FREAK or PREPPIE? - Freeze-Frame Radio

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

FREAK or PREPPIE?

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

I was a mix of geek/preppie

I was purposely fashioning myself after Alex Keaton, but my grades didn't show it

Zim · Chairwoman Of The Board

Combo geek/freak - Played D&D and hung out with the freestylers, one of which had a hearse spray painted in rainbow colors. :) The art teacher gave me a set of hall passes and let me forge his name to get out of pep rallys... If it'd been the nineties, I probably would've been goth.

Mocrzy · Patient Zero

Also combo Geek/Preppy, Did marching Band, Choir, Theatre, & got good grades, but in my school it was "cool" to be in the theatre productions (plus all the cute girls tried out & often made the leads), and being in band, while not cool in itself, allowed us to hang out & become friends w/the football team & cheerleaders. The problems I had came from the freaks & deadbeats...they never left me alone, I was too geeky to be backed up by the jocks, but was not geeky enough to be an outcast like the freaks & Deadbeats...and therefore became fodder for them. I had some of my best times in school and definitely some of my worst.

Trish · The Procrastinating Red-Head

I was a drama geek. I was in competitive speech, drama, concert choir and even stagecraft. We had an awesome drama department. We had our own little clique and didn't care if we were homecoming queen or prom queen. We had some crossovers that were part of the A crowd, but they weren't die hards and didn't hang out with us on the weekends, which was fine with us. I love drama. I miss that the most about high school. Going to competitions on the weekends and doing two plays a year. That was awesome. Like I said, we had a great drama department. Of course, that was until budget cuts. They bought new uniforms for the football team (who only won 1 game my soph year, 2 games my junior year and a whopping 3 my senior year) and cut the drama department to the point to where the teacher (who was the BEST teacher I ever had) quit to go to an arts magnet where they appreciated fine arts. I'm still kind of resentful over that. Luckily, I had graduated before that happened, but I was saddened for the students that graduated after I did. They really missed out. Gotta love budget cuts in education and where they really think the money should be spent. (Can you FEEL the bitterness?)

Ultimo · King of the Ring

Im guessing that high schools in england are slightly different to yours in the US, but I was probably a geek/freak combo, on computers alot (wait a min I still am) and didnt really mix with the so called 'popular crowd' had a select group of mates and thats how I still am really.

Somechick · Chairwoman Of The Board

I started out as the jock/geek/drama queen hybrid, but gave that up and went full on band geek/drama nerd. I was in band, choir, jazz band, madrigal singer, swing choir, woodwind ensemble, musicals and plays. I was THE music geek, particularly my senior year. Drum Major of the marching band, clarinetist, Choir president, madrigal director....wow...I was a total geek.

But you know what? I love every minute of it. We had horrible facilities to practice and perform in...until I graduated and voted on a referendum to get a new music dept. It's great and all, but nothing compares to 70's brown carpet and 4 practice rooms that fit 3 people for 150+ students.

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

I do feel the bitterness, Trish! Milwaukee Public Schools take up the huge portion of our property taxes, but each year the newspaper prints stories; eg "Music Programs Cut" "After School Programs Slashed".

That's horrible. On the one hand we tell kids to "do something creative with your time", but then the rug gets pulled out from under them. This is where problems like drugs and crime begin. Kids get bored. There are only so many movies to see, only so much bowling one wants to do....

(...jd steps off the soap box)

StevieB · Chairman Of The Board

I would have to say that I was a geeky jock.

KD7URF · Senior Member

I was a Jock per simple even though I was in a swing choir. All threw H.S. I was a tee-shirt and levi guy.

KD7URF signing off

Sparky · Phat Cat EL Presidente

I'm so confused now!! I really don't remember where I fit in. I was in basketball and weight lifting, I wore the Def Leppard torn jeans with a leather jacket and had a mullet. I was even in FFA. I had a motorcycle (everyone that grew up near Sturgis did) and a volkswagon bug. I listened to anything from Johnny Cash to Metallica to Elvis. Won't someone please help me rememer where I fit in!!

Dovetails · Living Legend

Although you'd never know it now, I'd have to say more the jock in high school. Football, weights, track etc. Now total geek and proud of it! heheh

nb0w gives a big 73 to kd7urf!

CP · Lord of the Lair

I was an idiot geeky jock. I was a pitcher, then left baseball because I wanted to speech competitions, left that for Tennis, left that for Theater, left that for swimming.

I didn't have the faintest clue what I was doing in HS.