- Christian fundamentalists are in the minority
 
- The cutting of his financial funding when his parents find out he got an
earring 
- Tofu isn’t innately evil, just misunderstood
 
- Non-white type people walking around the streets
 
- Long hair a fashion statement and not a sign of rebellion
 
- People  think  R.E.M. is too conservative a band and  urge  him  to  try
Slayer and Megadeth 
- Dorm food an improvement from home
 
- The trading in of his Z 28 Camaro hotrod for a fifty dollar bike
 
- Girls in general
 
- Sharing the same bathroom with girls…pretty ones