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[abaum87]

So here's a question for all you bored livejournal junkies...how do u think you've changed since your freshman year? I know I have completely different friends, interests, and priorities. I'd say i'm much more outgoing and self-confident: much happier with who I am. You young-ins may not have changed all that much, but most people change

Comments

[kookie_mnstr8]

I've changed a bunch. I've become a lot more comfortable with myself and really more true to what I actually want. It's a lot less of "oh this is cool, let me do that" and a lot more of "this is FUN, let me do that." I've also completely shifted social groups. I mean, there are people that I ate lunch with every day first semester last year that I haven't spoken to this year. Not because I don't like them, or I'm mad at them, or anything, I've just totally moved on.

[kookie_mnstr8]

seeing bria's made mine look insufficient, and it's always great to procrastinate even MORE.

i was totally like "no smoking, drink a little bit" beginning of freshman year . . everything about it made me kinda nervous. . I've since shed this attitude. . which led to a lot of those friends up in my other comment, saying (hmm that was so grammatically fucked up) that i wouldnt hang out with them and stuff because they weren't "fucking alcoholic drama potheads." Yeahhh. Bah.

I've lost my ability to trust people easily, I wasn't really naive as a freshman, but i was more apt to give people a chance. And i'm finding it harder to forgive and forget. Basically i'm more cynical. sweet.

[julziscool_z]

it's weird, because you never really notice that you're growing up... it's only when you look back and think about how different things are that you realize how much has changed. (and of course, when i say you, i am referring to myself.) i know i am definitely more comfortable now than i used to be, i think i'm happier, i know i'm more mature (case in point: freshman year english class eric lewis and i would throw staples in this one girls hair... and she never noticed...) i know i've changed a lot, but i can't quite pinpoint how... hmm.

[brighterthnlast]

lets see. the weird thing is that i think i've grown and matured so much in the past 4 years, yet i think i went full circle in a lot of ways emotionally and i'm sort of back where i started. i was really optimistic and naive as a freshman, i wasn't comfortable with my body image (i was sort of punk-ish.. cool? NOT), yet i had a tight circle of friends that was easy to maintain. since then that group of friends has broken up, i joined the cult that is bcc theatre, and i became progressively more cynical in my views on life and relationships with others. i started to get a grasp of who i am and who i want to be in 9th grade for the first time, and that has continued to grow since then. i am now much more confident in who i am and my body in general (including my fashion sense), yet i feel stupid sometimes being too loud and outgoing. i've become much more vocal in expressing my opinions and my feelings, yet i wasn't ever too shy about that to begin with. and uhhh i understand people more? i guess. i don't think i've changed too

[singinraindrop8]

i've changed so dramatically since freshman year...but then again i haven't in the same sense. i saw myself as an outgoing person, but once i was a freshman it all kinda got bottled up and wasn't let out until about the end of sophomore year on. friends is obvious, interests...mostly the same. priorities have changed like woah. i'm gonna start off with the fact that school hasn't been my number 1 priority for quite sometime. my number 1 priority has acutally been keeping myself from always seeing bad in situations or people and generally trying to stay happy. freshman year, i didn't realize that being happy and content with my life coincided with succeeding in other endeavours. since freshman year i've questioned myself more than i ever did before that, most importantly i questioned the general purpose of what i was doing with my life (i.e. school, theater, music)which i still do. i've realized the true meaning of "its not quantity its quality" concerning frienships, cliche, but true. i am also much more confident with who i am...its

Response to Everyone

[abaum87]

Wow, I didnt expect everyone to write me biographies! I enjoyed reading them all though. Seems like everyone has allot of the same things in common. Most of you have grown more confident and happier with yourselves. Which is definatly good. I feel like high school is all about taking yourself from point A (an awkward, unconfident freshman) to point B (a self-confident, outgoing senior). I think back and i remember how all through high school I was worried about graduating. I didn't think I could handle leaving what is familiar and being thrown into an environment where i would have to fend for myself immediatly. But now, as a second semester senior, I feel ready. I guess that means that high school has been a success!

Re: Response to Everyone

[kookie_mnstr8]

Well I think you've gone a freshman to a pretty awkward, idiot senior. But, hey, the exception proves the rule?

Re: Response to Everyone

[kookie_mnstr8]

DAMNIT I CAN'T EVEN TYPE RIGHT.

*from a freshman