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High school was a pretty strange experience for me, so I'm going to have to go for the time we all thought that I was going to sprout wings (literally) and my best friend's boyfriend and convinced a bunch of people (including her) that he was a demon from another planet who had destroyed his own world in order to save ours. Only he and The Eight (including my best friend) remained from his race.

I also once got nervously cited for PDA with a girl (the vice principal obviously didn't want to admit that there might be lesbians in his school, or any other alternative sexuality, even though there were numerous school-sponsored cross-dressing activities through the year). And I took a girl to prom.

I don't know what it says about me that when I saw the title of the diversion, my first thoughts were Jawbreaker and Saved. I guess I can toss But I'm a Cheerleader on the pile as well (she was technically in high school), and if we're going for coming of age movies, Stardust, too.

Oh, and also... I'd just like to point out that I'm one of your high school readers. You can count the fact that High School Musical 3 exists as one of the main reasons that I come back to this wonderful pit of bitterness and cynicism time and time again.

Varsity Blues

I played a little football when I used to live in Texas and the movie captured the experience of Texas football pretty well. From the large signs of parents supporting their playing son in their front yards, to the parties where cops simply told eveyone to go home. Even the fact that literally, football, was a players life. Fuck school. They even mentioned Texas A&M in the film which is where I was living at the time, College Station, TX. Those were my memories of High School in Texas, where everything was calm, where everyone got excited to see the game on Friday nights. Puking rallies....

Never got to see one of my own teachers in a strip club though...damn.

My best high school memories involve band. I miss going to football games, playing the halftime shows and then sitting in the stands with my best friends (fellow band geeks) and hanging out while playing the fight song and cheering on our team.

My favorite teen movie would have to be Sixteen Candles. It totally encapsulates (IMO) what it's like to be a teenage girl - parents are clueless (it's her birthday!), other students are weird (Farmer Ted), and you spend your days dreaming about the high school hunk (Jake Ryan is soooo dreamy!).

My hands-down favorite high school movie is an under-the-radar low-budget gem called Over The Edge. Netflix this bitch.

Second place: Pump Up The Volume.

I love 10 Things I Hate About You, The Breakfast Club, Jawbreaker, Sixteen Candles, Say Anything, and pretty much any other high school movie. But the best has to be Heathers.

I can think of zero good memories from high school. Not that my high school days were bad, just appallingly mediocre.

As for my favorite high school movies, I have to go with 10 Things I Hate About You, Saved!, and The Breakfast Club.

Pretty in Pink: I just loved Ducky.
Breakfast Club: Made me have everlust for Judd Nelson.

My favorite high school moment is our senior trip. We went to this uber fancy hotel in the Bay Islands off the north coast of Honduras. It was fucking PARADISE. Coral reefs, gorgeous beaches, and 37 kids just having a blast. We had gallons of booze and tons of great food, but no one got out of control and it was just...so much fun. Best time ever.

Favorite high school movie: Ten Things I Hate About You. I love many, many others, but I was in 10th grade when that came out--it was absolutely perfect timing for it. I wanted to go to that High School. I still do. Love love love that movie.

Some Kind of Wonderful, mostly due to my 80's girl crush on Mary Stuart Masterson. She is fucking adorable as Watts, and Lea Thompson can suck it. Yeah, Amanda Jones, suck it. Valley Girl was the Clueless before Clueless, although my favorite line does come from the latter."I have a forty five and a shovel and no one will miss you".

Does Grosse Pointe Blank count? "Ten years, man! Ten years!" Another great movie about growing up and seeing high school in the rear view mirror is Beautiful Girls. Definitely on my underappreciated gems list.

Best advice? Don't look back. It does no good. The best years are always ahead, because they hold nothing but possibilities, which are always better than regrets.

I'm going to mark myself out as the socially awkward nerd that I am by doing this, but my favorite high school memory is performing a marching band show that won 1st place at a BOA regional my senior year. We were the first (and, to my knowledge, still the only) marching band from Maryland to take first place at a BOA competition on that level. All of us walked off the field unbelievably elated, everyone knew what we'd done as soon as the last note faded and the crowd got to it's feet.

My love of 10 Things I Hate About You is legendary, but I never watched many high school movies aside from that. They all made me feel lame (for good reason, see above).

slower lower, I'd almost swear I know you in the real world. Or knew you once.

