What Clique Were You In During High School?

[THUNDER HANDS]

There's a couple of distinct cliques throughout most every high school in America. Which one was yours?

1. Jocks
2. Popular kids
3. Hippies
4. Goths
5. Science/math Intelligentsia geeks
6. All-around nerd types
7. Artsy crowd
8. Loners

[GOPisEvil]

1. Can one have a clique of loners?

Seems like an oxymoron. :D

I hung out mostly with the other nerdy types.

[THUNDER HANDS]

3. you were nerdy?

you strike me as more of a jock than a nerd.

[GOPisEvil]

7. Nah...didn't play sports in high school after my freshman year.

I was definitely NOT one of the popular kids.

[Aristus]

46. Sure you can have a clique of loners.

There were a bunch of us geeks who sat at the same table at lunch. Not of us knew each other. We never spoke to one another, or interacted in any way. The only thing we had in common was the table. We were all loners, eating together, yet seperately.

[sniffa]

2. the whiggers

aLthough i preferred being caLLed 'street' or something Less offensive.

[neverborn]

53. Why do you capitalize all your "L"s?

[sniffa]

56. none of your beeswax

[neverborn]

64. :(

[Richardo]

4. You have to have a separate category for band nerds...

...of which I was one. Not really "artsy", not "all around nerds", band nerds are a league of their own. :D

[VelmaD]

8. I always thought we were "band geeks"

Oh well, a rose by any other name...

[Richardo]

19. Regional differences - like "sub" vs "grinder" I suppose...

"Band nerds" was SoCal.

[MissMillie]

34. Band Geek here!!!!

Band and chorus.

[Richardo]

42. Thread hijack attempt: Band geeks! What instrument and were you in choir?

Me:
Trumpet (band and jazz band)
French Horn (Orchestra)
No vocal.

[VelmaD]

65. I started out...

on clarinet in junior high then switched to percussion in high school for band. I played piano in jazz band.

[Red State Rebel]

98. Violin and Bassoon

Loved orchestra!

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

99. Band Geek right here as well

I played ( I still play ) the Clarinet all through middle school and high school . The bandroom was the hang out . Cheerleaders ,jocks , non bandmembers were not allowed in our area :)

[msu2ba]

78. Band Geek......

.....and, I got to *stay* one. I'm a director now, training the next generation of band geeks<G>

[southerngirlwriter]

5. The fat kids.

Outcasts of all society. :mad:

[THUNDER HANDS]

12. fat kids don't really have their own clique

From what I've observed (mostly through experience) they tended to hang with the all-around nerds.

[gyopsy]

68. Same here

Also a former fat kid and most of my friends were overweight in some capacity.

[bif]

6. Outsiders

we had our own group. sorty of hippy-ish, but not the hard coree dopers or cool hippies. Mainly musicians.

[Mistress Quickly]

9. Head bangers

Hey, that's what happened in the 80's. I guess we may have been potheads too.

[Loonman]

The first suburban punks in my town

That is until the wannabes started looking like we did and it became a uniform.

So we changed and gave them grief.

[kitkatrose]

10. I never had a clique.

If I felt the need to socialize, I could associate with any of the groups, except for the preps, but that was by choice. Mostly though, I was a loner.

[Guaranteed]

85. Neither did I, really.

I had some friends, but they were all in different groups.

I don't think I could be pidgeonholed. I guess I made sure of that, which is why I didn't fit in anywhere. I was the smartest kid in my grade, but too good looking and non-nerdy to be a "true" nerd, but at the same time so despised by others that I got picked on. I guess I just had a helluvan ego and folks wanted to pop it. Even most of my teachers hated me (while at the same time a couple really loved me- I think they respected me for my free spirit).

But, yeah, I hung out with some pot-smokers and some popular types and some nerdy-types. Even a couple of goth, I guess.

High school was definitely an interesting experience.

[kitkatrose]

94. HS was something else.

I was/am a nerd, but attractive enough to escape being labeled one. But people were nice to me, probably because I helped my friends. :) It was really odd; at the end of the school year, after I'd graduated in the top 5%, I found that a lot of people actually knew who I was and liked me. No one talked to me much, except for my friends, but afterwards people wanna say they knew me. :eyes: I wonder about people sometimes.

[bahrbearian]

11. You forgot us Jocky- Nerds ( Wrestlers)

[ET Awful]

13. There's no choice for "Total Reject" :) n/t

[camero]

14. 1,2,5,6, and 8

I pretty much tried to make friends with everybody. I was in and out of the popular group which was to be expected.

