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September 3, 2012 Being Me

10 of My School Memories that Max Won’t Have

Since I graduated from school almost 18 years ago a while ago, things have changed a bit. Some things that I remember from my school life, that Max won't have a chance to experience:

  1. Oregon Trail and Print Shop Deluxe in the Computer Lab
  2. Learning to program in LOGO and saving it to a cassette tape
  3. Making sense of an uppercase cursive Q
  4. Crowding around the TV with the family for premiers of Michael Jackson videos
  5. The excitement of a big A/V cart being rolled into the room for a movie
  6. Splinters from wooden play structures, butt burns from metal slides on the playground
  7. 50¢ chocolate chip cookies that were big enough to feed me and all my friends
  8. Watching a space shuttle launch live in the classroom at lunchtime.
  9. Daring each other to eat Pop Rocks and drink Coke to see what happens
  10. Smuggling Garbage Pail Kids into school to trade on the playground



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  1. Stephanie says

    September 3, 2012 at 1:18 pm

    I so remember the Logo turtle. We also had a program about a family that had names like Morris and Dorris and Delores and we were trying to solve a mystery. I love that you can get Lemonade stand as an iPhone App and there is the option to have the pixelated animation…. good times!

    Reply
    • Lizz says

      September 3, 2012 at 6:49 pm

      Aaah, Lemonade Stand! That’s another good one!

      Reply
  2. AmyBeth Inverness says

    September 3, 2012 at 6:32 pm

    Wow… computers in school! When I was finishing 6th grade, my elementary school got ONE computer. It made a brief visit to each classroom, so we could see what it was like.

    The big AV cart is a huge memory… that meant it really was a special day! And if your teacher was really nice, and it was a filmstrip, she might let you watch it backwards as it rewound lol!

    What else… my littlest just started Pre-School. And they do have a metal slide!

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    • Lizz says

      September 3, 2012 at 6:49 pm

      I’m totally curious about what my old elementary school uses the room that was the computer lab for now, since I’m sure all the rooms have their own! LOL

      And OMG, filmstrips!

      Reply
  3. Michelle says

    September 3, 2012 at 6:35 pm

    Do they teach Q’s differently now?

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    • Lizz says

      September 3, 2012 at 6:47 pm

      Some schools don’t really teach cursive any more!

      Reply
  4. Sandi says

    September 3, 2012 at 7:15 pm

    Hey, I rolled the A/V cart into my classroom last year to show a movie, and I had to wander around school until I found a DVD player, since the cart came with a VHS player!

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    • Lizz says

      September 3, 2012 at 7:48 pm

      Seriously? Are you still in SRVUSD? That’s crazy!

      Reply
  5. Anja says

    September 4, 2012 at 4:13 am

    Ha ha! Funnily, the only thing that I have experience first-hand are the AV carts. Anything else didn’t take place in German schools. Oh, and I would have really loved those cookies!

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    • Lizz says

      September 4, 2012 at 8:41 pm

      Yeah, I suppose a lot of them are pretty cultural as opposed to worldwide! I hadn’t even realized that!

      Reply
  6. Ali says

    September 4, 2012 at 9:05 am

    I loved Oregon Trail until I died of dysentery.

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    • Lizz says

      September 4, 2012 at 8:42 pm

      Such a tragedy. That’s an awful game, when you think about it.
      Have you seen the new “Organ Trail” that’s like a zombie game? LOL

      Reply
  7. Robbie says

    September 4, 2012 at 11:20 am

    Great memories! The a/v carts were always exciting b/c it meant NO WORK!

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    • Lizz says

      September 4, 2012 at 8:42 pm

      Exactly!

      Reply
  8. Jackie says

    September 4, 2012 at 11:32 am

    Garbage Pail Kids! Actual music videos on TV!

    Wow… so many memories that I remember so fondly! I don’t even know if they teach cursive anymore either!

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    • Lizz says

      September 4, 2012 at 8:42 pm

      What?!?! Music videos on MTV? Crazy talk!
      And I totally wish I still had my Garbage Pail Kids…

      Reply
  9. Jamie J. says

    September 4, 2012 at 3:24 pm

    Ah, Oregon Trail! I also loved the “Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?” game. The cookies for 50 cents were the BEST (at least that’s how I felt when I was 11!). Kids are going to think we’re crazy when we tell them the music channels actually used to play music videos ALL THE TIME! Imagine that?! Great memories…

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    • Lizz says

      September 4, 2012 at 8:43 pm

      Oh, Carmen Sandiego! I heard they were making a movie about her, and that JLo would play her… that would be so great!

      Reply
  10. Stasha says

    September 4, 2012 at 8:36 pm

    OMG! This list makes us sound so old, but really we were progressive. My first year of computer science in high school we never even saw the computer. It was all about 0 and 1 sequences! And then when they finally allowed us to sit behind one all we kept doing was create another dir and move it to floppy.
    Love this list. Our boys are bound to make so much fun of us soon…

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    • Lizz says

      September 4, 2012 at 8:43 pm

      Wow! You were doing binary? That’s kind of amazing…

      Reply
  11. Tanyalynnette Palmo says

    January 15, 2014 at 7:17 pm

    OHMYGEERD!! I was a traveling pioneer extraordinaire in Oregon Trail! What a fun post

    Reply
  12. Rachael says

    January 15, 2014 at 8:24 pm

    Oregon trail was THE BEST! and #8 makes me sad….when I was 12 we got to see a launch while visiting friends in FL (they lived across the river), it was the coolest thing ever!

    Reply
  13. Andrea B (@goodgirlgonered) says

    January 16, 2014 at 9:32 am

    You never know, Garbage Pail Kids cards might come back some day! 😉

    Reply

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