A Day In The Life Of A Summer School Student: Day 1
By umdblogger (Chief Contributor) Tags: boy scout, crazy, summer school, jeopardy, eating, pants
12:56 AM
I hate the idea of summer school. Never even considered it before this year. I consider myself to be a fun loving guy and well, summer was a perfect time to relax. Baseball and basketball games, days by the pool, nights partying. The idea of summer school was so…boring.
Then came my brilliant idea of double majoring and suddenly I needed to find room for some more credit hours. Instead of taking something like 25 credits this upcoming semester, I decided to finally man up and enroll in a COMM course at a local community college. Of course, I chose the latest possible class so I could swing a trip to Phoenix and L.A. first but hey, baby steps people, baby steps.
Yesterday was my first day of class and if I had known how out of control these summer classes were, I would have done this years ago. Here are some nuggets from my first day:
I like my teacher. I really do. She seems fair and she’s hilarious. However, it took her only five minutes to scare me into thinking she was a crazy feminist. Some snippets from her opening speech:
“Good morning class. You can call me Mary, Professor Smith, or Ms. Smith. Do not call me Mrs. Smith. In fact, if you call me Mrs. Smith I’ll be extremely offended and probably scream at you. Why? Because it’s completely unfair that women have a title of marriage and men don’t. Men don’t own me, why should my title say they do?” Yikes.
As an ice breaker, we each had to go around and say something interesting about ourselves. Clearly, this could only end well. Mrs. Ms. Smith went first and announced that she was a Jeopardy winner in ’91. Won $11,000 and used it to pay rent. OK, when you have something that interesting as your fun fact, you really shouldn’t go first. I mean, who can top that?
Apparently attractive girl who sits next to me thought she could, because she went next and let us all know that she was an eating champion. Jimmie Johns, donuts, everything. Yeah, that’s exactly what I wanted to know about you. Who says that on the first day of class?? Cease flirting immediately. The only thing that could possibly top that for an interesting fact would be…
“When I was little I wanted to be a Boy Scout but they wouldn’t let girls in, obviously. I had a twin brother though, so I just cut my hair short and pretended to be him for two years.” I’m going to let that one just speak for itself.
So did I learn anything in my first day of summer school? Well, not that much about communication. But Mrs. Ms. Smith did inform us that the tradition of wearing your pants really low comes from prison, where prisoners would wear their pants down low to indicate to their cell mate that they were “available.” Who knew that Erkel was the straightest man on television?
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