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- = F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. =
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- What Happened To You
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- Ever have a person you met turn into a pretty good friend. Someone
- whom you could hang out with and talk a lot of shit? Then, after
- thinking you knew this person so well something about them changed.
- Something you could not understand or relate to. Almost as if your
- old friend had died and a new one had taken their place. Maybe you
- thought this change could be good but unfortunately their new persona
- didn't include you so it was as if your friend actually did die. I
- had a friend like that. This is the story of how he changed...for
- better or for worse.
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- Senior year of High School a couple of friends and I were getting
- ready to shove off to college. One of my closest friends, Mark,
- began acting a little differently that year. Perhaps it was the
- excitement he anticipated with college in the coming year.
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- Mark and I got along pretty well--we both seemed to fit into that
- "nerd/geek" category at our school. A couple of people passing
- through with few friends and not belonging to any special "cool" club
- or group unless you would call the Astronomy or Computer club cool.
- Thinking back Mark probably had more so called "friends" then I did
- though we did know quite a few people. We all "know" people but
- talking and hanging out with them was something totally different.
- One class we had in common was Computers. In this class there were
- about 30 people--22 taking Pascal and 8 of us taking FORTRAN/ML. We
- programmed on an Apple IIe which Mark had at home and could do
- any/all of his assignments on. This gave Mark quite an advantage
- over me and I expected it to show in his grades. I don't recall much
- of the class or the people but I do recall seeing the grades posted
- that 3rd quarter and discovering Mark had gotten a D or F. I had
- concluded it was Mark because I noticed he was slacking during that
- period--plus I knew the other 6 people taking the class. This is the
- first time I noticed a change in Mark. He seemed to be slipping not
- only in computers but in all his classes--maybe because he had been
- accepted at the university. Mark was excited about attending college
- but he and I knew Engineering/Physics was no easy road so why was
- there a lack of effort his final semesters of High School.
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- Though Mark and I were good friends we decided not to room together
- at college for various reasons. Among them being that we did not
- want to hate each other after living together--a horror story we
- heard about. Furthermore by rooming with others we would meet new
- friends and perhaps not be so withdrawn. We graduated that May
- (1988) and were off to college after a Summer of work at the same
- store.
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- That Fall we found ourselves at college 300 miles from our homes. We
- met new friends and lived not 100 yards from each other but ended up
- hanging out/talking much less than we did in high school. Mark only
- visited me a few times, and hardly ever called. It seemed I was
- always the caller or visitor at his place. Either it was me going to
- Mark or it was no seeing Mark. We ended up becoming further and
- further apart. This saddened me because Mark and I were good friends
- in high school and I anticipated an even better friendship to develop
- during our college years. But Mark had different plans.
-
- One Saturday night while hanging out in the dorm room I glanced out
- my window to see if I could spot what was happening over at Mark's
- place. I noticed Mark sitting in a chair laughing and moving his
- head quite a bit like he was in a drunken mode. I check that window
- about four times that night just to see if Mark was continuing to
- have a hell of a good time. And that was it! I had then figured it
- out. Mark had come to college to "have a great time." Fuck studying
- and college for the sake of learning Mark was out to party. I
- learned of Marks intentions after repeatedly visiting him and having
- his roommates tell me they had not seen him for days and the last
- time they saw him he was drunk. That story by him of living off the
- vending machines for three days seems remotly possible now.
-
- Later that first semester Mark and I passed each other as I was
- heading back to my dorm. Mark asks how my "sex life was." So I
- asked him "what sex life" then returned the same question. Mark
- replied "great" and proceeded to walk off with a smile. It was then
- and a few tell tale signs later that I fully understood Marks
- intentions for these few months of his life--party, drink,
- fuck...enjoy life.
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- The next semester came and I discovered Mark was no longer living on
- campus but with a friend in a 1 bedroom apartment off campus. By
- this time we had hardly seen each other anymore and I learned of his
- moving via his old roommates and not by him. About Spring time of
- that second semester I learned that Mark had not registered for
- classes, VAX'ed most the day and was later picked up and moved back
- home by his dad. A year (not sure if it was a year or actually
- months) later Mark joined the Air Force. Perhaps this might be
- typical of college freshmen but for Mark or what I knew to be Mark
- this was a quantum leap.
-
- I've always been curious about what happened to Mark during that year
- but never got any real answers from him. Mark claimed to have gotten
- good grades that semester yet his roommates claimed he would have had
- to have been a "fucking genius" to get the grades he said he did.
- Why else would Mark have re-taken Calculus at a community college.
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- Mark and I still talk on the phone every so often (year or so) but
- Mark is a different then the kid I once knew in High School. It is
- hard to believe Mark is a married man now--especially if you knew him
- in high school.
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- It took a lot of strength to change the way Mark did--to transgress
- from a semi introverted person to a "party animal." Strength I have
- yet to find within myself. When I look back at Mark and his exploits
- I often wonder why I was not included--maybe because I often resist
- change. It's hard to see a friend go out like that and forget about
- you. Even harder to swallow is that perhaps you were not the friend
- you made your self out to be.
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- -Pallbearer
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