<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Growing Up on</title><link>https://geekyschmidt.com/tags/growing-up/</link><description>Recent content in Growing Up on</description><generator>Hugo -- 0.160.1</generator><language>en</language><copyright>Copyright © 2002–2025, Nicholas Schmidt; all rights reserved.</copyright><lastBuildDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:11:12 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://geekyschmidt.com/tags/growing-up/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Jr. High Review</title><link>https://geekyschmidt.com/2007/07/20/jr-high-review/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:11:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://geekyschmidt.com/2007/07/20/jr-high-review/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Some people call Jr. High yearbooks humiliating. I call them perspective makers. I look back at the pictures and remember all the concerns I had in life and how important everything seemed. I couldn’t help but look into the eyes of these kids and wonder where they are now. Having been a military brat, I am fortunate enough to still know a few of them. But for the most part I have lost touch. What I wanted to do was share with everyone what people said about Nick and share with you what I take from it now. I want everyone to keep in mind that this was years ago, close to a decade. I want to explore what would have happened had I listened to my peers. A little background information, I had been working for a computer company for 2 years at this point. I was the new kid from a year ago and just making some friends. I played basketball and baseball and would imagine I was cocky to say the least. Humility is something I wasn’t capable of at this point in life because of my fear of being so alone in this new country. Okay off we go!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>