“Okay class I have decided to pair everyone up for a new class project, due to lack of respect towards to each other.I and other teachers have observed your social interaction with each other , and might I say you children really need this project. I have also decided that this will be your last grade that will determine if you get to go to prom. Also in this project you must ask your partner two questions a day, but today I am feeling considerate so you will only ask one question today. Moreover, I hear what you call each other-nerds,geeks,populars, etc- so we will call this the Nerd and Popular Project.” our teacher Mrs.Bain told the whole class.
“Ugh!”
“Why do we have to do this?”
“I’m so not partnering up with a nerd!”
“Can’t we like just do something else?”
“I’m like totally not going to do this!”
“Please don’t make me partner up with a airhead jock or a popular!”
“You all will do this because it is your last grade of the year, and if you want to go to prom, then highly suggest that you do not complain like children!”
It was a regular day for at Hillcrest High School in Springfield, Missouri, and of course Mrs.Bain had to do this to us. Like always if the “populars” do not agree with what the teacher does then, they will complain about everything. At school we have geeks, nerds and the Jocks/preppy populars. I am one of the nerds at school because I have a high HQ. There was the two most populars, Ian and Ashley. Ian was this very attractive boy that girls would fall head over heals for-if you don’t know him very well-. He had dreamy chocolate brown eyes, shocking brunette hair, and he had dimples when he smiled. Oh the way he smiles, I did not just think that! I cannot believe that just ew! Then there was th...
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...eled out the hallway with huge smiles plastered on their faces.
“Nothing, nothing can break us apart.” Ian mumbled as he hugged me. It was like the whole world just bursted with light and color, and then the unthinkable occurred.
“Rosalie Ryan,” the doctor came in and asked. “I have some bad news to tell you…” as he said that everyone’s smiled disappeared. Everyone eyed him like he was about to give us some life threatening news.
“What is it?” I questioned.
“Miss Ryan,” It seemed as everyone was holding their breath, “You have Lung Cancer, but the bad thing about it is; the Cancer has spread around too fast for us to catch it. It seems as though the spreading has been there a while.”
“Am I going to die?” I asked him with tears in my eyes.
“I’m afraid that the answer to your question is most likely.” As he replied everything blacked out. So much for my happy ending.
The Geeks Shall Inherit The Earth is a book by Alexandra Robbins which summarizes the story of seven different teenagers that have many different problems, which many of todays teenagers also have. I found myself having many similarities to the teenagers in the story, for example, when with her group Whitney, the popular bitch, thinks “You didn't day that when we were alone, but now that you're in front of a group you do” (Robbins 21). I can relate to this because I feel as though many people are pressured to say or do things they normally wouldn't whenever they are with their group or ‘clique’. Robbins has this idea that the freaks and geeks, or “cafeteria fringe” will someday grow up and use what they are criticized for to become more successful than the other peopler people. She calls this the ‘Quirk Theory’ (Robbins page 11). This helped me to learn that right now, in high school, not being ‘popular’ may seem like the end of the world, but the reality of it is that after these four years, it wont even matter, but what will be important is how you learned to grow as a person and the true friendships that were made. This makes me want to focus more on my education and learning to grow as a person instead of focusing on how many friends I have or who I sit with at lunch, because truthfully it wont matter once high school is over.
The unpolished floors and graffitied lockers with pictures of the Beatles glued to them indicated to me that no summer cleaning had been done at school, for what seemed like several years. As I walked, a neatly folded piece of paper, which I placed in my pocket earlier this morning, grazed my outer thigh was not letting me forget its purpose. My palms were sweaty and all I could think of was that on the first day of school, I had decided to tell my crush that I liked her. What a stupid decision. I decided to wash my hands and then put my plan into action. My walk across the hallway continued till I reached the guy’s bathrooms. Just as I was about to push the door, it opened and out ran a blonde and petite girl. My crush. Her face was surprised and her hazel eyes were
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The jocks, the insanely smart girl, the class clown, the people pleasers, and the popular kids that have it all put their differences aside, join forces, and rebel together.
“I see you Mr. Adza, I see right through you. You think you can charm your way out of any situation with your big smile and smooth way with words, but you can’t just coast through life with this sort of arrogant, nonchalant attitude. One day its really gonna bite you in the ass,” said Mr. Jansen, as he towered over my desk. Most of the class had scurried out at the sound of the school bell. I was simply trying to explain to the man that my random outbursts in class actually did him a favor because it loosened my classmates up, freeing their mind for the learning process. In fact, Mr. Jansen and I were actually a team. We were the dream team! I was the comic relief and he was the scholar. We went hand in hand.
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High school is one of the most memorable times in a person’s life. For some those memories are full with excitement, happiness, and joy. For others it ends up being a stressful and a hormonal rollercoaster of a nightmare that they wish they could forget. And of course, there are always those stuck in between, who just float on by through their 4 years, whether going unnoticed or just sticking close to the shadows instead of the limelight. This dynamic can be broken down between social classes within the high school scenes, using jocks, class clowns, trouble makers, and the Hollywood favorite, geeks. Movies such as Revenge of the Nerds, the Social Network, and Super Bad have shed light on these clever misfits who make you question the amount of attention we all gave them during school. For this essay I will analyze the social class within the movie Super Bad and describe what high school was like for the “Super” trio of Seth, Evan, and, Fogell, through the focus of 3 main lenses: Friends; Social Experience; and Sexual Experience.
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