Were you popular in high school?

hmm.. i was popular and that was an adantage as everyone like me..

I certainly was not part of the popular group and while at the time I desperately wanted to be, now I wonder why that was. I had my own small but special group of friends who for the most part were there for me and some still are today, however I also recall feeling rather alone as well. Like you I now have the attitude of like me or leave me. Though it was also present in my younger day it is a lot stronger now. In the past I never tried to change myself to fit in, but it did bother me that people would not accept me for who I was. Today I am for the most part happy with who I am and what I have become.

I am not that popular since I don't have a lot of talent plus I don't join any organizations when I was in High School. I am just hanging out with popular girls and boys, since they were my friends. I have insecurities also when I was growing up and wish to have like these and to be like that.....but, I learned to accept the fact that I can't be somebody. It takes time really before I gain self-confidence and I would say , It gives me so much lesson, learn a lot of values from my experience and it helps me to become a better and happy person today!

I was teased unmercifully until my last year of high school, when my family moved to another district because I was so miserable. So I got the spend my last year of high school in relative peace. It took me a long time to get over my hatred of those horrible kids from high school. But I figure that since "what goes around, comes around", they've been more than paid back for their cruelty.

I am currently twenty-five years old and a mother of four children. When I think back about high school, I felt as if I was a major outkast! I think that every teen feels this way, though others may not veiw them the same. The strive for popularity is really just a person wanting to be noticed or accepted in a group of peers. Although, some teens tend to take this hungry obsession to the extreme! They become interested with negative behaviour to obtain the attention they so desire. I believe that the past affected the outcome of the person I am today, most definatly! I am affected today in a posative way, but from a negative past!

i am not popular while studying in high school.i can't make a good friendship at that time.but i have lot of friends i can't like them. i think computer games are betterthan friendships

Hi There!, I guess I would be considered as popular in high school. I was on the football team and had lots of friends etc... However, I look back on it now and it all seems so irrelevant. I think those who were not as popular tended to work harder for things for whatever reason and have become quite successful. I think it all goes down to the fact that if you don't have something you strive harder for it. My two cents... cheers,

I would say that I was popular in high school in both a positive and negative way. Positive in a way that I was known for my active participation in sport activities as well as literary-musical activities. Aside from that, I was also active with other extra-curricular activities. Moreover, I did well in curricular activities. Negative in a way that I was known to be brutally frank and tactless(at times) that most upper years and lower years would often talk about my attitude. hehehe!

I remembered that when I studied in high school, we made most of our classmate like relationship. And I'm the central person of them. But now, I don't like go outside, and don't want to talk with other people. I always feel so tired.

I guess. I was popular in school. I was not really a bright girl but I was one of those who are considered today as cool. Always ahead in fashion and hip things. I was kinda well priveleged then. I was also a teacher's pet because they know my mom well. I would be picked to dance for the school program. That really gave me the confidence I have now. But I did experience some low point in my life back then too. It was not that easy growing up even if you are one of the popular kids in school. Sometimes, it was harder because you have to live up to that expectations. And you know what, just some few years again, I felt depressed because I realized that I was one of the only few in my class who is not married yet. I didn't want to attend our class reunion because I was ashamed of what my classmates will say because I am not married while a lot of them have kids in college already. But now I am married at the age of 43, so don't feel sad about it. Life has it's ups and downs. To tell you the truth, the most unpopular girl in our class that time, is not the most popular because she is more successful than the rest of us. You will have your shining moment in time. so Cheers.

i was not popular in high school. i remember i really attached importance to being popular. after high school, i realized it doesn't even matter. but at the time, it used to feel awful. this is because thats the age when peer pressure is at its highest. also, peer acceptance is just too important for a person then.

