Confess! Anyone here ever in the National Honor Society in

[NewWaveChick1981]

high school? Or the French/Spanish/Geography/etc. Club? On the Debate Team? Or an Audio/Visual Nerd? :P

I was in the National Honor Society, the Spanish Club, and the Debate Team. I was also on the Quiz Bowl team. :P Toldja I was a nerd...

[miss_american_pie]

1. Reading club

:blush:

[NewWaveChick1981]

5. Cool!

:hi:

[Jokerman]

2. I was THE Audio/Visual Nerd!

National Honor Society members at my school were selected by a vote of teachers. It had less to do with grades and was mostly a popularity contest.

Because I was the A/V nerd, most of the teachers liked me & I was voted in but I turned it down.

[NewWaveChick1981]

4. Wow....at our high school, they just went by GPA for NHS.

That sounds like a crappy way to do the selection.

A/V nerds are A-OK! :hi:

[Jokerman]

14. Two of us quit in protest.

We both had good enough grades to make it on academics but we were offended by the selection process. Unfortunately the NHS sponsor contacted our parents who signed us up and paid our dues anyway to keep from turning or backs on this "great honor" because of our convictions.

So I was part of NHS whether I wanted it or not.

That was 25 years ago and I can't think of a single advantage NHS ever got me.

[NewWaveChick1981]

18. It never gave me any advantages either. I graduated from

high school 25 years ago, and I've never had anyone ask me if I was in NHS or not. If that had happened to me as it did to you, I think I would have protested as well. It should not be a popularity contest, as you pointed out. :grr:

[tinfoil tiaras]

3. I did Speech and Debate last year

it was AMAZING...jay-kay.

but it was really funny how the teacher went on and on about totally pointless stuff...and the end of the year party was pretty fly.

Hm, what else did i do? Duke TIP. Took the SAT and I got a metal for my score :woohoo:

I was in choir in 7th grade...fun times...

Oh, I almost forgot! I'm in like all the plays...I'm a huge drama nerd...yay.

[NewWaveChick1981]

9. Glad you're a budding nerd!

:hi: TT, you'll appreciate it later on. It's way better on a resume than cheerleading. :P

[tinfoil tiaras]

11. Haha

Thanks!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

6. In honors class, but didn't apply myself enough for NHS...

However, I was in the International Thespian Society (honor cords for that) and I founded the Gay-Straight Alliance (not surprisingly there was a huge overlap in membership). I wasn't in the French Club, but the French teacher would let me join them on their cool field trips (like Les Mis & Cirque du Soleil). I also worked on the SEED literay magazine. Theoretically, I was also in the gifted & talented creative writing group, but I only went if it fell during a boring class, because I didn't like the woman that ran it. My actual creative writing mentor for my ind. study was way cooler and we're still good friends.

Okay, I think I'm officially a nerd. I also took care of the animals in the biology labs for extra credit (why I took AP is beyond me...but I somehow passed the exam, despite writing one of my essays about socks instead of RNA).

[NewWaveChick1981]

12. Oh, yeah, you're a nerd...

:hi: Best thing to be... :P

[MsKandice01]

24. I belonged to the "Trivia Club"

A bunch of us geeks and outcasts used to hang out in one of the classrooms on our lunches and play Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit, Upwords, etc. We also used to compete with other high schools in our district in a Academic Decathlon type of thing...but it only involved 3 high schools.

[MsKandice01]

25. Oops...replied in the wrong spot

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

26. Unless it's strip scrabble, I'm not into it.

My HS also had a mullet club, but I wasn't in it and nobody in it had mullets. :shrug:

[swag]

7. 'fraid so.

I disliked NHS even though I was in it, but enjoyed debate (it got me out of town, and I enjoyed making out with assorted speech and drama chicks on the long bus rides). I was state debate champ once, NFL district champ once, and went to nationals twice, where my two different team-mates and I managed to take a few rounds.

Now I don't find much use for debate.

But I enjoy what it taught me.

[NewWaveChick1981]

13. Cool! There is a lot to be said for those skills.

I don't know many people who formally debate after high school, but the skills from the experience are invaluable. :D

[1gobluedem]

8. CAPTAIN of the quiz bowl team

But not willingly. My parents made me. It was shown on local public TV all the time because they needed so much filler in those days. Me glaring and rolling my eyes every time I had to answer a question.

