"In high school, popularity isn't a contest ---- it's war", a line stated by Eddie Griffin in the comedy movie, "New Guy", about the high school nerd destroying the popularity-obsessed social system after being released from imprisonment. As much as "The New Guy" was just a motion picture, the conflict of the script's plot, exists in actuality.
            
             Fitting in with Peers
            
             Students spend more time in school than at home. And social popularity is most influenced in the 5 –day meets in school. Bill Hocter, a local psychiatrist, says, "Adolescence is the time when we start to separate individually more from our families and establish our own identities". School aides, teachers, administrators and classmates are all that fill the role of a student's peers. And to cordially fit in with peers is a task that still has difficulty being performed.
             Reinventing an image to fit in can sometimes result to extreme actions and the factors may include "fear of loneliness, poor judgment, lack of parental supervision, and failing to recognize one's self worth", as said by local psychiatrist, Bill Hocter, M.D.
             The decision to belong to a certain group and adopt their dress, talk, likes and dislikes is all part of a teen trying to fit in with her peers. Sometimes influence by peers is the way to acceptance of a certain crowd. This is the most challenging part of being a teenager. "Feeling accepted by peers becomes terribly important, probably in an exaggerated way. This seems to be the case on Guam even more than in other places I've seen, perhaps because people move around less and form more lasting attachments," says Hocter.
             Teens will look to their peers for norms in dress, drugs, alcohol, and sexual behaviors. "As a teen, it becomes a social addiction to pursue things that may be wrong to be recognized in a crowd", Blas adds. In some cases, teens u...