School & Homework: 90s Kids vs Today’s Kids #AMRUSH

The Homework Struggle

• 90s Kids:
  Homework meant cracking open a dusty encyclopedia set that your parents bought from a guy who rang the doorbell in 1994 and swore this 20-volume collection would “last you through university.” If you were fancy, you might sneak into the library and pray no one had already checked out the one book you needed for your science project. Oh, and copy-pasting? Didn’t exist. You had to handwrite 5 pages about volcanoes, and by the end your fingers were cramping like you’d just arm-wrestled The Rock.
• Today’s Kids:
  “Hey Google, write me a summary on volcanoes.” Done. In under a second. And if that’s too slow? ChatGPT will happily draft a 500-word essay with references before they even open a notebook. They don’t even know the real pain of pen ink smudging across your palm while you tried to beat the clock.

The Backpack Olympics

• 90s Kids:
  Backpacks were brutal. Encyclopedias, textbooks, and binders all crammed inside. Forget CrossFit—we built muscles just from hauling that thing up the stairs.
• Today’s Kids:
  They roll into school with an iPad and maybe a water bottle. That’s it. Meanwhile, we were training for the Olympic sport of “don’t topple over backward with your backpack.”

Final Bell

So, let’s be honest: today’s kids have it easy. They’ve got Google, Grammarly, and apps that can basically do their math homework for them. Us 90s kids? We earned those grades with sweat, tears, and way too many hours wrestling with a glue stick.

And honestly? We’re proud of it.