The Glory Days

We are an interesting breed of humans, my fellow college students and I. When does the shift occur from normal student (high school) to serious college student, when the world comes to a crashing halt if our computers crash. Is it due to the fact that we have officially offered up our first born and our souls in order to fund our education that we begin to take school seriously? College is a whole different ballgame than high school. In my second year participating in this glorious rat race, where the finish line is the perfect job offering, I've noticed several things about college students...

1)Coffee. There's not much more to say on this subject other than the fact that this dark liquid is the equivalent of the elixir of life. Drink three cups and call me in the morning.

2)Textbook prices that cost as much as a down payment on a large home. No wonder college students are broke. Why are books so expensive? If I'm paying a million dollars for a science book it better be engraved in gold sheets.

3)Awarness. ahhh yes, you know the college student. The one that is aware of their surroundings, the one that has a "save the whales sticker", "save the naked mole rat", or any other small animal that nobody really knows about. These types of students seem to run ramped on college campuses. Is there some type of rule as we enter college that a certain percentage of us most become socially conscious? I'm not saying it's bad thing to want to be a little more green, but come on people? save the mighty mosquito? no thanks. (SF State, I'm lookin at you)




I found these awesom comics on Toothpaste For Dinner. Just another example of how we are taught useless stuff most of the time. Excellent.

 4)I love how in college, the students have a certain air of pseudo intelligence in their answers. Not every class is a philosophy class (unless of course, you are a philosophy major). How does a topic progress from how many tests we will have in a semester into Kim Jong-il and his use of nuclear weapons and the threat they pose to society? Sometimes, students will hide behind a flowery vocabulary to hide the fact they have no idea what they are talking about...these are the students that just love to hear themselves talk. Don't get me wrong, I have met a number of extremely intelligent people on different college campuses that I've been on, but a good majority of us just fake it.

5)The 1am food run. Why do we get hungry around this time of night? When we enter college, do they pass out a second stomach along with our orientation packets? If one ever gets hungry at this time of night, one doesn't have to look far to find a ride to the nearest open restaurant. It seems that almost all college students get the munchies at this hour. Of course, some get the munchies from endless hours spent studying the rise and fall of Hitler or the Soviet Union, while others get the munchies from more organic means...if you know what I mean (Humboldt State, I'm lookin at you here kid).

Whatever the stereotypes about college may be, some true and others false, college is supposed to be the best years of our young lives...or is that high school? I hope it's the former, because the latter was not the best and if that's the case I want a refund.