The First Time Project
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Baby fever
Authored by: modbean Views 435
 
I never thought I wanted to have kids. In high school I didn't understand the girls who wanted nothing more than to be a mother. I liked kids and did my fair share of babysitting, but the thought of having children scared me-the way the idea of being in prison... View Story
 
From: My First Time Wanting To Have A Baby

Keeping One Day Ahead of the Students
Authored by: doctor_bob Views 276
 
I've now taught about twenty courses at UC Berkeley in the 5 years since I supposedly "retired" from a successful decade working in Silicon Valley, but I will never forget the first course. I was asked by the Dean of what was then called the School of Information Management... View Story
 
From: My First Time Teaching A Course

Goldmining, Guns and A Total Lack of Gumption
Authored by: csimsy Views 701
 
This is a "young and dumb" story, with emphasis on the dumb. The episode took place the summer after graduating from high school. I grew up about an hour's drive east of Sacramento in the foothills of the Sierra-Nevada mountain range. Roughly 150 years ago, the area was one of... View Story
 
From: My First Time Having A Gun Pointed At Me

The One That Got Away
Authored by: bluefin Views 492
 
I never believed in love at first sight. Stupid romantics, don't you know that's impossible? That's how I used to feel about relationships and members of the other sex. How could you meet someone and just know that they were the right one? Fast forward to the tender... View Story
 
From: My First Time Meeting The One That Got Away

 
 
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First Impressions
Authored by: forlorn_hope Views 186
First impressions. Everyone always tells you to "Put your best foot forward. You only get one first impression." People's opinions on you are based on these initial encounters. Is he fun? Is he boring? Does he have a good personality? First impressions. Around your... View Story
From: My First Time In Her Presence

Do people forget that I'm a girl?
Authored by: lindsayT Views 289
Ever since my first year or so into my undergraduate engineering program, I seriously have come to believe that my classmates forget that I'm a girl. One of my friends Mark said he saw me as an asexual being and that it weirded him out to see me as... View Story
From: My First Time Lying About My Pen Name

Save the Dead Deer!
Authored by: lindsayT Views 308
You know how they say most accidents happen w/in some short distance of your home? This was one of those accidents. It was November 1999 and I had just gotten my license a month ago. I was cruising in Clifford my red jeep cherokee on my way to Shabbat... View Story
From: My First Time Getting Into A Car Accident

I Almost Killed Jed
Authored by: csimsy Views 401
The worst part of this story is that I had been in an upside-down car accident about three months before. The other time, though, I wasn't driving. This time, the blame falls squarely on me. One of the only drawbacks of growing up in rural Northern California was the lack of... View Story
From: My First Time Totaling My Car

My Five Thousand Dollar Hat
Authored by: csimsy Views 757
The first time it happened I wasn't wearing my seatbelt. Hold on, there was a reason. Needless to say I was incredibly lucky. I was 16 and on my way to an inter-school conference. The school didn't have enough adult drivers so some of us students had to drive. I... View Story
From: My First Time Totaling My Friend's Car

Navy Blue and Black do not match
Authored by: beingAGirl Views 3059
I befriended Adam when he was dating a girl a year younger at our sleepover camp in connecticut. I was always the "friend" but then Adam surprised me one day and dumped his girl and asked me out. On our second night of dating we had our first... View Story
From: My First Time I Kissed A Boy

 
 
 
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