Methuen High School Online

tee hee hee...

Mine is similar, Little Miss "I wanna be an actress" decided she wanted to spend her life outdoors instead and actually got a SCIENCE degree! (much shock from those who were ever in lab with me...) Now I get to share my love of nature with kids and teach respect for all living things. It's just the best job on earth (in my opinion anyway.) :D
Plus I get to play with lots of animals (JV--not a WORD). Someday I'll post one of the photos of me holding owls, alligators, snakes, and such.

And of course, I too, have an ant's thorax.

I think the most surpising thing for me is that I'm married and have 4 kids.

I got fat. 8O

Other than that I still rule 8) but without the weed and cigarettes.

Yah I can't breathe so something had to give.

Ever heard of vicodan?

Hey Gret,

Would it surprise people to know you are making out with people on the internet when you get bored? LOL :lol:

Greta,

Everybody's gotten fatter.....we're old! lol

lol, i hear ya. thin is not in anyway. i like em chubby. LOL :wink:

hmmm...not sure too many people really knew me...or if i even knew me... :) I've done alot more with my life than I thought I would...or any teachers thought I would...I actually graduated college with honors (after graduating MHS with a 2.1 GPA and finding our I had issues reading and processing (spelling too haha!) ) I found out after leaving MHS that I really wasn't dumb!

I knew you Sarah Huskey!! :) How are you???!!!!Do you remember hanging out w/Christine Rousseau? "Is dat da pizza?" LMAO! :lol:

I am doing good...keeping busy with my new house, work and school. How about you? what have you been up too- I don't think I have seen anyone since I graduated.

He's actually my cousin...that is creepy that he hit on you...I'll have to yell at him the next time I see him! His son (the one you babysat) is like 12 or 13 now. Isn't that crazy??!! My oldest nephew will be 14 in December. I feel so old.

Let's catch up over PMs sometime. :)

Just out of curiosity Nikki, have you ever seen the movie Clerks? I love the scene with the guidance counselor inspecting and breaking all the eggs. Check it out if you haven't seen it. It just about sums it up.

My wife went to school in Manchester NH. While walking through Target in Salem NH one day we saw her guidance counselor in a red vest washing the floor. Tells you something about guidance counselors…

My guidance counselor only ever did two good things for me.

1) Talked to Longshore after she gave me a bad grade first term in Honors 9 (then my grade magically rose after that even though I was producing the same quality work)

2) Walked with me to the bus stop when some girl threatened to beat me up

That was the extent of Guidance I received.

Wow. When I transfered to MHS junior year I went to meet my guidance counselor with my aunt. He saw I was coming from Lawrence High and and before that another high school and had been tossed from both. Even so, I was in ALL honors classes and had a perfect A+ average. He looked at me and literally said "just show up and you will graduate". My aunt, a college professor, was pissed! He even put me in that DE program where you get out early to go to work. So my junior year I spent 3 hours a day in school and only had English, Science and 2 study halls. And I failed those classes because after a month or so I would check in to homeroom and then leave to go to U-Lowell or shopping everyday. And I really thought why bother trying if this guy says I can't make it and to just show up. He was right about just showing up because I was promoted to 12th and even graduated.

We should file a lawsuit. F*cking guidance... PIG'S ASS.

I have to say that Gary Banks ( Special Ed Counselor) was awesome. He was my councelor for 9th grade. When I was in the behavior room. But he remained my friend and I went to him with any problems till I graduated. And he almost always did something to fix them. So not all were bad. Just the mainstream ones were. LOL. I never met my councelor after that. I don't think. Wait maybe I met him once. I think it was Brain? Is that right. What a dick!

Yup... Mr. Bailey was absolutely useless. I don't know if I was the only one he did this to or not, but I remember him asking me to write about myself, so he could write me a recommendation for my UMass-Lowell application. I told him I didn't think it was necessary, and that I could get in without his recommendation... man was he mad.

Oh hell, that's easy. People who even BARELY knew me would be surprised that I'm not still living with my parents flipping burgers. Hell, that fact surprises ME sometimes. For the amount of effort I actually put into school or pretty much anything productive at all, I still get surprised looks when people hear what I do for a living.

I hear that about the guidance counselors at MHS, I had Mr. Cullen and he told me not to apply anwhere else than NECC cause I wouldn't get in. Needless to say I graduate from Umass Lowell Magna Cum Laude and had a 4.0 GPA in my major. In your face Mr. Cullen how do ya like me now! And I'm going back to get my master's degree in January. So he was pretty useless. Other than that I have a great job, a husband that puts up with me, a nice house, nice car and hopefully in a few years I'll have a child. :D

I remember you How's things? And I never thought you were dumb

Man, the more I hear about other people's experience with their guidance counselors, the more I look forward to getting a degree and being able to make an impact in the HSs to show that not all guidance counselors suck and are unsupportive. :( I know alot of people in my current grad program, and I can say with all confidnce that this school is going to produce some quality cousnelors who really care about what happens to these students.

Back to the topic at hand, I think the only thing that would be surprising to anyone who knew me in HS is that I am not married yet, I don't write poetry, and oh yeah, I have my motorcycle operators license. :)

well it's apparent that there are some things about you that have NOT changed. :wink:

Very good topic Kate....

Yes I would say people would be suprised if they knew me now compared to what I was back then..

Back then I always had the backdoor tendenacy to block people out when they got too close.. I was very selective to people I spoke with..
little things got me on edge, like being stared at.. or some cute girl yawning in class every 3 minutes. only a few people I can recall where ever brave enough to confront me ask me what was wrong.. most people that tried to talk to me.. I just gave them the wall litterally.. always into some kind of technology..

Today I am more relaxed I talk with anyone basically that has the time to talk.. I am not all that much selective then I was in terms of talking with people.. I still mess with Tech as much as I did back then.. except it is more productive now then it was..

I wish I was more open back then... I think things might have been different to today...

Yes I am single and the only children I have are the computers I built and they have girl names... LOL...

Far as really meeting someone real and true is like winning the 200 Million powerball that is up for grabs currently.. I am getting to that age already that it is not really all the worth trying much longer..