Well, first off i would like to say that everyone who has answered beforehas offered wonderful advice, but i would like to answer this question with another question..... why do you want to be populer????? is it because of the whole sterotypical high school experience they have been feeding to us since we were in diapers??????? is it because think that is the only way to have a good time in high school???? i will tell you that being populer is not everything. in my experiance, it is the populer student who havwe the most drama to deal with in high school. sure, you get to have tones of friends, but at what cost?? Most of th e friends the populer kids have are always fighting with each other, backstabbing each other, clawing at each other to get ahed and is that really what you want???????? i say, just be yourself in high school and pursue after-highschool activities that meet your interest, excluding your quest to be populer .you want to make friends that will stick with you, not stab you. be confident in who you are, and try to be the person who has nothing bad to say about another student or teacher. i say, just be yourself in high school and pursue after-school activities that meet your interest, excluding your quest to be populer. you want to make friends that will stick with you, not stab you. Be confident in who you are, and try to be the person who has nothing bad to say about another student or teacher. and if you become populer in the process, than that is great, but if you don't it is not the end of t he world. Popularity is not evrything and it is not a requirement to have a fun high school experience good luck

unfrotunately,i am not popular in my school.i am too excellent,so many of them are jealous of me. but i am pupular by my teachers,i don't know what to do to change the situation.

was popular bcoz of teachers

I wasn't very popular in high school at all, and I am still not sure how one can gain that sort of confidence... after all, everyone is different as to what "formula" for confidence works for them. I think it had its pros and cons. You did not any publicity in the yearbook if you weren't popular... therefore now my yearbooks only carry very limited meaning - it just feels like a book full of people I barely knew who never played much of a role in my life. I never went to the prom, or to school dances, I wasn't in any clubs and not on any sports teams - I could not do any of that stuff because I spent my time after school at my dance studio either in training, in rehearsal for the next big performance, or both. In addition, I was the shy girl. I didn't make friends easily. In fact, of all of the people I consider my friends now, not one of them did I meet at school. On the flip side, the few relationships I did have were closer and lasted much longer. They were based so much more on personal trust and support for one another with everyone concerned being fully aware of what we could and could not do - no wondering who was going to stab you in the back next. If I told them I couldn't do something because I had dance, they understood rather than giving me the typical "You ALWAYS have dance!" reaction and proceeding to try to get me to partake in all kinds of cultlike behavior they found themselves investing their time in on a regular basis. I think in the long run, it was better that I wasn't popular. I happen to be one of those sensitive people who doesn't want to be remembered for what she was like in school and doesn't have particularly fond memories of her school years (this is not to say I was ever taunted I just don't think people understood me very well). It is easier to move on - especially now with resources such as MySpace and Facebook - when you don't have people constantly reminding you of things you'd rather not be reminded of. No worries about various incidents coming back to haunt you years later because I was not social enough to have some of these unfortunate experiences that other high school students speak of. I think it turned out well for me in the end. Of course, it really bothered me when I was there, but in all honesty, I just want to be myself. And if who I am doesn't happen to be conventional and popular, than that isn't who I want to be.

Being an honor student I was known as one of the "smart" types. I had a solid group of friends, each of whom was popular in his own right. I wasn't much of an athlete nor was I the "handsome type". Nevertheless I was well rounded enough to have a well-developed personality. I did play sports and I did hang out with "cool" people. That was a great boost to my self esteem and yes it did help shape the person I am today. I feel like if I conquered high school, I could conquer anything. LOL

Not really coz im a shy type person and very aloof but i do have a lot of friends i just dont go with them after school

Gosh no, I wasn't popular by any means. I was what would be referred to as a geek. I was a bookworm who spent most of her lunchtime in the library reading or studying. Or I was in the music room with my friend Kim Elliot while she played the piano. I was a quiet girl and was always targetted by the school bullies as an 'underdog'. HAH... I showed them one day. I may have been quiet and retiring but that didn't mean I was weak. I took a whole bunch of them on one day. They respected me after that. I didn't so much lack confidence. I was just different to the other kids. Like most teenagers though I was fairly dependant on others good opinion of me which was something I didn't get over until I turned 30. I eventually figured out that it was more important to be true to myself than to try to be acceptable to everyone.

i never was popular---didn't even try to be popular. i have friends, and i think that they too are not popular. i don't get students who want to be popular. to be honest, you can't take popularity with you when you graduate and leave highschool. i have this notion that wannabees often follow the 'in-crowd' like a flock of sheep. they're like robots who follow the dictates of the selected few who are in the circle. but possesses no 'intellectual right' to do such. yes. this is my highschool life. i'm a rebel and will always be a rebel.

ya i was popular... since i studied there from my KGs all the teacher know me and i was the topper in school