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1) What were you like in HS?
2) Have you changed?
3) Are you still friends with your core group from HS?
Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookstores
Re: Wacky Wednesday
1. I was very into the whole grunge/alternative scene. Totally irresponsible.
2. Oh goodness, yes. Although I do still love music from that era. The Marine Corps made me grow up really fast.
3. Some of them. They actually had a reunion/bonfire thing this past weekend for all of us who used to hang out in HS, no matter what year your graduated.
2) Have you changed? I still play in a local community group, but my life is no longer consumed with music projects. I feel much more well rounded as an adult.
3) Are you still friends with your core group from HS? Nope, we are Facebook friends, but I haven't seen most of them since we graduated, or a few of them since college. I skipped my 10 year reunion.
2) Have you changed? now I am a 5'0" slightly larger loser
3) Are you still friends with your core group from HS? Nope.
2) Have you changed? I think I have more confidence and I'm a little more secure with myself, but I'm otherwise the same.
3) Are you still friends with your core group from HS? I see some of them occasionally, but I'm still friends with my BFF.
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Wes: 10/8/2012
1. I was heavily involved in theater and a super geek.
2. I'm still a geek but much more confident and proud of it. Still love theater but involved in other arts.
3. I'm only friends with maybe three people still from HS - 1 of which I didn't even like in HS, and the other didn't go to my HS but we were BFFs
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Wes: 10/8/2012
2) Have you changed? I've maybe gotten a little more bold.
3) Are you still friends with your core group from HS? I hated high school. I keep in touch with 2 friends that I graduated with. That being said, my husband, three of our best friends and I all went to HS together, they were all just two years head of me.
Books read in 2010: 153
Books read in 2011: 160
Books read in 2012: 134
Books read in 2013: 110
Books read in 2014: 151
Books read in 2015: 153
Books read in 2016: 31
2) Have you changed? For the most part. I'm still an introvert but I am not nearly as mean and sarcastic to people because I don't think people are out to get me or embarrass me anymore. I'm also a little more open with people and I think a little more likable.
3) Are you still friends with your core group from HS? Nope, not unless you count keeping up with them through fb. I didn't really have friends at my high school and the one or two I did have (who didn't go to school with me), I don't talk to anymore for various reasons. I do keep in contact with two guy friends I have known since high school but they weren't in my core group of friends.
2) Have you changed? I've changed a ton. I'm more responsible, more serious and stable, but I still don't take myself too seriously.
3) Are you still friends with your core group from HS? I'm still best friends with two out of my three high school BFFs. Another of my friends in high school I was only semi-close with then. but we became super close buds in college. The rest of my close group of HS friends I stay in touch with but only see sporadically.
2) Have you changed? Quite a bit. There is certainly a lot less partying going on.
3) Are you still friends with your core group from HS? Most of them though but my core group from elemetary school are probably my closest IRL friends now.
BFP 1/8/11 - U/S 2/24/11 (11wks) no heartbeat measuring 6w1d - D&C 2/28/11
1. I always thought of myself as a nerd. But I guess I was a little goodie goodie. Never went to parties, always carried around a dozen books. Very into studying.
2. I'm definitely way more social and I do love a good party, but I will always love my books and I think i'm just overly responsible by nature.
3. Not the core group but I have 3 good friends from high school that are still my best friends. Others we may keep in contact via facebook.
I was a big nerd. I loved my Honors classes, band, and being involved in a lot of extra curriculars. I was focused, loyal, and happy.
2) Have you changed?
I have realized that if I don't get straight As, life will still go on. I'm not as much as a perfectionist as I used to be.
3) Are you still friends with your core group from HS?
I keep in touch with some but am not close with any of them anymore.
2) Have you changed? Yep. I'm still an introvert, but I'm so much friendlier and able to function properly in group settings
3) Are you still friends with your core group from HS? Nope.
2) Have you changed? Yes and no. I'm more outgoing and appear more confident, but I'm still the same lonely, self-concious girl at the end of the day. I do have to say I'm not as defensive now. I try to pick my battles and I don't necessarily feel like I have to prove myself to anyone anymore.
3) Are you still friends with your core group from HS? My two best friends are from HS and we're still friends with a lot of MH's friends from HS.
2) Well I haven't played counterstrike in over 10 years (that was the huge addiction at the time). Music obviously is still my life so that hasn't changed. I'm still involved in our local church although not as much as I'd like to be. I'd like to think I have a bit more fashion sense now because I truly had NONE in HS...I shudder when I look back at some of my old clothes (and not because they were just fashionable at the time...trust me they weren't!)
3) Nope, there's a few I stay in touch with (kinda...like talk once a year) and my best friend from middle school is still my best friend today but other than that not at all.
LOL! Dude...I totally was. But my give-a-shit meter has broken since then.
2. I embrace confidence and care much less about what people (and my parents) think. I think my general philosophies and interests are very similar to what they were but it's definitely my own mind, rather than influence by my family or friends.
3. I regularly talk to only one of my high school friends and she didn't even go to my school. I keep in touch with one other friend but she's in TX, and we don't have tons in common anymore. I'm friendly with all others I come into contact with but nothing sustained.
Izzy and Baby A ~ Adorable Punks
2) Have you changed? I'm definitely more sure of myself now and am able to stand up for what I believe in more now, instead of just going along with others.
3) Are you still friends with your core group from HS? No - I really only talk to one person from high school on a regular basis (and she and I were actually only middle school friends - we didn't speak in HS). I'm friends with others on FB, but we don't communicate.
1) What were you like in HS? First two years I was very involved and had a great group of friends. We moved the summer before 11th grade and then I was just a shy loser.
2) Have you changed? Somewhat. I think I have a little more self-esteem than I did but most days I still feel like a total dork.
3) Are you still friends with your core group from HS? Not really. I am facebook friends with many of them but only one am I still good friends with. It doesn't help that I have moved around a lot.
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2. I'm not nearly as shy, but I feel like I'm generally the same person. I still keep to myself and I'm still kind of nerdy, but I've also grown into it and have more confidence.
3. Three of us get together on a regular basis, and I'm still best buds with one of them. Beyond that I don't really keep in contact with anyone.
2014: 4/40
[2010: 63] [2011: 35] [2012: 23] [2013: 27]
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Involved in activities, ridiculously low self-esteem, very self-conscious of my height, late bloomer, didn't know how to talk to boys, social mess
2) Have you changed?
Yes. A lot.
3) Are you still friends with your core group from HS?
Nope. I hardly talk to anyone from HS.
1) What were you like in HS? Busy. By the time I graduated I was involved in 43 extra curriculars.
2) Have you changed? I still tend to take on way too much but I'm no longer involved in EVERYTHING.
3) Are you still friends with your core group from HS? Some of them but not all of them.
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