First Impressions

Today, I stayed until 8 o'clock after school to study for the AP Chem midterm tomorrow. Somewhere along the lines of studying chemistry and eating our dinners, the study group (consisting of Alyson, Maxwell, Victor and Forence by that time) digressed to the topic of first impressions. Florence and Victor, being the new students, were the targets of our questions. We asked them what they thought of us when they first saw us. Florence's answer to her first impression of me was "one of the Plastics from the from the movie 'Mean Girls'". Victor's answer was similar: "one of those popular and flirty girls". I was pretty surprised by those answers to say the least because I never thought of myself as a someone like that. It turned out there was a misunderstanding/ reason behind those first impressions. Because I was only student who did not take the Reading class, I went to class in the afternoon, (hence Florence thought I skipped the whole morning section of the class). Also, when I walked in the room, I was greeted by many people (mainly because I joined later). However, after I got to know them more, (I hope) they found out that their first impressions of my was not quite accurate. What I got from this was that, even though many say that first impressions can be accurate, we have to take into account of the conditions of the situation.


SAT vocab of the day: (x2!)
specious: something that appears to be true but is actually false
impugn: to challenge as false; cast doubt upon