“My high school wasn't a big public school; it was tiny. There were 36 girls in my graduating class. We were a big group of girls that by the time senior year came along couldn't wait to get away from school fast enough but we loved each other. It's really fun to see the girls at reunions now.” YearsEnoughBigsSchoolGirlFunWaitingClassGroupsHigh SchoolTinyGet AwayGraduatesSeniorPublic SchoolReunionSenior YearGraduating Class Author:Cecily von Ziegesar
“One of the best programmers I ever hired had only a High School degree; he's produced a lot of great software, has his own news group, and made enough in stock options to buy his own nightclub.” MadeEnoughSchoolGroupsDegreesNewsHigh SchoolSoftwareProgrammersNightclubsStock Options Author:Peter Norvig
“You don't know who the next group is that's unpopular. The Bill of Rights isn't for the prom queen. The bill of rights isn't for the high school quarterback. The Bill of Rights is for the least among us. The Bill of Rights is for minorities. The Bill of Rights is for those who have minority opinions.” KnowsSchoolNextOpinionRightsGroupsHigh SchoolBillsQueensMinoritiesQuarterbackNsaBill Of RightsPromProm Queen Author:Rand Paul
“Today age segregation has passed all sane limits. Not only are fifteen-year-olds isolated from seventy-year-olds but social groups divide those in high school from those in junior high, and those who are twenty from those who are twenty-five. There are middle-middle-age groups, late-middle-age groups, and old-age groups - as though people with five years between them could not possibly have anything in common.” PeopleYearsAgeTodaySchoolSocialCommonFiveGroupsMiddleLimitsLateHigh SchoolTwentiesOld AgeFive YearsDividesIsolatedSaneFifteenSeventiesSegregationMiddle AgesJuniorsTwenty FiveFifteen YearsJunior HighSocial Groups Author:Suzanne Gordon
“For me, I always go back to when I was 10 years old and, I think between the time I was 10 and going to high school, were some of the greatest moments for me, because I had a group of friends that I was inseparable with, who we would make movies with all the time.” ThinkingYearsMomentsSchoolGroupsHigh SchoolInseparableGroup Of FriendsGoing To High School Author:Michael Giacchino
“When I began doing theatre in high school I saw that I could get laughs from people but I didn't really connect that to going on and becoming a comedian. I was interested in acting and while I was at Boston College I was part of an improv group, Mother's Fleabag, which had a long history and has been known as one of the best college improvisation groups in the U.S.” PeopleLongHas BeensSchoolMotherActingKnownLaughingSawsGroupsCollegeBecomingHigh SchoolTheatreComedianBostonImprovisationBest College Author:Amy Poehler
“I didn't graduate high school, so I never got a teacher's education, I'm mostly self-read, self-taught. I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.” PeopleSelfSchoolGuyTeacherGroupsTaughtBandHigh SchoolProducersJailGraduatesSelf Taught Author:Billy Joel
“I was raised Christian after age 5, but I didn't really understand it until high school. A friend of mine invited me to his youth group. There I heard the gospel, understood it, and accepted it.” AgeSchoolChristianHeardGroupsYouthMinesUnderstoodHigh SchoolRaisedAcceptedInvited Author:Francis Chan
“In Washington, officials from the National Rifle Association met with a group of high school students. There were no survivors.” HumorSchoolFunnyGroupsStudentsMetsHigh SchoolOfficialsSurvivorAssociationRiflesHigh School Students Author:Tina Fey
“I did all the musicals in my high school; I was in a pop group signed to Cash Money Records in college. Music has always been a really big part of my life.” BigsSchoolRecordsGroupsCollegeHigh SchoolPopsCashCash Money Author:Janina Gavankar
“I did most of my volunteer work when I was in college because I knew of more ways to get involved. In high school, we'd do things like, there was a homeless shelter near our hometown and our church group decorated one of the rooms. In college, I was in a sorority, and we did a lot of things, like pick up trash on the highway.” WaySchoolChurchRoomsGroupsCollegeInvolvedPicksHigh SchoolShelterVolunteerHomelessHighwaysTrashGet InvolvedHometownSororityVolunteer Work Author:Carrie Underwood
“I am not one to generalize, but cartoonists, as a group, exhibit a level of social sophistication generally associated with pie fights. In high school, when the future lawyers were campaigning for class president, the future cartoonists were painstakingly altering illustrations in their history books so that Robert E. Lee appeared to be performing an illegal act with his horse.” BookSchoolFightingSocialPresidentLevelsClassGroupsHigh SchoolHorseLawyerPerformingIllegalPieExhibitsIllustrationSophisticationCartoonistHistory BooksCampaigningClass President Author:Dave Barry
