Current Events > What was your life like in 2002?

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School and work. No sleep, no sex life.
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Let's see, 16 years ago I was 10 years old which meant I was still being abused by my step-father and no matter how many people I told, no one did anything about it. So pretty bad time.

That was the year I dropped out of HS.

Not well, basically.
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I was 12. 8th grade. Yu-Gi-Oh was at the peak of popularity in my school. I felt great. Had friendly duels, cool school and had friends in every period. Life was good...
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I was like, 6 years old. Playing Gran Turismo and Need for Speed after school.
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Middle school, so video games and social awkwardness
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I was in the 2nd grade.
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12...
Awful
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good
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I was in the middle of my deployment in the Army. I spent the entire year of 2002 overseas. I was luckly only deployed a total of 18 months, and the rest of the time I served active in the states.
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I graduated
Had a girlfriend
Enrolling in college
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Trying the college thing at the time. Was still two years away from moving across country for work.
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Turned 21, parties
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I was going through SOI in North Carolina.
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MabusIncarnate posted...

I was in the middle of my deployment in the Army. I spent the entire year of 2002 overseas. I was luckly only deployed a total of 18 months, and the rest of the time I served active in the states.

You joined the service because of 9/11? How old are you?
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I was 5, so I just watched a lot of tv, solved puzzles and read short childrens books
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Sophomore in High School
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I was in college banging slutty girls and being poor. It was good times but stressful.
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college, lots of alcohol and gay sex
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i was 12.

i don't really remember any of it. which means it was boring or i thought it sucked so much it was better to not remember
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I had just moved to Los Angeles from San Francisco
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I was in middle school and got super stressed out honestly. I
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My life was very simple. Video games and school. Thats pretty much it. Besides the occasional depression because of no girlfriend or social life, life was pretty good in 2002.
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sophomore year in high school.... mixed reviews on that.
school got better after september 11 since i didn't have to go to the las vegas schools though the disadvantage was everyone losing their jobs :( because they laid people off by seniority.
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Verdekal posted...

MabusIncarnate posted...

I was in the middle of my deployment in the Army. I spent the entire year of 2002 overseas. I was luckly only deployed a total of 18 months, and the rest of the time I served active in the states.

You joined the service because of 9/11? How old are you?

Yeah, and i'm 37
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Got my diagnosis back then... and changed schools because of it

AND Got my first DBZ Game too (i think? it was either 02 or 03 November)
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8th grade, working part time after school while on weekends I mowed lawns, did oil changes, plugging flat tires, cutting tree limbs, helped my uncle in his moving business, or (during downtime) I was helping out my dad fix things around the house... point is, I was always on the move.
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Worked hard in college, hung out with friends.

mid highschool after transferring to public after being in private my whole life. one of the best effing years of my life tbh
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I was 10, so not too bad.
Got a GameCube in 2002 after years of only having Game Boys, so that was pretty cool.
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i was 10. LOTS of smash melee and halo.
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