This is how the class works: the instructor reads the slides he shows us word for word, struggling miserably to read any name that comes up. if there is a picture of a pencil in the corner of the slide, we copy the slide word for word. we take a test on Mondays that are 10-20 questions long, and are pretty much (word for word) the notes we copied down...I fight sleep for 2 hours every MTWTh morning...so this is my Things About my 7:30-9:30am Summer History Class That Simultaneously Make Me Annoyed/Bored and Make Me Laugh list:

• the guy that is neither funny nor helpful with his excessive questioning (he is "that guy")
• the girl that is a real live "Gail the Snail"
• the priss that wears extravagant outfits on the days she decides to come to class
• "bologna sausage"
• "cube? pyramid? hexagon?"--the optical illusion the prof starts every powerpoint with (and he goes through like 4-5 per class)
• fact after fact after fact of history with no interesting discussion (this does not make me laugh, it makes me sleep)
• the prof's insisting that we read only one edition of The Narrative of Fredrick Douglass out of the hundreds that are out there...or we will FAIL
• prof's CRAZY laugh
• notebook doodling. I'm talking full pages for this class. I feel like the guy that sits next to me tries to sneak peeks at what I'm scribbling haha
  • today, I made a few lists during class (4 complete lists), and he fully turned and read one of my lists...ha
• I let a girl copy some notes she missed, and she asked me if the line where I wrote "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQ" was part of the notes. I looked at her like "are you serious?" and she just waited for my answer...I said "no. that line isn't part of the notes."
• when the guy that sits next to me yawns, I can smell his nasty breath. like...brush your teeth, please
• tests: thus far, I've received a 94, 100, 100 on mc tests and 56 on the essay test. what the.
• why did everyone laugh when the prof said Klu Klux Klan?