AOL IM's Talk about Highschool

My female informant is Carolyn, she is 18 years old and goes to the University of Rhode Island. I spoke with Carolyn on aol instant messenger for a bit today because i had some trouble getting in contact with her to meet up. She has been coming to my town every weekend and i usually meet up with her when she is down. Lately she has been wanting to spend her weekends at school because she is beginning to make more friends. I wanted to talk to her on the phone but she said that she wanted to talk over instant messenger because her roommate was in the room with her and her roommate was trying to do her homework. Carolyn told me of the boy she was "hooking up" with. She says his name is Dan and she likes him because he is super cute and a really nice guy but yet she has only known him for about a week. i thought it was funny that she knew he was a super nice guy but yet she has only known him a short amount of time. I asked her what high school was like for her because she told me how when she first got to school she was having a hard time meeting people. Carolyn went to an all girls high school. she told me that her freshman and sophomore years were the worst for her because she didn't fit in with any of the "groups" at school. She was in the choir in her school and that was mostly what she was into her first couple of years. She stayed home on week nights and did her homework and on weekends she would go to the shore with her parents. Her second year in high school was a little bit better than the first year. She joined in the musical and the school play where she became friends with more girls. She was very involved with the school play and musicals. When they practiced for the musical they went to a different school that had a stage which her school did not. It was a boys military school which was not far from where she lived. It was at this school in the afternoons practicing for the play, where she started to become; as she would say, "boy crazy." She liked the change from the all girls school and she liked to talk to the boys. She began to like one of the boys at the school and that is when she had her first kiss with a boy named Mitch. She was 15 years old. The boy that she believed she first loved was a boy named Rob. In her Junior year of high school she was still involved with the play very much and she told me that every night before and after practice, her and rob would "fool around" i wasn't really sure what she meant so i asked her what "fool around" meant and she told me that they would make out and he would try to feel her boobs. This was the first boy to try anything like that and she told me she didn't know what to do so she just let him do it. They went out for three months and he was the guy that she first had sex with. he was also the guy she took to her senior prom. She hung out at the military school a lot and her parents most of the time didn't know she was there. They didn't like her hanging around all of these military boys. Carolyn's senior year of high school, they did not do a play or musical like every other year so instead she played softball. she still went to the military school and hung around all the boys and went there to think and be away from her parents. she said that was her place to go and relax and hang out with friends. i thought it was interesting because she said when she started to get older and was a senior in high school, her parents would still go to the shore on the weekends and leave her at home. she told me that she went to the military school every weekend they were gone and hung out with her friends and rob while she was dating him. She was very excited to tell me about high school for her because she says that she is a completely different person from when she was in high school and i want to see how she views herself now as compared to then. i almost could not get anything into the conversation. It was mostly her typing and me reading. Every time i would attempt to write something it would disappear off of my screen because she would have said something already.