I'm in college, and last year I would see a girl in my classes who I thought was absolutely gorgeous. I thought she was for sure one of the popular kids in high school, probably stuck up and just generally the kind of all-american popular chick you see in movies. Well a few days ago I sat beside her in class and we got to talking, and she was engaged in the conversation, and as it turns out everything I knew about her was wrong. English wasn't even her first language. She takes difficult classes and spends a fair amount of time outside class doing work, and she's incredibly intelligent. Honestly, I still feel like the image of her I've created in my head is a completely separate, existing person, it's so fucking surreal.