# What did you look like in high school? **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610 **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **Created:** [May 24, 2010, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610 "2010-05-24T19:42:32Z") **Posts on this page:** 20 **Page:** 2
### Author: ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston) #### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/21 "2010-05-25T02:34:35Z")
> [@NinetyWt](#): > > ^^ Dude, your pupils are HUGE. If the picture was taken any time after 3rd period, there was almost certainly a good reason for that. ---
### Author: ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline) #### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/22 "2010-05-25T03:18:06Z")
> [@NinetyWt](#): > > nyctea: You like purple, huh? Actually, it wasn’t me who loved purple, but my boyfriend (seen in the purple suede pic). You see, he was a real douche (16-year-old me didn’t “get it” at the time) and he was supposed to be my date to my senior homecoming dance and prom, so I bought purple dresses for each. However, at the last minute before each dance, he dumped me, so I went with other people. He was such a scumbag, but I was in _looove_ :rolleyes: ---
### Author: ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt) #### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/23 "2010-05-25T03:27:54Z")
The only two from that time that I have digitized: [June 1995](http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b212/fachverwirrt/n1208564716_30141758_1998433.jpg): I’m the one in the sweater (not sure why I was wearing a sweater in June). [Running cross-country, November, 1994](http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b212/fachverwirrt/19448_222122338667_749398667_323139.jpg): I’m in maroon. Of course, since I wear sweaters in June, I wear shorts and a tank top in November. This is a picture of a picture, so it’s not real high quality. ---
### Author: ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom) #### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/24 "2010-05-25T03:31:11Z")
> [@fachverwirrt](#): > > The only two from that time that I have digitized: > > [June 1995](http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b212/fachverwirrt/n1208564716_30141758_1998433.jpg): I’m the one in the sweater (not sure why I was wearing a sweater in June). That girl looks just like someone I went to HS with, only in 1995 we were 21. ---
### Author: ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure) #### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/25 "2010-05-25T04:34:13Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > For me it was the '80s, so I looked pretty ridiculous. This is not the yearbook photo, but it is from the same photo session as my yearbook photo. If I find my actual yearbook picture I’ll post it later. > [Oooh yeah that’s some '80s hair right there](http://gallery2.opalcat.com/gallery2/v/OpalCat/HighSchool/1989a.jpg.html) Damn! Mmm mmm mmm! ---
### Author: ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth) #### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/26 "2010-05-25T04:38:21Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Junior year: a classic 1985 slacker. You look like Marky Mark there. ---
### Author: ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC) #### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/27 "2010-05-25T04:56:12Z")
[http://picasaweb.google.com/marysharpe4/Relatives?authkey=Gv1sRgCOW5p-GPt4\_TPg#5475064976228852338](http://picasaweb.google.com/marysharpe4/Relatives?authkey=Gv1sRgCOW5p-GPt4_TPg#5475064976228852338) I’m the one in the upper right holding the guinea pig. ---
### Author: ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies) #### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/28 "2010-05-25T06:21:04Z")
I don’t have my senior pic scanned but I was 16 here: [http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll135/WithButterflies/youngin/me.jpg](http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll135/WithButterflies/youngin/me.jpg) ---
### Author: ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan) #### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/29 "2010-05-25T08:36:24Z")
[Senior year](http://www.suppersready.net/pictures/hs0689/hs068930.jpg), 1989: I’m the dude kneeling. Ready for a laugh? [A few years earlier](http://www.suppersready.net/pictures/morrill85/mor8508.jpg), at 14. ---
### Author: ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB) #### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/30 "2010-05-25T08:42:37Z")
We didn’t have cameras when I was in high school but I was incredibly handsome and I’m even more so now. Honestly. ---
### Author: ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky) #### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/31 "2010-05-25T09:45:43Z")
> [@GESancMan](#): > > snip > Ready for a laugh? [A few years earlier](http://www.suppersready.net/pictures/morrill85/mor8508.jpg), at 14. That’s freaking awesome! 😃 ---
### Author: ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor) #### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/32 "2010-05-25T10:28:32Z")
I have no photos. That bad. But I was painfully, _painfully_ skinny–6 foot tall, & around 130 lbs. Leftover from childhood asmha (sp?). ---
### Author: ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles) #### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/33 "2010-05-25T12:10:31Z")
[This](http://www.flickr.com/photos/75905404@N00/4638840570/) is the best I can find. It was at the start of what Americans would call the junior year of high school – though I wasn’t anywhere near school, since I was in Germany on my way to spend the year in England. (I was enrolled in the New South Wales Correspondence School at the time.) ---
### Author: ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree) #### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/34 "2010-05-25T14:59:55Z")
> [@NinetyWt](#): > > freckafree: love your date’s yellow ruffles ! Yes, those were the days! Someone showed me photos from her niece’s prom this year and I wept at the lack of such sartorial exuberance among the males. ---
### Author: ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale) #### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/35 "2010-05-25T15:05:34Z")
Man, I was such a complete geek in HS, I don’t think I even want to look at that picture again, not to mention scanning and posting it! Can’t understand why my mom didn’t make any effort to have me get a decent haircut or glasses… ---
### Author: ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ) #### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/36 "2010-05-25T16:38:43Z")
> [@GESancMan](#): > > Ready for a laugh? [A few years earlier](http://www.suppersready.net/pictures/morrill85/mor8508.jpg), at 14. Sweep the leg, Johnny! Here’s my [senior photo](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4004/4639469892_205d88270d_o.jpg) in the summer of 1996. This is just before I figured out what I could do with my curly hair. Here’s me at [prom](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4024/4639469830_edf2e6f1c5_o.jpg) in the spring of 1997 (I’m in the middle, duh). Not sure what is up with my eyes in the pic. I think my scanner is dirty. ---
### Author: ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson) #### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/37 "2010-05-25T17:07:14Z")
[No senior picture, but here’s me a couple years later](http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z300/romansperson/pics%20of%20me/me1980ish.jpg). I was 20, and it was the early 80s but I was still sporting the Farrah Fawcett 'do. ---
### Author: ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle) #### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/38 "2010-05-25T17:17:47Z")
9th grade: F 10th grade: C- 11th grade: C- 12th grade: B ---
### Author: ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin) #### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/39 "2010-05-25T17:17:55Z")
I don’t have too many photos of myself (or, heck, of anyone) from my youth, but luckily an old girlfriend posted our prom photo. [Damn, I was skinny back then.](http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs095.snc1/4962_1153701170356_1462483833_382876_3616071_n.jpg) ---
### Author: ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick) #### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610/40 "2010-05-25T17:18:03Z")
This thread is a hoot! I wish I had access to my old photos but they’re packed still. I was even beastlier than I am now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-look-like-in-high-school/540610.md?page=3)