^^^^^

My high school had an official smoking area for students too. Sound's ridiculous in hindsight.

Why?

The anti smoking lobby has its cannons aimed directly at kids in that age range. Plus buying cigarettes is illegal for those under 18 in the US (although there's little legislation on minors actually smoking).

It was 18 when I went to school and we had a smoking area also. I usually spent my days at the beach so I never figured out where it was at.

A beach at school? Man, that sounds nice.

Totally forgot all that.
We had a smoking area when I was in school (so just ten years ago), but now that I think about it, the students under 18 were being chased out of there regularly. Although I have a vague memory of smoking being allowed for sixteen-year-olds when I was about that age.

I shoulda been born a Californian.

You'd fit right in up in Berkeley.

Or under the Coronado Bridge where it exits San Diego proper.

I don't follow? Berkeley is full of hippies and liberals that do lots of psychedelics hence why I brought up Charlie.

How dare you!

Do I look like a troll?

http://nearlychristian.com/wp-conten...the-bridge.jpg

;)

Ever been under the bridge?

http://dayinthelyfe.com/wp-content/u...21-476x317.jpg

I've been to Balboa Park, believe it goes right over the top, but no have not. I went to a renaissance fair there in about 79 and there was all kinds of dirty hippies. They must have pulled up tent.

The artwork is really pretty stunning. Plus, coolest bridge in the US.

http://cdn.sandiegouniontrib.com/img...9b6936b1eddfe5

The idea of a smoking section of a school is bizarre to me. If any kid had ever been caught smoking on school grounds, no matter where it was, they would have been suspended at best.

You lucky ****s.

At my first high school we had a smoking section because the faculty was afraid of all the smoking tweaker hillbillies.

Thank god I moved to San Diego. We're all stoners but at least I didn't get into that meth game.

Middle school was fun - I had a whole posse of geeky friends. As a teen I was a loner goth kid with a propensity for circus carnie attire and ghastlly makeup... pioneering the emerging "freak" clique.

When I was 14 I was dropped off at a mental institution for 5 years so I missed out on high school. Spent those years being shuffled around the system loaded up on the latest trendy mental health drugs of the week.

I saw some incredible sh*t in those years... crazy stuff. But honestly the worst bit was that they huddled the entire ward's kids into one room - ages 12-18, and just taught down to the dimmest kid in the place. That was school for 5 of my most developmental years.

It was a good test of my independent learning abilities. I was unleased upon the unsuspecting public with a diploma and a clean bill of mental health at age 18.

I think I've done fairly well given my circumstances.

I actually feel you. I was a weird kid, and my school system preferred to put their weird kids into the "ED" (emotionally disturbed) class, which was really a catch-all class for retards and kids who for one reason or another were difficult to deal with. So you had perfectly intelligent human beings being taught two to three grades below their level, just because our school system refused to admit that their sewer for forgotten children was anything but a place to stuff the forgotten chaff that they were going to graduate just because who the **** cares if a retard has a diploma?

Thank god I got sent to military school?

Oh man, I'm right there with you. I graduated with between 100%-115% in every course and was valedictorian of my class of paste-eaters... which is like being the world's tallest midget.

My education was a travesty. I'm just grateful for public libraries, the birth of the search engine, and the Wikipedia for filling in the cavernous gaps in my schooling.

"The Wikipedia"...

...and the series of tubes.

i was homeschooled when it was high school. So popular ? Lol

Do you feel you missed out on something and did it impact your social skills?

If you don't have any siblings it's safe to assume you were the most popular kid in your school.

It really is a trip to think about these days. I had no idea this was on youtube, this was over a decade before I went there but it looks exactly the same as when I was there

Nope, I've always been a little bit weird.

You'll love it here. The popularity scale at MB is directly disproportionate to that of a typical high school.

:beer:

Unfortunately for someone like me, that means my status remains the same, since I simultaneously existed on both poles of the popularity spectrum back in HS. You could say I was "bipopular"

I know what you mean.. But it's ok to be special (:

None of us are nearly as special as we'd like to think we are.

Exactly.