WHAT "WERE" YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL? AND DID YOU GO ON TO HIGHER EDUCATION? (page 3)

OUTLAW

..What was I,in high school??..Like most Dub Kids,lonely..Did I go on to higher education??..The only place after the WBT$,is UP..Take extra education buds!..You won`t regret it..LOL!!...OUTLAW

nvrgnbk

I won the English Award for my performance during four years of High School.

Rated 4th in GPA out of 200+ students. Never even tried.

Guidance counselors and teachers begged me to go to College or University.

What a waste! Now I'm a freakin' construction worker! Praise Jah!

Cults suck!

Madame Quixote

Congratulations, juni on your coming out as an xjw, in pictures.

I too have decided that enough is enough with being "anonymous."

My jw family knows I can't stand their religion and that I don't appreciate how they brought me up, so why should I worry about whether or not they read my posts here or at any other forum (which they probably won't do anyway, since they're too busy with their hypocritical/"worldly" pursuits and with KH builds)?

I grew up as a weirdo and stayed that way - a bit of a social phobe, an average student in most subjects, but excelled in language arts. I thought they put me in gifted and talented classes (7th - 10th grade) to make me feel important. I secretly always suspected I did not belong in the GTLA program. It seemed only a few of the students in those classses were "misfits" like me. The others seemed like preppy superstars. They knew they were going somewhere; I just hoped that I was.

I was clueless . . . went to college clueless and dropped out after a couple years . . . took a break from school to work that lasted 10 years; returned to college when my daughter went to kindergarten . . . finally got a 2-year degree about 5 years and 5 major changes later!

What an interesting and sometimes painful oddyssey. Follow Mary's advice; get knowledge and have a goal. Plan and stick with it.

I don't regret getting some education, but I do wish I didn't have over $10,000 in student loans to pay off for such a badly-directed education. I wish I had had good mentors/advisors and used them. Oh well! You live and you learn, hopefully!

Warlock

MY NICKNAME IN HIGH SCHOOL WAS "WILDMAN".

THAT SHOULD TELL YOU ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW.

Warlock (MARY, I'M DROOLING, JUST LIKE YOU SAID)

Odrade

I was a big huge nerd. Only girl in the "computer club" which I was allowed to attend because it was held during normal school hours, during break time. I was in the band, so I was also a band geek, and I was a JW- one of those maddening ones who preached, earning me the sometimes nickname of 'bible girl,' although our school had a thriving junior something or other which was a fundie christian club, so I was oddly NOT the most rabid bible thumper in my small-town high school. I had a very large vocabulary since one of my favorite subjects was always "language arts," and believe me, that never got me any kudos, so add the moniker "walking dictionary" to the list of names I wished I didn't answer to... bah.

In spite of all that stuff, I really liked school and was pretty depressed over not continuing after H.S., even though I "knew" I was right. Currently, I have vocational school training, and still no higher education. It's one of the wrongs I hope to rectify someday.

Madame Quixote

Me in 1983/84 school year. I was 18 or 19:

And me in 2007:

smellsgood

I was giggly and skinny. Actually, I've always been giggly, found pretty much everything funny growing up. Really good home environment, though now the parents are separated and well, fight alot. I tried to play soccer in my sophomore year, having never played it before. I got put on the wing position where you run up and down the field...and at that time I would get to math class and lay down on the floor because I was so exhausted and didn't know why. I would even lay down under racks of clothes in Department stores. Found out later that I was so tired because I had Epstein Barr virus (MONO) and, er, I like to blame my shoddy soccer career on that! I liked History and photography and drama. Of course, I'm only 23 now. A series of events led me to drop out (shoot!) and get the GED. But, I will be pursuing higher education, and am verrrry happy that I didn't fall in luuurve with a local dude and get preggers before I was 20 like too many of the girls I know.

misanthropic

Well Juni - weren't you the Bee's Knees! Awesome pix.

Wow! yeah, and you have beautiful skin, you can tell you've taken very good care of it. Very nice.

Madame Quixote

You do have beautiful skin and hair, juni! It's enviable!

Again, congratulations on "coming out"!

L.Wells

I was in the "alternative" group of people, so being a JW was a non issue, it was just a quirk that i had. We were all into the same sort of music, and the arts etc so we used to hang out together and chat through lunches and free periods. I never really hung out with them outside of school. Some of us were pretty good at school, 4 of us got the highest marks in our Leaving Certificate (Irish examination at 18 that you need to get pretty much any job)

Undergrad at university was just an extension really of highschool. 2 of my good friends from school were at the same university on pretty much the same programme. We always hung out together. Now i am in the midst of a PHD and have little or no time for my bf, farless a group of friends.

All of this was done while a JW (still am "active"). I always insisted on education, and my parents realised that if they protested, it was going to be a loosing battle, they would either have an educated daughter that spoke to them, or one that didn't. They chose the former-they never put up a fight, though i paid my way all the way though (fortunatly undergrad is only €800 a year in Ireland). My mum left school with her high school diploma (she is american and pioneered from the next september until she had us) and is going to university full time next september for a BA, perhaps i encouraged her the right ways :-)

WHAT "WERE" YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL? AND DID YOU GO ON TO HIGHER EDUCATION?

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