Are colleges clique'ish?

MacTech92
Sat, 25 Feb 2006 23:39:49 +0000

I’ve found the cliques are much smaller in college (my new school) but that’s probably because it’s tiny. At my old college they were big and ugly. In high school, there were groups that hung out, but really three big cliques: “preps/jocks”, “nerds”, and “goths”. I was a prep/jock despite being in band (me and maybe 15 others in the band). Most of the band people were nerds, and trust me, they never got along with the popular people. Nor did they ever really make an effort. The goths we just avoided altogether, probably because the girls were afraid of them and the guys just hung with them.

At college, the biggest group seems to be African Americans. They never hang with the white people. Keep in mind I’m in PA, where discrimination is not a problem. Even in class, they sit in their own “section” for some reason. I don’t understand it.

The “clique” I’m in is me and two other guys. We all went to my high school so we hang out. However, I’m managing to join other cliques for when they’re not around. I brought a few groups of friends together in middle school to form one big group (I had a party and they all kind of got to know each other). I’m hoping for the same thing here because I think my old friends would really like these other people…we’ll just have to see what happens. They may even know these guys through classes, you never know.

Oh, and another thing–typically the “like” people dress the same. At high school, it was A&F. At college, many of the people I’ve gotten to know dress like I do. Funny how that works out.