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Shall we begin it again?
 
That was a fun one!

You know you're old when...

your MCAT instructor refers to himself as an "old MS1" and he's 8 years younger than you!!!

Your kids remind you to study your OChem notes, " 'cus practice is how you get better at stuff." (When did they get old enough to say that???)

:laugh: Theresa
 
I know this was said in the old non-trad thread but this happened to me.

Someone asked my age in one of my classes this semester.. I said something a few years younger than I am and they still thought that was old. Actually their reaction was "Oh $hit! And I was going to ask you out." They were 18 and had thought I was about their age.

🙄 Too bad I can't find someone closer to my age...
 
That was HYSTERICAL!!!

Thanks for bringing it back; I hadn't seen it before. Oohhhh, that wide-eyed-shocked look they get as they try to absorb that *over-thirty* number....they can't believe anyone over 25 can get around the campus without a walker.

😛
 
...your first e-mail account was on Prodigy.

...your high school computer science class learned Basic.
10 PRINT IM A DORK
20 GOTO 10
😱

...you have to concentrate- REALLY HARD- to remember what year you graduated/got married.

...you have to stop and think about how old you are when someone asks your age.

...you can remember watching TV all day in elementary school the day President Reagan was shot.

...you can remember seeing TV coverage of the failed Iran hostage rescue.

...your favorite B movie is and forever will be The Beastmaster and you can recite the lines. (Thanks, HBO!)

...your family's first VCR was Beta.

...seeing perky young coeds wearing lowcut jeans and thong underwear (that show) makes you swear your daughter will never do that.
🙄
 
I was driving a classmate home (in San Francisco) and pointed out the famous Jefferson Starship house. Classmates reply?
"Who?"
 
... when you look around at your classmates and realize that most of their parents hadn't even met when you took chemistry the first time you were an undergrad.

... when you hear the kids behind you talking about your prof's age (after he giggles to himself about no one knowing what a slide rule is), and they say "He must be really old... like 40 or something" and all you can do is laugh....

... when you go to a medical school open house and the dean proudly states the age of their oldest student is 40... and you know you'll be 42 by the time you're an M1.

... when your prof asks everyone if they did xyz in high school and you have absolutely NO idea.

Thanks for resurrecting this thread!
 
Beginning of the semester, a classmate and I were talking... just making small talk. He proceeded to ask me my age, and I told him. His jaw dropped and said "daaaaaaaaang... you're THAT old???" I felt like screaming. HELLO! I'M JUST 23!!! But obviously, 23 is kinda old to be a freshie in college. Oh well.
 
Originally posted by Califlower
Beginning of the semester, a classmate and I were talking... just making small talk. He proceeded to ask me my age, and I told him. His jaw dropped and said "daaaaaaaaang... you're THAT old???" I felt like screaming. HELLO! I'M JUST 23!!! But obviously, 23 is kinda old to be a freshie in college. Oh well.
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Your just a baby. 😉
 
happened to me in a chem class last year...
realized that I am old enough to be my lab partner's father...
I was a senior in high school the tear he was born .....
he asked me a math question and I realized the last time I took a math course in college he was in kindergarten.
 
Last year I realized that the CITs at a summer camp I volunteer at were just born the year I started working there.

Time flies.. I remember my first day there so clearly... Now the time in between might be a little hazy though.
 
Great laughs here, thanks for the memories.
____________

Last night at a TTU alumni event for applicants:


Young Lady mentions graduation from college last year, Dec '02.

Me: "Yeah, I graduated undergrad in December too . . . of 1989 🙂"

YL: "Wow, I was 9 years old then." 😱
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-Middle school memories of space shuttle explosion, Reagan being shot, bell bottom jeans, tube tops.

-You remember the first career of John Travolta and saw Grease when released in the theater without adult supervision.

-In high school you got to use the schools first computers, a Commodore (PET?) with keyboard, CPU, and greenish monitor . . . all integrated into one combined unit.

