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As some of you may be aware, I've recently left a lucrative position squinting at little plastic parts at a soul-sucking pit of hell in order to go back to college. My eventual goal is to become a social worker, but for now I need to work my way through the ranks. I need a general associates degree, then a bachelors, and onward and upward.
Right now I attend a largish college that boasts about 8,000 students. The vast majority are about a decade younger than me and every day it's a battle not to tell the lot of them to get off my lawn. In the meantime, I observe them. Perhaps this is just the way things are done nowadays, but really...?
1 -- Be late. It doesn't matter which class it is. No matter what time of day, someone is late to every class. Sometimes multiple people are late. To a degree I could understand it, because a lot of people commute to this school from far afield, a very busy street bisects the campus and sometimes you have to wait to cross the street, and the entire campus is crammed onto a series of very steep hills and very low valleys -- meaning that if you need to get from A to B, chances are excellent that you'll be going up or down a hill or a long flight of stairs. These things all take time, but still... Before I started, I visited the campus and went on a dry run to make sure I knew where my classes were, and how long it took to get from one to the other. And, even though I'm not and have never been a morning person, I'm still on time to my 8am class. I really don't understand why you can't be on time for the 2pm class.
2 -- Be social. In just about every class, people are up and down and in and out the door, clutching their phone. An urgent text message? An email that just couldn't be ignored? Maybe even an actual phone call? Who knows? Whatever it is, it's common enough that the teachers don't even seem to notice. It's a wired world we live in, but really? Perhaps it's time to start playing the phone-stack game in class.
3 -- Be stupid. Contrary to popular belief, there are, in fact, such things as stupid questions. For instance, because I'm so terrible at math, I have to take the Derp Math class wherein we go over such exotic concepts as how to determine the perimeter of a rectangle. The instructor of Derp Math is absolutely smitten with word problems and in one such perimeter-finding expedition, we were instructed to find the perimeter of a hotel's new fitness center, then determine the area, then determine how much it would cost to cover the floor with a special shock-absorbing tile. It is a fitness center, after all... However, one student didn't feel he had enough information to determine the answers, and wanted to know what kind of tile it was that would cover the floor. Was it a specific brand? I looked over at the girl who sits next to me -- a very social creature who is always texting -- and we asked each other at the same time: "Why would you ask that?"
That's all I have at the moment, but the school year is young. I'm only three weeks in. As I see more, I'll update.
Right now I attend a largish college that boasts about 8,000 students. The vast majority are about a decade younger than me and every day it's a battle not to tell the lot of them to get off my lawn. In the meantime, I observe them. Perhaps this is just the way things are done nowadays, but really...?
1 -- Be late. It doesn't matter which class it is. No matter what time of day, someone is late to every class. Sometimes multiple people are late. To a degree I could understand it, because a lot of people commute to this school from far afield, a very busy street bisects the campus and sometimes you have to wait to cross the street, and the entire campus is crammed onto a series of very steep hills and very low valleys -- meaning that if you need to get from A to B, chances are excellent that you'll be going up or down a hill or a long flight of stairs. These things all take time, but still... Before I started, I visited the campus and went on a dry run to make sure I knew where my classes were, and how long it took to get from one to the other. And, even though I'm not and have never been a morning person, I'm still on time to my 8am class. I really don't understand why you can't be on time for the 2pm class.
2 -- Be social. In just about every class, people are up and down and in and out the door, clutching their phone. An urgent text message? An email that just couldn't be ignored? Maybe even an actual phone call? Who knows? Whatever it is, it's common enough that the teachers don't even seem to notice. It's a wired world we live in, but really? Perhaps it's time to start playing the phone-stack game in class.
3 -- Be stupid. Contrary to popular belief, there are, in fact, such things as stupid questions. For instance, because I'm so terrible at math, I have to take the Derp Math class wherein we go over such exotic concepts as how to determine the perimeter of a rectangle. The instructor of Derp Math is absolutely smitten with word problems and in one such perimeter-finding expedition, we were instructed to find the perimeter of a hotel's new fitness center, then determine the area, then determine how much it would cost to cover the floor with a special shock-absorbing tile. It is a fitness center, after all... However, one student didn't feel he had enough information to determine the answers, and wanted to know what kind of tile it was that would cover the floor. Was it a specific brand? I looked over at the girl who sits next to me -- a very social creature who is always texting -- and we asked each other at the same time: "Why would you ask that?"
That's all I have at the moment, but the school year is young. I'm only three weeks in. As I see more, I'll update.
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