There are so many great H.S. movies over the years, just a few being: Some Kind of Wonderful, Pretty in Pink, Heathers, Never Been Kissed... so on.

But my most ever, very most, the MOST favorite has to be Say Anything. Granted, it is more the summer after high school, but I think it still counts.

Lloyd Dobler: I am looking for a dare to be great situation.

I think my favourite memory is from being on debating team. The other teams were scared of my team...because of me. Having been bullied my whole school life, that little bit of power made me feel fuckin' awesome.

Favourite movies would again be Saved! (because I went to a christian school so my friends and I had fun pointing at people going 'oh my god! that's (insert name here)' which was awesome. And also Clueless. And 10 things I hate about you.

Advice? In ten years time, when people who hated you in high school add you on facebook, accept their friend requests so they can see that you are awesome and they are stuck in a small town with three kids to three different fathers and no child support. Cause karma's a bitch. Defriend then a few weeks later when you know they won't even notice anyway.

Sixteen Candles
Some Kind of Wonderful
Pretty in Pink
Breakfast Club (notice a theme???)
Ferris Bueller (he WAS my boyfriend)

Best Memory: My girlfriends and I skipping school and swimming in my boyfriend's pool - singing to Madonna in our bikinis (honest - we were NOT cheerleaders, just trying to turn him and his friends on - all of whom were studying for an exam). It ended well.

Bugger. I think I have some perenthesis issues. My bad.

Come to facebook where all is revealed, TB.

Discretion IS the better part of valor, apparently. Who knew?

I loved high school, while I was in it. One, it was a different time, and we didn't have HSM. Disney Channel was not for teens and "tweens" didn't exist. Ah, so innocent back then. *Sigh* Two, I was one of those over-achiever, involved in everything students: drama, field hockey, track, chorus, newspaper, honor society, etc. Nostalgic memories include backstage at rehearsals, killing time at track meets, simply driving in the car with my friends singing at the top of our lungs... (This was pre-cell phones, too, or at least, those who had them carried around something as big as your forearm. History lesson, kiddos.)

Now? Don't miss it. Don't keep in touch with hardly any high school friends - though many *have* found me on Facebook. Yes - creepy. It's nice to look back with fondness, but teaching high school is close enough to being back in high school for me.

So to actually answer the question: a high school movie that isn't about high school but figures prominently in my memories of high school would be The Rocky Horror Picture Show. (We were drama geeks...) A high-school-related movie I enjoy would be Bring It On. And not just because I like saying, "SPIRIT FINGERS!!!"

Clueless because it is quotable in a number of situations (just yesterday, my mom remarked to me that she does not wear polyester hair, unlike some people she knows.)

Say Anything.

John Cusack, Ione Skye are just great as well as a stellar supporting cast. All of the seriousness you feel in high school is documented (even though this characters have just graduated).

Clueless is a close second!

I hated high school. Fortunately I have erased all but the (extremely few and extremely barely) erotic encounters from my memory banks.

Are we talking about coming-of-age movies we saw IN high school? No such thing existed in the Commataceous Period, so I think I'm gonna go with the extremely vague memory of a drive-in double feature of something like "Billy Jack" and "Poor White Trash Part II," which were pretty tame even for their day but which my uptight parents probably still wouldn't have approved of.

Fuck YOU, mom and dad! (35 years later)

Otherwise, I'd go with "Heathers."

"Why are you such a megabitch?"

"Because I can be."

Of COURSE, Say Anything.

The pathetic romantic in me will forever love the boom box "In Your Eyes" moment...and will forgive John Cusack many mistakes b/c of that moment.

Redfeathers, I just read your comment. Saved! hit home with me too. For a couple years I went to a Christian school that had fundamentalists running the administration. They and their children attending the school made sure to regularly tell me I was going to Hell because I'm Catholic and the ugly (inside and out) bitches made fun of me relentlessly because I *shock* wore a bit of makeup and *gasp* dried my hair with a blow-dryer. I kid you not. When I decided to leave that hellhole, they told me that I shouldn't leave for *brace yourself* public school because God wanted me to stay at the nice, soul-sucking Christian school. Yep.

After I left that place I became good friends with one of the guys who left the school at the same time I did. We watched Saved! about the same time and had much fun discussing which character was which person in our horrible school. Side note about my friend - he's now married to my best girlfriend from high school. I introduced them about four years ago. Funny how life works.

