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" CG can&amp;#039;t believe that the season finale of MTV&amp;#039;s Awkward is on Tuesday night, September 27 at 11 p.m. ET! It went by so fast and we can&amp;#039;t wait for season two. But before we say good-bye, Jillian Reed Rose who plays Jenna&amp;#039;s sassy best friend Tamara wrote an exclusive blog post just for CG. She reveals her own most awkward high school moments and explains why it&amp;#039;s okay to &amp;quot;rock your awk!&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Do you remember your most embarrassing Awkward moment from high school? Maybe you fell in the cafeteria or said something silly in front of the guy you liked? A lot of people think that I didn&amp;#039;t have to deal with any awkward moments like that...but let me tell you, I absolutely did! Getting to play Tamara has sent me right back to my high school experience. Walking the halls of the school we film at, and being totally involved in the lives of our characters has at some points made me feel like I&amp;#039;m really there. I was a lot like Tamara in high school. I was a total theater geek. I was in choir and was always singing and performing. Much like Tamara, I also was not the queen bee of popularity. I had my small, quirky group of friends and we were tighter than ever! I would definitely say that because of them I got through all of my embarrassing moments. Like for example: one time I asked my friend to pick me up from class and she made sure to tell me she was parked outside by the fountain. Well, silly me didn&amp;#039;t really pay attention to what side of the fountain she was parked on. So...I found her car, (well, sort of) got inside, and before even looking at her to say hello, I pushed all of the stuff off of the front seat and started complaining about how she needs to clean her car. So, after no response, I looked to my left and instead of seeing my friend.....I see some random girl eating a sandwich and looking at me like I was a maniac! Needless to say I ran out of the car and found my friend laughing hysterically at me. It was mortifying and definitely one of my more awkward moments. But, its times like that where I have to say to myself, &amp;#039;Jillian, at least you have someone here to laugh with you (or AT you rather) because in times like this it&amp;#039;s better to laugh than cry!&amp;#039; From that day on that has become my mantra - &amp;#039;Just laugh at yourself, because what you did is probably pretty funny.&amp;#039; Once I graduated high school I had this fantasy that my life would be perfect and I would be so mature that nothing embarrassing could ever happen to me again. Boy was I wrong! It just goes to show that everyone feels a little &amp;quot;awkward&amp;quot; sometimes. My life lesson? EMBRACE IT. Live and breathe your &amp;#039;awkward&amp;quot;, or as my cast likes to say: ROCK YOUR AWK! We all have a little bit of Jenna and Tamara inside of us, and I think high school is the best time to rock it!&amp;quot; Do you relate to Jenna and Tamara on Awkward? Did you have a moment like Jillian at school? What was your favorite part of Awkward this season? Tell us all in the comments section below! Photo Credit: www.vincentsandoval.com  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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