and do it again, would you?
I'm happy for my life to have moved on from it now, but if I could relive those years with the confidence and knowledge I've since gained it might be a neat thing to do. I'm still frightened and insecure, but so much less so now than when I started high school. Maybe another pass through it would help even more. ;)
22. Did you have fun at Prom?
I did! The first time I went with a very dear friend, the second time I went with the aforementioned dragoness I'm still really close to. The music choices were kind of memorably terrible (almost all rap, almost nothing to slow dance to) but it was still a lot of fun.
23. Do you still talk to the person you went to Prom with?
Yep! The friend I went with the first time is still a very close friend whom I see and hug firmly when I visit the U.S., and the former girlfriend dragoness I live with now.
24. Are you planning on going to your next reunion?
No idea when or where they are, probably on the wrong side of the Atlantic for me, and the only people I'd know enough to reconnect with at all would be a few from the choir. So no, probably not!
25. Do you still talk to people from school?
Keeping up with people from high school whom I otherwise wouldn't speak with is the single most useful thing Facebook has enabled for me.
26. If you could change one thing about your high school experience what would it be?
It'd be similar to what ToeClaws said... I'd want to go back and bolster my younger self's ego, try and help him realise that much sooner that he's braver and more capable than he realises, and a very likeable person that will end up attracting close friends who will stick with him and help him along. Though to be fair, it was only my first year that I had that anxiety quite as much... by my second year I started to make a number of really wonderful friends who made all the difference for me.
Stolen from the ever-fantastic
Toeclaws1. Did you date someone from your school?
Yep! Fell into a very delightful boygirlfriendship with my high school sweetheart toward my last year there.
2. Did you marry someone from your high school?
Not in a legal sense, but we're still very close and make up two of the dragons in our four-dragon household.
3. Did you car pool to school?
Took the school bus.
4. What kind of car did you have?
First car was a deeply endearing 1989 dark blue Chevrolet Cavalier wagon, handed down from my grandmother, but I didn't get that until a few years after high school.
5. What kind of car do you have now?
I have co-ownership of a black Peugeot 107 and a classic Saab 900, both of which I share useage of with my partner.
6. It's Friday night then...where are you?
Probably at home hanging out with my parents, having a nice home-cooked dinner, watching evening television, playing with the dog or something. Because I apparently grew up in a Normal Rockwell painting. ;D
7. It is Friday night now...where are you?
Probably at home hanging out with my Special Somedragons, having a nice home-cooked dinner and watching evening television and being happy the work week is over. I am a creature of habit.
8. What kind of job did you have in high school?
Didn't work much back then, just had one summer job helping out at the University's Landscape Entomology Laboratory. Which was a bit different from the usual I suppose!
9. What kind of job do you do now?
SCIENCE. Specifically, modelling urban ecosystems. And all the other associated things that academia hurls at you as a postdoc!
10. Were you a party animal?
Goodness no, always been one for more quiet and gentle spaces.
11. Were you considered a flirt?
Not to my knowledge! Was far too innocent and clueless.
12. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir?
I sang in the high school choir, had a lot of fun with it.
13. Were you a nerd?
Never was great at determining what qualified exactly, but probably. I wasn't exceptionally fantastic at maths or computer programming or anything, but I was definitely closer to nerdy than 'popular.' Managed to fall in with a good crowd of people from the choir and theatre though by sophomore year.
14. Did you get suspended or expelled?
Goodness no. It would've destroyed my little brain if I'd managed something like that!
15. Can you sing the fight song?
I can hum it...? Don't think I ever learned the words to ours.
16. Who was/were your favourite teacher(s)?
Probably would have to say Ms. Munn, the history teacher. Because above all else she was there to see to it that we learned stuff. She pushed us hard and modified the curriculum a little bit to make sure we learned a bit extra historical context that she thought was really important. We learned and we thought about things in that class. Though there were several teachers I really loved there, so it's a close call.
17. Where did you sit during lunch?
Hmm. I think by my second or third year I was usually sat against a hallway wall a short distance from the cafeteria, socialising with a small group of friends while we ate. Found a nice cozy little corner somewhere to relax.
18. What was your school's full name?
East Lansing High School.
19. When did you graduate?
2000.
20. What was your school mascot?
The Trojan (yes, jokes were made frequently around the school about sharing it with a major contraceptive brand).
21. If you could go back and do it again, would you?
I'm happy for my life to have moved on from it now, but if I could relive those years with the confidence and knowledge I've since gained it might be a neat thing to do. I'm still frightened and insecure, but so much less so now than when I started high school. Maybe another pass through it would help even more. ;)
22. Did you have fun at Prom?
I did! The first time I went with a very dear friend, the second time I went with the aforementioned dragoness I'm still really close to. The music choices were kind of memorably terrible (almost all rap, almost nothing to slow dance to) but it was still a lot of fun.
23. Do you still talk to the person you went to Prom with?
Yep! The friend I went with the first time is still a very close friend whom I see and hug firmly when I visit the U.S., and the former girlfriend dragoness I live with now.
24. Are you planning on going to your next reunion?
No idea when or where they are, probably on the wrong side of the Atlantic for me, and the only people I'd know enough to reconnect with at all would be a few from the choir. So no, probably not!
25. Do you still talk to people from school?
Keeping up with people from high school whom I otherwise wouldn't speak with is the single most useful thing Facebook has enabled for me.
26. If you could change one thing about your high school experience what would it be?
It'd be similar to what ToeClaws said... I'd want to go back and bolster my younger self's ego, try and help him realise that much sooner that he's braver and more capable than he realises, and a very likeable person that will end up attracting close friends who will stick with him and help him along. Though to be fair, it was only my first year that I had that anxiety quite as much... by my second year I started to make a number of really wonderful friends who made all the difference for me.
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As for prom, I was one year ahead of Tark so I went with my friend Hanna for my own senior prom, and then I was Tark's date the next year for her senior prom because we'd met each other and fallen in love by that point. So I count both of them. ^^