My favorites, when I was in high school: The Program and Dazed and Confused. What can I say... I was a jock who hung out with stoners.

My favorites of all time probably stem from growing up in the 80's with 2 sibs in high school through that decade... Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller were what i thought high school should be like when I got there- my idealized version. The real version was something more like American Pie.

Jake, I went to an all boys Catholic School too. it was a blast

I detested high school and my favorite movie is absolutely The Breakfast Club. I identified with Ally Sheedy's character, of course.

I can't wait to read everybody's answers to this. Sadly, I have to go to bed shortly...

I hated high school. Every minute of it. I was a complete mess. My family moved right before I started, and so I had, quite literally, no friends. I also went from a small Catholic school to a huge public school, where everyone had gone through grade and middle school together. I suffered a bit of a depression through most of my junior and senior years, and nearly failed out (I had to go to summer school after senior year to get my diploma). It was such a miserable experience, I didn't go to college until I was 33, because I assumed it would be just more of the same.

That said, I did eventually (halfway through sophomore year) develop a few friendships that bloomed into a circle of very close friends. It was with them that I discovered my deep and abiding love of film. We would all get together at one of our houses, walk into the middle of town to the Video Den (Oh, video den, how I miss you and your curtained off back room!), rent 4 or 5 or 6 movies, and spend the entire night in front of the TV laughing our asses off. Those were the times I felt most like a human, and I loved them.

I have probably too many favorite high school movies to list, really. It pretty much starts with the Hughes ouevre and runs right on up through 10 Things and Clueless and Bring It On and Drop Dead Gorgeous. I love them all, or mostly, probably because I did have such a bad time, and they make me realize my experience is not so different from other people's.

P.S. College is fully different and I love it and highly recommend it.

gp, I love you.

My fondest memories from high school are of being naughty in the photo darkroom and being loud and stupid with my friends on public transportation.

A lot of my favorite high school movies have been named already, but I also love:

Bring It On
My Boyfriend's Back
Back To The Future
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Just One of the Guys
Election
Mean Girls
The Virgin Suicides
Brick
Lucas
Angus
Detroit Rock City
Carrie
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Teen Wolf
The Craft
Final Destination
Scream
Footloose
10 Things I Hate About You
Cruel Intentions
Donnie Darko
Varsity Blues
Bend It Like Beckham
Battle Royale

Maaaan - totally forgot about Angus. Great, great movie. I still have the soundtrack somewhere, too.

My favorite memories are just killing time in class, at choir/dance competitions, and at lunch.

Advice: move out and find something to do.

Movies:
Bend it Like Beckham -- a British equivilant of sorts
Drop Dead Gorgeous -- just hilarious
Is It Fall Yet?/Is It College Yet? -- Daria is always great.

Girls Just Want to Have Fun. Sarah Jessica Parker when she was lovable. Helen Hunt's lizard earrings!!! What's his face being all bad-boy-dancerish. Swoon.
Breakfast Club, Maid to Order and Sixteen Candles were regulars too, even though I was younger than all that. I think we rented a lot more often than we went to the theater.

Family, not therapy. Ug, tired.

Pump Up the Volume was the shit. Also Heathers. of course. Weird Science, Real Genius, and... Mommy Dearest. Okay, that last one didn't come out when I was in school but that was when I fell in love with it.

No... Wire.. Hangers... EVAR!

Ooh... and advice... I'm approaching my one-year anniversary of graduating from college, something I decided to do a year early, and not that I've regretted it, but having a year of "real world" experience under my belt, I say this: college is a really wonderful time in your development as a person. You have the feeling of adult responsibilities, but you really don't have full adult responsibilities, so live it up while you can. Appreciate not having monthly rent. Appreciate student loans that will give you a sizable chunk of money every quarter/semester just because you're going to school. Take the time to not have to have a job if you don't have to. Do stupid things. Drink excessively, because as soon as you get out of college, it starts to get progressively sadder the longer you continue to get shit-faced every weekend.

Basically: don't glorify being a real world adult. It's not a bad thing, but it's also not quite all it's cracked up to be.

I just finished freshman year of college and am guilty of being a cynical bitch. But not really, I say worse things than I really believe. College has helped me realize that for the most part my generation is incredibly motivated and hopeful.