[LDS Jock]

15. my user name gives it away

Jocks. Played and still play basketball and tennis. Basketball was THE sport at my school.

[JohnKleeb]

16. not really in a cliche

good friend of mine was a homecoming princess, yet others are sorta nerds. I consider myself an indepedent nerd who dresses like a skater. I also dont really have a cliche to sit with being I dont go to lunch, yes being a nerd means I go to the library lol during lunch, its fun lol though, I read about the John Birch Society on Monday.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

17. math geek/nerd/artsy

I became a hippie later.

[mr_hat]

18. I was lucky enough to go to school in England. >

I just got to be "the Yank."

[cheezus]

20. I was a nerd jock!

captain of the debate team

[GumboYaYa]

21. I was fortunate that we had no such cliques at my school.

I went to a very progressive arts and science school in an inner city neighborhood. We had all of those types of people, but not in groups where you had to conform to the group to be accepted. I can think of close and dear friends that fit within each of the stereotypes listed plus many others.

I saw far more cliqueishness in college than in high school.

[Adelante]

22. In my day ...

There were two groups of popular kids: Collegiates and Hoods.

I was a Hood, a girl Hood: Beehive hairdo, black eyeliner and leather jacket, black ski pants and mohair sweaters, the candy store and Motown.

[Lindsay]

33. Same time, I guess, but other side.

I was collegiate. Coordinates, nylons and flats or sneakers and wool crew socks worn up. (Collegiates at other schools cuffed their socks.) A little tasteful teasing of the hair and lipstick.

And all but one of us were liberals.

[elfwitch]

23. there weren't really "Goths" when I was in school...

I hung out with the proto-homosexuals and the drama and debate types. We wore a lot of black. We listened to the Cure. They didn't call that Goth back then.

[Loonman]

29. Sure there were

The scene was thriving in 1987.

However, the media got ahold of the term in the mid '90s and completely distorted the ethos.

That was when they thought Marilyn Manson was the source of all evil, as well.

[elfwitch]

31. yeah but back then they either called us

Spiders or just Weirdos. I lived in South Texas. Anything that was trendy didn't get down to us until it was over in cooler places.

[sniffa]

24. i was home skooLed

j/k

[blackcat77]

25. The Band

We were our own clique.

[SOteric]

26. Popular kid, went to a prep school,

wrote for the school paper, was on the school drill (dance) team for 2 years, got invited to most of the parties.

[Commendatori]

27. One of four musketeers...

...in other words, four loners.

[southpaw]

28. Drum Line

We were our own clique...

Rock and rollers, though mostly Rush and Yes and other prog-rock...

Artsy to a point...

Long-hairs for the most part...

We were cool... at least, we thought so.

[NuckinFutz]

30. I had to go for other

because I didn't really belong to a 'clique', but I was not really a loner. I was considered a serious brainy person, but not in the math/science vein, and I had a wide range of friends. I think I may have been more one of the invisible people, but not a general nerd, because they were noticed and picked on; I wasn't.

[LynneSin]

32. You forgot the politicos

IE: president of the student body, debate club, yearbook club. ACK, I guess I was a yuppie in high school.

Plus there are also the band geeks

[felonious thunk]

36. LynneSin hung out with the "heads"

And I don't mean deadheads. I mean the guys with bad mullets that wore black Metallica jean jackets and hung out outside backdoor of the cafeteria at lunch.

[LynneSin]

108. EEWWWW, I did not

You hung out with them - I just know it. You truly have the blood of Perry County running through your veins

:puke:
:puke:
:puke:

[bmbmd]

35. I sort of

hung with every one-

[SarahB]

37. Probably artsy fits the best

Or hippie. I was a drama/chorus person, but I also did yearbook stuff and was in assorted leftist groups like Amnesty and Environmental Awareness. I had a few popular type friends and went to parties at times (especially senior year), but mostly didn't quite fit with that whole "game". I was rather opinionated which doesn't play way for girls in the high school crowd, but I was reasonably cute, so I that bought me a bit of something as well I suppose.

[eyesroll]

38. I was an all-around nerd, but my clique was closer to the "freaks"

from Freaks & Geeks. In fact, I was Lindsey from Freaks & Geeks, right down to the Mathletes.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

39. I was what we called Band Jocks

People don't understand that it takes stamina to march too! Anyway, I was a little bit of a Band Jock mixed in with the newspaper/photography kids. I guess I was a nerd, but there's more to it than that!
Duckie

[dbt]

40. I'm such a loner I won't even vote!

:evilgrin:
dbt

[tom_paine]

41. Some loner, some hippie (no Goths when I wuz in HS), some Intelligentsia

I am proud to say that I have always defied description and categorization!

