- Reputation - Tuesday, January 24, 2006 I got the inspiration for this blog from class last night. I've met people who are perfectly nice, but it makes you think. College can erase a past, almost. It's a place where your reputation can't easily follow quite yet. If you were a slut in high school you could go to college and close your legs and no one would ever know you were the girl that did the entire football team. If you were a nerd, it's a place to finally break out and show the outgoing potentially popular side. If you were a bitch, but wished you were nicer, it's a clean slate to actually be a nice person. Although, a friend of mine brought up an interesting point. Keeping in mind that your reputation doesn't follow so easily, she said she missed being popular. In high school she was the best dressed and nicest person. In college? She still has the same personality but the same reputation? If you saw someone you had never met before and they were popular in their own world, would you look at them and say they were popular? Or would they just be another person? I look at some of the people at school, and let's face it, there are people whom you can tell who they were in high school, but they have a fresh start, and in college as long as people are nice to you, you don't really care, because unlike high school you are in college pretty much by choice. High school if someone was nice, it didn't matter quite as much as the status. Now, things might be different and different schools, like Clemson (I'll have to ask Kimie). College is definitely a transition, but I don't think some people realize the changes.

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