I love all the movies listed here, 10 Things, all everything John Hughes, Rocket Science, Dazed and Confused, Fast Times, Friday Night Lights, Heathers etc etc but it's always painful to watch high school movies since I was too sick to have really experienced high school. My favorite memories were when, just to say "fuck it" to my health problems and depression and reputation as a quiet sickly girl, I completely broke out of my shell and kicked my classmates in the balls by making them laugh their asses off. I was the comedic relief in school plays, then when I got too sick to stay involved I was Nixon and Kissinger in class debates and turned my speech assignment into a Chris Farley "van by the river" tribute and satire of our school that got me a standing ovation and "thank you"s for making everyone laugh. My teachers didn't believe I'd graduate, but after these instances they'd say to me they couldn't wait to see me on tv someday.
I can't help but think "what would high school have been like if I wasn't sick?" but I owe it to myself to follow slower lower's wise advice. I won't look back anymore, it only fucks up my will to have a bound-to-be-better future. Plus I got a best-friend-for-life out of the high school ordeal so I can't complain much.
*and scene*

What interesting timing, as there's a re-onion being organized back at the gulag of my youth. I haven't been back for more years than you have life, Katie.

Best high school movie is Pump Up the Volume. I was kind of Hard Harry on the sly - subversive, but the game was to not get caught.

Winning moment - um, not tellin. It would be Federal and they have no sense of humor.

Second winning moment. A junior teacher invites a college jazz/lab band doing a workshop at our HS over to his place for a small party. They invited the kids hosting them (of course) who invite some friends. Half the band showed up, and a good dozen in the "You? What are you doing here?" Of course, everyone BYOB, and soon this guy's tiny kitchen is buried in bottles and other stuff that will get him arrested even without 30 minors there. You can see it dawn on him that his life is over.

Well after he gave up - What's he going do do, call the cops to throw thirty under-age drunks out of his one-room? - it breaks up. Orderly, peacefully, the bad-off cared for, trash collected, and contributions disappearing as magically as they had arrived. You could see a tiny hope growing behind his eyes.

Come morning, he's back to crazy nervous & checking noses. But everybody's there. And not a word. Not a hint. Like nothing ever happened. By mid-morning he gets it. We were by then trained professionals.

Differently memorable, the band director would sometimes get a call for a bugler to play "taps" when a veteran passed. Sometimes the bugler was me.

I even learned some important things in high school.

* Life is for living. Have fun.

* But you take care of your own and clean up after yourself. Be a mensch. Don't screw people.

* You don't have to tilt at windmills. Often it's good enough if they leave you alone.

* And you can do some good, sometimes, even for people who have done huge things.

None of that had to do with class work, of course.

Aw Katie! Her email warmed my cold, cold heart. As a Pajiba regular, Katie must be well versed in snark, and therefore well prepared for college. (10x better than high school)

10 Things I Hate About You is a great high school flick. As is Clueless, Breakfast Club and my all time fav, 16 Candles.

I'm English and I went to a Catholic all boys highschool for 5 years - not a lot of fond memories there. Probably why I love stuff like 10 Things..., Scream, Breakfast Club and yes, Dawson's Creek. Americans don't know how lucky you are, all English high schools are unbelievable boring (though with staggeringly high pregnancy rate). Gotta say though, my best memory is on the last day, 20 of us walking down the road singing "Don't Look Back In Anger" at the top of our lungs. Favourite High School Film? Gotta be Brick.

Sigh. I'm so old, I went to bed early and missed this thread. Or nearly did. But then again, it isn't like I went to sleep.

*Stand by Me,* of course. *Harold & Kumar* (the first, not the second). Not about high school, I know.

*3 O'Clock High,* as Slim suggests, was amazing - visually and narratively. *The Breakfast Club* captured everything I felt in the moment, but feels stale now. *Grosse Point Blank* is closer to my present truth - though I set my Facebook account on death stun, and didn't go to my 25th reunion. *The Sure Thing," for sure.

*Blackboard Jungle*? Awesome movie. Also, in a deeply perverse way, *American History X* is a coming of age movie. And, of course, *Rebel Without A Cause.* And *Grease.*

The movie sucked (I suggest), but S.E. Hinton's *The Outsiders* was my Rosetta stone when I was 12.

Yes, I'm that old.

Pretty in Pink would have to be my movie, although you could pretty much mention any 80s teenage movie and I'm all over it. I think I identified more with Pretty in Pink b/c of the whole lower class/upper class thing. I was on the lower end.
I can't pick a favorite high school memory. Other than graduation where I finally got to walk away and never look back.

