I was 13 and had just started at a new school. I knew no one and had no friends yet. So few friends, in fact, that when I got told my mum would be late picking me up, I decided to wait for her in the library and get a head start on my homework.<\/p>\n
I walked into the library to find it was pretty full of much older kids, but I saw a seat over the other side of the room. Walked across, being stared at by the scary older students, but I did my best to be nonchalant, show ’em the new boy wasn’t to be intimidated.<\/p>\n
Get to the empty place, pull back the heavy wooden chair with a loud squeak and drop my bag on the table, at which point the boy in the chair next to me leaned over and whispered “This is an exam.”<\/p>\n
Picked up my bag and walked back across room red faced, no longer nonchalant, and pursued by muffled laughter. Regrettably, it solved the problem of no one knowing who I was.<\/p>\n
And what did you<\/em> do in middle school\/junior high that makes you cringe even today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was 13 and had just started at a new school. I knew no one and had no friends yet. So few friends, in fact, that when I got told my mum would be late picking me up, I decided to wait for her in the library and get a head start on my homework. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fulmoremiddleschool.org\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fulmoremiddleschool.org\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fulmoremiddleschool.org\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulmoremiddleschool.org\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulmoremiddleschool.org\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fulmoremiddleschool.org\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulmoremiddleschool.org\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fulmoremiddleschool.org\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulmoremiddleschool.org\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulmoremiddleschool.org\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}