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Now I know all you guys (and girls, the few that visit) tend to spend a lot of time on these forums and the poke-servers, but how's everything holding up in real life? Could you guys just say what kind of work you do and maybe your age, as well as other stuff going on in your lives (I promise I won't stalk you). I think we're all curious over who browses smogon.

I'll start off.

I'm a student in a university in NSW (which is in Australia), currently studying engineering. I work part time at an advertising agency and i'm 19 years old. I usually study at day, work at night, sometimes partay, and sneakily multitask on poke-servers when I get bored during lectures (my secret addiction). I left my girl 2 months ago because I realised she was psychotic... and life is going semi-decent atm. ~~~
 
Hey uni student here also, same age and NSW as well. Let me guess.... UTS?

edit: UTS is better ;)

but seriously, I never heard of anyone living closer to UNSW than UTS...
 
swing by #ocn on synirc (the irc server where all the smogon chatrooms are on) and have a chat with us if you like
 
kewl, i'll check it out :O


@renosaur : lol i live in a dodgy place, but I think UTS is better for some courses such as comm. law and computer science and UNSW/USYD is better for med and engineering (due to the higher cut-off). I got an ATAR of 97 so law was just out of reach...
 
another aussie here yew. these kinds of threads are the best cos everyone loves talking about themselves and I'm obv no different

to sum everything up:
- Lady Gaga and Maria Sharapova are life
- 19
- B. Pharmacy @ usyd although I might transfer to secondary education maybe at Macq cos bored of usyd, and unsw is a shithole + inconvenient to get to unless u live in Kingsford/Ranwick area
- quit work a couple months ago cos life is too crazy atm and I can't deal with it
- social life is good; I have four close friends and that's all I really need. More than enough acquaintances to make life a bit more unpredictable and interesting.
- love life is non-existent / complicated
- time of my life: summer of 2011, went on trips after trips and really got to bond with people and relax. 21st June 2012, Gaga's Born This Way Ball!
- plans for near future: pass exams, tone up body for summer, Stereosonic, visit avoca beach, head down to Melbourne, head up to Queensland, beach, beach, beach, beach
- plans for distant future: move out of Sydney to some rural area


most important thing I've learned about life is that you gotta shape your own future in regards to anything. Also that happiness is honestly as simple as your state of mind (as cliche as those are, I feel like you'll only understand it when you realise it yourself). Mind you it took me to sink to my absolute lowest point ever to realise this. Oh and love yourself too.
 
Woah you seem to be living the dream.. I'm still confused over what I want for my future.

(I can't go to beaches with mah fwends that often cause I got too much acne over my back :C )
 
I'm 22.
I go to a shit local school (Cal. State Bakersfield), trying to get a bachelors in biology. I think this is my last year. Don't give enough fucks to know or check for certain. Not gonna use my degree for shit. I hate school. I should have quit once I finished High school. During the summer I work in construction. I'll probably work here the rest of my life. Erecting some bolted steel storage tanks for Oil and water companies. Pay is pretty good. Much more than I ever thought I would make (I assumed I'd be making min wage all my life, but I get more than double that now (cool)). I have to save all the money that I get in order to pay for school/books/food/gas. Live with my parents and don't really pay any bills. I made an agreement with my dad that I could live in his house and pretty much not pay for shit if I can pay for my own school, and help him out with shit (which is quite often). My social life is pretty much non-existent. I have about one friend. and like 4 acquaintances. Most of my social interaction comes from people online. and I manage to scare away most of the people who I consider some of my closest friends. Never had a love life. Still a Beta-kissless-virgin-shorfag-neckbeard-loser. I'll probably have to end up going to mexico in order to find a mate. and even then she'll only be a gold digger bcos "lol he's from America, he is a trillionare." Maybe have a kid or two. Then she'll cheat on me. and I'll have to pay child support and some alimony. And then I'll die.
 
I'm a 16 year old Dutch college student, currently in 6 VWO (translating to being a college Senior, I guess). After school, I plan on hitting the university; I live near Delft, so there is a pretty good one near by. What study, I don't know yet, though I'm leaning to Industrial Design.

Regarding sports and hobbies, I practice judo twice a week, and sometimes run to complement that. I like to think of myself as quite sporty, and I think I'm in the top half of my class, but I'm probably not the athlete I like to think I am. I play bass guitar, and play a lot of games in my free time (Borderlands 2!!!!!).

My love life is quite non-existent, but my social life is pretty good, I'd say; I have at least 7 or 8 people I could as good friends, and another 30 or so with who I interact daily. I hope going to university will allow me to keep this up.

Pretty interesting to read about other Smogonites, cool to read the story that goes with the user.
 
I'm an 18 year old unemployed college student. I used to play competitive Pokemon but I stopped. Now I feel like I don't have enough time in the day for leisure.
 
