<p>Are upperclassmen in college and talk about their high school achievements? I feel that once you get to college, very few aspects of high school matter, and that those who resort to name dropping hs achievements lack accomplishments at college.</p>
<p>I feel they are more so just reminiscing about their lives before. Who cares. If I was 30 years old I’d feel ok talking about my high school achievements if the situation arises - its memories, and frankly in this world people get too uptight and judgemental about things that would make everyone happier if we just didn’t care. </p>
<p>Though in regards to your point about correlation between mentioning high school achievements and the possible lack of college achievements, it’s a possibility for some people, while other people may just be following the point mentioned above.</p>
<p>It kind of makes me giggle at them, but at the same time I had no achievements in high school, so what do I know!</p>
<p>Then you obviously must argue that once you go into the workforce, your achievements in college don’t really matter. </p>
<p>I don’t know, most people like to remember things. I had an awesome time in high school and I accomplished quite a lot. I will still talk to my friends about it as a way to relive memories. It makes me happy. I’m sure a lot of other people feel the same way. I have achieved quite a lot in my college career as well, but I don’t really talk about them yet because they’re still going on… not necessarily memories.</p>
<p>I think it is fine. It is something they are proud of and I agree with a previous poster stating that if you can’t talk about previous accomplishments, then nothing in college will count in “the real world”.</p>
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<p>I think that there is a difference between living in the legacy of your past achievements and mildly boasting when opportunities arise. Certainly it would be foolish to live in the legacy of their high school football career when one isnow unemployed and homeless. If past achievements enable complacency or are excuses for present failure, then sure they are “bad”. But otherwise, I think it can be great (and perhaps impressive to others) to reflect on a past success.</p>
<p>Some people achieve great things in high school that are still relevant while applying for a job. Examples: being on a national olympiad team or a Siemens/Intel semifinalist, starting a successful charity or nonprofit, and inventions or patents. People work hard and sometimes expect their hard work to be aknowledged. Although I agree it is foolish to talk about your SAT scores or high school GPA once you are in college.</p>
<p>Once you are hired after college, what you did in college does not really matter. I think there is a difference between finding something in your past meaningful, but it is misguided to think what you accomplished in hs means you are an authority on an issue.</p>
<p>Being all state in hs does not mean you will be all state in college. </p>
<p>I guess my point is there are people who think what they did in HS gives them special credentials. I guess I find it odd when people are in college for several years to talk about hs. I think we can agree hs is less challenging than college, and college less challenging than a career, so the value of past accomplishments diminishes. </p>
<p>What do you think of people who name drop their school? I think it points to a self esteem issue…</p>
<p>I’ve never met a person who name drops their school. </p>
<p>Actually, that’s false. I do know quite a few people who name drop U of M, but definitely not their high schools.</p>
<p>What do you think of people who care what other people talk about? I think it indicates a self-esteem issue.</p>
<p>I assumed tiff meant people who brag about high school accomplishments, not people who just mention them in general.</p>
<p>romani: People at UM, and UM applicants, name drop their high schools frequently. 
Maybe I’m just a lame-o public schooler but I have never heard of most of the high schools they are talking about so it has no effect on me whatsoever. As for name dropping college, unless it’s an employment situation I am actually a bit embarrassed when people ask me what school I go to, because when I say Michigan they often make a big deal out of it and it so totally isn’t. >.< It makes me extremely uncomfortable! My mom makes it a point to tell the cashier at every grocery store we go to that we are stocking up my dorm room so then they ALWAYS ask and they ALWAYS say something awkward about it. Now I understand why my english professor says he went to school in New Haven instead of where he really went. XD</p>
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What do you think of people who name drop their school? I think it points to a self esteem issue… "</p>
<p>You mean like Andy Bernard on The Office?</p>
<p>"What do you think of people who care what other people talk about? I think it indicates a self-esteem issue. "</p>
<p>I guess by your own definition you have self esteem issues…</p>
<p>And yes, I mean people who feel the need to brag about things such as their school or hs “accomplishment.” As in, “I was a member of a state champion x, therefor I am more of an authority on a given topic than you.” </p>
<p>I think it’s immature at the very least.</p>
<p>I don’t think differently of them. Some people like to brag about things. Maybe whatever happened in high school made them really happy and they were proud of that achievement.</p>
<p>Am I supposed to roll my eyes each time they discuss it? I just shrug my shoulder, tell them “That’s cool that you _____” and it doesn’t change my opinion of them.</p>
<p>I guess I don’t really let things like that perturb me…</p>
<p>If they’re bragging about their previous accomplishments, my opinion of them decreases. arrogant bast4rds can kiss my cheeks</p>
<p>If they’re talking about how they were blazing with potential back in high school, but now have become couch potatos, I empathize.</p>
<p>The only time I talk about Leland High is when asked… or if something about it is relevant to the discussion. Such as a research project and mentioning APUSH’s project A and B, where we had to goto MLK Library downtown San Jose and find about 40 sources… which generally makes me an expert in that sort of source-gathering in most of the classes… you tend to pick it up really quickly after you go through that kind of experience. I trust that’s somewhat different than what tiff was saying though.</p>
<p>In college, your high school achievements do not matter. That door is closed and anything that was achieved in high school only helped you get to college.</p>
<p>After college, anything that you accomplished in college really doesn’t matter. Your accomplishments in college can and should help you get to the next level, be that a job or grad school. Once you get to that next level, very little that you accomplished in college will matter.</p>
<p>It will matter that you have a degree, which should help you get a job or pursue a graduate degree, but it won’t define who you are as a person.</p>
<p>In the real world, your work, family and relationships with other people will define you.</p>
<p>There’s a difference between defining you and mattering.</p>
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<p>That’s going to leave your life to be pretty depressing then. </p>
<p>When I’m on my deathbed, I will happily remember my amazing times, achievements and everything else in high school just as I will from my pre-high school years, college years, young adult years, adult years, and old age years.</p>
<p>So yes, it does “matter”. To deny that is to destroy on your own your personalization and meaning in life.</p>
<p>Kind of off-topic…</p>
<p>What do you think of people who are judgmental?</p>
<p>MonkeyKing1, don’t confuse “mattering to you” with “mattering to other people”.</p>
<p>Of course what you did as a child, a high-schooler, and a college student matter to the individual person to mold them into who they are. But in reality, they matter very little to the people you meet on your way through life. They care about who you are in the here and now, the present. Those who live in the past get left in the past.</p>
<p>I’m not saying devoid yourself of all memories, that would be nonsensical. Just be careful of yearning for “the good old days”.</p>