>>77322308This was pretty much my experience, too. Yeah, we had some girls who were the "bitchy cheerleader" types and guys that were the "meathead jock" types, but for the most part, the folks who were most well liked were really sociable and genuinely nice people. Hell, our football team even made a "thank you" video for the marching band when we came out to play despite really nasty weather conditions. Our football coach loved us.
Also, there wasn't really a single hierarchy kind of thing, as another anon said. There weren't single, queen bees or whatever. Everyone sort of fell into their own circle of friends and, for the most part, kept to themselves.
High school really wasn't all that terrible. You weren't hated for being intelligent or being involved in music or academic clubs. I was far from being "popular" in high school or even in college, but I found my niche and made really close friends.
Maybe it's "fun" to think of high school as this crazy jungle where nerds are scraping and struggling to get by - maybe a lot of us have that kind of victim complex - but if I look back on my experience, that wasn't the case at all.
