New England B.S. Thread

By my calculations, I will have my student loans paid off by Oct/Nov this year . I came out with probably around 50k in loans which isn't bad compared to some people I know. I was making interest payment though while I was still in school with whatever leftover money I had from summer internships and part time jobs during the school year. Lived at home with my parents for the first 3 years after college and severely overpaid my monthly payments. Now my wife and I will have owned our house for 3 years coming up in a few months and I will have my student loans paid off ~5 years early.

 

Jesus. I was skinny at 125 and I'm only 5'7. You must have disappeared when you turned sideways...

 

Yeah you will always see some people that peaked in high school but I try not to be judgmental like they were. I worked my ass off in hs, I had no time for sports. I did the same when i went to college and when i got my first career job. Everyone makes choices and mine was to work hard and try to create something from nothing

 

Me in high school







Me now!

Yes I was grotesquely skinny in school. You could count my ribs as I just stood there. I was going to the gym 3 to 4 times a week and taking everything I could to gain weight. The gym couldn't even do my fitness evaluation because they couldn't measure my body fat (gauges only went down to 3%). I got discouraged and quite after 6 - 8 months after the person that did it said she could see a big improvement in my gains. I hadn't gained any weight!

 

Ah, the year of my birth!

That was probably not long before I was born haha

Oh, cool! I didn't know you had a brother!

 

Fucking awesome

 

I was 6'2 and 270lbs my senior year of high school, and now I'm 6'3 and 280-ish lbs 7 years later.

I've always been big.

 

That's awesome!

I know some people who have 100k+ in loans and are making the minimum payments, openly stating that they have no intentions of paying them off and want them forgiven. I have no respect for people like that.

 

Wow!

I'm about 5'9" and am usually around 135-140. I've dropped to 128 or so once when I had food poisoning and I looked very unhealthy at that weight. I couldn't imagine being around 125 at 3" taller.

 

My prom pic I was 190lbs and last time I stepped on the scale I was 272lbs, 6' tall without boots on as well

 

Hey, I know that place

 

High school 6ft 175 lbs with plenty of muscle compared to today, now it's just fat lol 240lbs of it

 

See what I'm learning here is that if you start fat, you'll just stay fat. If you start skinny, you'll end up fat. Everyone ends up fat! Woo!

 

This is 'Murica, after all isn't it?

I've stayed 5'10" since high school and am actually currently at the same 160 lbs haha. I had put on weight after college but lost those 25lbs in the last year and a half. Muscle mass compared to high school me though has gone up and fat gone down.

 

Nice! I've stayed the same weight but lost muscle mass. In high school and college I was in the gym daily, now I just can't find the time. I'm hoping to change that though!

 

Here's a semi-recent photo of me, I don't think anyone I went to HS with would recognize me :snicker:

 

I see a problem with us older members … we have to go home find the pics we want to share , scan them then upload them ….. tooo much work .. you whippersnappers just say give me a moment and you play with that thing that is always in your hand …. I still have a flip phone .. it works....

 

Not necessarily. I weigh more than I did in high school, but the majority of it is muscle mass. I don't have washboard abs any more, but I'm no roly-poly

 

I still have a flip phone and I'm pretty sure I fall into the category of 'you whippersnappers'