OTHER!

[Beware the Beast Man]

43. Band Nerd/Punk/Headbanger

With some class clown thrown in for good measure

[tridim]

44. There was really only one clique at my HS

The Popular/jock/asshole clique. Technically there was also the hard-drug taking clique which I avoided, at least when they were doing them. I mostly hung with the beer & pot crowd at night. Almost everyone else (including some cool popular kids/jocks) partied together as far as I remember.

I guess I was in the "Artsy crowd" because several former classmates have referred to me as "that art guy" after HS ended. :)

Is everything divided into specific cliques now?

[David__77]

45. GOTH here!

In black... Christian Death, Bauhaus. It lasted a few years past high school though.

[Arger68]

47. Only 23 kids in my graduating class

How cliquey could we be????

[GoddessOfGuinness]

103. Welcome to DU!

What school was it that only had 23 in the graduating class? How long ago did you graduate?

I want my kids to go to a school like that...

[Arger68]

109. Finlayson, MN.

Graduated 1986. They no longer have a high school there, just elementary. I wouldn't recommend a school that small anyway, we had almost no electives and the same teachers from 7th grade on up. They got pretty sick of me after a few years!!!!O8)

[fudge stripe cookays]

48. The punk/drama types my first two years...

Pre-Goth days.

Then I switched high schools and became a loner. God I hated that place.

[Hemprus]

49. I guess..

I was in the loner to geek crowd. Didn't have any real tight friendships, but was on the student council every year and one year was V.P.. Didn't have much guidance from the home front so I drifted around in my own little self delusional world.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

50. I was a clique-hopper...

I was in orchestra and band, and most of the people were in to one or the other of those groups. But I also really liked the drama and some of the chorus kids. All of my closest friends were very intelligent, but most of them were hoppers like me... :-)

[Lisa0825]

95. another clique-hopper here!

drama, drill team, honor society, stoners, and science geeks

[VOX]

51. "Art-swinger" crowd: wore black, played guitar & blues harp, took drama...

had intellectual pretentions, talked ART, the Stanislavsky method, and the usual random philosophical bs. Most of my group were in the drama class and/or in various garage bands. Many went on to UC Berkeley or UCLA. I graduated with honors, but ever the the classic underachiever who made good at the local state college. I was tall and a bit of a good-looking rake, so that was working for me with the girls, but I still had a *ton* of growing up to do.

On edit: typos

[noonwitch]

52. Orchestra/Band kids

Also, academic kids and some of the nicer popular kids. My closest friend and I befriended the loners, too, so that they didn't have to sit alone at lunch if they didn't want to.

[Nectopod]

54. You forgot gamma girl

We are very busy, we get along with everybody, but we don't give a shit about popularity. We have no ax to grind. We're "rules" girls, that is we don't moon after any guys; rather, we don't stay where we are not wanted. Who has the time? We do what we want not because others are doing it, but because we want to do it. We're OK looking, we don't always feel the need to put makeup on. Most of all, we have a lot of self-confidence that comes from doing.
I was a gamma-girl, and I knew quite a few others.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

55. I melded well with all cliques

Most of the people in my h-s were nice people, the cliques were mild and I had friends among all of them. I especially loved the drama and band kids.

[yardwork]

66. Where'd you go to school? I want to move there and send

my kids to your school!

[Nay]

57. Part loner, part all-around nerd

I've learned to play popular kid at work. Took til I was in my 40's before I was good at it, though. And luckily, my boss loves my nerdy side.

[seaglass]

58. We only had jocks, freaks, nerds and high-waisters.

I was a freak and was damn proud of it. My husband went to the same HS and was a jock - needless to say, we didn't meet until long after HS.

[Kadie]

59. Sweat Hogs

LOL :silly:

[MAlibdem]

60. Too close to tell I guess...

I'm still in high school...

My "clique" moves pretty freely among other groups, and we're all pretty smart, and in some ways nerdy (various loves of work, filmmaking, and history), but we love to get faced (tho we renamed pregaming prefacing...as in what is in books...pretty good example i guess).

Soccer kids? (I got cut tho...now I play LaX)
Mostly liberals too...a rethug sat down with us and starting telling us how great conservative talk radio is...we tore him to pieces...rhetorically.

