What I Regret About Being a Real Life “Mean Girl” Twenty Years Ago

A candid look at my abhorrent behavior

Photo by Blake Connally on Unsplash

I saw Mean Girls for the first time as a senior in high school. All of my friends had seen it in theaters the year before, but I thought I was too cool for a film about catty high-schoolers — after all, I was almost in college — so I’d skipped it. But just before graduation, I found…