High School

Movies always portray high school to be a danger zone, where to survive you have to be liked, be popular, or have some type of special quality that would be considered cool to others. There are people who spend their entire high school career pursuing the acceptance of people they will probably never see after high school. Then there are the ones who purposely try to be different to be original, an individual, but also end up fitting in a certain category of other individuals. My high school experience is in between. I tried to be friends with everyone and I just sat back to see where that took me. I acted like myself and people either liked me or thought I was "interesting". By "interesting", I mean I didn't fit the stereotype. As a black, male teenager, I was supposed to act and dress a certain way that would make me assimilate into the rest of the "black society". That would have made me popular. That would have been the easy way out. But I guess I had other issues to attend to, like increasing my GPA, studying for SAT, college, things like that. So to all those who have strived to be the most popular, whats next for you?