<p>12 wasn't THAT long ago for me.
*i was fat. =) but i was still the only person confident enough to dress out in the locker room instead of behind curtains in the shower room.
*i wore THE ugliest clothes ever (i don't know why i ever thought patchwork jeans were awesome)
*i went to every single middle school dance. except for 2 i think
*i was quieter than i am now
*i threw my first party where my parents had no say in the planning
*i was such a teacher's pet
*Digimon season 2 was running and it was my favorite show ever. i still like watching it whenever it's on
*i was still playing volleyball all the time back then (winter for school, spring & summer for rec centers)
*i was probably a lot nicer and had better morals back then
*i was in LOVE with Dream Street. my friend and i even drove 3 hours with her neurotic aunt to seem them in concert.
*my mom still picked out my shoes. ew.</p>
<p>At 12:
I still regarded girls as mortal enemies (and treated them as such)
I was in the process of wrapping up the National Geography Bee championship
I still was training to fight others in order to protect myself against attackers and imagined intruders
I loved reading war histories...and fantasizing myself as John Rabe
I did not own a computer
I still loved Spanish
I began to hate math
I was obsessed with Rio de Janeiro</p>
<ul>
<li>year round baseball</li>
<li>fun summers</li>
<li>no computer</li>
</ul>
<p>that's all i remember</p>
<p>I'd just exited the Pokemon phase, and was in the "omg, Pokemon sukz and iz for little kidz!!!!111" phase. I was play psx games like Dave Mirra's Ultimate BMX, and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, greatly anticipating the release of the ps2. I was a huge fan of the now defunct WCW, even though it had already jumped the shark, and was spiraling way out of control.</p>
<p>When I was 12, I:
-Was picked on a lot
-Played Starcraft like there was no tomorrow
-Took Algebra I
-Was chubby (I never exercised)</p>
<p>Today, I:
-am 18
-am still a nerd, though I spend all my time studying rather than playing video games
-work out regularly, therefore i'm decently built
-sometimes get emo</p>
<p>Gotta love my own improvements.</p>
<p>-Being very skinny
-big glasses with the string in the back
-Student Council VP of school
-quit soccer
-mom packed me lunch everyday and drove me to school
-hated my history teacher
-going from plaid jumpers to skirts and sweater- went to Catholic school
-9/11
-The BOX changed to MTV2</p>
<ul>
<li>Braces!</li>
<li>Basketball team - life revolved around basketball</li>
<li>Passing notes in class with a "secret code" that our group has created</li>
<li>That four-of-us-and-no-one-else friendship.. </li>
<li>Skechers</li>
<li>OLD NAVY! </li>
<li>Backstreet boys</li>
<li>Thinking school was soooo easy</li>
<li>Wanting to become a lawyer</li>
<li>Summer Camp - best summer camp experience that year</li>
<li>First crushes </li>
</ul>
<p>WOW this stuff almost makes me cry</p>
<ul>
<li>Learning about the Civil War for the umpteenth time</li>
<li>getting hit in the groin playing tennis
-getting hit in the chest playing baseball
-playing a game of basketball and then getting hit by a door on the way out
-Getting hit by a stapler while taking a math test</li>
<li>Mud Pie flavored blizzards at Dairy Queen
-Lord of the Flies,
-BBQ Fritos</li>
<li>Getting sucker-punched by William Golding after calling Lord of the Flies a "stupid" book.</li>
</ul>
<p>I was a complete social outcast. No friends and I didn't talk much except to answer questions in class. I was just discovering music. I read constantly to escape home and school situation. Not a happy time, as I remember it. Many immature kids my age driving me nuts. I was just discovering my passion for learning. Total tombay. lol</p>
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<ul>
<li>I think I pretty much stayed the same except I talked a whole lot more.</li>
<li>I learned how to manipulate people better, too</li>
<li>I had no friends (okay... I had 6.)</li>
</ul>
<p>"slug bug"....maybe that was only an ohio thing haha. I always was the one who got punched, sucked lol.</p>
