05-25-2006, 01:01 PM
i realized i never read/replied to this thread. its pretty interesting...
5 years ago:
i was finishing up my junior year at JMU and it was the beginning of MM. before that, like many of you, i was a ricer (and still am at heart). i had just bought an integra earlier in the year and all sorts of aspirations of turboing/car showing etc. i drank a lot in forest hills (some of the OGs knew our parties back then) and we played beer pong almost nightly. kicking multiple kegs every night wasn't out of the ordinary.
1 year ago:
i've been working for the DoD for almost 3 years. i had just gone to singapore, japan and hawaii all through work. i also just got my instructor certification through NASA. i was selling the integra, had owned the STi for 2 years, just bought the 240 and was looking at possibly buying a miata. i was still drinking, but not nearly at the same pace as i was at jmu
now:
still working for the DoD. i havent done much as far as the track goes as i've really concentrated on knocking out some of my debt. been seeing the same girl for a few months now and things are goin alright.
1 year from now:
will probably still be working for the DoD, maybe start on my master's degree if work will pay for it. if things go alright, i might move in with my gf (she's got a garage) and hopefully be instructing a helluva lot more than i am currently
5 years from now:
hopefully not working for the DoD, but we'll see. maybe married, shit i dunno. maybe dabble in some club racing but the current track i'm on has me goin the career instructor route. things can change quick though.
for you youngin's, if there's one thing i've learned though its that things dont always go according to plan. the transition from high school to college may have been drastic, but the transition from college to the real world is 100000x more eye opening. i have no idea what lies ahead but i hope its as interesting as the past 10 yrs of my life
5 years ago:
i was finishing up my junior year at JMU and it was the beginning of MM. before that, like many of you, i was a ricer (and still am at heart). i had just bought an integra earlier in the year and all sorts of aspirations of turboing/car showing etc. i drank a lot in forest hills (some of the OGs knew our parties back then) and we played beer pong almost nightly. kicking multiple kegs every night wasn't out of the ordinary.
1 year ago:
i've been working for the DoD for almost 3 years. i had just gone to singapore, japan and hawaii all through work. i also just got my instructor certification through NASA. i was selling the integra, had owned the STi for 2 years, just bought the 240 and was looking at possibly buying a miata. i was still drinking, but not nearly at the same pace as i was at jmu
now:
still working for the DoD. i havent done much as far as the track goes as i've really concentrated on knocking out some of my debt. been seeing the same girl for a few months now and things are goin alright.
1 year from now:
will probably still be working for the DoD, maybe start on my master's degree if work will pay for it. if things go alright, i might move in with my gf (she's got a garage) and hopefully be instructing a helluva lot more than i am currently
5 years from now:
hopefully not working for the DoD, but we'll see. maybe married, shit i dunno. maybe dabble in some club racing but the current track i'm on has me goin the career instructor route. things can change quick though.
for you youngin's, if there's one thing i've learned though its that things dont always go according to plan. the transition from high school to college may have been drastic, but the transition from college to the real world is 100000x more eye opening. i have no idea what lies ahead but i hope its as interesting as the past 10 yrs of my life
1994 Ford Ranger
2004 Honda S2000
2007 BMW X3
2004 Honda S2000
2007 BMW X3