Clueless. It came out the summer I failed driver's ed because I called my teacher a prick, so I bonded with Cher over not getting my license. (I had to wait a year.) Also, it was the movie that introduced me to Paul Rudd.

I was a theater nerd in high school so many of my favorite memories involve plays. And there's a whole other set of memories centered around the stupid crap I did to entertain myself. I'm not sure if this is my favorite memory or not, but it did immediately come to mind: one night a friend dared me to drive across the front lawn of the high school. It was a very big lawn. It was a really stupid thing to do, one of those things where you ask yourself why you'd even bother to do it, and I suppose having no reason to do it was reason enough. And you know what? Driving across the front lawn of the high school is fun. Really really laugh-until-you-can't-breathe fun.

In high school, I hated basically all "high school" movies unless they were 10 Things I Hate About You. I wanted to be Julia Stiles in that movie so badly. I wanted her camo skirt and flippy floppies. I wanted her friend's Shakesperean prom dress. I wanted Heath Ledger.

I neither hated high school nor glorified it. It just... was. I think I spent most of my life up until I was 23 working towards the next period in my life. In high school I wanted to be in college; as a college freshman/sophomore I wanted to be a junior so I could be a bigwig in the theatre program; and then I just wanted to move onto grad. school. Etc. etc. I tell myself that I've learned to appreciate every day existence, but even now I'm just existing, living in a dumb town temporarily and biding time until the next period in my life.

Hm. Maybe that's why I never liked high school movies... they generally glorify high school as the best time you'll ever have, but I've since learned that "the best time you'll ever have" is transient and evanescent. It comes and it goes and it comes again, and you're constantly looking for it or reaching for it or trying to attain it, and each time you grab it, it's sweeter and more poignant than anything from a high school movie. And then it's gone again. You learn to appreciate it, but you realize that those "best times you ever had" in high school become less and less "best times" as you age and realize that with every year the times get better.

That's my operating theory, at least.

I lived in a very small town (think Mayberry RFD) that had one theatre. It used to be a real theatre back in the 1920s, with a balcony and seats with horsehair upholstry and springs. At some point they closed the balcony (for safety reasons) and put in a screen and started showing movies. They were always second string movies, but they showed a different one every week. They had to. They only had one screen and it was a small town. And we went every week, even though the springs poked through the itchy upholstry, because it was really cheap ($1) and there was nothing else to do. When I became editor of my highschool yearbook (1977) the theme was "The Movies" and we put that theatre on the cover of the yearbook with everyone from class lined up to get in and our yearbook name on the marquee. When hurricanes Charlie, Frances and Jeanne blew through a couple of years ago, the theatre blew down. All that was left was the front facade and the marquee. Someone put up "Gone With The Wind" on the marquee. I didn't have a camera with me that day, and I wished I'd just gone to a drugstore and bought a disposible camera, just to get a shot of that. The facade fell down the next day. I watched The Sting, and Romeo and Juliet, and Arnold (a movie starring Roddy McDowell as a dead guy marrying a stewardess so he can screw his widow out of her inheritance, it was bad).

Late to the game but still willing to play:

I hated high school so much that I dropped out, got a GED, and went straight to college. Granted, I stayed in college forever, but that is NOT the point.
What I did like about high school was choir. That was fun. I loved going to JazzFest with the choir, playing in mud, and getting so generally drunk and filthy that the bus driver had to hose us down before letting us back on. I didn't like being in the gifted program with vapid teachers. I didn't like my math teacher (who transferred from my junior high so his reign of terror could continue!) being a sexist, misogynistic fuck. I hated the snobby bitches and bowheads (anyone remember that term?) that gave me shit for dressing the way I did.
I did like my non-high school activities during the time of high school. Rehearsing with my band, playing in the Quarter, playing on the street when there was nowhere else to play, having sex and figuring out who I wanted to be. That was awesome.

And Pump Up the Volume is still my movie. Mostly because seeing that at 12 blew my musical world apart.

SaBrina, you and I basically had the exact same experience....and I somehow ended up going to 3 separate proms.

This is going to sound pretty sad, but my favorite high school/coming of age movies are The Wackness and The Virgin Suicides.

Katie, s. pisaster is right. And it only gets better from here.

Favorite high school movie: American Graffiti

No really pleasant high school memories. High school was something to suffer through, not celebrate.

