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Figgie, bring your own lunch -- it's easier and probably a heckuva lot better tasting! I ate in the school lunchroom once...ONCE. Immediately moved to the courtyard and brought my own every day.
People who drop their friends due to lower GPAs? Seriously? That's not much of a friend! Granted, many of mine were competitors in the honors/gifted/AP classes along with me, but even in my "average" classes I found peeps I could relate to and vice versa. A redneck kid was very nice to me once and threatened some of his friends who were being rude to me, which won him points immediately from my standpoint, and I very much doubt his IQ was over 100, much less possessor of a high GPA.
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