What has happened
<div class="IPBDescription">since you joined this forum</div>I know many of the regulars here have been around for some time, myself included. This is the thread were you get to talk about changes in your life between your reg-date and todays date.
Ill start:
I was an innocent freshman in highschool when I registered(loved me some NS back in the day), went on to graduate in 2007.
Had no idea what I wanted to do, still suffering from teenage apathy, so ended up starting college at a party school. I came to the realization that I had no interest at all in that kind of atmosphere after 1.5 semesters. Met a girl and started my first long term relationship, which followed me when I transferred to a new school to pursue my BS in Electrical Engineering. 3 year later and that relationship ended <span style='color:#000000;background:#000000'>/cry</span>
I will be graduating with my BS this time next year, then I will be starting work on my MS (EE or Optical Science, not sure yet).
So life has certainly changed in 8 years, but this forum has (<i>almost</i> always) been the same.
Alright, your turn!
Also, is being out of school and having money as great as I'm hoping it's going to be? It really better be.
Ill start:
I was an innocent freshman in highschool when I registered(loved me some NS back in the day), went on to graduate in 2007.
Had no idea what I wanted to do, still suffering from teenage apathy, so ended up starting college at a party school. I came to the realization that I had no interest at all in that kind of atmosphere after 1.5 semesters. Met a girl and started my first long term relationship, which followed me when I transferred to a new school to pursue my BS in Electrical Engineering. 3 year later and that relationship ended <span style='color:#000000;background:#000000'>/cry</span>
I will be graduating with my BS this time next year, then I will be starting work on my MS (EE or Optical Science, not sure yet).
So life has certainly changed in 8 years, but this forum has (<i>almost</i> always) been the same.
Alright, your turn!
Also, is being out of school and having money as great as I'm hoping it's going to be? It really better be.
Comments
I registered in 2004 if I remember correctly. (Other account I don't have the pw to anymore.)
Finished school, went to paris, worked for blizz for 5 years, quit, went back to Germany, continuing school right now...
Yeah, it's pretty ###### awesome.
Since being on these forums I've graduated high school, college, got a job, and bought a house. The cliche is that high school is supposed to be your 'best days' or the 'best time of your life.' It's not and life gets better as time goes on. Unless you suffer from depression.
Since this account was created, I guess finished degree in Biomedical Science. Got a job as a Biomedical Scientist (derp) in the UK. Fingers crossed have an interview as a sales rep for a medical company this Friday.
Well, one doesn't necessarily follow the other. Count yourself lucky you didn't finish in 2008.
But for that matter, a friend of mine fled back to school after a few years working as a translator because her boss kept increasing her department's workload despite hiring no new workers and some of her colleagues actually quitting. Employment doesn't guarantee you a happy life either.
It use to be extremely low, around 5% of the cost of the home, but low deposits was one of the causes of US housing market crash. Now you need a good credit score (720 or above out of a total possible 800) and a 20% deposit.
I was very lucky for a few reasons: 1) I lived at home (parents) and paid no rent for 2 years during which I was able to save money like a madman, 2) the price of homes dropped, 3) and interest rates were at historical lows. The final price of my house was $123,000 so at 20% I put down $24,600. Everyone tries to nickle and dime you to death with closing costs and so many fees, of which I'm sure most are completely unnecessary, but thankfully I negotiated for the seller paid all of those.
Had it not been for the great price and extremely low interest rate (3.75%, 3.79% apr locked for 30 years) I would have been unable to purchase the home. $24,600 sounds like a lot but I was fortunate enough to be employed a month after I graduated and my only focus was to save money. Thankfully, gaming is a very cheap hobby.
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Employment doesn't guarantee you a happy life either.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Almost anyone can do anything - so long as your coworkers are cool people. If you like your coworkers you will probably enjoy your day - even if you hate your job. Sounds strange, but I've found it to be true.
Went to University, got a crappy degree.
Other than that, literally <i>nothing</i>.
Landed my dream job.
Co-bought a house with my brother.
Met (and later proposed) to my Fiance.
Made some games.
Narbacular Drop
Portal
Portal 2
And then there's the smaller stuff.
Hit 125mph on the freeway a couple times. Just successfully got my first Hackintosh up and running. Shepherded a warhammer guild to level 40. Trained a ton of EVE skills without actually playing. Bought furniture for the first time (and learned that white leather doesn't mix well with cats). Bought my first brand new motorcycle, and recently my first brand new car.
