So get ready to ride this wave of nostalgia. So pop in that 'Now That's What I Call Music' CD, pull on your parachute pants or tie that flannel around your waist, and prepare for some serious nostalgia.ĭon't worry, we won't make you wait for the dial-up to connect, or blow on the cartridge to make these memes work. We've compiled a list of 32 nostalgic memes that will transport you right back to your neon-colored, slap-bracelet-wearing, Gameboy-playing glory days. Leg warmers, neon spandex, Furby, and Tamagotchi, the era where simplicity met the cusp of the digital age.Įver find yourself longing for a time before smartphones and social media? A time when MTV still played music videos, and Saturday mornings were meant for cartoons, not chores? Well, you're in for a treat. Step into our meme time machine and let's take a radical journey back to the 80s and 90s! From the days of cassette mixtapes and Walkmans to the era of dial-up internet and AOL, these were the golden years when our biggest worry was not having enough minutes on our pager. Send her dank memes, good music to soundscape to, and all things aesthetic at. And on the toughest of days, these bits of memories will be your source of boundless joy.'Ĭrystal's a foodaholic whose only life achievement has been involuntarily being the insanest one in the room. The cramped up classrooms, those doodled upon benches, the squeaky swings, that empty auditorium, all these will come rushing to you in a tidal wave of nostalgia. Either way, years down the lane, you'll look back at this night and mark it as the day your life changed forever. The happiest day of your life, or the saddest? I'll leave that up to you to decide.

Taposh Ghosh, a third year student at IBA, DU sums it up perfectly, 'Four years of pre-school and kindergarten, five years of primary, followed by seven years of high school, then suddenly it's your graduation night. Remember the million times you internally screamed to grow up? #Facepalm For the ones who've endured an all-girls/boys school all their teen lives, you no longer need a science fest to be blessed with *cough* interactions *cough* with the opposite gender.Įven so, these bittersweet flashes only help so much, and you finally have to bite the bullet and move on with university. But hey, you can finally rock that kamla mohawk as long as you want without the school in-charge shearing it off in front of the whole class (If your mom doesn't, that is). The unrequited love(s), the pushing around by teachers and parents alike, the desperate struggle for popularity… all that over. Soon, the not-so-fond memories of school swoop in, perhaps to provide the slightest consolation. Whenever I think about school days, I don't feel offended by the punishments I was given by teachers nor sad about the broken friendships, but a calming aura surrounds me like the first breeze of spring.' Sure, you had your share of disadvantages when you landed at the bottom quarter of roll calls back in 10th grade but university entails bigger consequences if your grade point average isn't exactly up to the mark.Īnimesh Sarker, a second year university student, reflects, 'If my life were a puzzle, Mastermind would be one big piece of it. university, you start to realise how different the world outside your school is. 'Doesn't matter whether it was small or huge, because that's the sacred place your memories were made in.'Įvery inch of it houses infinite memories: the tiled foyer where you skidded and fell flat in front of your crush, back in 8th grade every CCTV covered entrance playgrounds where endorphins were generated and groggy assemblies were conducted staircases and balconies teeming with snippets of gossip and chatter and the auditorium you first experienced stage fright in.Īs you take the first steps into adulthood, i.e.

'You even grow attached to your school campus,' he continues.

'It always hurts when you can't spend as much time with those people, whom you worked so hard with to create unbreakable bonds (unless you're one of the lucky few who went to university with the same pals),' says Fardeen Ahmed, a first year student at BUET. That's when it hits – how these moments ultimately make school unforgettably meaningful – and you can't help but feel poignant.

Even when you DO organise reunions, some can't make it because they've flown thousands of miles away for university. There was no longer a reason to see friends every day, share tiffin, and nag that straight A friend for treats. Then there are the billion other memories outside class: sharing the adrenaline rush during basketball practice/tournaments blowing up that crystal experiment at chem lab or just lounging in comfortable silence at the library.Īs these seemingly insignificant moments passed by routinely, all of a sudden adult life happened.

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