DISQUS

thomasjwest · 3 months ago

I remember turning 21. That was 17 years ago for me. I didn't start feeling "older" until about 25 however, when I was in a band directing job, could hear my metabolism hitting the breaks, and was on my way to proposing to my future wife. A wise man once said "Your twenties are when you figure out who you are. Your thirties are when you figure out where you are going." That has been a truth in my life.

Andy Zweibel · 3 months ago

Thomas, thanks for your comment! I know it may seem amusing for people who have lived longer than I have for me to talk about feeling old at 21, and I'm sure things will seriously hit once I'm out in the "real world" so to speak, but I'm really looking forward to what life has in store for me!

emma · 3 months ago

august is nothing. wait until november, and then april. wait until dr. jordan tells you how you've got to observe music time over fall break OR ELSE... the day before fall break. (now quick pretend to be me, getting tapped for TBS fall of junior year. now fast forward to that spring where you took over a floor as an RA halfway through the year.)

23 and i feel ripe and old. shacking up with the man and talking about buying a house next summer. lol. gotta love the phoenix economy where rent is the same price as a mortgage.

enjoy these last couple years. they go way too fast and you'll never have anything like them again.

kathykerstetter · 3 months ago

Wait until you find yourself creating those assignments that you used to complain about. Or when you find out that your students were born after you graduated from High School. Or when a parent calls you 'sir'. Or you make a reference to a movie in one of you classes that you are *sure* everyone in the entire world has seen and get blank stares! (I will refrain from making a "Bueller" comment here).

Remember, growing old is mandatory - growing up is optional. Teachers are the youngest old people you will ever have the pleasure to meet and work with.

I'm old and proud of it... ;D