When you were a little kid, did you ever have those daydreams of walking down the school halls and everyone would part for you to pass through?

Well, you aren’t the only one. Many people have had those dreams. In fact, one person made a movie about it

“Mean Girls” (2004) is about a girl named Cady Haron (Lindsay Lohan) who has been home-schooled her whole life. Her parents move her from Africa to a suburb of Chicago and she asks to be put in public school. That is where she found out about cliques.

This movie, in my opinion, is making fun of high school stereotypes. It has all sorts of students who have been placed into different cliques depending on their likes. The main mean girl is Regina George (Rachel McAdams) who has two sidekicks, the stereotypical dumb, self-absorbed mean girls: Gretchen Wieners (Lacey Chabert) and Karen Smith (Amanda Seyfried). Throughout the movie, Cady tries to sabotage Regina George but ends up becoming the mean girl and falls on her face.

I am a sophomore at Davis High and I can say that high school is similar to mean girls, just less dramatic. Last summer, before I started school, I got a little nervous. High school is a big change and it was something unfamiliar to me. There was a part of me that did wonder if it was like “Mean Girls.” Is there that group of “Cool Kids”? What if I chose the wrong group and was stuck?

Now that we have been in school for a couple of months, I have come to realize real high is sort of like the movie, but I was worried for nothing.

When I look around in the halls and at lunch, I can see the many different types of students and who they hang out with. There are the nerdy kids as well as the jocks and skaters. There are the drama kids and the sewing kids and the band kids. In “Mean Girls,” the different groups don’t mix. Kids get shunned if they talk to anyone else. Just like Janis Ian (Lizzy Caplan) wasn’t allowed to talk to her once-best friend (Regina) because she hung out with the “Art Freaks.”

That’s not the way it is in high school. I have friends who are in the band, the school play and on sports teams. People are friendly and don’t always try to sabotage each other. In every group, there are always the bullies, but for the most part everyone is nice. There definitely isn’t the one popular girl or the one popular boy.

The girls in the “Mean Girls” movie are very self-absorbed. They don’t seem to care about anything except how they look and what other people think of them. In real life, most high school girls are kind and do things for the right reasons. Many of them just like to have fun and be themselves without worrying what other people think of them.

Another difference between “Mean Girls” and high school is how the movie kids try to sabotage each other. They don’t ever seem to be happy for their friends when something good happens to them. They always want to be the coolest one who has the most expensive clothes and who has the biggest house or the best grades or the best part in a school play or sport.

Students at my high school are extremely supportive and help build you up and help define who you are. If you surround yourself with the right friends and do something you love, you will find that people support you and will try to help you in any way possible.

High school isn’t as bad as “Mean Girls” makes it out to be. People do generally tend to hang out with other people who have the same interests and some may think of that as being clique-sh — which isn’t bad! That is how you can find your closest friends and people who support and believe in you.

“Mean Girls” is a funny movie, but it’s just that. A movie. Real high school is exceptionally better than the crazy, cliquish world of “Mean Girls.”

Allie Eaton is a sophomore at Davis High School. She welcomes feedback and comments at alexandra.eaton98@gmail.com.