Warning: this will become a large post, made of many unrelated things.
A Thanks to the Rutgers Bus Drivers
Thank you, dear bus driver, for stopping and opening the doors when I am running towards your bus with what is probably a desperate and half crazy face, and I don't even realize how stupid I look until I hurdle into the bus and everyone is staring at me. My values place being on time in a higher position than looking cool, so bus drivers of Rutgers, I sincerely thank you for usually allowing me to fulfill my desire to be on time.
However, occasionally, you will pull away, even as I, or others, frantically run towards you. The sight of the red and white bus pulling away right as we reach the curb is disheartening and hilarious. So, thank you, bus drivers. Even when you don't wait for us, you still give us laughs and something to bond over and more exercise than I'd had all week.
When you should NOT go to lecture (wut??!?!!!11)
To start off, I go to lecture because it's like studying, but only having to do half of the work. I don't need to read or comprehend, or put complicatedly worded text into something I can understand (my professors do that for me, huzzah!)
When I think you should go to lecture: Always. Even if you know all the material, you should go. At the very least, it's review. At the most, you'll get a new way of thinking about something that you hadn't thought about before. And you can meet people in class, but this brings us to the situations in which you should not go to lecture:
1. When you spend the entire lecture chattering about nothing and no matter how beautiful your voice is, it's going to become pretty damn annoying when it's a whining buzz beneath the professor's voice. Flirting amplifies the annoying effect by the magnitude of one mosquito in your ear growing to one thousand mosquitos buzzing in your ear. (Besides, no one wants the removal of their presence to be greeted by thoughts of, "They're finally gone!"
2. If you're going to eat really noisy food. See above.
3. If you constantly move your head from side to side and you like sitting in a seat in front of a lot of other people. One person leaning their head to one side can lead to a whole chain of people craning their necks in some direction, trying to see the blackboard/powerpoint/professor's face and just imagine the position of the principle blockage changing every few seconds. This isn't so much about not going to lecture as it is about not sitting in front and center if you woke up in the morning with a sore neck. Thank you!
4. If you plan on gossiping or making fun of the professor in their lecture, don't go, _______ (insert whatever synonym for "mean person" here that you'd like). It's pretty mind boggling to me. Do you really think you know more than the professor? Regardless of this, it's just incredibly rude. So don't do it, please.
I leave this post with a picture of what's to come:
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