A Day in the "Life" of a College
Student
by Jay
Friday, October 3, 2003 - 4:00 PM
(updated Oct 6)
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then this
rant is going to be a few "War and Peace" lengths long. The
title itself is misleading because this rant isn't about one day,
it's about a slew of them. But they are all related to the
same topic so it is okay to group them together. Basically,
college life is fun and in a few years I'll be able to look back on
my time spent here and be proud. Here's an example of events that
happen on a typical day(s) in the life of a college student:
A constant desire of a college student is to entertain
thyself through the laughter of others. Every day my group of
friends and I constantly look for new stunts to pull that will not
only degrade ourselves but also bring happiness (or embarrassment)
to others. Our victims vary daily, sometimes it is the next
door neighbor, other times a
hapless statue suffers from our antics. I mean, seriously, if
you saw a group of statues surrounded by four lanes of highways in
the "fancy" and "upscale" part of town, wouldn't you
pay your respects as well? Of course, behind every carnal
act there is always the
encouragement of others. That's usually about the time
when we learn that taking girls on these trips is not the best idea.
They are there only to hold us back and prevent us from doing the
fun things in life, like "mentally
hitting the gorilla". Plus, all the girls want to do is
prance around and talk about "romantic" things. I mean come on,
who has time for that stuff? Life is short, we need to have fun.
Which is why we also enjoy having a few "crazy clothes" day as well.
Sure, "toga day" is fun, but it's so
1978'ish. No, what we need is a "crazy pants" day (
1
2
3
4) or a "crazy
shirt" day. Speaking of which, will the real Ryan Dickson (
1
2
3
4
5
6) please stand up? Then at the end of every day I like to
retire to my humble abode where I try to
relax and socialize. So there I am, minding my
own business, when suddenly one of my friends asks if I am
ticklish. Well of course
I'm not, I have no sense of humor as it is and no amount of
poking or prodding will give me one. Alas, those evil women never
give up and soon a
war breaks out between them and me. Maybe it's a
loving war, maybe
not. In the end, someone's feathers always
get ruffled, and someone inevitably gets
hurt ("how do you like my arm-into-your-foot fighting style?").
I've tried to be
nice to them, no matter how many roses or
drawings I give them I still end up getting
jumped somewhere down the line. Can't a guy walk down the
hall without being attacked anymore? What has the world come to?
Regardless, I am still the master of my domain, and when it's time
for the women leave and for me to get to work I'm quite vocal about
it. And if they don't listen, then Paul and I
subtly give them another hint to leave our room and
go to bed. Thus ends another day and another tale.
Thoughts: Just alot of fun things happening around here
lately (take that sentence fragment English teachers!). In
case I haven't mentioned it before, our school shows movies on our
quad every Friday night, and most of them are just out of the
theaters. While it is cool to see The Hulk (or this week, T3) with a
bunch of people, the real fun happens before and after the movie. If
you're going to go to the trouble of setting up a VCR/DVD player to
a projector, you might as well hook up some game systems as well.
You've never played a Mario game until you've played on a 40+ ft
screen with an entire college watching you. We played Mario 3 (NES)
this past week, and it was odd seeing Mario actually being
life-size. Actually, it was odder to see him turn to a dwarf every
time he ran into something. On a small TV screen you never think
twice about it, but seeing a full-grown man turn into a half-pint
after walking into a wicked mushroom will actually weird you out
when its on a theater screen. Of course, other games were
present as well. Halo is wicked fun when it is played on a
screen that can be seen and heard nearly a mile away. I'll try to
snap some pictures the next time it happens because this is the
stuff that dreams are made of (yay, and prepositional finale!).
Next on the agenda... For those of you who are lucky
enough to be students at HSU, I have been recently informed of a new
program HSU installed that no one has realized yet. It's under
Reddie Connect and it's called RC Talk. Basically, its the
forums everyone has been wanting for the past few years. Except this
time they aren't going all Gestapo on us and monitoring what you
post (well for the most part). You can upload pictures, articles,
news, and just about whatever else you want the rest of the campus
to see. And with every new forum comes something else we need:
controversy. Sure it's nice to pictures of your cute 'lil doggy, but
sometimes we need to see pictures that just flabbergast us. Now
don't do anything stupid and post anything too offensive
because you could still get in trouble. Regardless, go post stuff
and have some fun as well! Let the world (or more accurately, the
campus) know that you exist!
Finally, in the few months that site has been up I've never
asked you to vote for us, because quite frankly it doesn't bother me
what number we are on the comic list. Recently, I added a new
vote button for a site which seems to be pretty cool and helpful
in the long run. So now all I ask is that you vote for us
every now and then (or if you're totally cool, once a day).
But don't do it for my apathetic self, do it for everyone else who
reads the site. Help pass the joy of Reddie Rants to people outside
of Henderson State University. And who knows, if we suddenly get
enough votes and rise in the ranks fairly quickly then I'll have
enough incentive to update the comic on a frequent basis.
SO
VOTE!!!
Unfortunately, not all of you will be able to vote. If you are a student on HSU campus and you try to vote but it says you've already voted, then that means someone else on campus has already voted. Due to the campus firewall every student computer on campus has the same IP address. thus the website thinks it is one person trying to vote 20 times rather than 20 different computers trying to vote separately. Faculty computers, on the other hand, are free game so feel free to vote on those instead.
- J, Beer tastes like Sprite, but without flavor...
Currently watching: "The Hulk" on the school
quad
Currently playing: my guitar and shannon's
piano
Currently listening to: Once Upon a Time in Mexico soundtrack
Currently reading: Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts
