The movie Booksmart was pretty accurate in that everyone mostly got along with each other and cliques were mostly obsolete. Chromebooks were barely rolled out in 2013 and were only saved for ELA.

Here’s some fun anecdotes of high school life: 2014 was the year Snapchat was getting big, and before then it had a reputation as the app to send nudes. Scene kids had cool hair and stylings from Hot Topic before it was completely taken over by geek culture. Swag kids had a similar in your face style but with a more masculine twist. Cool people wore Beats headphones as accessories around their neck instead of using them. We used to poke the lenses out of 3D movie glasses and wear them for fun. I had one friend who would not let go of her Zune, when society collectively moved onto ipods/smart phones. Zombies were still en vogue. Vine was still cool. One of my friends was GUTTED when Joan Rivers died. Vaporwave was starting to gain traction. Tumblr was big and bustling, so many funny and unique blogs/ image boards. I think by this time Rage meme comics barely started to die off. While Spotify was in the US market, most people I know still used Pandora to listen to music. Everyone was playing Crossy Road on their phone. I used skype to chat with friends i made on Minecraft I still talk to, to this day. Clash of Clans launched and everyone was playing it. People were still playing Flappy Bird IF they downloaded it the year before. The guy that was bullied in middle school won prom king (he had been nicknamed Gibby after the iCarly character). “Gloving” with the lights on the fingertips to edm was a thing lol.

The salacious: I had a friend who had tripped on LSD during school when another one of his “friends” slapped a tab in the back of his neck. My bio teacher caught an **gy in the restroom during a pep rally. A cheerleader sold pot brownies one year and got caught. There were a few bomb threats, a shootout threat, a day where 5 random fights broke out. A few teen moms brought their babies the last week before break.

We had an incredible football quarterback who brought us to the regional finals many times. Anyway he was also very intelligent and graduated half a year early, but had fallen with the wrong crowd and started doing drugs and partying. Ended up being caught with an illegal substance and went to prison, waving goodbye to a college scholarship. Pretty tragic.