Oh dear, am I up to five already? That's bad. I should probably cut back. But, since it's 12:30 in the morning, I'm totally bored, and I really should go to sleep because I have 2 hours of utterly boring econ lecture tomorrow morning, I've decided to grace you all with another rant. Today's subject? Dorm life.
There's some good stuff about it, definitely. There's tons of people, so it's (sort of) easy to meet people, and I'm all of five flights of stairs and 50 feet of walking between me and all sorts of unhealthy food like pizza, burgers, and pasta. I also live in a single room this year, so I've got lots of space and no roommate to deal with (although my roomie last year was cool).
Unfortunately, there's some bad stuff that comes along with this. A few of the more obvious things: The food places all close at 7 this year, as opposed to 11 last year. This means I must pay real money to get my cherry coke fix late at night, as opposed to putting it on my meal card. I'm sure you can see the problems here. Then we have the fact that my internet connection didn't exist for a week. But I went there already, so we'll ignore that. Then we have the fact that the hall smells like burnt popcorn. EVERY NIGHT. Let's also make a nod to the annoying people who insist on blaring country and rap and such at the top of their stereo's volume in the middle of the night. You will of course note that I am blaring Radiohead, but through earphones. Nyah. Lemme see... Oh yes. The bathrooms. We all know that public restrooms are hell, but have you ever lived in a place where you were forced to use one, EVERY DAY? College students are notoriously bad here. They don't flush, they like to throw up everywhere, and nobody washes their hands. YUCK. On a similar note, I have decided that the entire population of Callahan Hall are heinous losers who sit in wait on the off chance that I might be taking a shower, and when they see that I am, they run in and flush the toilets every ten seconds, which has the effect of cutting out the cold water and turning me into a boiled lobster imitation. And on a couple of final notes, people who go out to parties and get drunk and then run screaming through the halls ANNOY ME. I don't care if you get wasted, just do it quietly or outside, please. And don't make your car make loud noises. You aren't cool, really. And on that same note, please don't run through the halls screaming in the middle of the night. And don't pull the fire alarm for the hell of it at THREE IN THE MORNING (this happened last year, it sucked).
Ok, now that THAT is out of my system, it really ain't bad here. Most of the people this year seem ok (although I've only met a few of em). Living on 5th floor sucks, but oh well. It's classes that really kill ya. 2 hours of boring econ lecture tomorrow. YEAH! I can hardly wait.
And for all ya HS people in the crowd, don't do any of the bad stuff I'm saying up above. Or else the big bad Marius_monster will getcha (I'm really 6' 115 lbs in RL, but hey). Raarg. *paws the air a couple times, then squashes a 3 inch long mosquito that flew in the screen somehow*
And now I have the second part of today's rant for you. I'd like to dedicate this one to my economics proffessor, who is a heinous loser. Why, you ask? He's utterly boring, but thinks he's hilarious. You know the type, I'm sure. He's got this conception that people can copy down pages of material in like 5.238 seconds flat, and is amazed when everyone is like no wait stop we didn't get everything. He does this little stupid game to illustrate diminishing returns, something involving stapling copies of the syllabus. Real hilarious. Laugh a minute. Then to demonstrate effeciency/equity, he brings this pizza in and says well, I could give a few of you a slice, but that wouldn't be effecient, would it? I left at that point, being heartily sick and tired of the guy.
For your enjoyment, here's an excerpt of my notes. You will note that most of it is writing in the margins that's all song lyrics that have nothing to do with anything, but kept me from falling asleep.
7 lines on equating margins
4 line marginal benefit example
4 line marginal cost example
results of both examples
6 lines of stuff I didn't need to write down
7 lines on diminishing returns
Then in the notebook margins, we have: (everything is by the Smashing Pumpkins)
The entire lyrics to Tonight, Tonight (takes up 26 lines or so)
The first verse of Pissant (6 lines)
And in the top margin, the last verse of Plume. And just cause the lyrics are so relevant, I'll reproduce that for you.
Oh yeah, another day
Oh yeah, what a waste
For you, it never was
I don't care, or give a fuck
My boredom has outshone the sun
It's so dumb
I just want to have some little fun
And that, my friends, is the official Economics 201 theme song.
Also, on a side note, there was a really cute girl sitting in front of me who I could swear that I know, but can't actually place from anywhere. Isn't that sad?
Final note. No, I'm not this angry at life. Just on days like this... I'm just hoping somebody gets some entertainment out of these rants. You are somewhat entertained, right?
Posted by Dwip at September 27, 2000 10:19 PM