-Your first PC consisted of a keyboard which you plugged into the TV. A floppy was an expensive upgrade, but fortunately a less expensive audio cassette memory device was available. The PC had no RAM and only utilized BASIC software.

-QuickBASIC was a new language while in college and all us geeky engineers were amazed at how fast it coded and ran. FORTRAN was a must for crunching numbers. You learned AutoCAD 1.0. If you had a virus, you should seek a Doc.

-You have used a card punch and mainframe computer.

-A brand new Corvette cost $18,000 loaded.

-You had a car with a factory four-barrel. New-fangled fuel injection was only found on a few performance cars.

-You easily distinguish between a Lincoln Mark I, II, and III.

-Only girls and gay men had piercings (and only in their ears).

-School lunch prices increased to $0.40

-Cheap gasoline was under $0.50 / gallon (I saw $0.39 once).

-The Beach Boys were young. Paul McCartney had Wings. John Bonham, Elvis, Jim Belushi, and Hendrix were alive.

-SNL had a small cast with Jim Belushi, Dan Akroid, Chevy Chase, et al. Rosanna Rosanna Danna and Jane something did the weekend news.

-Richard Pryor caught fire smoking some cocaine concoction.

-CRACK was something the plumber introduced you to.

-A thong was worn on the foot.

-Beta's outnumbered VHS's. A VCR was $1,000.

-WalMart sold mostly seconds and closeouts.

-School violence meant a fistfight. Paddlings were administered in the hall about 2 minutes following the infraction. You immediately returned to your seat (ouch!).

-Only cowboys wore cowboy boots. You could tell b/c they had poop stuck to the arch.
 
hee, I was going to add something about Grease. I WAS IN FIRST GRADE! I was too young to see the movie but old enough to have the cassette.

And SNL! Roseanne Rosannadanna!


More you know you're old when:

...your first roller skates had 4 wheels and weren't inline, and the brake stopper was on the toe.

...your neighbor is your IM professor.

...your kids are on the same soccer team as your professor's kids.
 
You know your a non-trad if you remember the following things

Video tapes...???? What's that?? If you wanted to see a movie again you had to pay over and over before it left the theaters forever and you never saw it again.

Boom boxes.... the bigger the better. Even if you broke your shoulder carrying them.

Rotary phones that took forever to dial. No redial buttons, no caller IDs, no call waiting.......

Tab soft drinks, no diet coke or pepsi..... UNTIL......Huge hype about a NEW PRODUCT that was going to come out. Months and months of mailed hype about this secret product.........until........ at last....... every family in America was mailed one gumball made from this new secret product.....Nutrasweet.

If you wanted to play video games you had to go to the arcade and spend a bunch of quarters... until... low and behold a new product came to homes..... Atari

Home computers??????? Oh you mean a calculator. When you finally got a home computer you had to learn DOS. You wrote papers in Word Star.

Ice trays with handles


If you have no idea what the above mentioned things are then you are not a non-traditional student😀 😀
 
Do you remember the computer games where you had to type out directions because they didn't have graphics?

There's nothing like playing Hitchhiker's Guide to the Gallaxy on an Apple 2e.
 
I saw the original Star Wars in the theater - the first time around!
 
Originally posted by Swiper The Fox
I saw the original Star Wars in the theater - the first time around!
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Yep! And Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and ET, and Terminator...


Remember legwarmers ala Flashdance? I wore them- as a kid in Hawaii! 🙄

Remember when rap was good? Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five?

Of course, I also remember knowing for sure that the world was going to hell in a handbasket and we'd all die in a nuclear cold war...thanks to The Day After, Testament, War Games, Red Dawn...
 
You know you're a non-trad when everyone in the bio 1 lab introduces themselves on the first day of class, and when you tell the other students you graduated from college in 1985 half the class gasps because that's before they were born.

