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Originally Posted by amplified
Hmm. Clean slate.
I like that...
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On that note...I have a good friend that I met in first year at Mac. Since I had never known her before that point, I just assumed she always was the way she was (which is amazingly social). Later, I found out that this wasn't actually the case - her time in high school had basically been a living nightmare socially, and since she constantly was surrounded by the same people and reminded of the same insecurities, couldn't break out of that mold.
So, upon going off to Mac, she decided to start with a clean slate. Similar to some of you, there were only a couple other people from her high school also going to Mac, so there would be no history to get bogged down in (unless you live together, you often have to go out of your way to run into someone at a school the size of this). So she essentially got to act like the person she always wished to be, since no one would think it was odd or out of character. And it worked out great for her.
Now, I'm *not* saying you should try to be someone you're not - all I'm saying is that you're meeting an entirely new group of people, and none of them know whether or not you were the school nerd, the ultra-popular athlete, or the person who puked on stage during a school assembly in grade 9. So just be yourself. If you struggled a bit socially before, I think you'll find a much more accepting community than you ever did in high school. As I always like to say - in university, everyone's a nerd about something :p