<p>I remember overclocking my computer and programming in BASIC when I was 12. The classes were really easy and I rarely had any h.w. Now I have atleast 3 hours of homework a day and have to program in Visual basic .Net because the windows xp os does not have the BASIC interpreter preinstalled. Now that I am in the University I only have classes on mondays, wednesdays, and fridays.</p>
<p>Can we say AOL instant messenger???? I still have the same screen name, with the number 12 in it (my age at the time I made it). I totally remember when the smilies first came out, and how you had to get the new version to see them, and when the new smilies came out and everyone hated them, and learning all the little phrases like ttyl, lol, brb, etc. </p>
<p>I also most deffinetly remember platform shoes, getting my first bra, and going to Boston for the first time. What else? Oh, I got my two cats because my first cat ever passed away the sumer before sixth grade, so we got two kittens who are now going to turn 8 in april (okay so I guess I was 11 when I got my cats, but that still counts). I remember it was the first and only year I lived without my mom. She decided she wanted to move back to CA, and I decided I wanted to stay on the east coast (bad choice) and live with my dad. I was taken out of my 100 student total private elementry school in NJ and kind of fell into public middle school in the bronx (my dad lied and said I could stay at my old school then told me after my mom moved that I coulnd't). I gained 35 lbs in one year, and went from "big" to fat, which I have never gotten out of. </p>
<p>It was the only year I didn't ride horses. </p>
<p>I was kinda miserable actually, when I was 12. </p>
<p>But I deffinetly remember AIM</p>
<p>OH also it was when cell phones were just getting popular.</p>
<ul>
<li>I looked like I was 10</li>
<li>I had braces.</li>
<li>Just started wearing contacts</li>
<li>probably sounded like a mouse</li>
<li>was somewhat quiet</li>
<li>was a perfectionist: i'd recopy homework if my handwriting was not perfect (high school changed this, and i turned into a messy, disorganized person)</li>
<li>had somewhat curly hair</li>
<li>wore uniforms because i was at a private school</li>
<li>my mom picked out my clothes that i wore outside of school: although, she does have better taste than me much of the time</li>
<li>thought all drugs were bad and was an extreme goody-two shoes (my bf has changed my mind about marijuana ;))</li>
<li>had only female friends, (well, maybe one guy friend)</li>
<li>i also wondered all the time what it'd feel like to be kissed (and now i've found out, kissing is over-rated, or maybe it's just the guys i've kissed haha)</li>
</ul>
<p>used to daydream a lot and draw pictures... "class artist"</p>
<p>When I was 12 I played baseball, enjoyed my computer, did tech support, and was getting to know some of my now best friends. Sixth grade was sort of a "setting up" year for me in which stuff that would be constant in my 7 years of middle and high school came about, but the puzzle wouldn't be put together until seventh grade. A pretty good year. I too had braces, by the way.</p>
<p>In all honesty, though, I haven't changed since sixth grade. My stance on things is still the same. I think the biggest change that happened to me since then is that I've become more mobile (now that I'm old enough to drive). No more public transportation.</p>
<p>...nothing has changed - except my hair color.</p>
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Can we say AOL instant messenger???? I still have the same screen name, with the number 12 in it (my age at the time I made it). I totally remember when the smilies first came out, and how you had to get the new version to see them, and when the new smilies came out and everyone hated them, and learning all the little phrases like ttyl, lol, brb, etc.
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<p>Someone obviously never used AOL or Prodigy...</p>
<p>no, i never used AOL just the downloaded AIM.... i don't really know what you're saying</p>
<p>All those phrases like "LOL and TTYL" were around long before AIM, equine. In fact, I remember using those during my days on Prodigy with my freakin 386 DOS-based computer.</p>
<p>It's just funny that your first experience with that stuff is AIM, since AIM is a very recent technology. All the stuff you mentioned far predates it.</p>