- when people ride their bikes on the sidewalk.
- almost being run over by said bicycles on the sidewalk.
- when people saunter down the street during passing time.
- when someone decides to send an email, to the whole 450+ person lecture, asking for notes. and then a few people hit "reply to all" instead of "reply" and i get five more pointless emails.
- excessive and/or pointless status updates on facebook.
- freshmen who think they're cool because they have "jump around" as a ringtone.
- fyi: getting a text message is not a sufficient reason to abruptly stop walking during passing time.
- "no smoking within 20 feet of this building" does not translate, in any way, shape, or form, to "please stand directly under my window with your cigarettes and/or pot."
- my laptop charger died in the middle of midterms, with two papers due. seriously, computer. what the heck.
- ummm, if your music is loud enough that it makes my third floor dorm room vibrate (or that i can tell what it is with the windows closed), you need to turn it down. your poor eardrums will undoubtedly thank you.
- unshoveled sidewalks. you chose to live on campus where 40,000 people walk down your sidewalk every day. i understand that you probably paid dearly for that house that's three blocks from class, but that doesn't make you exempt from shoveling.
- professors who don't post their textbooks online. because really, classes start in a week and i'd kind of like to get my textbooks ordered! (even worse: those professors who order some really obscure textbook that can only be found at a shifty locally owned bookstore. in order to patronize local businesses, of course.)
- the fact that this girl who sits in front of me in my lit class is probably going to get a better grade than me. i mean, honestly, she takes stupid notes on her computer (while switching between facebook and emailing her dad saying, "i only need you to send me a check for $4800 this month") that aren't even the right stuff. like today when our professor was like, "this author was really into the whores. his first wife was in pornographic movies, his second wife was a painter who used to be a call girl." she typed, "first wife was a porn star (ok), second wife was a painter who passed for a call girl." really? she passed for a call girl? like she wasn't really one, but she could play the part well? my god.
- the fact that i'm going to get a terrible participation grade because i only talk when i have something constructive to say, and those stupid kids who constantly shout out pointless things, like, "omg we have to give morse credit for the telegraph since i learned about him in history class in elementary school!! we can't rewrite history like that!" are going to get like 100% for participation.
- people whose parents pay 100% of their tuition/fees/rent/food/etc. seriously, if you're in your 20s and your parents are still treating you like you're in high school, you have a problem. i don't care if they send you a check every once in a while, but in my experience, people whose parents pay for everything have no respect for money. and really, i'm 19 and paying for everything myself. i can't imagine being 22 and asking my daddy to write out a nearly $5000 check like that girl in my lit class did. crazy!
sep 9 2009 ∞
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