Question of the Day

[ayoub]

Did you have a clique in school, and what was your niche?

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We owned the music room!

Comments

[jovi-diva.livejournal.com]

Yes...we took in all the strays. Mark (my bff's boyfriend) Barry (my boyfriend) and Max leaned against the wall by the front doors every morning with us (Tammy and I) by their side and then we all hung in a corner of the gym with several others. We were the kids who were nice to everyone.

I also owned the music room with my Choir, band and flag buds! :D

[milagro75.livejournal.com]

I was on the fringes of the theatre geeks and am a proud member of the International Thespian Society. =) Backstage, of course.

[kathyrene.livejournal.com]

Sorry avoid all cliques like the plague. :)

[these-3-remain.livejournal.com]

I wasn't part of a clique, unless you count the nerds and rejects as a clique ;-) Actually, in my junior and senior year I was fairly popular. I accepted and liked myself, and for some reason that made it easier for OTHERS to like me.

[the-ravyn.livejournal.com]

You know the answer to this already. ;)

Edited to add:  Although calling us a clique would have probably gotten one a thorough ass kicking.  The word "clique" (in my particular social circle at the time) was reserved for girls who spent 3+ hours doing their hair and guys completely obsessed with their own reflection who (more likely than not) congregated together in front of a popular pizza joint and vogued for the passing traffic.

[speedingslug.livejournal.com]

I was in the gamer and nerd clique but as a class clown could float a bit.

I hated the way some of the good looking girls would look down upon the geeks. Looking at some of them now and how their looks went away and how some 'average girls' became beauties it makes me smile. Time maybe a great healer but beauty fades, and then if that's all you had what are you left with? :)

[aethelfled.livejournal.com]

Greebos (sp) and yes we were respected/hated/actually probably people were scared of us!

[pyxiwulf.livejournal.com]

I was in three cliques! we joke we were the "other" popular kids. our school was not so bad on those issues though, not like the HS I went to for my 9th grade (age 14) year. I was in the ROTC group, the band group, and the social rejects.

[chiropteraclan.livejournal.com]

Kind of. I hung around with the kids who were the first wave of D&D players. Also the kids in theatre. Choir kids. Newspaper/yearbook kids. There were a small number of us that were very early goths before there was a name for it.

[shamrocks-13.livejournal.com]

I was in Journalism for a couple of years. We all hated each other, because I was not abrasive enough, but that was why I was copy editor anyways.

[sorah.livejournal.com]

Dare I spill the beans?

Cutting class, heading off to the local drugstore and purchasing a bottle of cough syrup with codien (did not need a script then) and getting high from drinking it. We owned the drugstore! *shamed*

When I was a good? Athletics - swim team and volleyball. Music was private practice after school :P

[libra-dragon.livejournal.com]

I was one of the picked on kids for two reasons...
I was related to brother so anyone who he upset would turn around and pick on me or that I was one of the smart kids.

[juciest.livejournal.com]

I was sorta on the fringe of all the groups, part of them all, and not part of anything. Band (drums, we hung out in the bandhall), Newspaper (we hung out in the journalism room), Thespians (I too am a lifetime member of the International Thespian Society, Troupe 1354, we (the officers)decorated the stage tool room and formed the infamous Black Leather Gang), Kickers, Smokers, Jocks, Preps...everyone knew me it seemed, and people still come up to me, remember me, and I can't for the life of me remember who half of them are. Because I didn't know them then, they didn't speak to me then...lol...but they knew who I was.

[shamrocks-13.livejournal.com]

I was part of a group that was labeled the tree people. Just a glorified group of stoners, and I was the only one that had never been stoned (Still have not been stoned). Anyways, I was the playful one, usually the one starting shit, running around like a Banshee, etc. I never just sat and ate. I am happy though...rather than being the one sitting around making out with my boyfriend, I got to have fun and not lose my virginity to someone I could give a shit about.

[donnickcottage.livejournal.com]

I had zero friends throughout high school, in school at least. But I did smoke outside the front door, and another guy would sometimes come out and stand at the railing across from me and light up. We never spoke, but we'd grunt acknowledgment now and then. I spose that'd be a clique:)

[shadowwolf13]

I didn't fit in anywhere, I had friends from all the groups, including band, ROTC, and pep squad.

[honuhoney.livejournal.com]

not then. not now. i'm good with that.

[cerebralpig.livejournal.com]

No cliques for me... one of a kind I was... that was my niche. :)

[xsongbirdx.livejournal.com]

Yep, if it hadn't been for the band room, I'd have had no place where I belonged!

[fox-bard.livejournal.com]

Lone wolf freak that even other freaks shunned and was put down by everyone, including the teachers. Known only to have only one friend (maybe two at most) at any given time, from K through 12. Not because I wanted, but because no one liked me. (Not much has changed there, really.)

In college I found other freaks, both times. Found myself popular among them for being somewhat attractive, and then came TEH DRAMA, and if I wasn't shunned, then I took myself away from the equation. Same with people I met in pagan circles, and online circles. I'm very good at running away from people who suck.

