Hmm, I don't know what to make of my school's social situation. What I do know is that I'm in a close-knit group of friends that is in some ways (such as hanging out, AIM, etc.) isolated from the rest of the school and in some ways not (like being friendly during class).
Anyways, we're the ones that sometimes do math problems and talk about philosophy and such during lunch for fun. We're also the core body of Seniors in math team, chess team, and science team.
The Freshmen are pretty weird though... they're nerdy and popular... It's interesting to see how different grades can be so... different.
Oh, and I did sit with a relatively new group at lunch today. It was a social success Although, they were also nerds; nerds from different grades.
Hahaha. My group of friends is exactly the same way. Except for one or two people, we're all relatively close-knit and friendly towards each other and not the rest of the school. We are also quite contemptuous in that we think of those with no ambition or those that just are plain annoying to be with in class [or outside of it] as morons.
Our discussions usually involve world domination, science [we discussed, for an entire lunch, white phosphorous one day]. Only two of my friends are on the math team, though. One of them just flat out doesn't want to join because it cuts away from his video game time.. and a couple of them keep forgetting. My friends and I, for the most part, had made up the math team. And then a bunch of Asians invaded. Now we're actually relatively good!
The nerdy freshmen are those that I just want to pound on so much more than the others. All the freshmen at my school are, quite honestly, annoying as all hell. Most of those kids I've known for three to four years and so I've gotten to know them enough to realize I don't like them.
Speaking of people that sat with new groups... my cousin sat with me at lunch. He's one of the freshmen I talked about, except he's not even close to smart enough to be considered nerdy, and his computer talent is equivalent to my dad's (and my dad hadn't seen a computer until this year.. he's in his fifties).