Rank the years since 2004 from worst to best for you personally

[Mr. Ukucasha]

My list:

Mega-Mega-Massive HY:
1. 2014
Mega-Massive HY:
2. 2020
Massive HY:
3. 2015
4. 2019
5. 2013
HY:
6. 2006
7. 2007
Tilt HY:
8. 2021
Tilt FY:
9. 2023 (choosing between 2021 and 2023 was difficult, 2021 had more positives but also had more negatives, so 2023 had the slight advantage)
Lean FY:
10. 2022
11. 2016
12. 2017
13. 2018
14. 2011
15. 2005
16. 2004
FY:
17. 2008
18. 2009
19. 2010
20. 2012

[Progressive Pessimist]

2016 and 2017 were the worst by far. 2021 and 2022 also to a lesser extent. So bad, the other 16 might as well be a tie.

[It’s so Joever]

Safe FY:
2023
2019
2022
2010
2005*
2020


Generally FY:
2021
2006*
2008*
2014
2007*


Tilt FY
2009
2017
2011
2018
2004*

Tilt HY

2024 (so far)
2012

Generally HY
2015

Safe HY:
2016

*Memories are hazy at best

Generally the years were good even if at the time I may have not agreed as much myself. 2024 is way too early and there is a good chance it could go up to the best year (or could be by far the worst) within the span of a few weeks. Also this is relative. I don’t really think I’ve had a truly horrible year yet, and am probably due one soon. Who knows how I’ll actually cope…

[Crumpets]

No specific order within each category.

Great years:
2018
2010
2019

Good years:
2008
2021
2009
2014
2016

Mixed bag years:
2023
2011
2020

Unremarkable years:
2005
2006
2007
2013
2015

Bad years:
2022
2004
2012
2017

[OSR stands with Israel]

Great Years :

1. 2015
2. 2019
3. 2014
4. 2018
5. 2013

Good Years :

6. 2010
7. 2008
8. 2012
9. 2021
10. 2007

Ok years:

11. 2022
12. 2006
13. 2004
14. 2005
15. 2023
16. 2011

Bad Years :

17. 2009
18. 2020
19. 2017
20. 2016

[Mr. Smith]

Good

2005
2008
2010
2011
2014
2015
2021

Meh

2007
2006
2009
2012
2013
2017
2019
2023
2022

Bad

2004
2013
2016
2020

[retromike22]

Wonderful
2023
2005

Good
2008
2016
2018
2019
2022

Okay
2006
2007
2009
2010
2011
2013 (this is a balance of some wonderful events and some terrible events)
2015
2020

Bad
2004
2012
2014
2017

Horrible
2021

[Vice President Christian Man]

Great:
2004
2005
2006
2007
2013
2014
2015
2020
2021
2023
2024*

Neutral:
2008
2010
2011
2016
2017
2018
2019
2022

Bad:
2009
2012

*so far

[TheTide]

2013
2004
2005
2012
2006
2011
2017
2014
2008
2023
2018
2016
2022
2007
2019
2015
2020
2009
2010
2021

[Cokeland Saxton]

These are in order within categories.

Have memories from these years, but not clearly enough to rank:
2004 - I was in preschool
2005 - I was 5/6 years old
2006 - I was 6/7 years old

Too early to rank because it's only February:
2024

Great:
2018 - graduated high school, tried college for a year, fall semester was good for the most part

2017 - Finally was at a school I liked for once

2011 - Finished elementary school, started middle school, in Indianapolis

2010 - Finally had friends for once

Good:
2019 - continued from 2018, dropped out of college for several reasons, began working, deconverted from Christianity

2012 - Had a couple school friends, and school was fun...at least for now

2007 - I was in first/second grade and didn't face many major issues yet given I was so young, so good year by default

Meh:
2008 - Maternal grandfather, who had Alzheimer's, had a stroke which put him in a nursing home; otherwise good year, except for autism + ADHD making school somewhat frustrating

2023 - Stale job, and honestly a very boring year; at least my Pokemon Unite team made the postseason instead of finishing second from the bottom

2021 - COVID, but to a lesser degree

2009 - School didn't know how to deal with an autistic kid and my maternal grandfather died in September

2013 - School bullying and diagnosed with depression and Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Bad:
2020 - COVID year and I work at a grocery store, enough said

2022 - Job getting stale, lost one of my aunts and my maternal grandmother 5 weeks apart, joined a competitive Pokemon Unite league where our team's "captain" was a jacka** who not only didn't care to get better at the game/work as a team, but also: forced me to play a match while drunk, tried to blame me for us losing the match we played (my grandma had passed 4 days earlier and her funeral was the next day), ragequit the whole league, aired the team's dirty laundry to the public server, and then tried to join another team. Thankfully, I'm still friends with two of my season 1 teammates.

