What one word sums up your high school experience?

Most POPULAR answer:
"Entertaining"

Joanne's answer:
I think I would have to say, "Nerdy". I was kind of a nerd in high school - you know, in two choruses, on the speech/debate team, did the morning annoucements over the intercom (which I sooo totally loved!!), in all honors classes...but hey, it paid off, I got a full scholarship to Northeastern! I did actually have a pretty good time in high school - good friends (Hannah, Peri, my sis), interesting boy drama (out-of-towners, Bill, Mike, Scott, Paul), fun part-time job (Brighams)...had a little adolscence-induced depression freshman year, but for the most part, very little teenage angst...although I'm sure it seems less stressful looking back on it than it actually felt at the time.

And the other answers:

1. I would say "blur." it feels so long ago, and HS wasn't all that exciting for me. it definitely went by too fast.
2. ego-shattering
3. inconspicuous
4. My high school experience was not too interesting. Sad to say my Mother was very very strict and I had to be home everyday to help with the younger siblings. I would LOVE to be able to say I had a great high school life but most of my life then took place in the house teaching and cleaning. I was 16 when the last two siblings were born so as you can see I was an artificial MOMMY. It did help me to bring up my children in a mature fashion. So I guess it was not all bad. As a matter of fact I designed a cat statue there then and I drew most of the pictures by the sides of the faces in our year book. ( This I was very proud of) I was asked to join the "PEP SQUAD" which would have allowed me to be a cheerleader in the next year but my mother said I'd have to say no. Boy did I cry! However, I did graduate and went on to Boston to school and there met my husband!
5. No pun intended, but the word would have to be educational. So much happened in my high school years that no other word really fits quite as well.
6. Boyfriendless
7. Phantasmagorical
8. Fun-long-scary-informative-etc
9. "Duh" is the word that summarizes my high school experience quite nicely. After a year in girly preppy private school in Tokyo, I got quite fed up of not having boys around (and the commute was an hour and 45 minutes - including running fast from my house to the bus stop - a bit too long for a 15-year-old). Then I studied abroad for 2 years instead of continuing with the boyless school - went to a high school in castle (http://www.atlanticcollege.org/) which was established based on a truly idealistic goal - to promote international understanding, to promote peace globally, and yeah, I totally thought that was cool, but unlike what the school advocates, I realized that I didn't go through that much of a transformation at all after those turbulent two years of not understanding what the hell people are saying in English (with varying accents), getting stuck in a sleepy welsh villege, having to put up with a nasty roommate for two years who borrows stuff from me and either forget to return them or sh*t 'em up, and gaining almost 20 pounds for eating dorm food that tasted like crap (mostly fish and chips). People, why didn't you tell me that personality does not change and that happiness is a trait (not changeable)?? Certainly I learned that changing your environment does not make you happier, smarter, or prettier.Therefore, it's a "duh." Oh, and one more point - adolescence is life's suckiest time for a large majority of people according to the life-course perspective (remember, I'm a pseudo-developmental psychologist). People get happier/the happiest during young adulthood (18-30ish) and that turned out to be quite true for me as well:)
10. shazam
11. doubleplusungood
12. It was an easy fun ride.
13. Hmmm. An interesting question to ponder as I approach the 15 year mark...
A few words come to mind: 1.) Better (as in, better than the elementary school or middle school experience); 2.) Boys (as in, started to go on real dates, have real boyfriends); 3.) Dyer (as in, Mr. Dyer, the fearless leader of school dramatics and speech tournaments, who made my life difficult and who cultivated the first environment outside of my house that I considered "home")
14. "Over"
15. The suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked. Well, except for [my best friend]. Ok, so that was like 3 words.
16. Graduated
17. Let's see, my high school experience in one word; emotional. I had my first love, my first (and last) out of school suspension, my first hang over, my first porn film and lots and lots of diary pages about the angst of being a teenager!
18. Necessary
19. OUTRAGEOUS!!
20. In a word, I remember high school = perfectionism. I wanted to be awesome at everything - school, sports, singing. I wanted to also be super-skinny and everyone's best friend. To achieve this awesomeness, the days had to start at 5 am and end around 11 pm. Good lord...if only I could find that energy and drive now!