And your TA has a bunch of grey hair, but you're three years older than he is.
 
I remember:

Watching the landing on the moon - one of my first memories

School House Rock

ElectraWoman and DynaGirl

Shazam

BayCity Rollers - I loved Les

Shaun Cassidy - my sister's big crush

Poprocks

Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley on Tues(?) night

Luke and Laura got married on General Hospital

Victor and Nicki got married on the Young and the Restless

The day MTV came on the air

Parachute pants

All the girls with big hair, big shoulder pads and blue eyeshadow

ABC afterschool specials

Seeing Journey live in 1983

Where I was when the Challenger blew up....

The Red Sox winning the pennant in 1986
 
Playing Pong while waiting for pizza.....

They kept me in the hospital three days when I gave birth (it woulda been five days if it had been a C-section)......

Paying $850 to have one of them newfangled VCR things......

I was at work when the Challenger blew up.......

Watching the Vietnam War on TV.........

Being allowed to play in the neighborhood without supervision and not having to come home until the street lights came on......

Officials "Smoking pits" on the high school campus.......

When all things '50s became a fad after American Graffitti came out (and Ron Howard had hair and no one had ever heard of Harrison Ford).......
 
When you are taking classes with your daughter's ex boyfriend.

You are old enough to be your classmate's mother.

You use the faculty elevator and no one questions you.

You have chest pain the first day of class while climbing the stairs!

Your kid plays on the same baseball team as your Trigonometry teacher's son.

You call the teacher's and professors by their first name and they never think twice about it.
 
Watergate, live on TV.

Pong, then years later Atari.

B&W TV, 2-4 channels maximum (remember UHF vs. VHF?). Then color TV. Then came cable, but the box had a corded pushbutton selector with about 30 channels max. It worked well, since remotes were uncommon or nonexistant.

After School Specials & Schoolhouse Rock were great (remember "conjunction-junction, what your function" and "I am just a lonely Bill--> then a Law).

Fat Albert. Grape Ape. Batman & Robin (Pow - Bang!-Biff). Catwoman. Mighty Mouse. Richocet Rabbit.

Star Wars & ET in the theater.

Arcade mania - I remember when the first game Space Invaders came out, then soon after came Asteroids.

SEARS Catalogue, 4-5" thick.

Gunsmoke.

Jetski was introduced.

Tubing at the lake using a rope tied to an overinflated truck tire inner tube (watch out for that stem).

Life preservers that looked like a belt.
 
You know you're a nontrad when you have vivid memories of Micheal Jackson looking normal:laugh: :laugh:
 
you know you're a Non-Trad when.....

The classroom hushes when you enter
 
You know that you are non Trad when........

1) After class you have to rush home to make it to the Parent-Teacher conference at your kid's school

2) You are asked about the differences between the Challenger disaster and the Columbia disaster

3) When the professor explains about the first mecahnical heart, you remember reading about it in the morning paper.

4) txt msgng= ???????????

5) You are the only one in class with a graphing calculator the size of a volvo

6) 3 words....Dallas, Dynasty, and 30-something and only you know what they are

7) When you leave class and the professor may ask why....."the babysitter has to leave and my wife is still not home" is a legitamite answer

8) When you see car accident photos and you recognize the YUGO in the picture

9) When discussing the AIDS epidemic, you fondly remember when this was not even a topic

10) You understand why older cars with only lap belts and no airbags had worse trauma vicitims than today's models.
 
When you watch the new VH1 "I love the 70's, 80's, and 80's strikes back" in the student lounge you are the only one that says

"HOLY SH'T....I REMEMBER THAT. I WORE THOSE. WHERE ARE MY 45's"

And then shut up when you get the blank confused looks
 
When you remember My IBM PC-XT and games "Adventure and Decathalon" and calculators with a plug and light up red number lights.

When you tell people in your MCAT prep course when you graduated one guy says "Good For You" like you are 80 and training for a marathon.
 
