As college students now, you probably look back a lot on your middle school days, and you think about some of the things you did. As you remember what those things were, you wonder to yourself, "How did I ever think that was acceptable?" or "I can't believe I did that!", and now you view those as really creepy because it's information that you shouldn't have known about another person without them ever sharing it with you or telling you. Or it was something that you don't typically see somebody do anymore now that you're in college.
1. Opening each other's locker
In middle school, everybody has their own locker and sometimes it's so crowded that somebody has to wait for another person to leave before they can use their own. In some cases, two students have lockers right next to each other, and in their periphery, they can see the other person's combination and they secretly remember it so they can open the other person's locker because they know the combination. My 6th grade locker combination was 4-36-10, and that was the year that it was most popular to do before it fizzled out to start 7th grade.
2. Passing notes in class
Although this was more common among the girls, it was an interesting way to gossip about a variety of things.
3. Attempting pranks
Whether it was a prank to just take another person's belongings and hide them, or just to draw an inappropriate picture on another person's school folder (or even their body), people did it while their prey was unaware just so they could bask in some dirty humor.
4. Placing gum on unsuspecting places in school
Most middle schools don't allow gum to be chewed in school and will provide a detention for it. But it still happens, and results in detention from time to time. But worst of all, those who chew gum will place it on the wall, under a desk in a classroom before the next class comes in, or worse yet, in someone's hair. Sadly, some people in college still do this.
5. Shut another student's locker right after they open it
This is textbook on what bullying is. I understand it might be done as a joke and just for the [bleep] and giggles, but it would get you a detention if you did it and were caught.
6. 'Pants-ing' another student
This is another example of a prank described in 3., but this one is worse, where if the attempt to 'pants' somebody succeeds, the victim is exposed and has to quickly recover before feeling embarrassed. I had this happen to myself and I remember the assistant principal saying, "It is not a good idea, and if you are caught you will face discipline" or something like that. All in all, yeah, not a great idea.
The fact of the matter is, DON'T do ANY these 6 things. They're incredibly foolish and when you get to college, you will absolutely know better than to do this because your choices will have a huge impact on how well you succeed at your university, and if you're not careful, you might have blown your only chance.
