When you constantly smell like a gym bag and your legs are proportionally too long for your body, it’s pretty hard to feel like you’re on your game. Lucky for everyone, puberty and growth spurts usually peak in seventh and eighth grade, the collective pinnacle of awkward adolescence and bad decisions.

“Every day of Junior High, I wore braids,” current junior, Adrienne Bruggamen admits. “My mom braided my hair every single morning. It was ridiculous.”

Bruggamen also reminisces on the seemingly endless days of “knee-socks with sport-shorts and tie-dye tee-shirts,” and how she “never wore jeans. Ever.”

“The day I wore jeans everybody freaked out.” She remembers fondly. “I remember because I was so mad that everyone kept mentioning it, so I didn’t wear them again all year.”

Charlie Kraft recalls the “insanely tight gym shorts” as a memorable part of his Junior High experience. “Everyone was awkward then,” he explains. “I didn’t even care about any of that in junior high, though.”

Delaney Sullivan laughs, talking about her hair: “So in seventh grade I had a sweet middle part in my hair, and of course I’d slick it down too. It was kind of the worst thing ever.”

She reaches even further back into that dusty corners of her memory and adds, “and I used to listen to Howie Day’s Collide and cry pretty much daily. That was bad, too.”

“Also, head was too big for my body,” She continues, “There was this period of time where my head was way too large for the rest of me; growth spurts and all, you know.”

When asked about her tween wardrobe, Sullivan sighs. “I wore a Dirty Dancing tee-shirt like every day. That, and pink Crocs. Quality.”