You can look around any classroom on this campus and immediately make assumptions about the people in it by their looks alone. One row of students could contain a variety of people.
 There’s the group of five girls dressed in T-shirts, leggings and baseball caps every day. Behind them is the guy who never washes his hair.
Two rows up are the kids with sarcastic and satirical graphic T-shirts, who are diagonal to the group of five who dress professionally every day. Are these stereotypes? Maybe, but more importantly, these are first impressions.
I do not wish to come across as vain or even bitter; however, the impressions you make in a college classroom (even by the way you dress for class) are impressions that could affect you for the rest of your life.
Let’s be blunt. Looks can take you a long way in life. They can be the deciding factor in whether or not you are offered the job you want to have. I typically try to stay away from clichés, but you do have to dress for the job you want.
Granted, a business or pre-law major should not necessarily wear a suit to every class every day, but gym shorts and an old T-shirt are less than desirable attire for such a setting.
As students, some days we just don’t feel like putting any effort into how we look. I get that. We all get that. There have been plenty of mornings I have pressed snooze on my alarm until I absolutely had to get out of bed, found a pair of shorts or yoga pants and a T-shirt that will get me through my four classes and pulled my hair into a ponytail.
However, laziness should be no excuse for poor appearance. Honestly, how you appear to a professor during class can make or break you.
Sure, how well you perform in that class is what ultimately matters, but if a professor sees you putting effort into your schoolwork and your appearance, this effort can only add to his or her likelihood to write a recommendation for you.
The more I consider what I want to do with my life after I graduate, the more I realize how easy it is to wake up 30 minutes earlier and put myself together. Ladies, it takes maybe 10 extra minutes to fix your hair and put on makeup.
Guys, it literally takes two minutes to change from those gym shorts or sweatpants and T-shirt into jeans and a collared shirt. Do yourself and your future a favor and make an effort to look good for class.