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In other news, someone sounds as though they are trying to saw through their floor and into our room.
If they're trying to make a trapdoor through which to sneak out of the building, they're going to be mildly disappointed.
This deserves a consolatory gesture. You know, cookies or something. Or it would, if our ceiling weren't being sawn apart.
The trapdoor scenario is, for the record, very unlikely, because the frightening thing about college is that you can leave pretty much whenever you want to. I went to a day high school that also served as a fairly strict boarding school, and some of the former boarders seem thrilled with the newfound freedom that college offers them. Others find it depressing that they can spend their nights in a city gutter somewhere cradling a joint and nobody will particularly care.
I can't really weigh in on this, as there has never been much structure in my life - I was a day student, and staying up late at night went from being taboo to earning parental exasperation to finally just drawing unhappy sighs and then getting no comments at all. Here, I spend at least one night a week alternately doing homework and skulking around campus from four p.m. to seven a.m. and then going to classes as usual the next day. As b2thejewfro has noted, giving yourself that much time to study leads only to procrastination, and it Hoovers time and focus that you could put toward other things - extracurriculars, clubs, awareness groups, recreational reading, learning new things and meeting new people and flexing atrophied muscles and attempting to redress the world's problems and everything that college is really supposed to be about.
So, structure. Structure is a nice thing. I don't know whether curfews would help with what is supposed to be a personal problem that individuals deal with and figure out, but I suspect that they might.
Probably this question is somewhat related to the one of fat taxes.
Please weigh in, independent studenty people!
A lot of my friends seem to be Scorpios. *plotz. plotz.*
What's the one best comment or shout or whisper you've heard today? (Don't be afraid to say that it's something you said, too! I want to know that you are not drowning in pools of self-loathing somewhere that is out of hugging distance.)
Edit: So, the only redeeming factor of this entry are the wonderful comments that you've left. Thank you!
In other news, someone sounds as though they are trying to saw through their floor and into our room.
If they're trying to make a trapdoor through which to sneak out of the building, they're going to be mildly disappointed.
This deserves a consolatory gesture. You know, cookies or something. Or it would, if our ceiling weren't being sawn apart.
The trapdoor scenario is, for the record, very unlikely, because the frightening thing about college is that you can leave pretty much whenever you want to. I went to a day high school that also served as a fairly strict boarding school, and some of the former boarders seem thrilled with the newfound freedom that college offers them. Others find it depressing that they can spend their nights in a city gutter somewhere cradling a joint and nobody will particularly care.
I can't really weigh in on this, as there has never been much structure in my life - I was a day student, and staying up late at night went from being taboo to earning parental exasperation to finally just drawing unhappy sighs and then getting no comments at all. Here, I spend at least one night a week alternately doing homework and skulking around campus from four p.m. to seven a.m. and then going to classes as usual the next day. As b2thejewfro has noted, giving yourself that much time to study leads only to procrastination, and it Hoovers time and focus that you could put toward other things - extracurriculars, clubs, awareness groups, recreational reading, learning new things and meeting new people and flexing atrophied muscles and attempting to redress the world's problems and everything that college is really supposed to be about.
So, structure. Structure is a nice thing. I don't know whether curfews would help with what is supposed to be a personal problem that individuals deal with and figure out, but I suspect that they might.
Probably this question is somewhat related to the one of fat taxes.
Please weigh in, independent studenty people!
A lot of my friends seem to be Scorpios. *plotz. plotz.*
What's the one best comment or shout or whisper you've heard today? (Don't be afraid to say that it's something you said, too! I want to know that you are not drowning in pools of self-loathing somewhere that is out of hugging distance.)
Edit: So, the only redeeming factor of this entry are the wonderful comments that you've left. Thank you!