The ***Official*** Weekend Singles Thread (Aug. 25-27)

August 25, 2006 | WFTR and Rightwingintelligentsia

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Back to School

Well, it's that time of year. We're finally throwing away Fourth of July leftovers in our refrigerators; the stores are starting to put out Christmas decorations; and school is starting. (Okay, the stores don't have Christmas decorations up yet, but complaining about how early holiday decorating starts is everyone's pet peeve.) For lack of a better seasonal topic, this week's singles' thread topic will be back-to-school. We want to talk about your school experiences in general and back-to-school experiences in particular.

We'd like people to share any memories that they have of going back to school. Please feel free to post anything that comes to mind when you think of this topic.

Here are some questions to kick us off.

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Does back-to-school this year have any special meaning to you? Are you taking any kind of classes in the fall semester or quarter? If so, what are you taking and why are you taking it? How do you think you'll do? How close are you finishing whatever schooling you're doing? Do you have children in school?

When you think of going back to school, do you think of experiences you had as a child, as a teenager, or as a college student? Were you one of those people who looked forward to new friends and new challenges or were you one of those people who hated to lose the carefree days of summer?

What did you wear to school? Were you a jeans and T-shirt kind of person or did you wear the trendiest fashions? When you started back to school in the fall, were cool, crisp days just ahead or was the weather going to continue to be hot for a few more months?

Whom did you hang out with? The jocks? The artsy crowd? The nerds?

Did you go to football games in the fall? basketball games in the winter? Did you go to your prom or formal dance? If you didn't go to these kinds of events, what did you do instead?

What was the most popular song in the year that you graduated?

What was your favorite subject and why? Who were your favorite teachers and why?

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If you are heading back to school and have any subjects that scare you, please let us know. Within Free Republic in general and within this group, there are some very intelligent, very educated people. If there's some subject that could be a problem for you, maybe we can help.

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[pcottraux]

We've been "back in school" for two weeks. Y'all are slow!!!

Umm...you made that post to yourself.

[pcottraux]

Must have.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Where do you live?

[Army Air Corps]

I checked this morning and, yes, I am still "unfettered".

[WFTR]

On my second or third day at college, I was in one of the offices trying to get signed up for some class. The scheduling had malfunctioned, and many of us were left without certain classes that we had to have. I went to a counter and asked what I needed to do.

This guy who was on some student worker program handed me a card and said, "Fill this out and go stand behind that cute girl over there - you lucky dog." I really didn't find her all that attractive, but I talked to her a little bit. Mostly, we both commiserated about having this problem with our schedules and spending a nice fall day inside when so many others were enjoying their first few days of college. We ended up in the same class of freshman engineering, and we occasionally spoke to one another there.

After that class, I almost never saw her, but maybe once a year, we'd run into each other. We'd talk briefly and then go about our own business. I was in the co-op ed program, so I missed some time on campus. Eventually, I found myself back on campus for my senior year, and I found out that she had gone into the same major that I had. We ended up taking quite a few classes together during that year. I never had feelings for her, but she was nice. That niceness made me feel attracted to her, but I never tried to date her. It was just weird how someone I met by chance kept popping back up in my school years.

Bill

[bannie]

Bakersfield, California

:-)

[darkangel82]

Maybe we do need a dead thread ping.

[WFTR]

What's AIT and what are you doing for a living now?

[bannie]

I thought it was a journal.

;-)

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Hey, AAC. How's my erstwhile co-host these days?

[bannie]

9HS20

hahahaha

[WFTR]

I was in Bakersfield for about six weeks in the spring of 2001. I was doing tech support work at a turnaround at the refinery there. I kinda liked Bakersfield.

[bannie]

9HS20Eng

[rightwingintelligentsia]

I see some signs of life after all.

[bannie]

It's hot...but it's conservative.

:-)

[WFTR]

9HS20?

[WFTR]

At least you have more mountains than either Houston or Louisiana. I was living in Houston at the time, and the area looked wonderful in comparison to Houston.

[darkangel82]

Here in Melbourne, FL, we're hot and (mostly)conservative,
too.

[bannie]

9th grade
High School
(20 signifies school-trained)
English

:0)

[bannie]

We have wonderful mountains!!! HEAVENLY!

And we're surrounded by them.

We're spoiled.