<p>Since the beginning of high school, I have been the "genius" who has taken loads of AP courses. Now, it's senior year and have the fewest classes, and I basically have nothing to do. My free time has allowed me to think about myself and the future, and allowed me to realize how alone I am. I lack any real friends I can trust or hang out with. It's not due to poor social skills, but rather because I have neglected every social opportunity handed to me throughout high school and chose academics over friendship.</p>
<p>I'm a bit depressed, without friends and all. Is it still possible to join a clique in the last year of high school? How?</p>
<p>Don’t be too sad try to seize opportunities you would have turned down. Go to prom, homecoming, club meetings, functions, football games and maybe invite some people you like to the movies or something. Just reach out and people will reach back even if that doesn’t work very well, you have college and that’s where most people say they find their real friends that they keep forever. Good luck and enjoy the rest of high school!</p>
<p>Make friends with the people in your classes & join a sport! You meet so many people by doing sports
Also don’t be too upset it’s just high school ahah, you’ll be in college soon and meet TONS of new people! (:</p>
<p>Why are you taking easy classes? You should be challenging yourself, not slacking. You’ll appreciate it in college when you place out of classes or have seen material your classmates haven’t.</p>
<p>Plus, if you have an easier time in college, guess what you’ll get to do? Socialize! It’s much more fun in college, especially seeing as right now you have no friends.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about friends…you only need them b/c you think you need them. Spend the time learning/doing something worthwhile and take advantage of opportunities to associate with other people. But don’t let it distract your thoughts.</p>
<p>Don’t feel bad that you realized this now. Some people don’t realize what you have until college, sometimes the end of it. Just search some old threads. It’s not too late to become more socially involved this year. Be more social. Participate in activites. Volunteer your time. But as someone already mentioned, with college will come the real opportunity to find and make lasting friendships.</p>
<p>My friend, I say to you that it is not too late. I’m 4.0 uw on track to be valedictorian and I, like you, mucked through high-school under self-imposed social isolation. Honestly, you have to stop worrying about being cool. I was worried that I would be deemed “uncool” by rule of guilt by association if I hung out with the kids like me. You have to be conscious of the fact that you’re your own person and can succeed in whatever social circle you want.</p>
<p>Are there any kids you know from sports, clubs or simply your classes who you also know will be laid-back and accepting? Seek those kids out, see if you can plan a get-together. Just tonight I got back from a “Football Friday” party at my XC buddy’s house. There were probably no more than 10 guys there and no girls. We played tackle football at a park until it got dark and then ate pizza, played Madden etc.</p>
<p>From a superficial standpoint, it sounds pretty lame. No girls? No booze? A dry sausagefest, gross! Lol But see, it wasn’t meant to be that kind of party. There was no superficiality, no schmoozing. It was just a low-key thing. Some of the guys there have had multiple girlfriends, some of those guys will be lucky to have one in the next ten years, but nobody was so crass as to point that stuff out because everyone was accepting, and the focus of the gathering was on objectives (winning the game, the video game) with some conversation in-between. </p>
<p>Those are the friends you want to have and the parties you want to go to when you’re still a social caterpillar because it gives you a chance to practice your social skills in a low-risk environment and meet like-minded folks who will form the core of your friend group. Then, young chippy, you move on to the big parties and, inshallah, the hunt (if you know what I mean)…</p>
<p>dude, high school is a tiny fraction of our life. I feel for you though but it isn’ the end of the world. get an after school job at an interesting place or take a class way off the beaten path of your usual pursuits: painting, pottery, computer code? or volunteer somewhere - a park, an old age home, learn to cook. enrich your life right now and when you get to college, presumably, you won’t have many classes to take because of your AP status, and start fresh there. It is the same now as it ever was: the it people in school peak and that is it. and have std’s. Dude, it’s going to be alright for you.</p>
<p>Don’t worry I’m kind of an introvert because the people at my school aren’t on the same level as me. At college there will be sooo many more ppl to meet and socialize with; possibilities will be endless. Work out by yourself, read, learn and teach yourself how to be your own best friend</p>
<p>Yeah I feel the same way - I feel like high school has just been a waste of time - not only did I not pick up many social skills, I also didn’t do much of the no life for the SAT/get leadership/win national [insert activity here] stuff that the other awkward people like me here seem to have done. All I got was a few 5’s and a good GPA…</p>
<p>The easiest way to get friends is to go ask a popular girl out. Of course she has to say yes haha. All her friends become your friends. You can get 100 friends in a week. ;D</p>
<p>I know this sounds terrible and all the parents here will be appalled.</p>
<p>But freshman to junior year I slowly built my way up through the social ranks. I started off quite low on the totem pole and made it about half-way up junior year.</p>
<p>Summer between junior and senior year I started drinking, which somehow resulted in instant popularity? Well, I’m not really ‘popular’ per se but everyone knows who I am and I have a lot more friends than I did before.</p>
try to seize opportunities you would have turned down. Go to prom, homecoming, club meetings, functions, football games and maybe invite some people you like to the movies or something. Just reach out and people will reach back 
even if that doesn’t work very well, you have college and that’s where most people say they find their real friends that they keep forever. Good luck and enjoy the rest of high school!</p>
because it gives you a chance to practice your social skills in a low-risk environment and meet like-minded folks who will form the core of your friend group. Then, young chippy, you move on to the big parties and, inshallah, the hunt (if you know what I mean)…</p>