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When You Grow Up At The Pool

It's a summer like no other.

University of Dayton

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Emma Weisbrod

When you grow up at the pool, your summers are pretty much the same every year. With this being said though, you truly wouldn't want to be your summers as a child to be anything different. Here are 10 reasons why growing up at the pool is one of the best ways to grow up.

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Arts Entertainment

16 Thoughts From A Lifeguard

Sometimes your mind wonders from the water.

Shippensburg University

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Let's face it sitting outside in the sun for hours, staring at a pool can be very boring. Lifeguards everywhere can relate to these thoughts:

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21 Things You Would Only BEGIN To Understand If You Are A Swimmer

Chlorine really is your perfume.

Shippensburg University

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21 Things You Would Only BEGIN To Understand If You Are A Swimmer

Swimmers are a special type of breed.

Not many people would voluntarily wake up at ungodly hours of the morning to jump into a pool that feels like ice water just to stare at a black line in the bottom of the pool for two hours.

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My Career As A Swim Coach Changed My Life For The Best

These athletes are consistently pushing me to be the best version of myself, both on and off the deck.

Eastern Michigan University

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Nick Kudla

One thing that I have always been incredibly grateful for is my job. The biggest reason for that is because I have found that most people my age hate their job. It is so common to hear someone complain about what happened at work, how late they had to stay out, how gross they felt when they were done, how unappreciated they are, and on and on. Now, I've had my share of jobs that I felt unappreciated at too, and perhaps because of them, I am able to appreciate my current job even more. The job I am speaking so highly of… is a swim coach.

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22 Surprising Uses For Petroleum Jelly

Thank me later

Michigan State University Millennials of Michigan

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If you're anything like me, you always have some Vaseline or Aquaphor stored in your medicine cabinet. But you'd be surprised what it can be used for aside from healing cuts. Here's a list of all the surprising uses I've found for petroleum jelly:

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15 Things You'll Always Remember If You Were On A High School Swim Team

11. What happens in the locker room, stays in the locker room...

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15 Things You'll Always Remember If You Were On A High School Swim Team

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I competitively swam for 6 years of my life, my team was the Howell Sea Serpents. Some of my best and my worst memories came from being on the swim team. There were the stereotypical mean girls, but I also met my best friend during these years. She's the only one of my swim team friends I really still stay in touch with.

There are some things that people just don't understand when it comes to swimming, and they never really will unless they were ever part of a swim team. Here are 15 of those things...

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It's a summer like no other.

1. The tan.

2. The chlorine "perfume".

3. You always have something to do.

4. When you're a kid, the lifeguards are your idols.

5. ...And because you're there all the time, they know you, which can be pretty cool.

6. It's the cool hangout with all of your friends.

7. You learn how to create your own fun because you just need to be in the water no matter what.

8. You feel like a gymnast or a dancer, even when you're not because of the tricks you do off the diving board.

9. The snack bar. You never realize how exciting it is just just spend one dollar on a piece of candy.

10. When it comes the time and you're no longer a little kid, you now what you want your first job to be.

Sometimes your mind wonders from the water.

1. "What the hell is so hard about walking?"

2. "Do I even remember how to properly do CPR?"

3. "Is that even swimming?"

4. "I am going to have horrible tan/burn lines"

5. "God I hope it storms soon"

6. "Please stop pretending to drown"

7. "Why are all of these children direct descendants of satan himself?"

8. "Honestly it would be nice if somebody pooped or peed in the pool right now."

9. "Why would you think you could do butterfly?"

10. "I hope my whistle doesn't fly off and hit a kid."

11. " How much time until somebody switches with me?"

12. "I am not a babysitter"

13. "I am not a swim lessons instructor"

14. " I am so bored"

15." At least nobody can tell I am staring at the total babe over there because of my sunglasses."

16. "Oh god, why am I even thinking about that?"

Chlorine really is your perfume.

1. You have to set at least five alarms to wake up in the morning.

2. You have accepted that chlorine is your perfume.

3.You have mastered the art of the "deck change"

4. You have worked as a life guard at least once in your life.

5. Having permanent google/ cap lines on your face.

6. Taking ten or more minutes to put on a tech suit.

7. Having weird shaving schedules.

8. Food, in general.

9. You physically cannot run.

10. The pain of hitting your hand on the lane line.

11. You know multiples of 25 better than anybody else.

12. Top and Bottom mean something completely different to you.

13.You have gotten very good at telling stories in small increments.

14. You never want to have practice on your birthday.

15. Butterfly is not a peaceful animal.

16. Meet warm ups have trained you for the apocalypse.

17. Taper

18. You do not know how to have fun at a public pool.

19. You have also mastered water polo.

20. Thunderstorms are your favorite weather phenomena.

21. The bruises you get from the pool.

These athletes are consistently pushing me to be the best version of myself, both on and off the deck.

Thank me later

1. Use on skin after shaving as an aftershave

2. Gives you insanely soft lips

3. Moisturizes dry cuticles

4. Makes perfume last longer on your skin

5. Helps tame split ends in a pinch

6. Use on a new tattoo to help the healing process

7. Taming your eyebrows and getting them to lay flat

8. To moisturize your face without clogging pores

9. To remove makeup

10. Helps to prevent chafing while exercising

11.Softens your feet while you sleep

12. Swipe on your teeth to prevent lipstick getting on your teeth

13. To shine your shoes

14. Turn any dry makeup into cream makeup

15. Tame flyaways in your hair

16. Put over eyeshadow to create a wet eye look

17. Add with brown sugar to create a lip exfoliator

18. Give your skin a dewy glow

19. Put on areas of skin that are dryer while getting a fake tan to prevent looking orange in certain areas

20. Protects your skin from getting dyed while dyeing your hair

21. Protects your hands from chlorine dryness while swimming

22. Soothes your nose when it won't stop running

11. What happens in the locker room, stays in the locker room...

1. Dreading the freezing cold temperature of the pool.

2. Trying to rock a swim cap and goggles.

3. Swim cap and water bottle wars

4. Getting dizzy from flip turn practice.

5. The fear of falling to your death off the diving block...