<p>There are so many different kinds of popular. I'm not a cheerleader- I'm not that kind of popular. I'm not one of those girls who spends more times on her hair than her homework, but I have friends- lots of them. Being popular is about being liked by lots of people, not about your status really.</p>
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I'm not popular. I'm not unpopular. I don't think anyone outside of my 10 friends even knows I exist. It's depressing when you're unnoticed and it feels like everyone else is so popular. I figure next year when I apply to college, I'll get rejected everywhere, be even more depressed, live alone for the rest of my life and just generally hate life. High school is just the first rung in my worthless life.
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<p>Celebrian25, I seriously hoping you were just having one of those "woe is me" moments. But if you really do believe that, ask yourself, "Why would I want a bunch of supericial friends over 10 non-fake good friends?" Maybe I am just an elitest of some sort, but I pride myself on just having a few really good friends as opposed to knowing a hundred accquaintences... And second of all, apply to a safety that you find decent.</p>
<p>On another note, I am 5' 3/4" female. I would love to be taller, but I'm not wearing platforms or anything silly like that. Glowingarmy, I don't think anything taller than 5'3" would be giantlike. In fact, I think 5'5" is the perfect height for a girl. But any height in which I could talk to my crush whose almost 6' without straining would be wonderful!</p>
<p>myway - it's definitely not a bungly height, but i'd feel extra bungly because I am fundamentally bunglier than others. The less of me there is the better.</p>
<p>No one outside of the football/basketball team and cheerleading squad thinks he/she is popular. I see big class personalities sometimes sitting the library alone and doing their homework. Popularity is becoming more and more meaningless because they're such a minority now (at least in my school). I get some exposure from doing little skits on the daily bulletin, but I ain't popular. I move around too much to be popular (as in, sitting on a bench making out with a girl in cheerleading uniform).</p>
<p>glowingamy, lol...bungly's just such a funny word, i've never seen it used. I think 5'5 is a good height for girls. I'm 5'7" so it's hard to find guys taller than I. </p>
<p>I think popularity really depends on the school too. My school's too small to have that many hierachical levels (115 per grade). The "popular" people are huge druggies so I wouldn't want to be one of them at all. On the other hand, I was a cheerleader and it didn't make a big difference (probably because we're not very good at sports, we don't even have football). </p>
<p>Anyway, Celebrian25, I hope you feel better, but I think having 10 good friends is perfectly good. I have 3 really good friends and I wouldn't trade them for popularity.</p>
<p>It's annoying when you go to school with the same people you've always gone to school with. I wouldn't want to be popular anyways, (at my own school popular girls are just "easy" shall we say) it would be nice if someone knew my name, I guess I feel pretty lost in a crowd of 2,000</p>
<p>I think the "IN" thing now is to wear no belts with your low rise pants so that when you sit down in class on your lil chair, ur butt crack shows. :S EW... even the people with rather large buts are joining in. Girls as they grow older seem to still be tryin to fit into shirts that they work in 6th grade. EW. I hope they realize when they grow up, their style will have to change in order to be taken seriously. </p>
<p>Popularity doesnt exist at my high school. But in middle school, you were NO ONE if you were'nt popular. The ones that were popular in midd school have not changed. They still whine like middle schoolers, only diff is they are even skankier. Makes me sick <em>barfs</em></p>
<p>oh i know that's so nasty! and their shirts are so small.
but the trend here is mostly uber preppy-- lacoste, uggs, pleated skirts, moccasins.</p>
<p>LOL my town is hicksville usa. Your kinda made fun of if your preppy. and barely any of the kids can afford decent clothes. Some can barely afford good will.</p>
<p>I go to a pretty small school (159 in my class) and in freshman year where 50% of the class is "popular" and the other 50% aren't, I think the popularity thing was pretty big before but now, senior year, it really doesn't matter. People have been talking to those who they haven't spoken with since second grade and I've seen a lot of different people hanging out. I think that this year, most of the people in my class (including me) want to get to know everyone better. </p>
<p>The freshmen are definitely smaller this year. There's a girl who looks like she could be in 4th grade with my brother. Seriously, when I walk behind her, her head comes to the middle of my rib cage and her waist is about the size of my leg.</p>
<p>The comments about the new styles are funny... Where I live, we have the rich, the middle, and some more middle which are further divided into the smart, the jocks, the skaters, and the druggies. I live five minutes from the US capital so we have quite the assortment of individuals. We certainly have divisions, but we don't have a "popular" group that rules the school. Our senior super-involved group tries to rule but isn't that true at every school? </p>
<p>AND the freshman are getting smaller. Another interesting thing is how when I was a freshman I knew 10th, 11th, and 12th graders and had friends in all of the grades. Now, as a senior, I know maybe 4 underclassmen. I walk through the underclassmen hallways(our school is kind of divided by grade/academic level) and I know NO ONE. Regardless, I am enjoying this last year.</p>
<p>silent angel are you serious about them not being able to afford Goodwill?</p>
<p>Basically, my school is so small that in order to have sports and theater and all the other ECs, everyone has to do everything, so that cuts down on a lot of popularity, since everyone knows everyone else from various activites. The only people who seem to be disenfranchised are the ones who don't do anything related to school. They're the ones that I see in the halls and have no idea what their names are, how old they are, or anything really.</p>
<p>am class president and extremely popular.</p>
<p>My class of about 600 is divided into several groups, each having its own popular and unpopular people. When I say divided, I mean that there is a very large group of Asian students who alienate themselves, a smaller group of Hispanic/African American students who alienate themselves, and then another group of white students who basically are grouped by religion and or drug usage. It's rather sad actually..</p>
<p>yeah there are the pot smokers, the party/alcohol overusers, the jocks, the smart kids, the nerdy (but not smart) kids, and the muslum/somlians, I know that last one seems like a stereotype, but they only hang around each and nobody else. The other racial groups (blacks, whites, mexicans, peurto ricans, other hispanics) all get along pretty well</p>
<p>Its amazing how such modern schools can be so backwards..</p>
<p>I like my school because there is no caste like system. Almost everyone knows everyone.(In the same grade) I know alot of freshmen and a couple of senior because of my pre-cal class and some electives. I like the junior class much better than my sophmore class. If you are smart its a plus because people like you for that. If they tell you something you can just say "At least im not a dumb ass like you".</p>
<p>nosx: lol some people, yes. I feel bad for them but then again there are SOME people who wear nothing but 50 dolla shirts and 100 dolla jeans.</p>
<p>I'm okay. is it just me or are teh officers of clubs and other teams comprised mainly of popular people? It seems that everywhere I look in my school, unqualified people are maned at clubs that they have no interst in whatsoever. For example, there is this one girl who is pretty bad at math and pretty much hates doing it. However, she got elected to the Mu Alpha Theta president. (We do have a 40 people club though) What happened? Do any of you feel like this? No offense to anyone, I hope.</p>