[LSdemocrat]

61. I was rather transient

In terms of actions, I was an cross between a nerd/science/math intelligetsia type, but I also hung out with goths, and I was also a but of a loner.

[Earth_First]

62. I was a "frisbee chuckin' cheebah monkey" in high school...

however our "clique" seemed to float around equally among the other "cliques" the beauty part of being a "frisbee chucker"

[bigwillq]

63. Other: A combination of jocks/popular kids

I played sports for a while and hung out with all the jocks, boys and girls, who were also among the popular kids. Although,I was in that group, I was a very down to earth, outgoing kid who talked to everyone no matter what group they belonged in. I was a party guy whi just like to have fun.

[PittPoliSci]

67. I ran with anyone who wasn't on the football/soccer teams.

They hated me cause I embarassed them in class, the rest of the school loved me.

[Gothmog]

69. debate squad

I was on the debate squad.

We did not have goths back in my day.

[geniph]

70. "Hippies"? What about stoners?

that's what they called us when I was in high school, anyway. I hung out mostly with three different groups, none of whom had anything to do with one another except for me crossing over - I hung out with the nerdy eggheads, the drama kids, and the stoners.

[Canuckistanian]

71. I was like one of those 'cleaner fish' in the ocean

I hung around the popular kids and fed off their rejects. I was not really one them, just tolerated and kept around for a laugh.
Could have been worse, I suppose.

[supernova]

72. 4 - 8 all kinda overlapped at my high school

I was mostly an artsy person, music and drama. But I was often in the company of the intelligentsia, goths, and nerds.

[Van Helsing]

73. Mr. Popularity right here...

[jpgray]

74. All the cliques in my high school were real friendly

Never had to limit myself to just one. If I had to choose one it would be the 'arty' clique, but that wasn't really a clique either, since the arty kids were made up of kids from other cliques.

[DS1]

75. Heavy Metal kids

We had our own 'underground' parties, and basically committed crimes and did stupid shit to keep busy.

Leaned into the 'popular' kids crowd near the very end, but only for the girlies :7

[tigereye]

76. nerd, academic games, drama, yearbook

all that stuff. Had to leave town to find similar boyfriends... really despised cheerleaders and jocks.

[slinkerwink]

77. I was in the yearbook/newspaper clique...

[dawn]

79. I was mixed...

partly in the partier/stoner crowd, partly in the punks/goths/indie music crowd and also in the newspaper/yearbook category.

[Champ]

80. Independent

I had friends and girlfriends in high school but I was just myself. I wasn't trying to be anybody or fall under any label. The popular kids were just attention seekers, wasn't really into it. It was much better to stay out of the spotlight if you know what I mean. I had some good friends. We'd get high before, lunchtime, and after school, do a little boxing, play hoops, get into some trouble, I remember running from the school athletic director and assistent principal countless times. I miss those days, I'd go back to those days in a heartbeat. I did play on the football team and basketball team not because I was the stereotypical jock, I didn't hang out with jocks. Those were sports that I loved competing at and were fun to play.

[amandae]

81. Other

Not the nerdy crowd, but not the popular crowd. The group I was in was closer to the popular crowd but we had friends in all crowds. It was the best of all worlds .... :hi:

[Viking12]

82. I moved fluently

between the jocks on my teams, the burnouts behind the auto shop, and the National Honor Society. Spent most of my time with the burn-outs though -- being high was more fun than doing algebra problems :)

[Skittles]

83. I was super-cool without being part of ANY group

I moved every year (GI brat), very often back and forth between England and America - I was usually the Brit girl with blonde hair down to her butt in America or a Yankee gal in England who could use a great English accent. Either way I was f***ing INTRIGUING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No one could ever quite tag me. :D

[flaminbats]

84. must of been a goth...

I still remember one of my friends from the highschool football team pulling me aside ages ago and saying..."man you have so much going for you. Girls like you and you help others in class. Don't blow it man, you'll probably go far in life..if you just learn to stop acting like an uncivilized animal!"

:grr:

And what the hell was that s**t about anyway?

[BlondieK143]

86. The All-Around Girl

I got along with everyone basically. Which caused a lot of the people to hate me in the end. I always tried to talk to everyone, but everyone didn't want to talk to me. I guess you could say I was more in the popular crowd. I was in about 10 different clubs including Yearbook Staff (which was a really prestigious thing at our school). But that changed the second semester of my Junior year of high school. I was forced to completely change my life around and was thrown in a new school. Didn't ever get over that and never adapted well. I dropped out the first semester of my Senior year.

