Because you figure out how to wrangle mousse and deep conditioning, you get a more fashionable pair of glasses, the braces come off, you learn to dress for your body type — I have some seriously unattractive pictures of myself as a teen and I’m pretty cute now.

For instance, it’s not like Poe wants to dress terribly, but he has no money. Once he’s in law school and has a more reasonable budget, you see him investing in new clothes. He’s not exactly a fashion plate, but he can pull off a new sweater or two.

I can comment on the Geek question though, I think all of us is a little geeky and therefore can relate better to the geeky over popular, cool character. I mean, who hasn’t felt awkward and unsure of themselves at times? Who hasn’t found themselves liking something totally nerdy? I just don’t think many people can relate to the popular person who is so cool and comfortable with themselves all the time. And I totally hate the whole, ‘take off your glasses and let down your hair and then you’ll be beautiful and popular’ thing. So UNTRUE! Meg Murry was loved by Calvin BEFORE she became beautiful. And she was young so she was going through her awkward years. We all have those years with frizzy hair, braces, zits, etc. That’s what Meg was going through and then she pulled out of it, like most people.

Wouldn’t they want to tap him because he would undoubtedly be so successful?

And over and over the sorority girls point to having *parties* with Sigma Chi as being a better choice because they’re “hotter” — which I don’t see much evidence of, as aside from the Logan lookalike, the hot ones are almost all gay, not because they’re “richer.” And obviously not because they throw better parties. It’s like they only want to hang out with the people who won’t hang out with them? And if the KTs are really such “losers” who are the hundreds of people at all their parties? Independents? There’s a disconnect there I don’t really follow.

I want the truth!