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"The first duty in life is to assume a pose. What the second is, no one has yet discovered." -Oscar Wilde

The question do I "assume a pose" im not to sure, I may when im with my friends but im a lot different with family.

When people first start high school they try to get that good image to fit in and be classified as "cool". I cam from a small school and we were very pampered and didn't know much because nothing high school came into our lives in Pomfret. Our school was built of pre-k up to 8th grade. People had their own clicks but mostly everyone was friends, we had a class of around 70 people.

When I first started high school the only people I knew were the students from my town. The biggest step I took Freshman year was running for Class Treasurer and won unopposed. I met a pretty cool kid freshman year, I had fundamentals of technology with him and I also had freshman science with him. During that semester him an I got in some serious trouble during tech. We would help each other out with the work, he would do an assignment and attach my name to it and print it out, I did that for him also. I was never a real trouble maker in middle school so I thought it would be cool to do something that is risky and could get me into serious trouble. Well one day we walked into class and our work folders were missing and Mr. Fasula had them in his hand and he brought us into the hall way to talk to us. He told us that he had no choice but to write us up, and we were sent down to Mr. Grossman. We had letters sent out to our parents and had to serve a 2-hour detention and also had to write a 3 page essay stating why integrity is wrong.

Some people do this all the time not just like tech class but to try new things to seem cool for the people around them. Peer pressure plays a huge role into this, experienced kids try to influence younger people to try smoking pot or drinking alcohol, and if the kid doesn't want to do it he would be harassed about it and treated like crap about not being man enough to do it. Also some kids that want to fit in act different than who they really are, and their real friends notice that and walk away from them as if they don't know them.