OT - I'm not a teenager anymore! - Page 2

Instar · #11 October 8th, 2003, 06:16 AM

Congrats, my turn to hit that number is coming up next summer. I dispute Loser though, to me, grades matter A LOT. Being a serious academic, if anything, they are representative of my inner intelligence. I don't let it dominate me, I have to do a lot of extra-cirricular things to demonstrate other things.

se5a · #12 October 8th, 2003, 06:53 AM

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Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
Yep, I finally hit the big 2-0... got a job... going to get a Gamecube (at Last! I can play SSBM with my bros! )...

Now what am I going to do???

dude! welcome to the other side of the hill!

narf poit chez BOOM · #13 October 8th, 2003, 06:59 AM

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You do realize, Ed that people will now expect you to start acting normal...

DON'T GIVE IN!

I'm near my mid-twenties.

does anyone hear expect me to start acting normal any time between now and the end of eternity? cause if you do, your delusional.

Kamog · #14 October 8th, 2003, 07:17 AM

The only thing that high school grades are good for is to get into university, and into the program that you want. If you're not going to university or college, the high school grades are't really important. And the marks you get in university only matter when you apply for your first job after you graduate. After that, nobody cares about your grades.

ZeroAdunn · #15 October 8th, 2003, 07:48 AM

Welcome, I myself will be leaving the age of 20 soon. It is strange, I greated being 20 with a lot less hazza.

When you say you got a job, do you mean you got a new job, or got your first job? As somebody who has been working since he was twelve, I find the thought of you just getting your first job a little odd.

I have to agree, grades only amount to something if you want them to amount to something. They aren't a matter of anything significant, they don't measure anything (and don't give me any crap about they do, the validictorian of my class cited cheating as how she got there) and nobody ever looks at them once you get into college.

[ October 08, 2003, 06:49: Message edited by: ZeroAdunn ]

Kamog · #16 October 8th, 2003, 08:10 AM

One of my co-workers is in his mid-70's and he is a total weirdo. Some people are just weird regardless of their age.

If I could go back and relive my teenage years, I would:

Learn to drive as soon as I was old enough to get a driver's license and not wait until many years later when I got a job.

I would learn to ride a bike and swim early as possible; actually I would have done it before my teenage years. I didn't learn to do these things until about my third year as a university student.

I would have spent more time exercising. I would have done some weight training and played some sports while I was a teenager. It's more difficult to develop physical skills and strength later in life if you haven't done anything while you were young.

I would have spent my school holidays more wisely rather than squandering them by sleeping in every day and watching too much TV.

I would have learned to play a musical instrument.

I would have invested some money early, so that compound interest has time to work.

Loser · #17 October 8th, 2003, 05:44 PM

A friend of mine once answered the "Teenager again bringing just one discovery with you" question like this:

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I would tell myself to deal coke, not weed.

With that he both broken up the pretension of the moment and reminded us that seomtimes one discovery isn't going to be enough to change your life.

DavidG · #18 October 8th, 2003, 05:47 PM

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Originally posted by Tigbit:

quote:
Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
Yep, I finally hit the big 2-0... got a job... going to get a Gamecube (at Last! I can play SSBM with my bros! )...

Now what am I going to do???

You do realize, Ed that people will now expect you to start acting normal...

DON'T GIVE IN!

Or more likely you will just start acting normal on your own. Pretty soon you'll know your getting old when you look at a bunch of teenagers and think 'man kids are weird these days'

narf poit chez BOOM · #19 October 8th, 2003, 08:56 PM

i already think most of the world is weird. i mean, who has the most fun of any age group? kids. why? because, among other things, they don't restrict their sense of humor with artificial concepts like 'cool' and 'sophisticated'.

DavidG · #20 October 9th, 2003, 12:42 AM

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Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
i already think most of the world is weird. i mean, who has the most fun of any age group? kids. why? because, among other things, they don't restrict their sense of humor with artificial concepts like 'cool' and 'sophisticated'.

Uh yea OK. Think maybe it has something to do with the fact that they get free room and board from Mom and Dad? Tell little Johnny he has to work 10 hours a day to provide for himself I suspect he'd have a little less fun.