[33girl]

This is exactly what I did...and I only had to go 200 miles away, not 2000! The majority of my HS class went to IUP, UPJ or Penn State which is why I did not. So it really was easy to pick a school where I didn't know people.

There were only 2 people from my graduating class who went to college w/ me and they were guys...so they weren't going to make catty remarks about what a geek I was in high school (well, maybe one of them would LOL). I remember at my 5 year class reunion the amount of people looking google-eyed at my "de-geekification" got to be a bit much and I said to them "Thank God you guys are here, you're used to seeing me like this."

I changed my looks, but as far as the way I acted, it really didn't change much. The main thing that changed was I wasn't dealing with people who didn't remember my fashion mistakes from 7th grade. So my image changed, I really did not. I just was fortunate enough to find a place where I could be myself and it was a good thing rather than a bad thing.