You can't join Mathletes, it's social suicide!

   All of a sudden I saw sociology when I was in lunch. I was looking around, yet again to all of the lunch tables and I saw clear cliques. I recognized immediately the in-groups, and the out-groups. I noticed that the out-groups were generally as far away from the in-groups as possible. They had about six or so people sitting at their table. But, what really classified them as the out-groups to me, was the clothes they were wearing and their proximity to the in-group. The out-group wears mostly anything that the in-group doesn't wear. They wear chains, black, have piercings, and do exotic things with their hair. This is all stereotypical goth/emo things, but I don't think it's necessarily about being popular in your own group to them. It's more about being as different from everyone else as possible. I don't think their being "original" or "different", It's more that they're trying to be different so badly because they were rejected from the rest of "normal" society. 
   Now, the in-group;they're no better. They walk around with their noses in the air and choose to shun the "weird" kids. All of them wear the same thing, and they're basically like clones of each other. Usually their lunch tables are jammed packed and you better not even think of sitting with them because they can't be associated with anyone that isn't another clone. They are the most talked about, and the most "adored". They believe they are so popular, and everyone below them is just not as good as them.
   There will always be a social hierarchy anywhere you go. The system can't be changed, and even if it could be, no one would try to change it. We're all content with our little cliques and the constant conflict. No way anyone would try to challenge it. In the words of Damian, "...it's social suicide!"