15 years ago… welcome to college
(yes that’s me in the green, the hair was once down to my shoulders )
You will see a few posts like this between now and May of 2010. The fall of 1994 started what would be the transformation of me into, well… me. It was the year that I finally left home and started at the University of Pittsburgh at Titusville – facing a world that no one could have taught me about. In fact it was 15 years ago this week that I moved into my room at 123 Spruce Hall and across the hall from a loud mouth Flyers fan who would turn out to be a dear lifelong friend. * I’m only saying this because it was your birthday yesterday Drew. You still suck 
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When I started college I was a 165lb ball of sheltered innocence. I figured everyone was like my friends in Erie, if you were from a smaller city you were a redneck, a semi-auto gun packin arrogant prick if you came from some place larger and the day I arrived at UPT I couldn’t have hated things more. There was absolutely nothing to do besides dining at Perkins, chain smoking Marlboro Light 25 packs and I had yet to discover computers. If not for my RA Greg I probably would have quit and moved home to work at Erie Insurance in the mail room. However it would be the last 4 months of 1994 that I would really learn about life.
I have a number of topics and people that I will share with you and even some video if the VHS tape I haven’t watched in over 10 years doesn’t break. I haven’t thought about a lot of this since I went to school and know this box of memories I found in storage should unlock many interesting times. Get ready for this trip back in time looking at the foundation that made spoon.
This is life at UPT, 1994…