By the time my brother got to HS ten years later, quiz bowl was cool; he even got to go on overnight trips and was captain of the college bowl team when he got to college. Unlucky me had to be the quiz bowl pioneer when it was very uncool.

My school didn't have a National Honor Society (experimental 1970s; we had 9 week terms and no clubs at all, not even a student council) but I was invited to the honors banquet every year for the students who would've been NHS if we'd had one.

I was in band too. Yep, a nerd.

[NewWaveChick1981]

15. Nerds are the best!

:hi:

[progmom]

10. Honor Society, French Club, Chorus, Band, Jazz Band, Marching Band

volleyball team
tennis team
basketball team
tennis team
softball team

etc...

[NewWaveChick1981]

16. OK, an athletic nerd...

:hi:

[bluethruandthru]

17. Me!

National Honor Society - Honor Thespian - Student Government - Drill Team

B-)

[NewWaveChick1981]

19. Welcome to Nerdville...

:hi: There are a lot of us here...

[bluethruandthru]

20. Nerds Rock! n/t

[NewWaveChick1981]

21. Yeah, baby!

:yourock:

[politicat]

22. NHS, Drama, Debate, Academic Decathalon, Band and Orchestra

I was such an uber-geek... by definition.

I was also Homecoming princess, a goth, and pretty much a ringleader in school. I went to a high school where being smart was a good thing.

[madinmaryland]

23. NHS, Science Club, and Band!

[UrbScotty]

27. Quiz Bowl, band, and the 'We the People' competition (nt)

[Oeditpus Rex]

28. Honor society in junior high

It was called Alpha. :shrug:

I was also a Mathlete in eighth grade.

In high school I was in Boys Glee, A Cappella Choir and Vocal Ensemble, plus Central Coast Section Honor Choir my junior and senior years.

I was also in the Checker Club in high school, which had nothing to do with playing checkers, but was for advanced drafting students, and you had to be invited. (In drafting, a checker is kind of like an editor.)

[WCGreen]

29. I was the first alternative to the Academic Show....

I was blackballed by a teacher from making it into the Honor Society....

Fuck it...

[LynneSin]

30. Me - I was NHS

:woohoo:

Nothing to be ashamed of!

[fishnfla]

31. yes NHS here eom

[Reverend_Smitty]

32. Another NHS here...

I was in the spanish honor society too

[SeattleGirl]

33. Psi Chi in college

B-)

[ThomCat]

34. Honor Society, Who's Who of American High School Students,

Chess Club, A/V Nerd, Creative Writing Club, and probaby some other thing's I've forgotten.

I had a reputation for being much smarter than I really am. :shrug:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

37. Oh yeah, I was in the "Who's Who" too.

I don't know how. My grades weren't that great. My SAT scores must have balanced them out or something. I spent much of my free time causing mental and emotional anguish to the principal and I had so much free time to wander during my senior year. In fact, I don't think anybody ever knew where I was supposed to be or they didn't care.

My advice to young DUers: if you want to spend a year cutting class without effort or consequences, make good friends with the hall monitor people on the first day. Walk around. Learn their names. Ask them about their kids & summer. Then, if it seems like you're going to get stopped by them later on in the year, simply strike up a conversation using the intel you gained. Trust me. It works.

[ThomCat]

38. Wow. You're good.

I just did very well on tests and most of the teachers seemed to like me. :)

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

52. Yes I am.

Remind me on Sunday to tell you about the time I had the principal freaked that I was going to distribute an "unauthorized student publication." It was probably my single greatest academic achievement.

[Ramsey]

35. Worse- Math Team

Actually, I'm hardly a math wiz, and had totally forgotten I was on the math team, but there I was in the team photo in the yearbook I was perusing the other day. I vaguely remember going to a "math contest" which was basically sitting in a big room taking a test with kids from a bunch of schools. I really must have been insane to join that club.

I was also in the National Honor Society, Mensa (my dad signed me and my siblings up by submitting our IQ test scores, scarily my brother actually proudly wears his Mensa pin to this day), and the Hi-Q Team. Hi-Q was a local TV program along the lines of Jeopardy for high school kids.

But on the cool side, I was my senior class president, and a photographer/editor of the yearbook! So perhaps I wasn't an uber-geek.