[leanings]

87. Umm...the Party People, perhaps?

Our inner clique in high school was known as the Fatbuds. We were something of a miniature frat, sorta, but not so snotty. Lotta smokin' our way, but general good time having was what we were about. One of my buddy's got a house at 17 and another one had a house more or less to himself from 15 on. We always had the party and the lady's and whatever was going on. Umm...the soccer team were the most regular folks in our crew, but I can't think of anyone we went to high school with that I didn't get along with. It was beautiful. It was kinda unique, too. I miss those days.

[wickerwoman]

88. I was a ghost.

My first two years I had one close friend and ate lunch with a mixture of D&D nerds, band geeks, arty/newspaper types and Christians.

The last two years I took most of my classes at the community college. In my yearbooks, I have only two people who didn't write "Wish I'd gotten to know you better"- code for "Wish you hadn't asked me to sign your yearbook." If I ever go to my reunion, I'm calling all of those assholes on their shit.

[MrSlayer]

89. Metalheads, Headbangers, Thrashers.

But I was cool with everyone, makes it easier to get around without getting beat up and allows you to help others who might get beat up otherwise. Philly is made of very close knit neighborhoods and there are subdivisions within the subdivisions. I was one of the few that could cross most of the lines without worry.

[Dees]

90. El Jocko

Was I supposed to be studyin or somthin? Snap the freakin ball will ya.

[bloodyjack]

91. how about the hateful-little-turd-in-the-corner

nobody was sure whether i was genius, literate retard, cruel to animals, had any sexual preference, etc. i wasn't a loner by any account . . . was a bit of a loudmouth actually. so i was the guy who acted like he knew everything, tried to look destitute and fooled everybody! four long years i lived a lie! also in my school the intelligentsia and all-around-nerds consolidated into one unstoppable LAN orgy, and with the majority of them i shared a some interests.

i guess i was one of those asexual sluts with a vengeance (an incipient clique in high schools nationwide)

[MsMagnificent]

92. Um... would Party Animals belong to "Popular"?

Not really hippies though...
Not really jocks either; but I went to a Catholic school which catered to each gender, but each gender had their own side of the school
--and 'twas rare to cross over for any class so NO MEN
(Dammit!) :D
And they had next to nada in grrl's sports, so... no, no jocks.

I had friends in each clique though, except Bank geeks
Well, to qualify: NOT the regular peeps in band but the kids who thought Band was the 7th layer of heaven :>

[Stan Beamen]

93. Hippie

I was a real hippie not a fake pretend wannabe hippie.

[grannylib]

96. Hippie here, but we called ourselves 'freaks' back in the day...

[TahitiNut]

97. Two High Schools: (1) Geeks, (2) Popular kids.

The first high school was in a prototypical right-of-center 50's blue collar community with Greasers, Frats, and Eggheads/Geeks. It was miserable. The second high school was in a white collar moderate community, where the athletes were also good students and these same 'popular kids' were on the student council, cheerleaders, and active in many school activities. It was a breath of fresh air.

[regularguy]

100. Sinister nexus of hippies and Beavis-n-Butthead.

.

[maveric]

101. Where's the category for "Punks"?

I was one of those in the early 70's ,dressed in leather jacket,smoked weed and had an attitude for authority.

[Trinity]

102. Other, I hung out with everyone, but we did not have any Goths n/t

Peace? :hippie: :smoke: :freak:

[tigerbeat]

104. artsy crowd....but....

...i went to a performing arts high school, so we were all the "artsy crowd".

[indigo32]

105. All around nerd types mostly

I flirted with the theatre crowd, the band geeks and the Science/math Intelligentsia whatever, but mostly hung around my own group of overall nerds LOL.

[Lizz612]

106. I hung with Math nerds, Thespians and the IB kids

And my math nerds were smarter than your math nerds, ours wrote a text book, and one of them JUDGES math meets near Stanford. And my Thespians really are thespians, Joanna is at Tisch! IB, oh man, if you know what IB is you know what I'm talking about. Think of the AP program but smarter, harder and international.

[BigMcLargehuge]

107. Machine shop

all of us in Machine shop were in the machine shop clique. I went to Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School. We ate together, hung out together, worked together, learned together, protected one another, played hockey as the Machine Shop Team. We all had friends and families in other shops, but Machine Shop was home.