An essay which responds to the question of peer pressure. It is written in the first person and should not be used outside of lit 1001

Askia Roberts Professor Mallory AMIR 1001 February 15, 2005 <Tab/>I never really cared about what people thought. My confidence, immaturity, and ignorance kept me blind to what others thought of me. This quickly changed, as I got older. Out of sheer boredom I begin weight training and after about six months I started to notice a change in the way people treated me. It was never always the same but indeed different. People …

…gt;I had mixed emotions about the way people perceived but overtime I began to use this to my advantage. I noticed when I let people assume I was the dumb jock they seem to be very impressed of what I assumed to be natural common sense and average intelligence. So when people made comments that were bred out of this stereotype I just laughed it with a comment that neither confirmed and negated it.