This Place Called College

September 5, 2002 | Category: blog, old website posts

I thought the first day of school was an indication of how first semester would be like; luckily the past two days have been different from the first day. Parking was a fat bitch, and I ended up parking in some lot way on the opposite side of where my class was next to like the Aztec Rec. Center. So it was a long walk. I was chillin on a bench right outside my class when Mary Anne passed by and she chilled with me for awhile until two of her friends showed up and they left to grab a bite to eat. I onyk had art that day, so I couldn’t really base that day on anything since it was so short. I thought it was gonna be an art class like that at high school, but boy was I wrong, it’s actually a lecture class, which sucks ass cause you have like 2,000 students in the class and lectures are just plain ass boring. Pretty much end of day after class ends.

Second day of school fared better. Although I had to wake up way before the roosters do their cock-a-doodle-doo thing, I didn’t have to worry about parking. It feels strange leaving the house in the morning when it’s still dark outside. So dark I need the headlights on. Unusual experience…anyway moving on, uh so my first class that day started at 7 in Storm Hall, which all my classes are in or near, scheduled it that way, I’m so smart. It’s this class called rhetoric and writing studies, but I guess it’s just plain ol’ english class. Ended up outside the classroom for awhile since it was early. People were already waiting outside the door as well…teacher finally comes and unveils the room and to my surprise it’s a mini-computer lab. According to her introduction and syllabus, the class seems something I might be into for once, all your writings and reports you type, and there’s a lot of focus on Internet searching and e-mailing classmates and some use of this SDSU teacher’s aid program called Blackboard.`

Class over, down the hall and I’m in economics. The teacher is really young and resembles Raccoon’s cousins’ husband Warren. I don’t know what that is in like family terms, you know, son-in-law, that type of shit, but anyway…he was cool, cause he was just like, “Okay, my name is this, here’s the syllabus, read over it, this is the book you’ll need, try and get to class, I’m not a morning person so I don’t feel like teaching anything or doing anything so if there’s no questions you guys can leave.” He did attendance too cause there were a lot of crashers….but when I got outta there I had like 45 minutes till my next class which was at 9.

So I walk around the building or whatever killing time and I decide to do a little route running to find the like best way to get to my next classes and stuff. On my way back I see Venessa chilling at that one bench I was at with Mary Anne the day before and find out we have the next class together which is general math studies. It’s just upstairs from my previous class. The professor for that class is cool, he reminds me of the old host of Who’s Line is it Anyway? before it was Drew Carrey. He was like doing some stand-up comic stuff just telling us stories and how he goes on DVD shopping spree’s cause he makes a lot of money teaching different subjects. He bought this one DVD called Outer Limits that apparently shows on HBO, and he mentions how like Alyssa Milano does the nasty with some aliens cause of this n that. It was pretty funny though. He’s cool. He was the only professor that casually talked to us. After that we walk down the flight of stairs and once out the building me and Venessa part ways.

The hardest walk I have to endure (if any), is from general math studies to history, which is in the area where they filmed some of Bring It On. The reason it’s a hard walk is cause there’s this steep hill that I have to climb. Hills suck. Then I end up at this building called Hardy Tower and there’s a fuckin grip of people just chilling inside and outside the entrance and hall. I was like fuck, it’s gonna be like my art class, cause it’s also like a lecture type class. Once everyone’s settled in, the professor starts talking and I laugh aloud (couldn’t help it, he has this funny British accent), and this white guy next to me looks at me and laughs too. The air con in that bitch wasn’t working so it was getting pretty hot in der (according to Nelly). Anyway….blah blah lecture goes on but wait! What the fuck is this? Discussion groups? He goes on to talk about how we have to sign up for discussion groups with his three T.A.’s. He had a list of days and times available. Hands started flockin in the air like everyone was tryin to raise the roof or something and after a grip of questions, turns out its mandatory to attend and stuff and it was all just so confusing at the time. To sum up what happened (the professor should of just said it like this, `), the class is normally on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 10. But he wants to add discussion groups to the scheduling, so you pick a time either on Wednesday or Friday, and depending on which day you chose, you don’t have to attend class the other available day. So I chose the 11 time frame on Wednesday for discussion groups, which meant that right after that class I had to go to another room for it already. Weird how they just add that in all of a sudden, super late ass notice and all. That’s college I guess.

Discussion groups turned out to be hella fun though, cause basically we were doing ice breakers. We had to like line up according to birth date, talk to other people of the same astrological sign and come up with personality traits you all have in common, etc. `

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