2014 - Bullying and began hating my school

Awful:
2015 - Bullied, all my friends left for other schools, school treated its 10-18 year old students like little kids (special ed school), began drinking alcohol to relieve stress

A year so awful it deserves its own category:
2016 - Drinking was near alcoholism levels of bad, attempted suicide in February, decided it was time to quit the terrible school; liked the new school but the first half of the year made the year unsalvageable

[Blow by blow, the passion dies]

From FY to HY, and starting in 2011, since it's when my memories start.
2012
2013
2014
2022
2016
2014
2017
2019
2023
2015
2018
2020
2021

[President Johnson]

Positive
2023
2021
2019
2018
2020
2017
2016
2011
2012

Mixed
2022
2015
2013
2014
2006
2010

Negative
2008
2007
2004
2005
2009

[Mr. Illini]

Interesting question… I’m starting in 2010 because 2004 feels like so long ago.

2015
2018
2014
2013
2017

2016
2012
2019
2020
2021

2022
2023
2011
2010

Unfortunately seems like theres a clear arc of getting better and then getting worse lol. The mid-2010s were my peak.

[The Dowager Mod]

Good
2006 Married the love of my life.
2008 First child.
2010 Second child.
2017 Beat breast cancer.
Bad
2004 Divorced my biggest mistake.
2016 Lost my favorite boob to the above cancer.
2020 Lost the love of my life to COVID.
The rest are mostly a dull blur.

[Sol]

This is kind of hard to do because the natural periodization of life when you're a student is linking fall semesters to spring semesters in the next year. So using that:

Best:
2006-2007 (had a teacher I really liked)
2009-2010 (made some good friends)
2014-2015 (really developed friendships, matured a lot socially)
2016-2017 (was part of a dynamic social world in college which was at its best here)

Good:
2004-2005 (had a good teacher)
2007-2008 (had the same teacher as the previous year)
2012-2013 (started to make more friends, Obama won reelection, came out to my family as gay)
2013-2014 (made more friends, did some cool stuff)
2022-2023 (lived with good friends, work got very stressful. Finally started coming out as trans. Did a bunch of stuff that was good for me but unpleasant.)

High Highs and Low lows:
2015-2016: (made a lot of friends, very formative. Some people were fairly sh** however)
2019-2020: (got a job that I liked, then Bernie lost and covid)
2020-2021: (covid, though the post vaccine period got to be quite nice)
2021-2022: (more good vibes in 2021, but some very tough stuff in spring 2022)

Ehh:
2010-2011: (middle school is not a place of honor)
2011-2012: (high school is not a place of honor)
2017-2018: (the tight social scene of early college thinned out a bit)
2023-present?: (moved across the country, socially transitioned. Did a bunch of stuff that was good for me but stressful)

Bad:
2005-2006: (was bullied a lot)
2008-2009: (realized I was gay and started also feeling a way that in retrospect was a sign I was trans. Was in a very dysfunctional class)
2018-2019: (probably was clinically depressed, cash-strapped, probably the least happy period in my life even though things have been objectively worse other times)

An exercise in narcissism, but still quite fun!

[morgieb]

We had a bunch of "Grade The Years" threads (which I took to mean for you personally) a while ago, so I'm mostly going off that:

From Best to Worst:

1. 2012
2. 2007
3. 2011
4. 2010
5. 2014
6. 2019
7. 2005
8. 2016
9. 2023
10. 2022
11. 2006
12. 2017
13. 2009
14. 2013
15. 2004
16. 2021
17. 2018
18. 2015
19. 2020
20. 2008

It might be more interesting in terms of seasons (even though that doesn't apply to Australia like it does to America for obvious reasons) - there's quite a few examples of years where I enjoyed half the year but out and out hated another half of it.

Only one year I really have out and out negative feelings for, but equally the vast majority would be fairly mixed. That said all of my Top 7 I'd give a pretty positive grade to.

[Upper Canada Tory]

Great years:
1. 2011
2. 2012
3. 2017
4. 2016
5. 2013

Good years:
6. 2015
7. 2019

Ok years:
8. 2014
9. 2020
10. 2023
11. 2005

Bad years:
12. 2018
13. 2010
14. 2006
15. 2007
16. 2008
17. 2009

Terrible years:
18: 2021
19: 2022

Years I don't remember well: 2004