what was high school life like back in 1986?
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A lot like it is now minus cellphones.\n\nFashion was completely different, of course. \n\nTry watching "The Breakfast Club" & "Sixteen Candles" for research to see if there differences you notice.
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the first year of high school
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High school for me was rough but fun. I didn't really start coming into my own until late my junior year. I was still a pimply teenager that resembled Beavis. But looks can be decieving. After awhile I took care of myself a lot better and I found myself being the person that people turned to for advice or a quick joke. I got along with just about everybody. Basketball players, nerds, and everybody in between. Though I enjoyed high school, I would not want to go back. Academically, I struggled through but I did graduate.
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Yes, back in the days when one night stands were my thing, it happened quite a bit.  But we are talking back in the '80s.  I don't live that life anymore.  :)
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Get used to wanting to vomit.  Watch any 80's movie and you'll see that not much has changed in school.  It's just how people are.  Take comfort in knowing you're the misfit that the movie is about and don't burden yourself with it all.
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yes.  we did it in high school
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classmates.com if you know what high school they went to.
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I used to go to a boarding school and boy did I hate it! My boarding school was particularly strict so most of the time we couldn't go anywhere and stayed at school for periods of 4-5 weeks before a 2-day return home. It was horrible! We had no form of entertainment and knew little of what was going on outside the school walls. We were punished for the slightest of things---eating in the dormitory, using electric items, showering after 5pm, wearing sleaveless clothing or shoes without 'backs'. We were a set of bored boarding broods that had little to do but study, envy, and drool at the footballers we managed to get a look at in the local teen newspaper. Thank God, I'm finally FREE!
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1996. year i graduated high school
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I did not do the 10, but a 20,  most were nothing like they used to be,  the "high school jock" was pumping gas at a gas station.\n\nThe high school trouble maker was now a carrer military man\n\nA high school nerd was now a police officer\n\nOf course a couple of your fanticy high school cheer leaders are plump and round.\n\nand of course some are who they were, the brain is a NASA scientiest or working as an enginer for IBM and so on.\n\nEveryone acts like how they loved each other back then, and of course they did not.\n\nLots of people trying to act more important than they really are, and others talking about that great event in high school which appears to be the highlight of thier live ( that is really sad)
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Skool was fun!! first chrush...first kiss....first lips...damn!! i miss skool...did alot of things there college is like YUK!! it sucks..
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What is high school about?\n\nIt really depends on your perspective.  When you are a student, high school is about creating a balance between fun, academics, and status.    It is a zero-sum game, where if you put effort into one, typically you have to take away from another.  It all depends on what your final goal is.\n\nIf you were like me and were a “geek”, your goal probably is to get good grades.  Traditionally, these are the people who end up hating high school but tend to succeed in life.  As much of their effort is spend on grades, their social status really lacks and they don’t have much fun as a result.  On the flip side, these are the ones that people view as a success in life.   I will always remember that I took my ex-fiancée and a friend to Florida for spring break.  My ex had never been to Disney so we went.  I was talking to a guy in line at one of the rides who was an auto worker in Detroit.  When he found out I was in school for Engineering, he told me tales of how much fun high school was and how he would beat on the nerds.  Now those nerds were his rich managers and he was living paycheck to paycheck.\n\nThere are those who spent their time having fun.  This could be sports, drinking, drugs, you name it.  I spent some time with this crowd and I did enjoy myself, but at the end of the day, other aspects of my life suffered.  A lot of this crowd never seemed to leave the town we lived in.  Many have stable jobs, but don’t have the income to afford a really nice lifestyle.\n\nOthers spend time on social status.  These were the popular people who were funny, personable, or beautiful.  This was the hardest group to penetrate and seemed to have the biggest fall from grace after high school.  When they get out into the real world, they get a harsh lesson in reality that no one cares who they are.  They lose their power and are just like everyone else.\n\nSome people were excellent at all three areas.  Some people sucked at all three.  \n\nDepending on where you stand, high school may be a blast or may be the worst 4 years of your life.  Regardless, be prepared for life after high school.  Once you walk the stage and leave those doors, the world doesn’t care what you were, only what you can offer them now.  The geeks tend to go from nobodies to someone important.  The athletic ones tend not to change a whole lot.  As I mentioned, the popular crowd can have a tough time when they realize they have nothing to offer without their “clique”.\n\nIn terms of academics…it isn’t that bad.  It may seem like a lot of work, but in retrospect, the work is pretty easy.  What I did enjoy in HS is the fact that you can learn pretty much whatever you like.  I could take Pre-Calc and woodworking in the same year and not have to worry about what it looks like on my transcripts.\n\nMy advice…just be yourself and take what classes interest you.  To do it all over again, I would spend much more time in auto shop (a very valuable class when you start paying your own bills).  Learning to fix things in shop is very valuable as well (I got to build a race car in a team in college because I learned to acetylene weld in HS not to mention the wood working I learned in HS fixes my house now).\n\nI hope this helps.  Good luck and enjoy the 4 years!  Once it is over, your future is up to you and only you.
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highs are any john Hughs film- breakfast club, wierd science, ferris buellers day off, sixteen candles, pretty in pink, some kind of wonderful, shes having a baby, the story lines are timeless you could imagine them today in your own school! take a modern film like mean girls and see the similaritys of the themes from pretty in pink. timeless!!!!\n\nFast times at ridgemont high is the original 80's high school movie, watch it and you will see where all the rest of the 80's high school genre followed, oh and the outstanding performance by sean penn!\n\nalso where would we be without the back to the future series? I love them. could watch them over and over again they never get old!!\n\n\nlow points of 80's movies..... grease 2 nuff said, \n\n\n\nhope this helps!!
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For me personally the 80's were like the 60's for my parents.Sex,drugs and rock-n-roll. Free love and all that. Bell bottoms came back for awhile tie dye and concert shirts.If you watch that 70's show. The early to mid 80's wasn't much different. I would Donna and my friend Amy was more like Jackie. I hope this helps.
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You have to remember you where in high school. All it is is one big popularity contest and most don't know who they are or what they want. You are in the real world now and people are totally different.
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Well maybe the school website. Or there are programs {serch google.com} that you can serch for which year someone went to high school and their information
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Who said it was?  I'm having a blast now!  This is way more fun than highschool, I hated highschool.  I'm twenty-seven, and I have a two year old.  Its like being a kid again and seeing the world anew with all the wonder I'd forgotten.  This is WAY better than being a teenager.