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" In season one of MTV&amp;#039;s hit show My Life As Liz, we were introduced to Liz Lee, a fiery Star Wars fanatic who was more obsessed with collecting nerdy boy t-shirts and playing video games than manicures and gossip. We followed Liz as she fell in love with her high school crush and as she made the difficult decision to leave her small-town Texas life (and her beloved nerd herd) behind and go to art school in New York City. But we haven&amp;#039;t heard much from Liz since, that is, until now. Season two of My Life As Liz premieres this week, and if you&amp;#039;re like us, we want to know how Liz is adjusting to life in the big city. This season we&amp;#039;ll watch as Liz tries to stay on top of her studies, while juggling old friends, new friends and relationship drama. So we caught up with the Pratt Institute sophomore to discuss everything from college life to Brooklyn boys! CG: For some girls, it&amp;#039;s a really scary thought to go to school so far away from home. So was it tough for you to leave your friends and family in Texas?  Liz Lee: It was definitely hard to leave my friends. For four years, you spend every single day with the same group of people, so it was definitely tough coming here and being so far away from my family and from my friends. It was really tough at first, and I thought about going home, but I&amp;#039;m really glad I didn&amp;#039;t. It took a year for me to feel like I actually belonged here.   Cosmogirl: How do you find that balance between your new life and your high school life? LL: My friends are very understanding. They totally understood that I was swamped with schoolwork and wasn&amp;#039;t able to be there with them as much as I had been before. They understood that Pratt curriculum was demanding and that I was also trying to build a foundation for my life here and meet people during that first year. It was definitely tough at first, but they&amp;#039;re good friends, and they just want me to be happy.   CG: Do you ever look back at the first season and wish that you could change anything? LL: Even if there was something that I did that didn&amp;#039;t turn out to be the way that I wanted it to be, I still learned from it. I think it&amp;#039;s nice to be able to show that struggle. It&amp;#039;s more realistic than painting a picture-perfect, cookie-cutter high school experience. It&amp;#039;s good to show kids that other people go through these struggles and maybe something good can come out of it, even if it&amp;#039;s not what you had planned on.   CG: Have you found a really good group of friends at Pratt? LL: Yeah, but it took me a really long time to find friends here because everyone&amp;#039;s very hip. They&amp;#039;re all cool, creative art students, and I have a hard time talking to people that I don&amp;#039;t know. It&amp;#039;s this weird social anxiety thing. So it was really hard to find those friends, but it&amp;#039;s very important to have them now because it&amp;#039;s nice to have people here who are going through the same stuff with school as I am.   CG: Did you find girls here to be as intimidating as the girls back home? LL: In Texas, the girls were intimidating because they were so perfect and they fit a perfect mold. But here, I was intimidated because they were so different and I felt like an outcast because I was so normal in comparison. They were so unique and everyone was an individual, and I had come from this Texas town where that didn&amp;#039;t exist.   CG: What about boys? How are Texas boys different from city boys? LL: Brooklyn guys can be so pretentious sometimes! The idea of what cool is in Brooklyn is different than in Texas. Texas boys are manlier and less open about their feelings. If you transferred all of the hipsters from Brooklyn into Texas, they would probably get beaten up. But all I really need in a guy is smart and funny. Whether he&amp;#039;s from Texas or Brooklyn, as long as he&amp;#039;s smart and funny, then it works.  CG: On a typical day, where would we expect to find Liz Lee hanging out? LL: Midtown Comics. It&amp;#039;s one of my favorite places in the city. That&amp;#039;s where I am a good portion of the time. A typical Saturday night usually involves Netflix, video games and takeout.  Do you relate to Liz? Tell us why in the comments section below! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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