DU youth, say hello here! (12-20)

Hi. I think us young 'uns need a thread to our own. So this is a place to say hi and things. Tell us your age (Or just an age-ish), who you are, if you could vote, did you vote, and a little about yourself.

I'll start.

I'm a 13 year old. I love music and I play saxophone and piano and am in the school band. I love anime, art, music, the Who, reading, writing, and social studies. When I grow up, I want to go to colledge and become an author or journalist.

MiniAmandaRuth

PINK FLOYD baby!
Red Sox.




Yep... that is basically my life.

I'm 20 years old, I voted, I play guitar and bass, and I'm on studying to become a college-level history teacher. I listen to alot of U2 and have been devoting way too much of my time to the Model United Nations.

I am 18, but in college, so I don't consider myself a youth anymore.

If ya could vote, ya ain't a youth!

I've been lurking since about fall 2001, and posting since I was 14.

Obviously (look at my post count) I didn't post much until now, though :)

Cool cool coooool! After all, why should the grown-ups get all the fun?

Ok, I too am 13 (14 on Thanksgiving) and love anime, especially Excel Saga. My favorite stuff to do is reading, writing, and getting out of the house to go anywhere. When I get out of college (Berkeley, I hope) I ALSO want to be an author or journalist (foreign correspondant preferably). I'm a vegetarian and a Sagittarius.

I think it's awesome that you started this, and I hope to frequent it!

MiniK8-eee

NEATAGE!!!! I love Cardcaptor Sakura (The japanese one) and Yu Yu Hakusho.

Mini

I'm 18 years old..voted for Kerry (takes a bow ;)) and I'm a college freshman..originally from California but going to school in New York and I'm planning to major in Political Science. :)

:(

BUT come 2006, I'll be voting Democrat straight across! :)

Of course, I live in Massachusetts... so... um...

This election was a depressing one to have as your first, trust me.

And hey, I see you're from the city. I'm a pseudo-Long Islander right now. :)

I still have relatives out there, so I still go out there somewhat often. :)

but didn't volunteer or campaign or anything.
In 2000 my dad and mom differed, but this time, my dad saw the light.

And I remember going to bed on Election Night, at around 2:15 after they finally called Florida for Bush, thinking Bush had won.

swordsman, liberal, psychic

18 year old college freshman at Virginia Tech.

My name is PaaKow Acquah. Have I met you?

And why am I here? I'm stalking you, HEyHEY.

Huh?

plus it was a really strange movie in 1977 by Miguel Pinero

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076706/

Is old-school cop/detective slang for guys with eyes for kids...

It's very "Dachiel Hammett"

HS senior at an all-girls Catholic college prep school (blech...extremely conservative).

Two parents (both teachers getting paid crap, my dad works three jobs) and a younger brother (age 13).

I love politics, but not as a career. I've been reading since I was three, and it's all I do if and when I have free time. I read a wide range of stuff (fantasy, fiction, biography), but it generally revolves around history or politics, with the occasional badly written romance novel thrown in the mix.

I've always been a history buff, especially in areas like ancient Rome, and medieval and Renaissance/Reformation Europe. I think I want to work in academia (history) as a career--which involves getting an advanced degree if I have the money. I love travel, so I'd be happy traveling arond and living in Europe doing research at a university and possibly teaching.

Right now, I'm struggling through senior year, volunteering at an inner city grade school, and taking French at the local community college, just for the hell of it.

I love the arts--drama, music, art, etc. (even though I'm not good at any of it). I love movies (crappy romances and whatnot excepted), especially comedies like Python (see screen name) and Mel Brooks. I can't list all my favorites, or explain them as some sort of genre, it's all a sort of hodgepodge. Old British TV, like Monty Python's Flying Circus and sitcoms like Fawlty Towers, IMO, is amazing.

I'm going through an extremely stressful senior year, and struggling to get in all my college applications.

Hello. :)

Whats up? My name is Audrey. I'm 12 years old. I play the saxophone too and this year I'm loving Social Studies. My favorite sport is basketball and football. Anyway, I think it is so awesome they might be making a youth DU board.

:toast: :bounce:

I have a friend named Aubrey

:hi:

I'm 12 and in 7th grade. If I could have voted it would've been for Kerry. I love Xbox - my favorite games are Halo, Halo 2, Tony Hawk's games, and 007 Nightfire. Currently, my favorite music groups are Blue Oyster Cult and Bruce Springsteen. I like all types of sciences and math. I hope to go to Stanford, Berkeley, or UCLA. If they start a youth forum/group, I would create my own account. :-)

Nice to meet you, MiniAmandaRuth.

DaughterofNo Surrender

by one measly year! I'm 21 and I was too young to vote in 2000 goddamnit and not political enough to vote in 2002! Oh well I voted for Kerry and he won my state - PA, so there!

oh well, enjoy your free time and glorious lack of responsibility while you have it. But if any old people tell you that "these are the best years of your life" then ask them why there aren't more suicides!

17 year old senior in High School, I enjoy video games, movies, music, sleep, and TV. I wanna either be a speechwriter or go in to journalism preferably attend GWU, I have to do community college first though.

and younger. We need you, your energy and activism and ideas. We welcome any contributions that you can make, since we, obviously, need them. You are the future of this movement, so please stay with this and keep active. I only became political after being scared witless on 9/11. I wish so much that I'd started earlier. You give me hope for all of us.:-)

a few weeks ago. i too was a "band geek", playing clarinet, oboe, and (my current love) percussion. and the Who kicks ass. but i hate anime. eh, cant win em all :shrug:


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

I'm 17 Years Old and live in Oregon. I'm a High School Junior and I keep a 3.75 GPA with Honors level courses, I run my on school's varsity cross country and varsity track teams and plan on attending the University of Oregon to major in International Relations or Political Science. I listen to Classic Rock, Oldies, Blues, Jazz and am a saxophonist in my school band.

I spent years feeling very very lonely as a political junkie in high school, and nothing would make me happier than to see an atmosphere for youth that positively reinforces your concern about America and the world.

I'm No Surrender's daughter.

Please be nice to me, I'm only 12. :hi: :-)

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DU ROCKS!!

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New Jersey, sophomore in high school. My current vice is Halo 2.

:thumbsup:

I have to finish my homework before I can play again. :-(

Double major in history and international relations with a minor in economics.

I currently reside in Southern California, home of the "holy shit" conservatives. I'm in marching and concert band and play the tenor saxophone. I'm a big fan of John Mellencamp and country music (so shoot me). My favorite subject is probably English, even though I am procrastinating doing a speech for it right now. In my "spare" time, of which I'll have none until marching band season is over in a week, I write, read, draw, play music, sing (hehehe), and occasionally run. I want to go to college in Minnesota and major in political science or journalism, or maybe go on to law school.

I thought you were much, much older than that. :shrug: