<p>I was just wondering if anyone else noticed an almost complete change in any of their friends in Junior year. I have a few friends that seemed to have completely changed (for the worse). One guy I know used to be so sweet sophomore and freshman year, and now he's a real jerk, and he drinks a lot. This other girl seems to have gone insane, I mean she thinks everyone's out to get her. Junior year has really seemed to change a lot of people, and I was just wondering if anyone else had any experience with drastic changes in their "friends" in Junior year.</p>
<p>It's like every day someone else seems to completely change. It's rather scary.</p>
<p>I haven't seen drastic changes, but I have seen gradual changes. Most of my friends have changed for the better, but there are a lot of other students that have changed for the worse(in my eyes).</p>
<p>yeah...I lost a lot of friends this year. I don't think they've "changed"...you just failed to see them in their true nature. I think junior/senior year you start realizing who your real friends are, and some people are just acquaintances or people who are in your group throughout high school. I have like maybe one or two friends I can actually trust.</p>
<p>One of my friends became completely "emo" ... she lost her sense of self, nearly died after getting drunk, alienated her friends in favor of her "eh" boyfriend, and became pretty depressed. But now, she's completely recovered. She is (seems?) very confident in who she is, who she's friends with, and her life in general. =)</p>
<p>I think that's basically it. I mean, I'm sure everyone has changed slightly, but nothing radical like that. I can only generalize and say that everyone has gotten a LOT less awkward... ha.</p>
<p>i noticed that as each year progress, the parties became more frequent and the use of drugs and alcohol. but none of my friends really changed besides when on e gets a bf or a gf and i never see them again. also, alot of ppl trying to make fake drama and gossip.</p>
<p>but senior year is fun, everyone is chill and no one really gives a crap.</p>
<p>yes i remembr last year, a friend who had a 4.0 before starting junior year suddenly started ditching so much school that he had to go to adult school in order to not be held back for senior year! and other ppl became sluts, etc....</p>
<p>my ex best friend went from being amazingly fun to hang with and so hippie/down to earth to an egocentric stuck up brat. Hence her being my ex best friend. </p>
<p>My current best friend went from being shy and reserved to being outspoken and gregarious but that might just be since she hangs out with me way to much.</p>
<p>I think a bigger change was from 8th grade to freshman year, where you could really see the direction in which everyone was going. Everybody kinda setteled into their 'identities' that year. There have been a few strange changes since then, but nothing huge.</p>
<p>Im seeing it happen right now during my senior year. You know, those people you havnt seen for a while because of summer, but when you say "hi" to them, its like they barely know you. Whatever, I don't care. At least i know i have my real group of friends.</p>
<p>I know there's a change in myself from frosh year. However, I've hung around in basically the same crowd. In a school with ~60 people per-grade, that doesn't mean so much though.</p>
<p>yep, at the beginning of this year something horrible happened in my group of friends... the tragedy turned into an explosive event which turned out to shed a lot of light on what horrible people some of my "friends" were.... i've since severed my ties with that group and my true friends and i have created our own circle.</p>
<p>I've definitely noticed changes in my friends junior year.</p>
<p>Since middle school, I've always had the same two friends (and only two friends), along with a bunch of acquaintances who are cool, but I don't like all that much. One of the two, who has been my friend since 1st grade started hanging out with complete douch.bags and suddenly started constantly doing stupid things to seem funny and try to be cool. He hangs out with potheads, sluts, and jerks now. I noticed him gravitating toward that type of behavior soph year, but he rapidly digressed this year. He was always one of the "cool geeks" with me and my other friend, and now he's just an idiot. The rapidity may have to do with me being gone from school 50 days straight.</p>
<p>My other friend changed similarly, but not to the same extent. He cut his foot-long hair off.</p>
<p>One person I absolutely hated freshman year, because he was a condescending grade-whore (as some refer to them) has gotten less annoying, after he realized he could get good grades without trying, like me.</p>
<p>Part of it is my own realizations about people, but most of it is everyone else caving to imagined pressures.</p>
<p>No one else seems to have changed, though. Maybe I just don't know them well enough.</p>
<p>And my hair is better this year. That's largely because I realized I'm going to look ugly no matter what, so I might as well put no effort into looking less ugly. But my hair actually looks better this way.</p>
<p>I've noticed I'm the only person I know who has never changed since sixth grade--I don't know whether that's good or not.</p>
<p>See, I don't think that I've changed at all since 6th grade, either. (significantly, I mean... I've become more outgoing, but that just means that I'm showing my old personality to more people...). But, who knows... maybe, in actuality, I've undergone some radical metamorphosis =). I doubt it, though.</p>
<p>Honestly, I came into junior year feeling much, much more outgoing, happy, comfortable, social, and engaged. I've seen some opposite changes in some of my friends, but fortunately not many.</p>