Madigan

Hey guys,

I'm a freshman at the University of Illinois. I've been skydiving for about a year and a half and I'm going to Collegiates for the first time this year. Illinois has a club, but unfortunately, no one else from my school club is going, so I don't have a team. I'm happy to compete in accuracy or something and just have fun, but I'd really like to compete in formation skydiving. I have 132 Jumps now so I'm not eligible to compete in 2-way fs, but I'd really like to do 4-way. I've been really into for-way since I started, so I've had a little bit of practice, but I'd probably be a bit rusty because I haven't been able to jump very often this semester. Anyway, if there anybody out there needs one extra person to make a 4-way team, I'm your guy.

Btw, I also posted this in general skydiving discussions

Blue Skies,

Madigan 

Hey guys,

I'm a freshman at the University of Illinois. I've been skydiving for about a year and a half and I'm going to Collegiates for the first time this year. Illinois has a club, but unfortunately, no one else from my school club is going, so I don't have a team. I'm happy to compete in accuracy or something and just have fun, but I'd really like to compete in formation skydiving. I have 132 Jumps now so I'm not eligible to compete in 2-way fs, but I'd really like to do 4-way. I've been really into for-way since I started, so I've had a little bit of practice, but I'd probably be a bit rusty because I haven't been able to jump very often this semester. Anyway, if there anybody out there needs one extra person to make a 4-way team, I'm your guy

Can't wait to see you guys out there!

Blue Skies,

Madigan  

14 minutes ago, SethInMI said:

damn.

I remember feeling some of those feelings back when I was in college. I so worried I wasn't going to be able to find a good job, and just get stuck doing something that I wouldn't like or wouldn't be good at, and spend life kinda miserable. So you are not alone in those worries.

But that didn't happen to me. I did get a good job, and I'm not miserable. 

As for what is the point of life, I still ask myself that question, but the answer I use is the point of life is to have fun and try to leave the world better than you found it.

 

 

Thank you Seth. It feels really great just to hear from you. Means a lot to know that people are with me. 

Hey, guys

I'm 19 years old, I joined the sky family in the summer of 2018, and I'm a freshman at the University of Illinois in Champaign. Life this fall has been... rough. I just don't have any confidence in anything. I don't know what I'm doing, why I'm doing it where I'm headed, any of it. I though at the end of this semester I'd feel like things were happening for me. I thought I'd feel like I had some dirrection. I thought I'd feel good about my life. I don't. I've been shaken to my core. I feel that I peaked in high school. Each day, I feel myself slipping further into the oblivion of mediocrity with every passing second. 

I used to feel like someone my family could be proud of. I just don't see anymore how anyone could be proud of what I am. I'm just sitting here taking my parents' money so I can go to class, to pick up homework, and pretend to be doing something

I don't know, I just don't see what the point is sometimes. Get a job, earn a living, buy a house, or whatever it might be. None of it makes any sense. I honestly don't know if I have what it takes to make it, or to be happy with what my life is. It feels like I'm just scraping by. 

Man, this first semester of college has just been rough. Everything is confusing. Nothing is clear, nothing makes sense right now. My destiny seems inevitable, inevitably bleak. I just don't know. 

This post actually ended up feeling a lot darker than I intended. The point I meant to get accross was that I just got to college and I'm really confused and lost now, and I wondered if anyone could relate. I don't know 

Blue Skies 

Ohhhhh my goodness. Thanks a whole bunch, five data points in one you are a beast my friend, I appreciate your time.

Thanks a bunch for the advice, very helpful.

thanks a bunch for the help

Hey guys, I’m new to the forums so hello. I’m a new skydiver and I’m in my senior year of high school. I’m doing a project for my statistics class and I want to do my data on a skydiving topic to make it fun, So i’d Like to know everybody’s wing loading, and also the wing loadings of some people you know if possible. I just need numbers not names or other info. Thanks so much for the help.