I got A's in every class in high school without trying at all. That's how it's always been for me. I put in no effort whatsoever. School bores me because it's too easy. Oh well.
I was voted the quietest in my graduating class (of not that many lol), as well as the most sarcastic. That right there should tell you something.
Academically, my study halls were not my own because I spent them helping others with math homework; I had an enormous reputation for being at the top of my class, along with two other girls. The whole school looked up to us, and it was really,
really weird. I don't think that academic achievement should be the focus;
learning is, and I wasn't learning anything in school because it was things I already knew from reading and stuff, educating myself, soooo... yeah. I won all kinds of stupid awards, though. I was told by the different English teachers I had that I should be a writer someday, which is something I've been told since I was about five, beginning with my parents. Yeah, OK, people.
I didn't see myself as being much better at English than anything else, though; I was good at everything equally.
I played basketball my sophomore and junior years due to peer pressure and enjoyed the camaraderie of being on a team very much but disliked it, really. I'm not an athletic person.
I had the nickname J-Dog. Nobody called me by my actual name.
I don't know. I was typically pretty quiet, but at the same time I was willing to jump in at any time. I never raised my hand in class.
Socially, I never fit anywhere. There were all these little groups in my class and in others due to necessity; I mean, any time you get a group larger than three people, there are going to be subgroups. I never fit into any of them. I was never invited to anything other than the traditional class parties at the beginning of Christmas break and summer, which everyone in the class was invited to. People would discuss plans in front of me and not invite me. I didn't connect with anyone at all, but that's something that has always been that way and always will be that way. My class was very united and there was a good sense of fidelity that existed, but still, I knew that I didn't actually have any friends there, while most others did; they were just kids I went to school with every day. I would just mirror the girls around me and try to fit in, but I wasn't really
anything like them. I was less awkward than I was in junior high, though, when I was homeschooled and just went to youth group... I didn't even do that then, and all I got from kids then were strange looks when I tried to bring up conversation topics (that were about God and why we're here and why laughter exists and how people really are and how they deceive themselves, etc. not things people care about when they're 11-13; all the girls my age wanted to talk about were boys and music and TV shows, and I've never cared about any of that). I got better at that in high school and learned to be fake, I guess you could say, but I still didn't fit in even with the fake persona, and the person everybody knew wasn't really me. It was very lonely. It still is. The good thing about my high school, at least at first, was that gossip didn't really exist, though. I wasn't exposed to that until college, because, again, I was homeschooled, so when I was younger I never had to put up with cruelty from other kids outside the normal stuff that happens between siblings and cousins that everybody laughs at down the road. I'm sure that I would have been bullied had I attended regular school. Absolutely positive of it.
Ummm. Let's see... Oh, I was known for being formidable in debates. Nobody wanted to cross me there.
Yeah, that's about it.
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