In college it's harder for there to be affirmed "populars" and "offbeats" because colleges are usually too big, so there's nobody that "everybody knows." I mean I never knew a single person who ran for student government, or who was on the list to make homecoming queen.. And neither did the majority of the other 30,000 kids I went to school with.
Besides that, the fact that nobody knows anybody's past makes it easier for people to intermingle blindly. I'm sure I associated with people who back in high school would have been the stars of their school, and others who were as obsolete as I was.. but in college you're all thrown in without any knowledge of who the person next to you was.. you're just, yourself, mostly.
Of course in a few instances I felt judged and I felt like the nerd, or whatever, but way more often than not, college was phenominally open and accepting.
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Gwasgray
15 years ago
Teenagers don't judge each other based on grades and integrity (this is something that no one ever notices at that age, often it's mistaken for naivety or being too much of a boy scout), Paul is seen as a loser because he's rather uncool, awkward and a doormat. When you were at school did you ever the class swots as remotely cool?
The character arc of Paul is that he becomes less of a "loser" in the end. But at the beginning he's definetely a "loser" because people walk all over him all the time. I hate the term loser anyway, it's a shallow phrase that shallow people like to use (life is not some kind of game or competition) and I think it should only really be applied to people who mess their lives up beyond repair.
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TheyKilledTheGiggler
15 years ago
I think the more important question is how were Paul's roommates ever considered cool? Especially the fat kid with the orange pants.
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