Jake Langston

Attended UTC from '88 till fall of '91. I had a motorcycle accident my senior year that kept me at home for four months. I used the bike accident as an excuse to take a break. For the next few years, I was always going to go back "next semester".

While trying to decide what to do for a career, I purchased a computer and fell head first into computing. By late 1993 I was working at TVA in the IT department. I stayed in the computer field for 9 years eventually becoming the network administrator at US Xpress. It was there that I met my wife, Sarah. We were married in 1999.

In 2000 I left the computer industry (I still worked after hours a good bit on contract with US Xpress for a while) to open a music store in Ft. Oglethorpe. I had been day trading stocks for a couple years and saved up enough to pursue my dream of having my own music store. We've been going strong since then, and recently built a new store just off the I-75 East Ridge exit.

A few years back I decided that I would attempt to hike the entire Appalachian Trail. I have about 2000 miles of it done and should have the whole thing completed by June of 2017. A lifelong dream checked off! If interested, my (rarely ever updated) Facebook blog on hiking the AT can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/HumbuckAT

I spent the majority of my high school time dating one girl and listening to hard rock and metal music.

I really miss Mr. Turner's Spanish classes. I had alot of fun in there.

I remember Mr. Davis telling me after class one day that I was a "waste of a good mind" and a "nuisance" in his class. That made me upset, so I worked hard and made a 102 (did lots of extra credit out of spite) in his class and received the Biology award. He had an ambiguous look in his eye as he awarded it to me in front of the whole school. In retrospect, I'm not sure if he or I won that round. Maybe HE did.

I also enjoyed being in Mr. Mahan's class. He told the funniest joke I have ever heard, and I still tell it to this very day.