In all reality 7 years is not a long time, and who would’ve thought that tons of things would change and go out of style. Especially for middle school girls. Here are just a few of the great life choices we all used to make.

JUST dying the underneath of your hair black or dying the tips bright pink/red. Like you were only cool if you had this style.

Taking a low-quality mirror picture with your slide-up phone and friend was the only way to have the best Myspace profile picture.

Over-editing pictures so that everyone knew your name and all of the qualities you think you have with little hearts and smiley faces.

Wearing high side ponytails to show off every single one of your facial features, and since your best friend did it you just had to join in on the trend.

Looking forward to the end of the year when group photos were taken and you could wear whatever you wanted to, like home-made cut-offs.

Breaking the black jelly band was the biggest mistake of your 11-year-old life! Because we all knew something terrible would happen, but we didn't know exactly what.

Sticking your tongue out, and throwing up peace signs so that everyone knows you were a part of a middle school squad. Peace signs never go out of style.

Dialing *67 and then feeling so cool at school after anonymously calling your crush to say some lame joke.

Last but not least, we all used to trust our lovely mother's instincts and wear those wonderful plaid shorts to our knees with an Aeropostale logo down the side of our T's

Thankfully we all made it out of those years together and alive.