“From the time I was a kid, I'd never joined groups. I hated high school groups. I hung out with hippies, musical people. I hung out with whomever I found compelling and interesting and smart. And I continued to do that throughout my life.” PeopleKidsSchoolFoundInterestingGroupsSmartHigh SchoolMusicalHatedCompellingHungHippie Author:Sandra Bernhard
“I did stand up first in high school, joined an improv group in college, kept doing stand up after that, no one could deter me. And I have no other skills really, so I'm sorta stuck with this now. It's a little late to switch over to an ornithologist.” FirstsLittlesSchoolGroupsCollegeSkillsLateHigh SchoolStuck Author:Greg Proops
“I couldn't even speak in front of a group of students when I was in high school. I could barely do that sort of thing. But once I started doing the "YES!" chant down to the ring and people would do it with me, it allowed me to feel more comfortable.” PeopleFeelsSchoolSpeakGroupsFrontsStudentsComfortableHigh SchoolRings Author:Daniel Bryan
“I was more tuned into the assassinations, the riots that were going on, like in Watts, and, in fact, my summer before my senior year in high school I went on the Experiment in International Living to Sweden, yes, with a group of students , you know, leisurely discussion over the summer about, you know, where we were going to go with our lives, and how did you how did, you know, being a born-again Christian mesh with being, you know, a socialist from New York.” KnowsYearsFactsSchoolChristianBornOur LivesGroupsNew YorkStudentsSummerHigh SchoolInternationalExperimentsDiscussionSocialistSeniorRiotAssassinationBorn AgainSwedenDid You KnowMeshSenior Year Author:Jill Stein
“My high school, like most high schools, had a pretty rigid stratification system. Kids were clustered into groups - the studious ones, the athletes, the popular ones - and we never crossed paths with each other. You stayed in your air-tight group, and you were suspicious of people in other groups.” PeopleKidsSchoolPathGroupsAirHigh SchoolAthleteSuspiciousStudiousCrossed Paths Author:Parker J. Palmer
“I grew up in the church, and I always kind of knew Bible stories and knew the Sunday school answers, but when I was a freshman in high school I joined youth group, and that's when I started to see radical love; that's when I started to see what Christian community is supposed to look like and what fellowship is supposed to look like.” LooksKindStoriesSchoolChristianCommunityChurchAnswersGroupsYouthGrewGrew UpHigh SchoolRadicalSundayFellowshipFreshmanSunday SchoolChristian CommunityBible Stories Author:Jeremy Lin
“I went to a high school that didn't have many people in it. There were, like, 60 people in my senior class. There was a group of cool kids and a group of really dorky kids, and I was probably the coolest of the really dorky kids.” PeopleKidsSchoolClassGroupsHigh SchoolSeniorDorkyCool KidSenior Class Author:Matthew Perry
“I was a founding member of the 'Dungeons and Dragons' club at my high school. I was in chorus, I was in swing choir. I was an outcast but I was an outcast among a group of outcasts.” SchoolGroupsMembersHigh SchoolClubsDragonsSwingsFoundingChorusOutcastChoirDungeonsDungeons And Dragons Author:John C. Reilly
“It was a time of great loneliness. He had a group of friends, and suddenly I had no one and did not understand why. I felt excluded. Some days, the majority was in high school and did not know who to talk to. And that is something really terrible when you're twelve years old.” KnowsYearsSchoolFeltGroupsLonelinessTerribleHigh SchoolMajorityTwelveExcludedGroup Of Friends Author:Taylor Swift
“When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high school's team wins the football game? I don't know anybody on the team, they have nothing to do with me... why am I here and applaud? It does not make any sense." But the point is, it does make sense: It's a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to authority and group cohesion behind leadership elements. In fact it's training in irrational jingoism. That's also a feature of competitive sports.” IfsKnowsWayDoeFactsCareSchoolGamesWinningSportsBehindsAttitudeGroupsTeamBuildingFootballAuthorityElementsTrainingHigh SchoolMake SenseFeaturesI CareIrrationalSubmissionFootball GameBuilding UpCohesionJingoismCompetitive Sports Author:Noam Chomsky
“Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt.” YearsSchoolYoungLanguageTeacherGroupsJourneyTravelHigh SchoolFollowingRussiaFunny TravelJuniorsCampingJunior YearHigh School JuniorJunior Year Of High School Author:Peter Agre
“Well let me tell you what [High School Musical] is really about. High School Musical is about this group of boys who are all being molested by the basketball coach, who is Zac Efron's dad. It's about them struggling to cope with this molestation. And they have these little girlfriends, who are their beards. Oh, and somehow there's music involved. You have to get stoned to watch it.” WellsLittlesSchoolBoysWatchesStruggleGroupsDadInvolvedBasketballHigh SchoolLet MeMusicalCoachesGirlfriendBeardBasketball CoachMolestationHigh School Musical Author:Megan Fox