Getting very very close to doing an actual pull up for the first time since I was like 5. I'm like 4 inches away.
I continue to put off a continued education after school. Want to learn electronics but never seem to.
Finished gymnasium(collage?) without any achievements of note with a bit less uncertainty
Bought a genuine longbow from some guy who owned land and forest.
Bought a pair of jumping stilts that makes people shake their heads at me when I walk with em on.
Took random courses of University grade, fun but not leading to anything serious.
Bought my first very own computer and assembled it from scratch. I guess you can say I was pretty spoiled before then.
Met a girl that was awesome in my opinion. She had a boyfriend. Our course ended, she went to Holland for a year. We talked a lot on MSN. Boyfriend ends relationship when she came back to visit. I totally screw up any kind of support and we stopped talking out of awkwardness. I never got to see her since the end of the course and we moved on.
Currently in the University studying "Interaction Design". Tried hanging out with people on bars and fratparties for half a year (not doing so, like, at all before) until I realized it was merely a money and time sink that only led to casual friendship with both sexes that won't actually help my career in the future. I got to know people in my class more just by going to the lectures than beer drinking at loud parties ever did.
Started going to the gym, am now kind of addicted to it. I'm in the best shape I've ever been but not overly serious so it's taking a lot more time to get results than it would for someone else that is committed. Can't stand the taste of a lot of garbage food anymore. Things like chips, tv dinners, airy white bread and fried stuff.
Grew a large beard just because I really liked the color it got from my mother's side of the family.
/lifestory
got bachelors degree in comp sci (still working on masters)
moved from Oklahoma to Wisconsin (wow)
got an amazing job doing what I love (programming)
bought a new car
submitted my first bugfix for NS2 (maybe soon we'll get to see skulks/lerks/fades in the ready room!)
Finished high school,
Met girl,
Went to Uni,
Worked odd jobs during uni holidays, mostly in analytical laboratories,
Moved in with girl in 2004,
Played a lot of WoW,
Graduated uni in mid-2007,
Got job at big multinational engineering company,
Bought house with girl in 2009,
Got two dogs and a cat in 2011,
Present day.
--Scythe--
The rest is a blur.
except high school
I'm more zen now, or at any rate much better at accepting defeat.
Apart from moving through the education system (I am a programmer now! Well, sort of...) and moving out, I guess there isn't much that I personally have done.
My parents got a dog, whose leg I accidentally broke when trying to catch him... poor guy. He's a lot calmer than the other dog they got, the son of the first, but they're both adorable and fun-sized terriers.
Lost a testicle due to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testicular_torsion" target="_blank">testicular torsion</a>, but the worst part of that episode was all the aching in my back, and buckets of cold sweat, before we finally drove off to the hospital. Got a prosthetic ping-pong ball now.
Worked on a programming project (part of aforementioned education) for 4 months with 9 other guys I had never met before, and found that I could indeed contentedly live like that. So I feel good about my choice of specialization. Now I just need to finish some courses and do a thesis...
Had a wisdom tooth that was growing perpendicular to the norm cut out; the painkillers worked excellently, and my biggest worry now is keeping food out of the hollow.
Nothing big.
Since I joined, someone created a Thread called "What has happened, since you joined this forum"
Oh, or that time, late at night, when I kept crashing Lodestars and Galaxies into a half-full courtyard. So many hate tells.
Also, half the time you killed a cloaker when you were in a cloaking suit yourself, bam hate tell. Apparently people thought cloakers weren't allowed to kill cloakers. So funny.
I've also developed a sort of respect for people that are significantly older than I'am, because think of how much they have experienced, how many things they've done. Especially people that grew up before computers even existed, that world they lived in is non-existent now and may never exist again <i>ever</i>.
Kids born now will probably never experience the joy the degaussing a CRT monitor, a travesty!
+1
degaussing monitors and trying to rephrase all the languages in the options menu of my monitor wasted at least half of my time in computer science back in school.. damn thats 6 years ago already..
Got to do some cool stuff in college
Finished College
Got a crappy job
Looking for a better job
Hear hear.
<center><object width="450" height="356"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nLzubaYwvgQ"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nLzubaYwvgQ" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" height="356"></embed></object></center>
<i>TWANNGGGGG</i>
--Scythe--
that was fun
<center><object width="450" height="356"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nLzubaYwvgQ"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nLzubaYwvgQ" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" height="356"></embed></object></center>
<i>TWANNGGGGG</i><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I used to have that <i>exact</i> same monitor, oh the memories.