<p>Hey everyone! I am a senior who attends a large Catholic high school in the Philadelphia area. I am pretty satisfied to say that I am very popular! No matter which class year you ask, most students in that class year will know my name. I am one of the most noticeable people in the school. I talk and flirt with girls of every class year (yes, even freshman girls!). Teachers who never even taught me stop and say hi to me. I have a huge network of friends within the school and at other high schools. I am taking a very beautiful junior to my senior prom, and attended last year's senior prom as a junior myself. I was even voted Homecoming King last September. Because of my popularity, coupled with my grades, I will miss my school very much. That is why popularity matters so much to me; it makes my quality of life at school so much better. The negative side of popularity, however, is that I sometimes have to be somebody other than myself. I have to mask my true self to keep my image going sometimes. Nevertheless, I enjoy popularity greatly. How much does popularity matter to all you CC'ers?</p>
<p>It couldn’t be less important to me. In a high school setting at least.</p>
<p>This seems to basically just be bragging…</p>
<p>I don’t care about general popularity, I just want to be liked among my small group of friends.</p>
<p>I thought the same thing about the bragging UKgirl23.</p>
<p>I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to come off as bragging. I was just giving you a glimpse into my high school life. I know some of the people’s lives on this site may be exactly like mine or may be way different, but this is how my life typically goes. If I omitted any part of this statement, I would be lying about my HS life.</p>
<p>“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to come off as bragging.”</p>
<p>Yes you did…
Not that there’s anything wrong with bragging. </p>
<p>I’m not attractive enough to be popular, and I’m shy anyway, so I don’t care.</p>
<p>Don’t worry guys. This is bragging. </p>
<p>My take on people who need to be popular is that they usually have an underlying problem.</p>
<p>OP, don’t lie. You were bragging. I wouldn’t have a problem with you in real life if you did actually do all those things but it’s the way you focused all your points on yourself and didnt use it to support your question…Which is what by the way?</p>
<p>We got a cool kid ovah heah guyzzz, watch out.</p>
<p>I’m popular in my group of friends. And, oddly enough, the teachers in my school. I walk down the hall, and it’s “Hey Mrs. So-and-so, how’s your mom doing? Mr. So-and-so, how did your son’s recital go?” But not especially so. I don’t know every teacher, but I enjoy the few that I do know well.</p>
<p>But popularity means little to me. I’m friends with the teachers and certain peers because I’m genuinely interested in their lives, not for the sake of being popular. I don’t intend to have my lifetime happiness plateau in high school.</p>
<p>It was somewhat important to me at the beginning of the year, but now that I’m in that “group” I realize it’s not all that it’s cut out to be. Luckily, the popular group at my school isn’t how it is in the movies (but then again, are they ever?). I’m ashamed that I ever valued being popular but at the same time am sort of glad I did due to the fact that I would have never made such great friends. I really can’t see myself with any other friends now! So despite initially being a very shallow idea, wanting to be popular gave me some of the sweetest, funniest, most goal-oriented friends I know. Some advice to people who read this, though it may be obvious, PLEASE don’t try to be popular unless the popular group at your school is truly a nice group you would want to be associated with and won’t bring you down academically or otherwise.</p>
<p>Besides for self-promotion, what exactly was the point of this thread? (because that’s all I’m seeing…)</p>
<p>Idc if I come off as bragging. I know I’m relatively popular. I always have people I don’t know saying hi to me and knowing my name. My friends even tell me I’m popular. And yes I enjoy it, I actually love that since I become student body vp most of the school knows who I am. I love that my best female friend is the most popular girl in our school. And I Don’t have to ever act like something I’m not. So it looks like I got it better haha</p>
<p>It used to be important to me. Then I realized that it would not get me anywhere and that I might as well just enjoy life with my close friends. Ironically enough, my friend group has widened these year more so than ever, not that I’m complaining. I’m a friendly person, so the more the merrier!</p>
<p>Hmm…I don’t really know if I’m popular or not, I just hang out with my buddies in band and talk to some of the teachers that I know. It seems I am liked by most people, though, but that might just be because I don’t get into much drama. I’d say there is some importance to popularity, but it really depends on what angle you take it from. My angle is that it can help you expand your social network and establish contacts, namely teachers, who can help land you internships or something that could lead to a job. Not that you need to be interested in teaching, but maybe your physics teacher knows physicists in the area or used to work for a company; you never know until you find out!</p>
<p>My school isn’t big enough to be ‘unpopular.’ Everyone knows everybody, especially within their own class. </p>
<p>But I have a feeling I wouldn’t want to be popular if I went to a big school. I wouldn’t like having all those eyes on me all the time. I guess if girls are into that kind of thing I could deal with it though. Like I said, I go to a small school, so I’m less familiar with the pros and cons of being popular. </p>
<p>But yeah, the only point of this thread was to brag. Good for you, OP, we’re so happy for you.</p>
<p>At first it used to be really important, but now that I’m into my senior year and I’ve found my friends, I could care less.</p>
<p>I lthink that being popular does not matter. In my school (rural white trash school) most popular people end up in community college or they end up pregnant. The most popular senior ( Stuco President AND Class President) found out she was pregnant with her boyfriend’s child a month before graduation. Everyone in my school thought it was “cute” that she was pregnant.</p>
<p>In my class the AP Kids are in an entirely different circle from the non-AP kids so everything is different.</p>
<p>Although we don’t know how to guage popularity - everybody has their cliques and everybody has their circles, and I’m pretty prominent in mine though. Since we’ve had classes together since the 7th grade, and some of us since elementary school if we went to the same one: everybody knows each other.</p>
<p>But I have a decent social life I guess. Parties every now and then, get togethers. But nothing recent because it’s AP season.</p>
<p>Popularity is a nightmare for me, lol. I’ve always been one of the kids on the fringe. A couple of my friends are definitely queen bees, but then I also hang out with some of the indie kids and the nerds. I have my friends, but I’m not friends with everybody, and I’d hate the pressure to be cool that comes with popularity. I need people but too many throw me off.</p>