Another repurposed Facebook “meme.”
IN YOUR SENIOR YEAR DID YOU…
1. Did you date someone from your school?
Not really.
2. Did you marry someone from your high school?
No.
3. Did you car pool to school?
I walked to school.
4. What kind of car did you have?
When I needed a car, I borrowed by one from my parents – either a brown Ford Escort station wagon or a Ford Taurus.
5. What kind of car do you have now?
A silver Saturn VUE, but I ride my bike to work.
6. It’s Friday night…where are you?
At home, probably. If the stars were aligned just right, I worked out, then crashed with the laptop.
7. It’s Friday night…where were you then?
Driving around the Houghton-Hancock (MIchigan) metroplex, periodically stopping for burgers or pizza. We would have driven further and longer if we’d known about the power of coffee.
8. What kind of job did you have?
I worked at the local grocery store – bagging groceries, stocking shelves, running a register.
9. What kind of job do you do now?
I’m a grantwriter at a small liberal arts college.
10. Were you a party animal?
The opposite.
11. Were you considered a flirt?
Girls frightened me.
12. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir?
None of them.
13. Were you a nerd?
I suppose so, but I didn’t like math or science and we didn’t have a decent computer lab, so it was pretty much quiz bowl. Upper Peninsula champions, 1991!
14. Did you get suspended or expelled?
No.
15. Can you sing the fight song?
I don’t even know if my high school had a fight song.
16. Who was/were your favorite teacher(s)?
My favorite was my current events teacher, who took a lot of time to help me become a better writer. I also like my biology and French teachers a lot. The most important “teacher” I had, though, was the coach of my cross-country and track teams, who probably did more to reshape my life than any adult except my parents and, later, my wife.
17. Where did you sit during lunch?
In a chair, I suppose. I don’t really remember. We did go to McDonalds a lot for lunch, if someone had a car.
18. What was your school’s full name?
Hancock Central High School.
19. When did you graduate?
1991
20. What was your school mascot?
A bulldog.
21. If you could go back and do it again, would you?
Not unless I was being paid a ridiculously large sum of American dollars. Eight figures at least.
22. Did you have fun at prom?
I didn’t go to prom.
23. Do you still talk to the person you went to prom with?
…
24. Are you planning on going to your next reunion?
Probably not. My hometown is far away, literally and figuratively.
25. Do you still talk to people from school?
A few, though not enough.
26. School Colors?
red and yellow
27. What celebrities came from your high school?
None, as far as I know. The photographer Edward Steichen was from my hometown, but never attended my high school.
28. Do you have any regrets from High School?
Sure. I wish, paradoxically, that I’d been more serious (taking some hard science and math, just to see if I could have succeeded) and that I’d been much less serious (getting less wrapped up in the drama). Then again, there’s a reason it’s called “growing up.”