[GalleryGod]

45. NHS President, Sports Editor of School Paper & Yearbook

and then there were all those sports.....:rofl:

[Rabrrrrrr]

36. I was in NHS all through high school. But, since that makes me smart,

I probably shouldn't mention it because so many people at DU take issue with people who think they're different because of their higher than average intelligence, and we should just shut the fuck up and hate ourselves.

[femmocrat]

39. Yes, I was. Also Mu Alpha Theta, math honorary,

and a bunch of other activities. (Is this a clique?)

[flamingyouth]

40. National Honor Society and French Club.

:D

[Crabby Appleton]

41. Ski (snow) club

much fun.

[Spaceman Spiff]

42. When I was in High school

my grades were complete shit. I hated people in the Honors Societies. Then I joined the US Army and got some discipline (and a lot of partying out of my system) and then went to college. Once there I carried a 3.8 gpa and started getting invites to the college Honors Societies. I didn't want to feel like a hypocrite so I told them to go piss up a rope.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

43. National Honor Society, National Thespians, German Club, Spanish Club,

school newspaper, and school yearbook.

[Iris]

44. Of course!

O8)

[Mutley]

46. I was in the National Honor Society in high school.

I was in the Chorus, and the Drama Club. Other than that, I really wasn't much of a "club" person in high school.

[RoyGBiv]

47. Oh yeah ...

Quiz bowl, NHS, some "club" for advanced placement students that was like an academic club, but not limited to one subject, and of course the A-V nerd.

In A-V, we even had jackets, which were my suggestion. They were really cool jackets too, better than the ones the sports teams had.

Total geek.

[jobycom]

48. I was on the Quiz Bowl team, too. And I was NOT a nerd!

Does THIS look like a nerd to you!? (And thank you for not mentioning being editor of the school literary magazine, and honorable mention in a science fair!)

[femmocrat]

49. Is that your high school picture? C'mon, 'fess up now!

[jobycom]

55. Well...

No, it was a year and half out of high school... But I had the mustache when I was fourteen!

I'm such a has-been! :rofl:

[femmocrat]

75. Yowza!

[Blue_In_AK]

62. You're very handsome...

You look just like a guy I had a little fling with back in 1973 when I was on vacation in Alaska visiting my parents. He drove one of the shuttle buses at McKinley Park, which is where we met, and he was hot, hot, hot. Mmm, MM. That wasn't you, was it?

[jobycom]

63. Were very handsome

And didn't know it. All the chances I missed... Actually, that's not true, I liked the choices I made. Didn't realize I was that cute until later, though, and by then, I was bald and not so cute.

In 73 I was eight. I looked older, though. Lied to get that bus-driver job. You were a lot of fun! ;)

[Blue_In_AK]

64. So were you...

:blush: One of my more memorable encounters, and I sometimes wonder if I did the right thing by staying with my then SO instead of leaving to be with "you" when you returned to Berkeley in the fall and I was back in Marin County. I couldn't believe it when "you" called me once the summer fling was over wanting to see me again. Dang - I might have saved myself a lot of grief. (But it's never good to second-guess oneself, I guess.)

[jobycom]

65. I understand that. There was a "you" for me, too.

Instead I married the other one. And am now after twenty years separated. That picture was taken on a trip to Paris (I'm sitting on the top of Notre Dame, you can see Sacre Coeur in the background) when I had several choices to make, and wound up with my fiance. It's turned out bad, but I have two wonderful kids, and looking back does no good, as you say.

[Blue_In_AK]

69. Funny...

I married the other one, too, in 1975, and divorced seven years later. We led parallel lives, JobyCom. :hug:

[jobycom]

71. Ahhh

:hug: And we're the only two, aren't we? :rofl:

[MikeH]

50. I was in the National Honor Society

I was one of the math brains at my school, and during my sophomore, junior and senior year I had participated in a National Mathematics competition, in which the total scores of the top three scorers were entered in a statewide contest. Each of these times I was one of the top two scorers on the test from my school. I and one other person were known as the two math brains at our school. In fact during my senior year my school was the first in the state in the competition, and my score helped to so place my school.

I think that this had probably everything to do with my being chosen for the National Honor Society. That and the fact that my academic grades were good, mostly A's and B's, with my grade point average of above 3.5. I was especially good at math and the physical sciences, and was OK at classes like English and Literature.

I was also in the German Club and the Science Club.

