High school and middle school aren’t always remembered fondly.
For a select few, these years were full of partying, sneaking out of the house, teen romance, dances, and carefree experimentation. For the rest of us, let’s just say we were safely in bed by 9pm.
David Mack, Deputy Director of breaking news for Buzzfeed, shared some of his most embarrassing high school loser posts for all of us to see.
how big a loser was i in high school?
i didn’t get chosen to be on the school newspaper committee, but i just turned up every week anyway and eventually, after several months, the teacher felt sorry for me and put me on staff— David Mack (@davidmackau) April 16, 2018
i’ll keep going: in year 7, the science teacher fed a live mouse to his pet snake. the other boys thought it was v cool but I burst into tears and ran away bc my pet mouse had died recently.
— David Mack (@davidmackau) April 16, 2018
ok one more: i also cried in year 7 english and ran away bc everyone laughed at me when I gave a speech on Harry Potter and opened with something like “get ready to blast off on your broomsticks!”
— David Mack (@davidmackau) April 16, 2018
These stories speak to me on a spiritual level. Sometimes, you just need to know you’re not the only one. Which is why thousands of people poured in with theirs. Here are some of my favorites.
1) This party animal
I wrote on my myspace profile that I liked “partying” and my mom noticed and said “when have you ever been to a party”
— #1 Rachel (@rachel) April 17, 2018
2) This Latin Nerd
I wasn’t allowed to take honors English even though I was in AP Virgil (Latin), so I always showed up late from Latin to English because “Latin is more important than whatever this is” 😂
— ☀ Mike 🍸 (@RhesusReeses) April 16, 2018
3) This sounds like a perfect weekend to me, TBH
My parents left me alone for a weekend when I was 17. Instead of throwing a party, I rented four Best Picture nominees and finished off a jumbo bag of Cheetos & a box of brown sugar Pop-Tarts.
— John T (@TMROJ) April 17, 2018
4) This isn’t a joke; IT’S ART
I would skip lunch and break periods, and instead spend time with the art teachers to work on my series of paintings that covered the social and political effects of the Mexican drug war.
— ThatsRich (@MovieManBaseBal) April 16, 2018
5) If you can’t find a date, build one
Persistence pays off, though, apparently! 😁
I decided to build a DNA molecule on my own after school with some molecule kits I found in the bio lab.
Some way-cooler-than-me girl came in and asked me if I was taking it to the prom.😂🤣😂
— Di Cleverley (@dcleverley) April 17, 2018
6) Not all athletes are popular
We were gearing up to play our conference rivals in basketball and I got booed at the pep rally…by my own fans. 😬
— ilovebostonsports (@bostonsportsco) April 17, 2018
7) This biology genius
After my dad chaperoned a trip in middle school:
Guy: "Brandon your dad is so cool, why are you such a dork?"To which I responded the only way I knew how: "It's those dang recessive genes." https://t.co/MK4m1KoeQO
— Brandon "Access Diurnalism" Hardin (@bhhardin) April 16, 2018
8) A One-Person Lending Library
I had a folder full of printed Lord of the Rings fan fiction I loaned out to friends. https://t.co/1Y5vkeDBSh
— agent honey jumbles (@katewonder) April 17, 2018
9) Well, You Tried
once, I finished a cross country race as they were tearing down the finish line. the event coordinators didn't know people (me) were still running. pic.twitter.com/URq3j6bgEI
— Cody LaGrow (@CodyLaGrow) April 16, 2018
10) Here Comes the Boy
A week before our final exams, a teacher came into the sports Hall and caught 7 of us recreating the Royal Wedding, using a bedsheet as Kate's gown. We were all 18 and I went to an all boys Catholic school. https://t.co/7f9gS2WfTM
— Lehane-MrGay Ireland (@LeHandyman) April 16, 2018
11) Dr. Alan Grant over here…
I dominated the fossils competition at Science Olympiad so much that they made me a faculty advisor while I was still a student https://t.co/2QKNEf94mW
— de bleck penta (@fivefifths) April 17, 2018
All of these made me feel so much better about how much of a loser I was as a kid. Such as the time I weighed my excessively plump body in front of THE ENTIRE SCHOOL.
In middle school, I ran for student body officer and said that I would lose 50 lbs over the summer if elected (fat kid 🙋🏻♀️). Then WEIGHED myself I front of a school assembly.
Lost by a landslide, didn’t lose the weight, and never heard the end of it 🤷🏼♀️
— Jackson Carter (@jacksonwhitt_) April 17, 2018
No matter how weird, awkward, or painfully humiliating school was for you, you can take comfort in knowing it was the same way for everyone else.
this entire day of your replies has been a LOVELY REMINDER that we losers, both former and current, are indeed the most interesting, resilient, amazing people….. which is of course something a total loser would say
— David Mack (@davidmackau) April 17, 2018
