[VerySimple]

I want to know how similar and different INTJs are during these teen years. Were you guys the class clown? the overachiever? The athlete? straight-A nerd? etc. Me, I'm the quiet one, but I want to break this habit, becaue I'm bored with my highschool life.

[Sea Anenome]

When I was in high school - in the mid-1990s - I was an honor student and a band/orchestra geek...and also a varsity athlete. I was (and still am) painfully shy and only had two or three friends. Personality-wise, I haven't changed much since high school, but I do consider myself wiser and more worldly nowadays.

[jbking]

Straight A geek would be my take. I wasn't the top student in the school though I did graduate with a 90%+ average and had an interesting time in my 3rd year where I had grade 11 in the first semester and grade 12 in the second as both semesters had Math and English classes for those grades with Grade 11 Geography and Grade 11Computer Science in the first semester and the second having Grade 11 Chemistry and Grade 12 Physics with those classes. There was a grade 13 I had for my 4th year mostly with 7 out of 8 classes being at that level. High school being 1989-1993 in terms of years and there were still a few a-holes around then that I didn't have as much in university that followed. I was in the Math club, yearbook and a few other extra curricular activities though I learned in my first year of university that I should have socialized a lot more in high school which I didn't. There was also my first crush in high school though I didn't act on it.

[FlaylexFayte]

Straight A geek/nerd, and the quiet one. I was very consumed by my work, not that it was a problem. I was regarded as a "loser" because I cared more about getting assignments done than I did about idle chitchat about how big our teacher's ass is. Gasp, someone actually wants to do their work! We should hassle this person, tease them and beat them up!

And yes, I do mean beat up in the literal sense.

By the end of the 12th grade I learned to ignore it and just be myself. I did stay out of the limelight, always kept to myself and avoided contact with many people. It kept me safer in a world where people seemed to want to torment me just for being me. People tried to change me and tell me that I "need to do things" but I told them to leave me the hell alone, and that I was happier being alone than I would be in their ten-boyfriend-a-week lifestyle.

Oh, I was also the bitch. Apparently sniding the people who had made my life hell since kindergarten (I can remember traumatic events even back then) makes me a bad person. Of course, they aren't the ones who did anything wrong. I'm just overreacting!

[PianoWizzy]

In my school, I'm the popular type, the lazy hardworker, the constantly-noticeable presence. Then again, in my school, to become popular, all I really did was bang the piano during lunch, wore a cape, ran around without bumping into anyone [while bumping into many things, walls, tables, doors, sofas], left a miniature tornado behind me wherever I whizzed, acted crazy, and cracked a few bright jokes during class. I attend a school full of nerds and geeks, of whom, the former public school students, were all teacher's pets, but in this school, I manage to STILL be the teachers' pet. I'm one of the two majorly known advanced classical piano players among our plethora of also-musically-talented students here [although I'm known as this ESPECIALLY to all the parents...]. In this school full of nerd and geeks, I manage to STILL be the over-enthusiastic know-it-all [at least, I used to be]. I'm the female that would strongly rather sit in the large group of males and even more so in the small group of teachers. I'm also the female that is, at any given moment, obsessing over at least 7 completely different people/things/thought processes.


...That might tell you a bit about my school.

[Dralud]

That guy that doesnt say anything, puts his earphones in class and reads a book in the back of the class, but still manages to get 80%+ grades in all classes.

[Ormazd]

I was miserable in high school.

I got low grades. I despised my "peers". I disliked my teachers. At no point did I have any significant motivation. I was bullied for much of it.

I later went to an "alternative" school where it got a bit better because at any given time there were about a maximum of about ten people, and I could actually talk to a teacher and get help because I could understand very little of the work in the way that it was presented to me.

All in all, I was depressed and learned very little. I consider it the most horrible thing that's ever been done to me.

[Svidrigailov]

I'm just a freak who no one really knows. ;)

[L'Empereur]

The straight-A nerd -.-

[mOchO]

I was the eccentric one (not extrovert). Dressed differently, liked to write poems/lyrics on the class or just make fun of the teachers. I carried a huge djembe to school every day so I could play at the breaks. Missed classes a lot and smoked a lot of weed (among other things). After a lot of fights before high school (because I just attracted morons), I was more interested in politics, love, drugs and music, rather than going to school (except for the programming classes), and I didn't study at all until I got into college! My grades were medium, as I was extremely unpredictable, taking an excellent grade at one test and a miserable grade at the next (teachers couldn't make any sense of me). I missed two years in high school. The first because I was engaged in political manifestations along the all country, and the second because I had "disagreements" with two teachers and decided to change school and finish those two courses in the next year. I changed completely after I got into college though, where I became the "nerd" when everyone else was more interested in having fun (LOL!).