Everyone had one: the years of 6th, 7th, and 8th grade were filled with the memories of awkwardness. Thankfully (and hopefully), as college students, we have grown out of our awkward stage, but it never hurts to look back and remember how lucky we are to be out of it. I mean thank god.
Braces.
Braces were god-awful. Monthly trips to the orthodontist just to tighten the metal train tracks that were moving your teeth ever so painfully. Also, you couldn't eat popcorn and you talked with a lisp. Remember when you had to use the wax to cover up the pokey wires? Disaster.
Awkwardly skinny.
Shout out to all the tall kids that looked like baby deer until they were 16.
…or still losing the baby fat.
And shout out to all the other kids that looked like Josh Peck in the Drake & Josh days until they were 16.
School dances.
I mean was there anything more awkward then trying to dance with boys with a no grinding rule while the DJ played Flo Rida?
The short haircut.
You cut your hair against your mothers wishes and now you have braces and a bob. Good work, idiot.
“Talking" to boys/girls.
The girls are constantly glued to their pink Motorola Razrs and the boys are constantly glued to their slightly more normal flip phones texting their lovers, but we never actually talked to them in person. Tragic.
Growth Spurts.
One day your jeans would be just fine then the next day you'd wake up and you look like you were preparing for the flood.
First Kisses.
Mine was at a bus stop and it was painfully awkward, something I'd love to forget. Theres also the classic “lets hide together for night games" first kiss or the awkward movie theater encounter. Neither are going to be fun.
Co-ed parties.
As cool as it was to finally be able to part-aaayyy with the boys, standing on opposite sides of the room only making conversation with the people you came with didn't make for much of a party.
Abercrombie clothes.
The coolest kids in school would show up to the first day wearing Abercrombie jeans and a brown Abercrombie zip-up with the biggest damn moose you'd ever seen. Thank God we grew out of the Abercrombie clothes stage. It was almost as bad as the Juicy Couture tracksuit and charm bracelet phase.
Trying to wear crocs.
Crocs will never be cool and that's final. I love them, I own a pair, and I truly think everyone on this planet should own a pair, but the fact that we tried to make them cool was just astounding.
AIM Statuses.
“brb mom needs the computer"
“~*~*TaKeN*~*~"
“nobody said it was easy…nobody said it would be so hard…coldplay <3"
“homework! BRB"
“so mad rn. Call/txt"
Overly aggressive boys in gym class.
Admit it, we all knew at least 3. They pretended like gym class was the fricken Olympics and would throw balls so hard during dodgeball it was like a fight to the death. I got hit in the head multiple times, and I fully expect those boys to pay for the therapy.
The first boyfriend/girlfriend.
“hey I like u"
“I like u 2"
“will u b my girlfriend"
“sure"
And that was pretty much the last time we talked. Though exhilarating, there was literally no point in dating someone during the awkward phase. And when it came to the first break up, man those would get messy. I once had a friend who broke up with her boyfriend with a hand-written note. We thought it was a great idea at the time, which is another reason those in the awkward phase of life should never date anyone.
