And with today's freshmen move-in, it hits me: I'm OLD.

10 years ago I was a freshman moving into RIT, and now I feel really weird because if I think of the students who would have been moving in 10 years before I did, they would have been high school class of 1992 and those people are obviously OLD. So now that means that obviously I am OLD in the eyes of these freshmen. But instead of moving in as a freshmen during super old things like the height of grunge, the last year of having both the summer and winter Olympics, and using Windows 3.1 as the premier operating system, I came to RIT during things that seem pretty old to today's college freshmen like Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera actually being popular, the emergence of MP3 players and the first iPod, and, well, the aftermath of 9/11, which really dominated all else at the time. When I was a freshman we all used AIM and livejournal and DC++ and played PS2 and wasted time with Homestar Runner... Now it's all Facebook/Twitter/txting and iPads and YouTube. TVs still had tubes and I'm pretty sure I brought a VCR with me; my dorm had a land line phone; my roommate used a desktop tower, NOT a laptop; and Zip drives were where it was at for high capacity storage (we didn't have thumb drives until I was a junior or senior, and man were they pricey). OMG... I'm OLD!!!!!! :*(****

My dorm room on move-in day... Just check out those state-of-the-art electronics.
My printer still used a serial port, and I had to install an ethernet jack card in my laptop. However, I did have a fancy brand new technology called a cordless optical mouse.

Meanwhile, a funny thing happened today on the way to the forum (better known as Facebook):

I love when randomly perfect juxtapositions appear in my newsfeed.