Forgot to add another memory: making the Creative Writing teacher storm out of the classroom in tears because we (meaning me and my three friends) couldn't stop laughing at his sappy sharing of songs that reminded him of his dead daddy.

Yeah, I'm kind of a bitch.

I adored the crap out of high school. Favorite memories:

-Going to the senior prom with one of my best friends/crush. He died a few years ago, so I was lucky to have that night with him.
-Drama club shenanigans
-Singing the national anthem with my choir at a Phillies game
-Music class with Mr. Dan and his adult footie pajamas.
-The Phillie Phanatic visiting our magazine drive and wreaking havoc all over the auditorium.
-Meeting friends that to this day are my favorite people on the planet. Six of my best friends I met in high school.

Favorite HS movie...Can't Hardly Wait. It came out the year I graduated and I have fantastic memories of watching it with my friends.

So many good moments in high school, but I must say that one of the best was getting the highest score in my cheerleading tryout as a walk-on. You think this is no small feat? Picture the 80s in a Massachusetts town where cheerleading started at the motherfuckin' cradle and where high school cheerleading squads were made up nearly exclusively of girls who grandmothered their way onto the teams. The year I tried out, the school decided to make things more fair b/c the process was so cutthroat and brought in a neutral panel of third-parties to judge the candidates. You should've SEEN these bitches' faces when yours truly waltzed onto the team. Bwah-ha-ha-ha!

Of course, the downside was that I was on the cheerleading squad. It was kind of fun for a while, actually.

Also fun was dispelling rumors that I was lesbian by showing up at dances and football games with my very handsome steady boyfriend who went to private school.

Wow, Cuno. So glad I didn't go to HS with you.

***Note to my previous comment: I did not check any of the release dates in those above movies to confirm that Can't Hardly Wait did in fact come out first, but in my memory it did. In my mind, Can't Hardly Wait is a visionary.

While I would agree with pretty much all the suggestions (Clueless, Breakfast Club etc) I submit a movie that perhaps few people saw and fewer people know about. It's called Gregory's Girl, by Bill Forsyth, the "Scottish John Hughes. It's just a whimsical, lovely, charming, disarming movie. Seek it out if you can.

So, here we are almost 50 comments in and no one gives a shit that Dustin called us all a bunch of assholes? Me neither. Carry on.

Well, if the shoe fits...

High school wasn't bad for me, but really the best memories all involve pranks and endless quoting of Monty Python. I know it's not technically high school, but Real Genius would be my high-school-related film pick. Not bashing 10 Things I Hate About You, because Ledger and Stiles rocked it, but it came out when I was already in university and thus missed the chance at a close, fond, personal association.

"It's Jesus, Kent. And you've been a very bad boy...Stop playing with yourself!"

lordhelmet - Real Genius is my grad school experience. I love that movie. It completely nails what academic research is like. Also, I think I might be the female Chris Knight.

and sometimes i think TV shows are movies? YEAH. long day i guess, let's change that to saved.

That's why we love you, pisaster!

Favorite memories: winning first place at a Certamen (inter-school Latin jeopardy) with the friends on my team. Take that, expensive prep school nerds!
The prom after party junior year. It was very tame, with cake, Catchphrase, and my parents, but the only time I ever had a ton of friends over having a great time.
"Girls night" at my senior English teacher's amazing house in the country. The whole class came. For the first time, we broke cliquish boundaries and genuinely saw each other as interesting human beings.

Favorite movies: I saw all of these in college, when high school is much funnier.
10 Things
Ferris Bueller
Napoleon Dynamite
Mean Girls
Sugar and Spice
that reunion episode of 30 Rock

Hang in there Katie! For a smart kid like you, college will be even more fun, interesting, and challenging than high school. Explore everything that interests you and meet all kinds of fascinating new people. Don't be afraid to find out who you really are.
Do keep in touch with your high school classmates. Freshman year everyone will still miss each other a lot and be dying to hear how everyone else is doing in their new places. After while, though, the pool of Facebook posts and AIM conversations will whittle down to the handful of true BFFS. And then one day you'll check random FB profiles and discover who's stuck in a crummy job, who had a baby at age 20, who never finished college, who's going to grad school. You might be surprised, and you'll definitely be proud of yourself for not settling for mediocrity.

Wow......what a great list of movies. I didn't see anyone mention one of my personal favorites though - "Secret Admirer"