Good call Eric. To be honest, I don't count when I was a kid lifting because I really didn't know too much other than trying to get stronger. I started lifting officially when I was a freshman as well. But I didn't know what the fuck I was doing (other than trying to lift as heavy as possible) until I joined these kinds of forums and learned everything there was to know... Turns out that during my first 5 years of lifting, I didn't know shit..