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I am from the teletubbies, my pink baby blanket, and my dad putting me and my sister in redskins and penn state cheerleading outfits

 

I am from my pink nintendo DS with princess peach stickers, cooking mama and pokemon, and dressing up as the pink power ranger 

 

I am from me and my sisters first wii, from mario and sonic at the olympic games and marble mania, from littlest pet shops and american girl dolls 

 

I am from riding bikes to my neighbors house, from playing hunger games outside in the backyard and from scheduling times to meet up on animal jam because we didn't have anything to text with 

 

I am from getting my first phone after getting all A’s in 6th grade, to having to buy every single phone after that, and from getting my dads old macbook for me and my sister to share 

 

I am from my first snapchat and instagram accounts, I am from finding cringy things to post on those accounts from pinterest and begging my mom to help my change my username so I can seem cool to my friends 

 

I am from discovering youtube and watching minecraft videos, from wanting to make a youtube account myself, and putting in minimal effort into that passion 

 

I am from watching the olympics with my family and sneaking staying up late to have sleepovers with my sister to watch the night events on the tiny box tv in the guest room 

 

I am from disney movies such as teen beach movie and descendants and being able to dress up my club penguin character to look like my favorites 

 

I am from getting into art and my parents buying me a digital drawing pad, from watching my passions be able to expand into technology, and from learning how to be safe on the internet

 

I am from sending 2018 memes in marching band group chats, and from not being able to change those group chat names because that one person just had to have an android 

 

I am from my dad receiving a VR headset from work and watching my sister and best friends play horror games on it but I was too chicken to try 

 

I am from watching redbox slowly die out because of the introduction to streaming services, and from getting introduced to jackbox on the amazon fire stick 

 

I am from covid taking away my junior and senior year of high school, and having zoom movie parties with my friends during quarantine 

 

I am from senior year microsoft teams classes and trying to get away with having my camera off so i could catch up on sleep after playing video games with my friends all night 

 

I am from getting my first computer and Ipad when I went to college and not having to fight over laptop customization after sharing a computer all my life, and ditching my kindle fire HD to read books on my Ipad 

 

I am from having the option to take asynchronous classes and worrying about missing assignments, and having to watch App take tragic loses on football almost every week 

 

I am from watching nick cages “vampire's kiss” with my friends and making sure we see every single nick cage movie because that one felt like a trip (as well as tricking people into watching vampire's kiss because MAN that movie is actually a trip)

 

I am from getting over my fear of horror and binging the saw movies with my roommate, and from trying to make friends with the scare actors at lake hickory haunts while my roommates shove me to the front of the group because they know I wont get scared 

 

I am from joining app state basketball band and rediscovering my love for band, from trying to get on the jumbotron with my section, and from late night bus rides where we sing old songs at the top of our lungs 

 

I am from learning how to adjust to constant digital transformation and pursuing a career in digital marketing because who knows where technology will take us in the future