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Wow, facebook is good for things sometimes
When I was in middle and high school, I was friends with a girl named Missy Korsin, who was one of the few really pretty popular girls who was nice to me; we had been in girl scouts together but I think she was actually just a genuinely nice person. She had an older sister named Robin who was 3 years ahead of us; when I got to high school, I was a freshman and Robin was a senior, and Robin starred in pretty much every school musical we had; she was Anna in the King and I; she was Maria in the Sound of Music; she was Maria in West Side Story. Robin was ALSO ridiculously nice and also ridiculously talented.
The summer after my freshman year, I was an assistant counselor at the summer camp I'd gone to for like 8 or 9 years at that point at the JCC... and I was an assistant with Robin, who was going off to Carnegie Mellon to study music performance. All I knew about CMU at that point was that Nate and Adam, two computer nerds I really respected at the time, had gone there for PGSS, and it was apparently pretty awesome. But that summer I got to know Robin pretty well, and I was always thinking that I was in the presence of someone who was going to make it big someday.
Well, 2 summers later I followed in Adam and Nate's footsteps and went to PGSS myself, and 3 summers later I was starting at CMU. I emailed Robin when I got there, and ran into her on campus a few times, but in reality, we were in such completely different circles there that we never really reconnected. I saw her perform in a show once, and was all like "I went to high school with that girl!" There were only like... 3 or 4 people total from my high school at CMU in that era... me, and Mike Breen, and Robin, and a guy named Tom Scioli who I'd been in computer science classes with all through HS, who didn't get into SCS, so he dropped out of CMU after a semester, became an art major at Pitt, and now he is a comic book artist.
Anyway, once the internet became nuts and I used to go look up former people I knew, I remember doing web searches on Robin, but never really found much, which seemed odd because I was positive she had to be on broadway or in an opera somewhere or whatever. She was too talented to not be successful.
Well, I was right. Just that she got married, and I didn't know her new name. So now she is Robin Johannsen and is singing opera all over Europe.
And this all because my high school math teacher friended me on Facebook, with a message like "I just retired and am reconnecting with people. I still never had another student with as sharp a mind as you, although there have been a few more to get the 8am award. Hope you are enjoying Japan."
Honestly, 99% of the people I went to high school aren't worth reconnecting with, but I know there are some that I'm positive became pretty successful and it'd be nice to know that, even if I never talk to them again.
The summer after my freshman year, I was an assistant counselor at the summer camp I'd gone to for like 8 or 9 years at that point at the JCC... and I was an assistant with Robin, who was going off to Carnegie Mellon to study music performance. All I knew about CMU at that point was that Nate and Adam, two computer nerds I really respected at the time, had gone there for PGSS, and it was apparently pretty awesome. But that summer I got to know Robin pretty well, and I was always thinking that I was in the presence of someone who was going to make it big someday.
Well, 2 summers later I followed in Adam and Nate's footsteps and went to PGSS myself, and 3 summers later I was starting at CMU. I emailed Robin when I got there, and ran into her on campus a few times, but in reality, we were in such completely different circles there that we never really reconnected. I saw her perform in a show once, and was all like "I went to high school with that girl!" There were only like... 3 or 4 people total from my high school at CMU in that era... me, and Mike Breen, and Robin, and a guy named Tom Scioli who I'd been in computer science classes with all through HS, who didn't get into SCS, so he dropped out of CMU after a semester, became an art major at Pitt, and now he is a comic book artist.
Anyway, once the internet became nuts and I used to go look up former people I knew, I remember doing web searches on Robin, but never really found much, which seemed odd because I was positive she had to be on broadway or in an opera somewhere or whatever. She was too talented to not be successful.
Well, I was right. Just that she got married, and I didn't know her new name. So now she is Robin Johannsen and is singing opera all over Europe.
And this all because my high school math teacher friended me on Facebook, with a message like "I just retired and am reconnecting with people. I still never had another student with as sharp a mind as you, although there have been a few more to get the 8am award. Hope you are enjoying Japan."
Honestly, 99% of the people I went to high school aren't worth reconnecting with, but I know there are some that I'm positive became pretty successful and it'd be nice to know that, even if I never talk to them again.
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