UK people and their tea. I can't survive without my coffee ;D

I'm 22.
I go to a shit local school (Cal. State Bakersfield), trying to get a bachelors in biology. I think this is my last year. Don't give enough fucks to know or check for certain. Not gonna use my degree for shit. I hate school. I should have quit once I finished High school. During the summer I work in construction. I'll probably work here the rest of my life. Erecting some bolted steel storage tanks for Oil and water companies. Pay is pretty good. Much more than I ever thought I would make (I assumed I'd be making min wage all my life, but I get more than double that now (cool)). I have to save all the money that I get in order to pay for school/books/food/gas. Live with my parents and don't really pay any bills. I made an agreement with my dad that I could live in his house and pretty much not pay for shit if I can pay for my own school, and help him out with shit (which is quite often). My social life is pretty much non-existent. I have about one friend. and like 4 acquaintances. Most of my social interaction comes from people online. and I manage to scare away most of the people who I consider some of my closest friends. Never had a love life. Still a Beta-kissless-virgin-shorfag-neckbeard-loser. I'll probably have to end up going to mexico in order to find a mate. and even then she'll only be a gold digger bcos "lol he's from America, he is a trillionare." Maybe have a kid or two. Then she'll cheat on me. and I'll have to pay child support and some alimony. And then I'll die.
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You gotta cheer up bro, you're only 22 after all. (some tips based on personal experience)

- You can move out and be friends with your roomates (practice on www.omegle.com to build up your social skills).
- I used to be awkward around people too, but you should read this book called "How to win friends and influence people"(The movie 'How to lose friends and alienate people' is based on that book).
- You can always be a biology teacher/professor, they have very nice pay ($60000+ per year)
- Take a year off after school, save up and go traveling, see new places and meet different people.
- Build up your confidence and ask someone out (its really hard and rejection may be scary but nobody will judge you)

Be positive bro, if u lived in Australia I would buy you lunch :D
 
I'm 18. I'm going to Cooper Union, which they pretty much said "you must work your ass off or you will fail. If you don't plan on putting in work, you're wasting a spot here." I have done no work whatsoever. My classes are fucking jokes; I should've placed out of chem and calc. I live in NYC, but often come home to my house in Jersey.

- no job
- no girl
- no worries
 
18 years young white American (Greek?) male

I'm currently a freshman at Duke University in North Carolina, studying biomedical engineering right now with (hopefully) a double-major in physics. College is gonna be fun.

I used to like running, to the point of being competitive and actually a bit decent, but then a few injuries, the stress of high school (I know you wanna laugh), and just life in general caught up with me. I'm trying to get back into it. In the meantime, I lifted weights to stay somewhat active.

My social life is good I guess. I spent the first month of college not giving a fuck and doing silly/confidenti-ish things, so I think people like to be around me. We always have good times. I'm in an awkward transitional phase where I'm not yet really close with my new friends but no longer with my old friends, so I can't really say I have any truly close friends right now. That said, my roommate and my hallmates are fucking cool, and also wholesome people overall. They don't seem too superficial, and they take care of me when I'm too drunk (I take care of them too, of course). When it's time to work, we all know that it's time to sit the fuck down and work. Conversely, we also know when it's time to play, and we go decently hard.

Love life is currently on hold. I'm getting adjusted to college, figuring out how to balance academics, fitness, and social life. Once I get a handle on that, maybe I'll go looking for a girlfriend. They say that the culture at Duke is all about mindless hook-ups, but I played that game for 3/4 of my high school time and it got old. Sex is good, but having an actual connection with someone (and sex) is better. I guess it won't be easy for me to get a girlfriend in that regard, since nobody wants to be anyone's girlfriend. Oh well, not really giving a fuck at the moment. If it happens, it happens. If it doesn't, oh well.

No job because I didn't qualify for work-study and they reserve all the jobs for those kids. Oh well, I don't know how I'd balance a job into my life right now anyway. I'll get one soon hopefully.

When I'm drunk, I like to talk about physics. In fact I once tried to prove my sobriety to cops by explaining general relativity to them. I got stuck somewhere in spherical coordinates. Guess I'm not good at math when drunk.

I have a severe case of yellow fever, which is only compounded by the high asian population at Duke.

I think that covers everything.
 
When I'm drunk, I like to talk about physics. In fact I once tried to prove my sobriety to cops by explaining general relativity to them. I got stuck somewhere in spherical coordinates. Guess I'm not good at math when drunk.
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haha. Legend!
 
lets go with point form for this

-18 years young
-avid softball player
-single cos lol nerd
-server mod
-going to university next September for my Doctorate in Psychology
-played for team Canada softball when I was 16
-injury prone
-and alcohol is nice
 
I'm 18 and a freshman at Indiana University.

I work as a Strength & Conditioning Consultant at IU's Rec Sports facility, which is one of the best in the country.

I have a girlfriend that I have been dating for a little over two years. People said we wouldn't last in college. Pfft, if anything, our relationship has improved!

Other than my girlfriend, I don't have many close friends here. Nearly all of my good friends from high school went to Purdue or Ohio State or something instead. I'm pretty good buds with most the dudes on my floor and we go out to parties together and whatnot, but they're not guys that I really connect with that much. I'm hard to really connect with on that much of a personal level.

I like weed. Drinking is fun too, but if I'm given a choice...I take the weed. Allllll day erryday.
 
Let's see... I'm 22, Texan. High school grad who doesn't do anything but stay at home all day and play video games. Smogon Addict, League of Legends addict..hell gaming addict in general.

I need to find some work though, as much as i love staying at home doing nothing(extremely lazy), it gets kinda boring after a while.
 
no it's just fantasy

I'm a 16 year old high school junior from Texas who is addicted to league of legends and smogon mafia.
 
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