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"\"&lt;p&gt;&lt;P&gt;\\tYou&amp;#8217;ve got questions? They&amp;#8217;ve got answers! Oh, snap-The ladies of Misschief Films are here to help. Answering questions this month: Leanne Pelosi and Sylvia Mittermuller.\\t&lt;P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I&amp;#8217;m graduating high school next year and have to start applying for colleges soon. I&amp;#8217;m torn, though, because I love snowboarding, but I don&amp;#8217;t want to be 30 years old and have never gone to school. Is there a way to do both? Did any of you go to college or have you ever considered doing it when you&amp;#8217;re done being pro? &lt;P&gt;Thanks! &lt;P&gt;Rita&lt;P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hey Rita,&lt;P&gt;\\tYou can definitely do both. I went in for the long haul right at seventeen and did five and a half years of university straight-then moved to Whistler afterward. My parents refused to let me make the move until after I finished my degree, so I joined the snowboard club in college and was an avid weekend warrior-yeah! It was good, but I was still learning 360s at that time. &lt;P&gt;\\tIf I were you and wanted to fully commit to snowboarding, I&amp;#8217;d go to school in the fall, take the winters off, then return for the spring and summer terms. This way you&amp;#8217;ll get your school and snowboarding done in the same amount of time as all your high school friends. Best of both worlds really. I have a bunch of friends who are on that program in Whistler, and it works out. You can even try correspondence courses &amp;#8230; but in my opinion, that&amp;#8217;s the hardest route. School is always there for you, even if you decide to snowboard &amp;#8217;til you&amp;#8217;re 80-but you&amp;#8217;ll definitely want to attend when you&amp;#8217;re younger so that you can enjoy the full university experience (hot guys your age). Good luck! &lt;P&gt;Leanne&lt;P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I&amp;#8217;ve been doing some regional contests at my home mountain, and I was wondering, are girls&amp;#8217; competitions different from guys&amp;#8217; comps on the pro level? Like, are girls more or less competitive or supportive of each other? Or is it pretty much the same? &lt;P&gt;Mason&lt;P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hi Mason!&lt;P&gt;\\tI&amp;#8217;d say it absolutely depends on what level of competition you&amp;#8217;re riding at. When I started competing in little national pipe contests back in Germany, I had a pretty hard time. The older girls weren&amp;#8217;t very nice to me-bad looks, people whispering behind my back, people happy when I fell. It sucked. Later I realized they were just scared of the younger upcoming riders. However, once I made it past this local level, it all got friendlier and better. Everyone knows each other and their riding, and instead of feeling like this little girl who&amp;#8217;s trying to prove herself in a big scary snowboard world, I started feeling like a part of something good that was constantly improving. Girls who are confident about their riding are normally not jealous-they respect people who can do stuff they can&amp;#8217;t yet do themselves. Most girls are friends on the international-level slopestyle contests I compete in, and everyone is stoked to see good riding-it motivates people to push their own level a bit further. &lt;P&gt;\\tAs for guys&amp;#8217; contests, I&amp;#8217;m not a guy myself, but I heard that they think girls seem more supportive than guys, mainly because we know each other better. There&amp;#8217;re way more guys competing on every ability level, and that creates a more competitive atmosphere. I don&amp;#8217;t know if there&amp;#8217;s really any difference. I think it really depends on the kind of contest you do, the format, the setup, the importance of the event, and even stuff like the weather and conditions. A real jam session in sunshine will always be an easier contest than some best-of-two-runs final at 4:00 p.m. on icy big jumps with 20,000 dollars prize money-no matter if you&amp;#8217;re a girl or guy!&lt;P&gt;Sylvia &lt;P&gt;&lt;P&gt;\\tWin a free copy of Misschief&amp;#8217;s &amp;#8230; As If! The best letter from each month&amp;#8217;s Truth Or Dare will receive a DVD of the Misschief girls getting wicked. You want a piece of this? Send questions to the ladies at truthordare@hotmail.com, and make sure to include a return e-mail address.&lt;P&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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