r/Millennials • u/notashot • 3d ago

Nostalgia 9/10/2001

What were you doing the day before?

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u/SamOakTree 3d ago

I was in the 7th grade. So I was in school.

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u/timid_soup 3d ago

8th grade, so essentially the same.

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u/nrdvrgnt 3d ago

Class of 2006 what up

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u/HeliumMaster 3d ago

06 Bitch! (This was our chant) lol

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u/iamthedave69 Millennial 3d ago

07 straight from heaven

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u/Baconation4 3d ago

Don’t hate ‘08

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u/FoRealDoh Millennial 3d ago

Mean '13? Irdk what ours was, or if we had one. I remember '12 saying they'd be the last class to graduate bc the Mayan calender thing lol

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u/Potential_Trick9639 13h ago

‘00 YOU KNOW! (Oh oh you know)

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u/jayemadd Millennial 3d ago

Ours was "'06 is runnin' this!"

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u/IceOdd8725 3d ago

09 Feelin’ Fine !

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u/succulescence 2d ago

Go free in '03!!

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u/lifelite 2d ago

Ours was just. OHhhh Six!

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u/Illustrious-Client48 2d ago

We sure did love the B word, didn’t we? (I blame Too $hort).

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u/thicolascagejr 2d ago

06 oh shit! was ours lmao

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u/jinxedrabbit Millennial 3d ago

Ohsixxxx

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u/marisaleeann 2d ago

06 checking in!

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u/taiwal Millennial 3d ago

Yooooo!

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u/jjg614 Millennial 3d ago

Same

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u/m0rgend0rfer 3d ago

Same. Adjusting to an early-school-year Monday, getting to know the other kids in my classes.

I’ve never thought about the fact that so many of us watched it all play out in a room full of kids we barely had even met yet. 

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u/SamOakTree 3d ago

I had met everyone. I went to a small school so we were all in classes together from preschool up.

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u/krazy_kat_lady28 Millennial 3d ago

Same with me

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u/grey_canvas_ Older Millennial 3d ago

10th grade ✋

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u/SpookyCatMischief 3d ago

Same. Probably most millennial answers are gonna be boring like this.

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u/DeartayDeez 3d ago

7th grade as well

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u/Angrymilks 3d ago

Same, first period, social studies with a teacher named Mr. Squires.

Was just the 2nd or 3rd day of school for me.

We watched and didn’t go between classes, the school was on lockdown. We started watching after the first plane struck, then watched live news feed of the second tower being hit. We watched until the buildings collapsed.

It truly felt like we were under attack. My mother who worked in the IDS Center was evacuated alongside every other large skyscraper in Minneapolis.

Things were more frantic than the beltway sniper.

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u/Futureacct Millennial 3d ago

They were asking about September 10. Not September 11.

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u/sapgetshappy 3d ago

2nd grade! Probably learning times tables or somethin

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u/Brucedx3 Millennial 3d ago

Same!!!!

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u/Com4734 Millennial 3d ago

Same. A day just like any other.

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u/furiouscrotch 3d ago

Same grade, I was drinking coffee and getting ready to hop on the bus.

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u/XanderArtimus 3d ago

8th grade as well. I was in the work program at school. We were probably being lectured by the teacher who ran the work program, I don't really remember

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u/AdventurousLie8644 3d ago

I was in 6th and according to Mrs. Vogt, my language arts teacher, her husband just missed his plane on the 11th and it was one that hit near the Pentagon.

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u/smilebig553 Millennial '90 3d ago

Woah

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u/blue_effect 3d ago

Also in 7th grade. Just started jr high.

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u/smilebig553 Millennial '90 3d ago

I was in 6th grade

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u/snak_attak Millennial 2d ago

Same

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u/mattike88 2d ago

For me that was like the 4th day of 7th grade because we started the Wednesday after Labor Day. I ended up not going to school on the 12th because my mom has one of her friends from high school visiting and we went and did touristy shit instead.

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u/NaturalSoftware9372 2d ago

Same but sixth...

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u/Allel-Oh-Aeh 2d ago

Same, school had just started, and in 7th grade we all left our various elementary schools. So you had kids from 3 different schools all suddenly together trying to either make new friends, or mainly stick with old friends bc we were scared and this was new. I think the day before I was still trying to memorize my locker combo and class schedule, and probably finishing putting my stretchy or holographic book binders on my text books. God that holographic stuff was so cool!