<p>Well, most of my friends are the "bad kids", I used to be one of them, but after sophomore year I shook that off. I still am friends with them, just now I act as the one that tells them how stupid they are when they do something crazy. People always tell me "you're hanging around the wrong crowd" or "they will rub off on you", but I could care less.</p>
<p>If I hung around more academic kids, I would probably have straight A's, but that just isn't me.</p>
<p>Surfette...</p>
<p>Yeah, it was amazing. I went to a huge public school (2000 people, grades 10-12), but if you got involved in clubs or programs like IB, you made friends fast. I also found that with IB, a lot of the people were competitive, but it was great because they wanted to be there and were interesting because most of them wanted more than academics - they were involved with different things too. The size of the school was also a huge plus because there was every type of social group possible and they all had a lot of overlap because there were a ton of people who were involved in multiple activities.</p>
<p>My friends are almost exclusively drama kids: rather artsy and eccentric, good students (all with a cumulative GPA of over 3.5, I'm sure), really admirably nice, mostly somewhat- to super-athletic... most of us knit. Many of our families raise farm animals (chickens, ducks, alpacas, sheep, horses....). Many of them are very Christian (well... one is marginally Jewish), and others couldn't care less about being religious, and yet we all have roughly the same values. We're all politically left, except one, who is extremely far-right. (She doesn't talk much when we talk about politics. I kind of feel sorry for her sometimes... and then I think about some of her beliefs and I think, "Meh. Let her feel uncomfortable." Then I realize I'm not being nice, so I try to be friendly to her. We're not real close, though.) </p>
<p>None of us compete with each other for grades. Except, I think, the far-right one; I get the feeling she's jealous of me because of my grades. Hers are identical, all As, except for calculus--her first B, I guess, while I'm on my way to getting an A. If anybody asks us how a test went, I have to be really careful about what I say. The most positive thing I can say about my performance if she's around is "I think I did all right," because she gets angry when she's reminded that somebody (i.e., me) is doing better than she. :(
Then, also, we both took AP Spanish in 10th grade (she's a year below me, though) and she got a 4 while I got a 5. :-/</p>
<p>i hang with the theater/music kids. They are an assortment of studious nerdy geeks (me) to clueless. We're a pretty clean crowd - no drugs or drinking. NORMAL and LEFTIES (as in left wing TG).</p>
<p>i can't stand being friends with just one group. my close friends range from stoners to the valedictorian. i get bored w/ the same people all the time, and the smart people are a little bit too selfconcious. they won't just let loose and party.</p>
<p>I hang out with the "normal" kids....if there's such thing as that. I'm okay with the academic crowd seeing as I have the same classes with them every year, but I never really "clicked" with the academic crowd...</p>
<p>Well, my school's a magnet school with less than 80 kids per grade, so the choices are pretty limited. Heh, my best friends go from the class president with a 99 gpa, to the physics fan who represented the US in the Physics Young Ambassador’s symposium, to the typical girl-next-door. I suppose I hang out with the outgoing smart kids -- some academic and some just plain weird.</p>
<p>I hang out with a mix...my school has a little over 1,000 ....Im really not the stereotype type of person so I dont just dont hang out with you just because...........................................................................</p>
<p>I am pretty much friends with everyone in my school (my school is small 350 students), which in a way sucks because I don't have any really really close friends in school but I have a lot of close friends outside of school. Although, I feel that a lot of the people that get good grades are really snobby and holier than thou in terms of intellect which is very often untrue. I guess if I had to say who I hang out with the most would be I guess the stoners/preps popular group.</p>
<p>I have a big mix of friends, but most are the academic type, with a few 4 or 5 each from other groups</p>
<p>no academics really. swimmers 98% of the time</p>
<p>I hang out with people who pretty much fall within the top 25% quartile. I didn't want to or wish to, but the friends I made throughout high school just happened to do quite well academically. My three best friends include two "normal" people and the valedictorian-to-be. Coming from a class of 140, everyone knows each other, so we hang out with certain people because we share common interests (art, music, sports, etc), not because of grades. Most of us toss the academic talk and discuss the latest TV episodes, albums, and movies because that's what we're all into.</p>
<p>The friends I hang out with are not anywhere near competitive, in fact they are pretty much scholastically the opposite of me.</p>
<p>I hang out mostly with the same people I went to Kindergarten with. Most of my friends are in the top 20% or so. I doubt that anyone of us have touched a drink or smoked a cigarette and 90% of us are probably virgins. And no we are not hard to look at either for the most part. We are just the kids in the middle who are not wrapped up in jumping through social hoops and are genuinely nice people.</p>
<p>Hmm.... The normal people?</p>
<p>Hmmm... my friends aren't so grea academically. I think the highest ranked is 20-something, and sometimes we compete, but just for fun. We have tons of bets. The rest vary greatly, some are failing every class they take, some failing half, some passing decently, some have all A's. In class, though, the people I talk to tend to be more academically inclined, just because they're higher level, AP classes. They tend to be the weird people, as I am. They're just fun, but I'm definitely the little angel of the group.</p>
<p>I'm academic, but I hang out with the normal people. You need a balance in your life.</p>
<p>Mixture of people!
I like the artsy group the most because I'm very random and they don't mind it. XD
But I usually hang out with the academically-inclined-but-not-competitive people... or just normal people with good grades.</p>
<p>Back in my old school i used to be a smart popular kid. (Lol sorri i'm being so straightfwd). I had lots of friends from different groups. Some of my best friends outside my group were fellow stuco members, loud extroverted kids, quiet shy kids, the well-liked, the not-so well liked... etc. My own group was known as the "nice group" of the grade coz every1 was so friendly and close.</p>
<p>In my current school I don't have any best friends, but i'm friends with a lot of ppl. The thing that I like about being a new student is that i'm not glued to a specific group so ppl randomly come up to me and start conversations.</p>
<p>I hang out with a mix. One group of friends I hang out with went to my elementary and we are still all together. Most of them are on a high level of acadmics, however they are quite layed back (almost are whole senior honors group is lazy). However I do have friends that I met from football or baseball that are normal everyday kinda guys.</p>