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Exquisite Suffering 129: Trampoline Terror!

🕑 Added 2021-11-17 15:01:02 +0000 UTC

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Gorehoff

Mostly agree with Gary, but I stil have my old college papers. They didn't require scanning and they aren't cringey as hell so seems ok

Chris Hudson

My wife has journals from elementary school that her parents kept and I love that we have them. It’s very sweet

Joshua Kane

Way late to chime in, but I agree with Gary about salting the earth of all things school related and I also wrote I think a freshman English paper about "L337speak" and I retroactively cringe to think about it.

Eli Leslie

You can look through old shit you wrote and wonder at the completely different person you used to be. Like you’re the Nameless One but instead of being a monster to your loved ones you turned in cringe for a grade. Personally I only have a couple of longer research papers from college I wouldn’t mind being able to check out but they’re probably lost to the void.

Andrew (andyk250) Koch

I have scanned old school things, so Team Kole, but I also acknowledge that nostalgia can be golden poison.

Mike Fowle

So on brand for Kole to scan his homework and so on brand for Gary for destroying The Nostalgia Disc. Everyone's personalities on full display this week. Personally I keep a few small important things but not everything. If I'm very proud of it I'll hold onto it, I've been out of college like 4 years and have a handful of good assignments or papers I worked hard on

Violet Sweet

i'm on gary's side here. i like to burn stuff like old school work. i give it a nice little reminisce and then throw it into the fire pit. what idiot wrote those papers, anyway? certainly not the me of now.

Robert M Fenner

that was the most kole admission ever

Andrew C

I had a nice time writing essays in school in a way that I definitely don't now (in a job that involves research writing)—sometimes I like to look back at those to remember a time when writing was fun and easy, and perhaps to be a time vampire and suck some of that energy back into my present self.

Todd Bryanton

I actually agree 100% with both Gary and Kole on this one. My mom dropped off tubs of old school work she'd saved, and I wanted to surreptitiously throw them out. My wife said she wished her own mom had kept things like that from her childhood, and that I can't throw it out because maybe one day our kids will want to look back and discover what kind of child I was, what it was like growing up in the 90s etc. I guess I understand the anthropological argument; I found some of my great-great-grandpa's old school journals from the 1800s and it was pretty fascinating to read even though it was just full of mundane details like "today we bought milk." Personally I lean way more towards Gary's side that it's pointless to hold on to these things and brings me happiness to get rid of it and let go, but I also think I'll do Kole's scan and chuck idea now as a compromise to get it out of my house

Alex Atchley

I threw out decades and boxes worth of old writing/papers/etc about 6 years ago. I still have all the awful music I made from ages 16-25 though

Nobody

Haha Kole I wrote about the ROFLCOPTER for my 8th grade state SOL writing prompt on ‘man’s greatest invention’. Hammered it out in perfect 3-2-8 with URL sources cited, from memory, and was amazed a month later to find it had gotten a perfect score from some hero state proctor. I wish I had had some way of retaining it.

Ben Sapatka

I don’t think I have any actual school work saved anywhere, but I understand the appeal of having everything I’ve ever done recorded in an orderly format to look at “just in case the urge arose”.

Richard Everett

I have a few pieces of school work that I come across from time to time. They, for me, are always fun to read. Sorry Gary, Im team Kole on this one!

Ryan Lazarus

School generally sucked pretty hard for me, so I never made the conscious decision to keep anything from that era - regardless, a few random bits of detritus have cropped up every now and then, and I've gotten a kick out of looking through it. Stuff from my really early childhood is particularly strange to revisit, mostly from my school psychologist (like many 90s kids, I was diagnosed with ADHD), who wrote that I was "functionally retarded." Reading about that from my perch of 32 years and an editor's position at a publishing company, I can at least get a laugh out of it nowadays. Basically, nostalgia is a land of contrasts. Even if I don't deliberately decide to keep things (because those things sucked) it can still be interesting to see it again, just to reflect on where I've been.