The four qualifications for being chosen for the NHS were Scholarship, Character, Leadership, and Service.

I would not have wanted to say it to anybody at the time, but in some of these areas I don't think I really qualified. I was definitely not what one would consider to be a well-rounded student or person. And I definitely had some problems while in high school. It would take many years later to deal with my problems, and to become a more rounded person.

As it turned out, being in the NHS was something that sounded good, and was pleasing to my ego, but it made almost no difference to me subsequently. It was not something that I wanted to make any big deal about or mention when I went back to my high school reunions. I think I mentioned it one time to a teacher when talking about a classmate, who was also in the NHS.

[Radio_Lady]

51. Drama, debate, and something called "Honoria" -- honor society.

Also manager of girls' softball team, because I am left-handed and pitch and catch with the same hand. (I batted right-handed, but couldn't seem to learn how to catch with my right hand, which is pretty weird.)

[yellowdogintexas]

53. National Honor Society, Beta Club, and assorted other

orgs, most nerdy of which was the JCL...Junior Classical League (the Latin Club)

In college Phi Alpha Theta History Honorary and four semesters on dean's list.

Oh yeah I was on the Quiz Bowl team, and we won that year..beat out 4 other schools.

I drew the last week and got to bring home the trophy

[OhioBlue]

54. National Honor Society and Spanish club

also, band, gifted and talented, track, volleyball, basketball, drama club, statistician, teacher's assistant.

my HS was small and didn't seem to have the normal "cliques" of other schools. Many of us grew up together so most of us hung out with each other at different times or in different activities. Both of my parents and my step-mom graduated from the same HS as I did - as did many Aunts, Uncles and cousins...

awww HS... those were the days....

[catbert836]

56. Yes, Kind of

I'm entering junior year of HS, and I'm in Speech & Debate, Finance Club, History Club, Spanish Club, Book Club, AWARE (Save the Earth Club), Amnesty International, Model UN, and I expect to be inducted into NHS next year.

[Ptah]

57. NHS and Boy's State.

Band.
Wrestling.

:hi:

[barb162]

58. Yeah I was president of the NHS

and in a bunch of groups in high school. In college, I was in no groups

[catzies]

59. Spanish National Honor Society here. 1978.

Soy un nerd tambien.

[Blue_In_AK]

60. I was in National Honor Society

and an "honorable mention" or whatever they call it for the National Merit Scholarship. I was NOT a nerd, however, although I had some nerdy friends. I am MUCH too cool to be a nerd.

[Dora]

61. Masque & Gavel, National Forensics League, and Thespian Society....

:blush:

[Heidi]

66. Oh, man.

Math Club. Newspaper staff. Band. Honor Roll.

[susanna]

67. Yep.

I was also the captain of the cheerleading squad. I was a weirdo, essentially. Renaissance woman before it was cool... ;-)

[Random_Australian]

68. My high school had no clubs.

Here at uni, I am part of four, but they are not that geeky.

[u4ic]

70. I was in the

'skipping school to get tickets for whatever great band came to town' club. :D

[SoCalDem]

72. me me me me..

National Honor Society, Debate, Drama Club, and a bunch of other stuff I forgot about 30 years ago :)

[huskerlaw]

73. Yup. NHS alumna here.

We didn't have Spanish Club, or I probably would have been in that. I did Mock Trial, but not debate...whee.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

74. I was in NHS , National Beta Club , Who's Who Among American HS Students

and I was a North Carolina Academic Scholar.

[KatyaR]

76. I was kicked out of the Honor Society, as a junior, I think--

I made a D one semester in Drama. Eh--it wasn't that big a deal, but my mother almost killed me.

I was president of the Spanish Club and because of that was a member of Student Council. I tried debate but didn't do very well.

I was in all the music groups, though--chorus, triple trio, jazz band, everything but marching band.

[deadparrot]

77. I was in NHS.

And the Latin Club. :D

[idgiehkt]

78. me too.

And "Who's Who among American High School Students", man, that was a total racket.

[Tsiyu]

79. Wasn't cool enough to be in it

at my school, but I did graduate with honors, was Prez of Art Club, Interclub council, one of the editors on the yearbook, sang in chorus, yadayada.

Ah to be young again....*sigh*

[WannaBeGrumpy]

80. I'm in NHS right now

and ecology club!