When our "group" of four non-trads in chem class walks in on Monday morning still hung over b/c we all went out on Saturday to celebrate the lovely exam on Friday being over and everyone else is listening in to our rehash of the night in the bar with complete and total awe like "you guys are all old enough to go out?!?!?!"

When you're complaining to one of said non-trads about the class that your children are in together in grade school and we start going off on the teacher and others think we're talking about a professor at college, they're like "who's that" and we say a teacher at a local grade school that our kids have and they're like "wow, you're old enough to have kids?"

Another one of said non-trads above has a college-age daughter who is currently helping her with chem....and the rest of us by extension...
 
Originally posted by ma-bas

When you tell people in your MCAT prep course when you graduated one guy says "Good For You" like you are 80 and training for a marathon.
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:laugh: :laugh: I hate it when that happens. Even better when you mention you have kids in school and they say, " I really admire you, I could never do that." Like I'm climbing Everest with those kids on my back!!!
:laugh:
 
You know you're a non-trad when you're having a conversation about some juvenile behavior of upperclassmen and you say "Aren't we old enough to be past that now?"

And they reply, "No. YOU would think that because you're - like - a real adult."

🙄
(True story)
 
chanjurban said:
You know you're a non-trad when you're having a conversation about some juvenile behavior of upperclassmen and you say "Aren't we old enough to be past that now?"

And they reply, "No. YOU would think that because you're - like - a real adult."

🙄
(True story)
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you're non trad when

you actually own your house
you have no idea how much your parents make
you shake your head when your classmates are late
you remember a time when only drug dealers/doctors had cell phones/pagers
you owned a laser disc player
the 49er's were a good football team
a "laptop" weighed 25 pounds
liberal wasn't a bad word
your phone plugged into the wall and was rotary
a camera took real film
star wars movies didn't suck


man, what a great trip so far!
 
I own jeans that are older than some of my classmates.
 
Everyone else writing the MCAT has their parents with them as moral support. You have your husband (my good luck kiss was much more convincing 😉)
 
iiiimonica said:
you're non trad when

a "laptop" weighed 25 pounds
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I heard classmates comment last year about how "cute" my lap top was. It's a '93 Toshiba that just keeps kicking.
 
When everyone else has their girlfriend or boyfriend wishing them luck, but instead you hear a little girl say "Go get 'em Dad!"

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iiiimonica said:
you're non trad when

you actually own your house
you have no idea how much your parents make
you shake your head when your classmates are late
you remember a time when only drug dealers/doctors had cell phones/pagers
you owned a laser disc player
the 49er's were a good football team
a "laptop" weighed 25 pounds
liberal wasn't a bad word
your phone plugged into the wall and was rotary
a camera took real film
star wars movies didn't suck


man, what a great trip so far!
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My short list:
-It seems like some of the kids in your class could have attended school with the first baby you delivered as an EMT
-You find yourself referring to your classmates as "children"
-Your classmates are talking about where they were on 9/11 and their stories all start with "I was sitting in _______ class my ______ year of high school", then they turn and look at you and you reply with "I was tending to wounded at the Pentagon. No I won't tell you about it"
 
When many of the kids you're in school with were born AFTER you graduated high school.

When they start calling you "Mom".

You remember Magilla Gorilla and Underdog. And can sing the theme songs.

You remember Electric Company with Bill Cosby.

Pascal was the main language to program in for anything beyond your PC.

You remember typing your programs on punch cards and then waiting 4 days for your turn to run -- just to find out you have one typo in the stack and need to figure out which of the 4,826 cards it's in.

Along the same lines, you remember when "floppy disks" were 12" and "mainframes" took up entire rooms and had big tape drives on them.

When having your own printer for your brand new spankin' blazin' fast 2 floppy disk drive (5.25") no hard drive (not invented yet) green screen IBM computer was a major luxury. And it was a 9 pin printer with a ribbon cartridge.

