If you can make a butt joke, you can get through grad school.
Posted By Phil on August 25, 2008
Three-hour classes are quite possibly the worst invention of all time. Tonight I had my first lecture class of the semester. I managed to stick with it for the first hour and forty-five minutes or so, but it was all downhill from there. Suddenly, I went from writing decent notes to writing thought-provoking notes like this:
Fun question of the night: How do you pluralize ‘epiglottis’?
And when I started writing down how many minutes I had left in class, I knew I was really in trouble.
30 minutes left in class. YAY.
25 minutes left–I’ve already mentally checked out.
And then it got more off topic.
These desk chairs are decidedly not good for me. Ugh.
I’m rather proud of myself–I managed to bring up Bulimia into the lecture. Go me!
Now that’s what I call graduate level work. Oh, and before I forget, I also managed to announce to the girl next to me that that one part of the larynx we were looking at resembled a butt. Because it did, seriously.
Hahaha I can totally relate. I like to doodle pictures of stars, trees, write the word “bored” in 50 different decorative ways and last week I was most proud to depict an entire winter wonderland scene - complete with snowman!
I was bummed when I had to stay home sick yesterday because apparently my friends were able to think of several humourous ways to compare our favourite lecturer to God.
Good luck with your studies!!!
Three hour classes are terrible. My attention span just can’t take that much.
I used to take notes like that… I would count down the minutes by making “30!” and “25!” in really pretty designs. Wow. Lame.
I love how nerdy we all are. I COULD opt to leave early, but no, I stay despite my uselessness.
I forgot to point out that I also managed to bring cosmetic surgery to the discussion table. The teacher mentioned “collagen” at one point and suddenly my mind went waaaay off topic.
3 hour class?! I’d spork my eyes out.
Hi Phil,
I’m here via a comment you left on a blog of someone who left a comment on a friend’s blog so see, I’m officially not a stalker.
Three-hour-classes are indeed from hell. I recall the intense java drinking that accompanied such classes and as you mentioned, those unforgiving chairs. NOT a cool combo.
Props for working Bulimia into the mix. I always enjoy a good discussion on eating disorders.
I like your blog and you have puppy pictures posted - you’re officially an awesome person.
Not a stalker,
Stepher
Three hour classes are the devil! The devil!!! Especially when they are biology related. From now on I dub thee my anti-school buddy.
epiglotti? epiglottises? eh?
Oh good old school. When I was doing my graduate work, I took an online class with a real time discussion board we had to participate in. My God. No one could type fast enough and I was like, come on peoples, speed it up! And then the professor would IM me and tell me to slow down and let others talk and I got righteously indignant (I mean seriously, if you’re getting your master’s degree, learn how to type already!) so I’d end up getting completely drunk and just watching the inane conversation. Every. Single. Time. It was horrible.
Deutlich: Welcome to my world. On the plus side, the long classes do lend themselves well to bonding with classmates, if a bit negatively at first. But bonding nonetheless.
Stepher: Thanks! I love living through other people’s dogs. And since my landlord has a dog who I get to hang out with all the time, I figure he’s my dog, too.
Jenn: I think I can handle the anti-school buddy position. I’ll take it.
Jpo: Exactly.
K8: No kidding. I wonder how common it is for people who are completely computer illiterate to jump at the chance to get an online degree. My online class last semester, my teacher didn’t get the concept of a discussion forum… she’d force everyone to have start a unique discussion every week. So we’d have 30 discussion topics and no actual discussion. It was lame.
Hey thanks for visiting my blog.
And a 3 hour lecture isn’t so bad, depending on the topic. History? Political Science? Humanities? Philosophy? I’m hooked for all 3 hours.
Science? Math? Eh, I’ll survive.
English? I’d spontaneously com bust.
Three hour classes always killed me in school. Now, I kinda miss going to any kind of class..