[astroAPhi]

I got as far away as I possibly could from my high school. When you grow up with the same people for 14 years, they can really make your life a living hell for mistakes that you made when you were 4 years old.

Senior year of high school my friends all treated me like dirt, so I really spent a lot of time alone. Though, I will admit, in high school I lost my ugly duckling image. That was a nice change, but no one I went to school with would recognize it because they refused to change their image of me. This was a big reason my frends treated me so awful. They were tired of me "dragging them down".

Unfortunately, I gained a lot of weight when I went back to college, but I chose a tech school and it was a lot easier for me to be accepted because I was WAY more well-rounded than some of the kids who came here. I actually left my room and participated in activities. So a lot of people on campus know me as a leader, but if you told kids back home that, they'd be shocked.

I'm so glad I came here instead of UIUC. The closest classmate is 5 hours away, at FSU.