You remember when MTV first hit the airwaves and everyone said "that'll never last". (and for a bonus point, what was the very first video they played? anyone? anyone?)
 
ShyRem said:
You remember when MTV first hit the airwaves and everyone said "that'll never last". (and for a bonus point, what was the very first video they played? anyone? anyone?)
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Too easy 😀 "Video killed the Radio Star" by some Brit group....the Buggles? or Buzzles?
 
beanbean said:
I remember:

Watching the landing on the moon - one of my first memories

School House Rock

ElectraWoman and DynaGirl

Shazam

BayCity Rollers - I loved Les

Shaun Cassidy - my sister's big crush

Poprocks

Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley on Tues(?) night

Luke and Laura got married on General Hospital

Victor and Nicki got married on the Young and the Restless

The day MTV came on the air

Parachute pants

All the girls with big hair, big shoulder pads and blue eyeshadow

ABC afterschool specials

Seeing Journey live in 1983

Where I was when the Challenger blew up....

The Red Sox winning the pennant in 1986
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:laugh: :laugh:
I remmeber most of evrything on your list. I never got to see Journey in concert but I did go to a Prince Purple Rain concert. My best friend in high school always wore the same blue eye shadow everyday ! And she had wings that I used to call sauage rolls because they were so perfectly curled and stayed that way ALL day !
They still make Pop Rocks, btw... My 9 year old gets them once in a while.
 
Darlaa said:
Too easy 😀 "Video killed the Radio Star" by some Brit group....the Buggles? or Buzzles?
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The Buggles ! I remember rushing home after school as a senior in high school to watch music videos on TV. Now I can't stand them. :scared:
 
beanbean said:
I remember:

Watching the landing on the moon - one of my first memories

School House Rock

ElectraWoman and DynaGirl

Shazam

BayCity Rollers - I loved Les

Shaun Cassidy - my sister's big crush

Poprocks

Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley on Tues(?) night

Luke and Laura got married on General Hospital

Victor and Nicki got married on the Young and the Restless

The day MTV came on the air

Parachute pants

All the girls with big hair, big shoulder pads and blue eyeshadow

ABC afterschool specials

Seeing Journey live in 1983

Where I was when the Challenger blew up....

The Red Sox winning the pennant in 1986
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Anna and Robert Scorpio...best couple on GH ever. My how Robin Scorpio has grown up into a responsible physician battling AIDS. Thanks for the list...it's bringing back some great memories! Luckily poprocks is still around, though I haven't had them for quite some time.
 
You actually had to take a typing class in school - with real typewriters (anyone remember the white out ribbon?)

If you were lucky you got to play Oregon Trail on one of the 2 computers your school had!

You remember that Happy Days was good until Richie left. But in the end it turned out ok because Joanie loves Chachi
 
white out ribbon? Oh, yeah.. I remember when those came out. I took typing on a manual typewriter with white-out (and befor ethat, special typewriter erasers with those funky nylon brushes that didn't quite erase the mistakes). Those old fabric ribbons that you tried to keep going by re-inking them until they frayed and didn't have any fibers left. You remember - the ones that came on two spools and not a cartridge.

Anyone remember mimeograph machines when xerox was too expensive for the schools?
 
iiiimonica said:
you're non trad when

you actually own your house
you have no idea how much your parents make
you shake your head when your classmates are late
you remember a time when only drug dealers/doctors had cell phones/pagers
you owned a laser disc player
the 49er's were a good football team
a "laptop" weighed 25 pounds
liberal wasn't a bad word
your phone plugged into the wall and was rotary
a camera took real film
star wars movies didn't suck


man, what a great trip so far!
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Oh- you just broke my heart!! When the 49er's were a good team indeed.

A Jimi Hendrix song (Cross Town Traffic) came on the radio the other day. Once of the students asked me who the song was by. I thought she was kidding- but no, she was quite serious.

SF
 
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