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06 Dec 2006, 7:19 pm

I NEVER fit in at my old school.The people there are too stupid and close-minded.


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06 Dec 2006, 9:08 pm

Heh, in high school I never really fit in either. When I was a senior, I was pretty well respected but not loved. I went to a very competitive high school and I was only average in most of my classes. The reason for the respect is that I used my obsession with sound to benefit the school. It really started when I rebuilt some very old but very nice pro speakers and put them in our gym. I gave the jocks some badass warm-up music before important games (if they asked nicely :twisted: ), and I gained their respect. Could you use any of your obsessions to help/entertain others? If so, you may not be one of the crowd but you won't just be a nobody anymore.


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07 Dec 2006, 2:34 am

High school was probably the best years of my life. For some reason everyone in my grade was really friendly and accepting. Our teachers even remarked on it, the grades above and below us hated each other but our grade was pretty much all sunshine and lollipops. I remember about 30 of us all linked up shoulder to shoulder at graduation and started crying.

Everyone thought i was weird but noone had a problem with it, quite the opposite. In retrospect i was pretty lucky.

pps:- Don't like college as much as HS. Too many people, not enough routine and everyone speaks in the hidden language, whereas in HS some people are still learning it so it's not used as much. IMO.



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07 Dec 2006, 12:36 pm

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I piss off people instantly by my unintentional rudeness. If you are a serial killer but are polite have a nice smile, you will be loved. Strange how the world works. I never fit in anwhere and never will. I went back to college and boy I really don't fit in. THis place is full of some nerdy types like me, but I am extreme. Nothing worse than not having anyone to eat with or sitting in the front of a 200-300 person lecture class before class, and not having anyone to talk to in that crown of laughing and talking and socializing. Somone posted that article of a wrongplanet member who went postal, who had said he didn't have friends, only enemies. I feel that way too. I keep yeeling out I hate myself and I want to die. This sucks.I can't even amke friends with the emotional fuckups in this school.


*ditto*

Thats exactly my life. High school sucked. College sucks more. I'm eating alone right now because i repel everyone =( Its time for me to just give up. I think if i can't cut a break in college I won't anywhere.



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07 Dec 2006, 2:30 pm

bchris02 wrote:
Thats exactly my life. High school sucked. College sucks more. I'm eating alone right now because i repel everyone =( Its time for me to just give up. I think if i can't cut a break in college I won't anywhere.


What year are you in college? Your experience would describe by Freshman and Sophomore years perfectly. Now that I am a junior things have been getting better because people have just started getting used to me. I'm hardly Mr. Popular, but I have niche I fit in now. Also, don't have really high expectations. I don't get to interact with people too much outside of class and work (besides my two more or less NT room mates who rock :D ). Just take what you can.

Do things for people. Yesterday, I ran back to my room to get a girl a DVD-R because the computer she was using wouldn't take the disk she had bought and she had to turn it in within the hour. Being generous with you help will give them favorable impressions of you.


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07 Dec 2006, 3:30 pm

I am a junior. My first two years of college, i was so indulged in gaming that it didn't really bother me not having any friends. Plus I had online friends still in high school and coincidentally had the same problems I did. This was a temporary fulfillment of my need for friends.

This semester, ive taken too many classes to really spend a lot of time gaming and my online friends have went off to college and made their own college friends so basically I've been left out to rot by them. Not that they no longer care about me, its just they dont want to waste time talking to an online friend when they have great friends in real life. I can totally understand it.

Plus, when I am lonely and depressed, my interests really dull down so I haven't had the desire to get into gaming like I used to.