Wayback Machine: 10 Years Ago | #FridayFive

It's time for a Throwback Thursday on Friday. This week's Friday Five linkup topic five things you were doing 10 years ago. To do that, I had to hop into Mr. Peabody's Wayback Machine, and by that I mean I went to Facebook.

Five Things I was Doing 10 Years Ago

1. Just Joining Facebook, Apparently

When I jumped onto the time machine that is the Facebook timeline, I learned something. Apparently I had only just joined Facebook back on July 1, 2005. That was back when you needed to have a school email address at a school that was added. I remember using it so much to connect with people during college, with the defacto "I'll send you a friend request on Facebook." but I guess that was only for a small portion of my college years.

2. Junior to Senior Year of College

Speaking of college, 2005 was the spring of my junior year into my fall semester of my senior year at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania. Let's see, that means my fraternity, Kappa Kappa Psi, marching band, jazz band, concert band, coding, video games, doing less than smart things and maybe the occasional trip out to the bars. Ok, maybe more than occasional. And maybe the last two are related.

3. Becoming Vice President of the Northeast District for Kappa Kappa Psi

During my junior year, I was the president of my chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi, the Zeta Alpha Chapter at Bloomsburg University. In the spring of that year, I decided to run for Vice President of the Northeast District at district convention. I won the election, met a lot of people, and then served the next year as Vice President, which was a rewarding a fun time.

The Northeast District Council of Kappa Kappa Psi: Kalem, myself, Kate, Ed, and Adam.

4. Meeting My Future Wife for the First Time

So, part of campaigning for vice president while at UConn for district convention was meeting people. I went around to try and meet as many people as I could at convention (which I often would do anyway) but that way they would know who was running and what I planned to do as VP. At one point, my little calls me over before one of the sessions, and says "You need to meet these sexy jersey girls." It was a group of four girls from the Alpha Omega chapter at Pittsburgh University, wearing soccer jersey with the fraternity name. As it would turn out, one of those girls, the second from the left, just happens to now be my wife.

And yes, he did end up in the wedding party for having introduced us.

5. Making Stories

Lastly, as you do in college, I made many a good stories. Some stories were doing some things that may not have been the best idea. Others are just great memories of little things. Then there are some, or if you ask my wife all, start with "This one time Bob and I were drinking..." then ends in a variety of way, such as a TV fish tank, a bear skin rug or changing a bumper in the snow. You won't have good stories to tell if you don't make the memories first.

Linking Up

Check here for some links out to others sharing, staring with our three lovely hosts: Courtney, Cynthia and Mar. Check their posts (Eat Pray Run DC, You Signed Up for What?! and Mar on the Run to see the full set of links). I will add some others, usually randomly, as I read them to share the love. Go visit and keep reading!


Our hosts:

Eat, Pray, Run DC

You Signed Up for What?!

Mar on the Run

Some other good reads, pulled from the link up: