Community Profile: NSA

Jocks, Geeks, and Preps of NSA

By: Jon Symons

"The Breakfast Club," a 1980's movie depicting the typical high-school experience.

                                                              

At a glance around the room, at an all school meeting, you would notice that everybody is sitting together and very close. It is only after you have been here a while that you would notice the different cliques and groups that populate NSA.

They are not your traditional cliques though. In a normal school there would be: the jocks, the preps, the hippies, the nerds, the thespians, and the band geeks. In our school it is broken down into boys hockey, girls hockey, and skiers.

On the boys hockey team there are three main groups of people because everyone usually hangs out with each other.

One group is “the mountain house boys.” These kids live in the mountain house and are super tight because they stay up with each other talking usually with all of the people in the dorm present, they also are the older kids.

The second group of kids are the “dorm kids” these kids are staying at the school in two separate dorm rooms they are the younger kids and all but one of them hangs out usually with themselves.

The third is the foreign kids, these people are from Europe and are very cool to talk to but usually talk with themselves.

The interactions and friendships that they make are a special bond because not only are they close friends they are also team mates, which you can tell by the way they play and know each other. From an outside view people say that everyone hangs out together which, for the most part, is true.

The girls hockey team is broken down differently. It is not into groups it’s more just the friendships that form. From the information I have gathered the most general way to group them is by new students and returners.

The new students would be the students who haven’t been here before or haven’t had a connection other than hockey before she came here.

The returners have been here before and know the unwritten rules and how things work around the school. They have grouped together to form a close group of friends.

The whole school has a way of working where you don’t get to see any of the groups specifically until the weekend. The groups seem to form naturally. The people with a lot in common congregate almost instantly.