Perhaps that is why at university, I stayed completely alone - save for my books and my smokes. I could be friendly with classmates, but never acquaintances, and certainly never friends.

[ktsies2.livejournal.com]

Not terribly. I played soccer, ran track and indoor track but did not hang out with anyone from my teams really. I would hang out with random people once in awhile (popular or not, it didn't matter) but I moreso hung out with people from another school. To this day if I see someone from the school with kids I hung out with (a wide variety of kids) that I didn't even particularly hang out with, they'd be like OH HEY! I WENT TO HIGH SCHOOL WITH YOU! Haha.
I just don't like snotty brats...which is mostly what was at my high school. I was plenty popular at 2 other high schools that I didn't attend :)

[oneirocritical.livejournal.com]

I ran with a lot of different social circles. My freshman, sophmore and junior year, I dressed like a hippie. My senior year, I dressed like a combination of Tank Girl and Nancy from the movie The Craft. I don't know if you've seen either movie.

[f-l-i-r-t.livejournal.com]

Yes and No...

Main group of friends were the misfits.

There was:
-a punk girl
(she was persian and gorgeous with her jet black / orange mohawk and green eyes)

-a bookworm girl

- a political activist girl

-a hippy girl

- a trendy girl

- a preppy, or new age romantics type girl

- an average girl

- an a cheeky chap

I was the average girl, nothing particularly interesting, unique or different about me. But, I was the glue that held the other's together, and I was also the bridge that brought them into line with the school.

I got on with everyone because I was in band, greek club, I also played field hockey, and did track & field, etc. So, because I knew a lot of people from different areas, academic, sports etc I kept things smooth.

So, my main group was a clique, but I got on with all groups and had other friends. The clique were my best friends.

Thanks for making me remember all that... *L*

[isis-lives.livejournal.com]

I had a friend or two in every clique. Didn't fit in to any group. Since I had two older sisters, there were expectations for me to be ultra "popular" and those weren't the people whom I found interesting but it was always a pull. I was never athletic enough for the jocks, wild enough for the "in" group, nerdy enough for the nerds, or weird enough for the greasers, but I had close relationships in each group. Then I had a serious boyfriend and didn't worry about cliques anymore because we spent a lot of time together. And...I ended up with kinda my own mish-mash of good friends who hung out together.

[hippie-geisha.livejournal.com]

I ran with a group of kids that didn't seem to fit in anywhere else. (Gee...I kind of see a trend here...do you? LOL!) Misfits have always seemed to be drawn to me, and that was and still is cool.

Now many many years later, I'll run into somebody from high school (I hate doing that...I've kind of let everyone believe that I either dropped off the face of the earth or went crazy.), usually somebody that I didn't hang out with, and they say some dumb shit like "Wow! I didn't realize how cool you are! I wish we would have hung out back then!" Whatever! They were shallow then, and most likely still shallow now...

[popfiend.livejournal.com]

Geek/nerd/unpopular.

*sigh*

[spacedlaw.livejournal.com]

Nope: always been some sort of loner. Never quite belonged.

[castlelady.livejournal.com]

If you mean from elementary to high school, I'm sure they had cliques, but I never belonged to any. And luckily in my school now childish crap like that doesn't exist.

[1-rhiannon-1.livejournal.com]

I was in the band so I guess that's my clique. I really didn't fit in even with them though.

[nonickname96.livejournal.com]

I was homeschooled... so not really. ;-)

I didn't really have a "clique" till after college actually. And then it was only really that for about a year....

♥

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

I was the rogue. I talked to everyone, made fun of everyone. That kind of thing.

[photodiva02.livejournal.com]

No, not really. I was kind of a nerd and a loner. I wasn't like an ugly nerd, but I wasn't popular either.

[innerly.livejournal.com]

i hate to say this, cause it always has a negative connotation... but we were one of the group of popular girls, but not the kind that looked down to others, etc.. we just got along with a lot of people, were nvited to all the parties, etc

[stalkings.livejournal.com]

I was a nerd that hung out in the library everyday at lunch time playing chess and egyptian rat screw! :p

[kelly-pink.livejournal.com]

yep..had one..

hs, I was a pom squad girl sooo..I was a member of them...yet I found the AV computer geeks so charming...

college..my chicas!! at one time a professor deemed us "the group" back when we let boys in! hehe

[sirenity.livejournal.com]

I don't think so.

In grade school there was no such thing really. And in high school - I went to 3 - so I was always the 'new' kid, it seemed - and so I had the ability of being able to go in and out of a lot of groups that were already established by virtue of being new, you know? And now that I think of it - that was a good thing because I never felt 'stuck' in one group.

And I guess by the time college came around, I was so used to being able to get along with all the different 'types' that I just kinda kept doing the same - hanging with a variety of peeps. =)

Ahhhh, always the gypsy, I guess.