Blog 37

This blog is about a personal anecdote. For this anecdote, I will talk about my personal experiences in colleges and how conformity has affected my decisions.  Throughout high school, I did not feel much pressure to conform and I felt like conformity was not that major of an issue.  But once I came to college, I noticed how more kids seemed to follow trends and that the pressure to conform seemed to be higher.  This may be a result of living away from home full time or being around other students for an extended amount of time.  But in college I started to notice that many students wear popular clothing items like students wearing North Face jackets or many people have the Beats headphones. (You can mention any other trends you see).  Honestly after seeing all of these students with these items, I felt pressure to go out and buy them for myself.  If everyone else had them, I thought that there must be something special about them and I should get one for myself.  Later that week, I went to the store looking for a new pair of headphones.  But after looking around for a while, I realized that this item was not really necessary and that I did not actually need a new pair of headphones.  In this situation, I did not conform to what I believed was the popular thing to do. But, this is only one situation.  Everyone has had times in their lives where they have gone out and bought things just for satisfaction and not for a practical reason.  Although this is not a horrible thing to do, you should not feel pressured into buying something just because you feel everyone else has it.