Andrewgosu
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Hello.
I was viewing my user profile today and realised I joined this site almost five years ago (registered May 28th 2006). Well, I'm exaggerating a little bit, but still, time has gone by so fast - I'm a bit nostalic and sentimental at the moment. Maybe that's the reason I'm writing this post, maybe I'm just crazy. Who knows!
When I first joined this site, I was 16 and studied in the 9th grade. I'm not familiar what's it called in your country - high school, college or something else -, but that's not important anyway. I was a young whippersnapper (I'm not claiming I aren't one anymore) and it reflected in my early posts and reputation count: if I remember correctly, I achieved 100 points of reputation around the 750 post count. Plus I remember reputation, the very green bars themselves, being quite important to me. I hungered for those bars, but the quality of my knowledges and posts weren't up for par. Let me demonstrate one of my oldest posts:
Yeah, that's me and obviously lying. 2 weeks?! I think I opened WE for the first the same day I posted that message.
Anyway, I started to take up JASS and learn about the more advanced features of World Editor when I started 10th grade (gymnasium, college etc.); I started to write tutorials and do samaritan work as a World Editor Help Zone (as it was then called) regular poster. It was then when I first understood that the length of my reputation bar doesn't show anything, it's the positive feedback from other members that really counts. Ah, great times: 10-20 posts per day. Wish it was like this now, too.
I think I wrote over 20 or 25 tutorials (almost all of them exclusively for thehelper.net) and countless snippets it that time, but I never imagined they would gain so much popularity. In my eyes, at least. I mean, I was quite surprised the other day (a few months back, when I first visited this site after quite some while) when I was browsing the WEZ just for laughs and memories and noticed my tower defense tutorial is still the most popular tutorial on this site (yeah, that's my ego talking). Then again, I'm really glad and thankful for such a site as thehelper.net, because without it, I wouldn't have ever taken up fiddling with the WE and writing tutorials to help others.
11th grade was the downfall for Andrewgosu - I started to post less and less. As I look back, the whole 11th grade was a really depressing period in my life, because I was quite depressed back then. Just that, my first ever girlfriend left me and I was quite heart-broken. Blame the women! Nah, I'm just kidding - it was never meant to be. But the damage had been done...
As I recall, I really wanted to be active again here when the 12th - and last - grade started, but after a month or two had passed from the first schoolday, I figured out my real priorities. I mean, I figured out what I wanted to learn in the university. And the decision was a big one: medicine. I'm not that off when I say that it's really difficult in any country to get into a good university to start to learn medicine. And that's exactly the case here too, where I live - Estonia. I knew I had to start early and pull all my muscles to take the final tests really well in order to get into medicine. It meant I had to struggle for the whole year and commit myself... the idea of being active here fell to ashes.
What can I say? In the end, the commitment paid for itself as starting from first of September I'm a student in medicine and a minimum of six years of learning awaits me. Yay or nay? I'm chuffed to bits, in any way.
The moral of the story? I really don't know, I just wanted to write this. I doesn't have to interest anyone. Per aspera ad astra? I've enjoyed my time here (and I'm not going anywhere).
Oh, a year ago, I forgot to post a picture of my Superman tattoo:
I own a legit copy of Starcraft 2. It's great.
Yes, I still loves pandas and no, I still haven't got a girlfriend.
But I'm happy and I'm enjoying my life - I love to live and so should you.
Andrewgosu,
Your favourite Pandaren
P.S.
I really don't know as to regarding the name of this thread.
Yes, you don't have to care nor post in reply.
P.S.S.
Oh, I almost forgot:
How's it going, Romek and Smith_S9?
Where's AceHart?
Thanks for a great site, Thehelper!
I was viewing my user profile today and realised I joined this site almost five years ago (registered May 28th 2006). Well, I'm exaggerating a little bit, but still, time has gone by so fast - I'm a bit nostalic and sentimental at the moment. Maybe that's the reason I'm writing this post, maybe I'm just crazy. Who knows!
When I first joined this site, I was 16 and studied in the 9th grade. I'm not familiar what's it called in your country - high school, college or something else -, but that's not important anyway. I was a young whippersnapper (I'm not claiming I aren't one anymore) and it reflected in my early posts and reputation count: if I remember correctly, I achieved 100 points of reputation around the 750 post count. Plus I remember reputation, the very green bars themselves, being quite important to me. I hungered for those bars, but the quality of my knowledges and posts weren't up for par. Let me demonstrate one of my oldest posts:
Thanx, well i have been using waredit for 2 weeks and i feel kinda... noob. This was my first problem which i couldnt solve myself.
Yeah, that's me and obviously lying. 2 weeks?! I think I opened WE for the first the same day I posted that message.
Anyway, I started to take up JASS and learn about the more advanced features of World Editor when I started 10th grade (gymnasium, college etc.); I started to write tutorials and do samaritan work as a World Editor Help Zone (as it was then called) regular poster. It was then when I first understood that the length of my reputation bar doesn't show anything, it's the positive feedback from other members that really counts. Ah, great times: 10-20 posts per day. Wish it was like this now, too.
I think I wrote over 20 or 25 tutorials (almost all of them exclusively for thehelper.net) and countless snippets it that time, but I never imagined they would gain so much popularity. In my eyes, at least. I mean, I was quite surprised the other day (a few months back, when I first visited this site after quite some while) when I was browsing the WEZ just for laughs and memories and noticed my tower defense tutorial is still the most popular tutorial on this site (yeah, that's my ego talking). Then again, I'm really glad and thankful for such a site as thehelper.net, because without it, I wouldn't have ever taken up fiddling with the WE and writing tutorials to help others.
11th grade was the downfall for Andrewgosu - I started to post less and less. As I look back, the whole 11th grade was a really depressing period in my life, because I was quite depressed back then. Just that, my first ever girlfriend left me and I was quite heart-broken. Blame the women! Nah, I'm just kidding - it was never meant to be. But the damage had been done...
As I recall, I really wanted to be active again here when the 12th - and last - grade started, but after a month or two had passed from the first schoolday, I figured out my real priorities. I mean, I figured out what I wanted to learn in the university. And the decision was a big one: medicine. I'm not that off when I say that it's really difficult in any country to get into a good university to start to learn medicine. And that's exactly the case here too, where I live - Estonia. I knew I had to start early and pull all my muscles to take the final tests really well in order to get into medicine. It meant I had to struggle for the whole year and commit myself... the idea of being active here fell to ashes.
What can I say? In the end, the commitment paid for itself as starting from first of September I'm a student in medicine and a minimum of six years of learning awaits me. Yay or nay? I'm chuffed to bits, in any way.
The moral of the story? I really don't know, I just wanted to write this. I doesn't have to interest anyone. Per aspera ad astra? I've enjoyed my time here (and I'm not going anywhere).
Oh, a year ago, I forgot to post a picture of my Superman tattoo:
I own a legit copy of Starcraft 2. It's great.
Yes, I still loves pandas and no, I still haven't got a girlfriend.
But I'm happy and I'm enjoying my life - I love to live and so should you.
Andrewgosu,
Your favourite Pandaren
P.S.
I really don't know as to regarding the name of this thread.
Yes, you don't have to care nor post in reply.
P.S.S.
Oh, I almost forgot:
How's it going, Romek and Smith_S9?
Where's AceHart?
Thanks for a great site, Thehelper!