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Community college is, without a doubt, the greatest thing to ever happen to me. I may just take one class this semester at Maryland and take the rest during the summer. I couldn’t be having a better time. Some highlights from day 3 of the social experiment known as “summer school.”

• We’re already three days into a 12 day course but three different people tried to walk into the middle of class today saying they just registered. Mrs. Ms. Smith would have none of it. None of the three made it five steps into the room. I haven’t seen a quicker three exits in my life.
• Mrs. Ms. Smith discussed how the ideal woman in today’s society is “thick.” I took it upon myself to stand up for all the white people in the room (all two of us) and respectfully disagreed.
• Mrs. Ms. Smith also told us that it took her three years to figure out there was a difference between “phat” and “fat”. It goes without saying that Mrs. Ms. Smith is one of the most interesting people I have ever met.
• We discussed in class how, as society progresses, we tend to make up words. I actually find this fascinating and have always thought the weirdest word around is “emcee.” Somewhere along the line, we took an abbreviation (M.C.) and turned it into a real world. How did that happen? Are we five years away from people talking about taking the Ess-Ay-Tees?
• We spent, and I kid you not, 45 minutes discussing whether the correct word is “soda” or “pop”. In case you were wondering, it’s soda. What the hell is pop?
• We also had our first real argument of the class. Mrs. Ms. Smith discussed how homosexuality was genetic and one of the students decided to debate her on the issue. OK, I know Mrs. Ms. Smith is not a usual teacher by any means, but what idiot gets involved with such a hot-button topic?