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Values I can’t exactly remember when the values by which I live my life were instilled in my head; I guess it’s one of those things that develop as we grow. I believe that in was somewhere in the middle of my sophomore year that I took a true stand and vow to live my life by a group of values I had set for myself. Like many other students in high school, I too experimented with alcohol, mostly due to peer pressure, which I never believed existed until today. I never experimented with any type of drug or cigarette. I found cigarettes to be completely disgusting and as for drugs, I was a cheerleader and we were randomly selected for drug testing so that was a big motivator against it. Even if it wasn’t for cheerleading, I don’t think I ever seriously considered drugs just because of what I knew about them and their effects on people. As for drinking, as a freshman it wasn’t something I did on a regular basis but at least once a month I found myself going out with my friends and drinking with the “older” people. At the time I didn’t find it to be peer pressure but looking back I defiantly know that it was. Being young, impressionable, and not bad looking it was easy for the cute senior boys to talk me into dri