- when walking through the empty parking garage during exam week dec 2007, i asked myself what i'd do if someone put a gun to my head and tried to rob me. the answer was that i'd let that person shoot me, because I'd rather die than take exams.
- i just saw this really skinny guy eating a snickers bar and i got all pissed off. i'd give anything to be that carefree in eating a 500-calorie candy bar. (02.22.08)
- the odu computer lab consultant takes his job way too seriously. he even has his sleeves rolled up, walking around pushing all the chairs in. (you're fooling nobody! i know you don't do anything!)
- one of my professors picked up my notes and waved them in the air as an example of how to NOT prepare for case discussions.
- i might never understand this whole no-job no-responsibilities drink-drink-drink mindset of the average college student. like, people are always shirtless on the lawn playing frisbee and impromptu games of hackey sack. (1) i don't get it. (2) i envy your lack of things to do. once i saw this girl just laying on the lawn studying, carefree, while the landscapers worked around her. hello, don't you know they're mowing? get up and go somewhere! do something!
- a certain one of my professors is RIDICULOUSLY cute. really, it's ridiculous. educators just shouldn't be so adorable. his butt has better sculpting that mt. rushmore.
- i only wish i could describe the uncomfortable silence and the look on my pre-law advisor's face when she saw my transcript. from an outsider's point of view, hilarious. from my point of view, realizing i have no future, horrifying. (no one told me grade forgiveness doesn't count when applying to law school! hello- i would never have attempted calculus!)
- i came to class late today and had to sit at a left-handed desk behind this older guy i've never spoken to. so i was all uncomfortable and kept repositioning myself and i noticed the guy spent the whole class period writing in, like, his diary. i think he noticed me trying to look, and he blocked me with his shoulder like a 9-year-old keeping his test answers private. (03.18.08)
- i will never, ever grow tired of hearing people's ringtones go off during class. yesterday the most random ass white girl had some dirty south club banger rap song i've never even heard before. this other 90-pound kid with a 200-pound backpack walking around the computer lab had "low" by flo rida. and the cutest of all-- i love love love the older ladies with soft rock ringtones. those ones are the best. to go from not understanding how to use your phone book to being proficient enough to download "because you loved me" by celine dion so you can hear it every time your husband calls. i really do think it's cute. and that really happened once, and it made my day.
- someone sitting near me smells like grape juice. i don't know who it is, but i don't see any open containers. so there's just some person walking around campus smelling like a child's beverage.
- random: college is not academically challenging--at least not at this school. the real challenge is psychological. we are supposed to be self-motivated. we pick our majors so we can study what we want and do it well. and i love what i'm studying, but sometimes i just want to read whatever i want or not write a paper or sleep all day and not think at all. but that's just me. i commend anyone and everyone who makes it through the college experience gracefully. i certainly have not. the challenge is completely internal, and i have failed. (it's 1 in the morning and i'm in the computer lab trying to put together these stupid supreme court case briefs that were due this morning in a class i haven't been to in over two weeks. why am i on listography? my point exactly...) but for what it's worth, i love my linguistics major to death. someone please throw me off a building for minoring in political science. the torture of reading constitutional law is just unbelievable! who can tolerate this nonsense!?!?!?
- if there's one reason to like political science, it's my POLS408 teacher from last semester. i won't put his name here because god knows who'd google it and stumble across this incriminating confession, but in addition to being equal parts intelligent and chill, the guy is a total freaking dilf. and i totally said so on his ratemyprofessor.com review.
- POLS409 on the other hand--- bad, bad, bad experience. i'm standing on the verge of a D. if i'm lucky. it really is beginning to sink in: i hate my minor. HATE IT. should have done spanish language. who wants to be a lawyer anyway? and be rich but miserable? "the richest man ain't necessarily the n*gga with dough..." -common. i only quote that now because i have failed in my academic endeavors, as noted last week in "random" ^^
- i bought my rhetorical studies textbook online, used. i opened it for the first time in class, and a freaking PUBE emerged from the binding. i had to freak out in silence, inaudible scream and all. then i had to try to get rid of the thing without having it fall on me, so i'm sitting in class shaking & blowing into my book like a lunatic. 1. why do these things happen to me? 2. WHY IS THERE A PUBE IN THIS BOOK?
- when i took english 200, i sat directly behind this lanky, nerdy guy who was probably about 19 or 20 with black hair and pasty white skin. he kind of had a know-it-all attitude and was always making some lame interjections during lectures. one day he was on his laptop checking his myspace, and i saw that his main picture was of him posing with his shirt off (all bones, mind you) wearing a huge pair of black angel wings. i laughed and he heard me.
- i'm sitting in the computer lab across from this guy who has been digging in his ear for the past 45 minutes. note to self: i will NEVER use that computer. i gotta start wearing rubber gloves when i get in this lab. god knows whose what is on these keyboards.
- girl in my lit class: "i don't know if there are any other die-hard south park fans in here, but..." ok, 1. is this girl serious? 2. is she really trying to tie this into literary theory? 3. SOUTH PARK!? is that even on tv anymore? or are we in some parallel universe where it's still 1997?
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