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Thursday, May 01, 2003
 
So today in acting class, our prof was talking about how a character would act in a scene some people were doing. He brought to mind the time he first started college, when he went from high school star to anonymous nobody. He then asked if any of us had had similar experiences. You know what? It's happened to me twice!

For eight years through elementary school and junior high, I was the top student at my little private school. Having only 15 people in the class, this wasn't too hard, but I did it consistently every quarter for eight years! And everybody liked me; I guess they kinda had to, or risk going crazy or transferring.... Then I started high school. It was bad enough that I had gone to a private school all my life, but I was also attending a magnet school. As in, not the school normal students from my area go to. I knew maybe 7 people, all from my pivate school, and the girls from there I rarely spoke to again. Add to that the fact that my dog died that first week of freshman year, I felt a little out of place in French 2, and I just felt lost.

But it got better. I found a few groups of people I could hang with, and I got to do some acting. I think that damn "Calculus" act from Drama class may have been the best thing to happen to me at school. People started noticing who I was, and I enjoyed some degree of popularity again. This helped make senior year at Troy fundamentally easier than any other.

But it started all over again when I started going to UCSD. Very few of the people I knew from Troy went here with me, and those that did, I rarely see. Since I went to a private school all my life, then went to a magnet school outside my residential area, AND I moved from my childhood neighborhood where I knew all the kids on the cul-de-sac to a place where I knew nobody (and still don't) in the early nineties, I don't know anybody who might have been from my neighborhood here. I'm anonymous again...

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