Can We Guess What Group You Were a Part of in High School?

By: Zoe Samuel
Estimated Completion Time
5 min
Can We Guess What Group You Were a Part of in High School?
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About This Quiz

Though we all grow up, high school is an experience that determines much of the trajectory of our lives. A good experience can prepare us for a productive social life and networking at a university. Even a negative experience in high school can motivate us to reinvent ourselves as college freshmen, tackling the adult world without the baggage of adolescence.

Love it or hate it, nerd or jock, your high school experience influenced the course of your life. Perhaps you got your first job because you approached someone who reminded you of your chess coach, and because you liked them, they liked you. Maybe you married your high school sweetheart, and wearing a ring on those first job interviews gave potential employers a feeling that you were a more serious adult than your competition. Perhaps you developed a love of a specific subject or activity that put you on the life path you currently follow, or you rejected those very details of high school life, choosing instead to veer off in another direction entirely.

Pretend we are at a party, having a normal conversation. We will ask you a series of questions (don't feel you need to ask us any in return; this is all about you) which will give us the insight we need to know what high school crowd you called your own!

How much time did you spend preparing your appearance in the morning?
At least an hour
Five minutes
20 minutes
A half hour

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Do you consider your high school years to be the best years of your life?
Heavens, no
In some ways, but in many ways, no
Physically, yes. It was all downhill from there.
I thought high school was stressful. Boy, did I have a shock coming!

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What was your signature vice?
Clove cigarettes
Archie
Coffee
Schadenfreude

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How competitive is your profession?
Fairly competitive, but not zero-sum​ game
It's dog eat dog.
About average
It's rat eat rat.

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How often would you hear the music you like, if you listened to the radio?
Rarely
Frequently
All the time!
Never

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Do you work in a creative field?
Now I do
Yes, but not as creative as I'd hoped
Not very, no
Not at all

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Which movie conforms to the kind of fare you'd watch with friends?
"The Crow"
"Thor"
"Die Hard"
"The Favourite"

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How "alternative" did you become as an adult?
I'm only a little edgy.
I've become more alternative as a grown up.
I'm as straight as an arrow.
I ended up going through a crazy phase. Now I'm a real bon vivant.

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How much of your time was spent studying things that you might study in college, but would never be assigned in high school?
Most of my free time, It made me feel better.
Some of my free time
None of my free time
All of my free time

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How much do you cringe when you think of who you were in high school?
Oh, dear Lord...
I sigh, but I'm not all that different.
A little, for sure
I don't cringe. Not at all.

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How lucky were you in love?
I had my high school squeeze.
Not lucky at all
I wouldn't call it love...
I didn't have any time for that.

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Did you have a lot of friends?
I had a couple. They were fine.
I had several friends, but that was all.
I was one of the popular kids. I had friends, and then I had groupies.
No, I was too busy deceiving my "friends" into helping me get ahead to have any real friends.

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How was your relationship with your parents?
Rocky
Fine. They were always after me to study harder.
Great. I did everything they expected.
Good. I didn't have much time to spend with them, though.

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How different were you between high school freshman year and when you graduated from high school?
I transformed, like Cinderella, or the guy from that movie, "The Fly."
I just got more geeky.
I was much more fully realized in some ways.
My work ethic really improved.

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How different are you today from your high school self?
I'm unrecognizable.
Not very different
I'm not nearly as ripped.
I'm much more stressed out and tired. Where did I find all that energy?

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Did the change of scene in college show you that you were actually very good at some of the subjects in which you performed poorly in high school?
Yes, as it turned out, but only for one subject
No
Yeah! It really turned my life around.
Yes. It turned out I just wasn't as good at the thing I thought was good at.

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How much did you conform to society's idea of who you should be?
I was a nonconformist, just like all my friends.
I don't know. What did society want me to be?
A lot, but not like I did it on purpose
I crafted my identity like a CIA operative.

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How much did you reinvent yourself for college?
Almost 90 percent
I didn't bother.
A little bit
100 percent - I became the human equivalent of a fib on a resume.

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How often were you bullied in high school?
Occasionally
Every day
Never!
Rarely

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What was your best academic subject in high school?
English
History
Languages
Science

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How recognizable was your appearance in high school?
You could spot me from space.
You could spot me from a mile away.
I tended to blend in with my crowd, but stand out from the rest.
I was hard to miss.

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How respected were your high school hobbies?
Not very
Not at all
Very respected
Not respected enough

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Did younger kids think you were cool?
No, they thought I was Dracula.
Yeah, some of them did. Oh, who am I kidding? Even the younger kids bullied me.
Oh, yeah, I was worshiped like a god.
No, they thought I was a teacher.

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Did you hang out with your friends because it would improve your prospects?
Ha! No. Good one!
Yeah, and in a way, it did.
Well, not exactly, but I wasn't going to go anywhere on my own.
Yes, absolutely

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Are you still in touch with your high school cohorts?
On Facebook only
I work with one of them.
Yeah, we see each other for drinks from time to time.
No, we all went our separate ways.

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Would you say you had a great time in high school?
No, I was miserable there.
It was fine.
Yeah! Hell yeah! Woo!
No, I was working too hard to notice.

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When you were in high school, did you envision a career in the arts?
Not exactly
Yes, absolutely
No! "The arts" are for other people.
No, there's no money in it.

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Did you dream of being a writer in some capacity?
Yes, but it was my only realistic dream, and I dreamed of writing obscure books.
Only graphic novels, and only for a while
Writer? I didn't even like to read!
Yes, once I made it in my real job

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Did you think high school would launch you to collegiate stardom in some way?
No way
Not really
I thought it would, and it did!
Yes, but as it turned out, there was no glory in it.

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When you were in high school, what did you think would happen after you graduated from college?
I thought I'd be a tattoo artist.
I thought I'd wind up in publishing or something.
I thought I'd be drafted by a team.
I thought I'd go to law school.

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