B.A. in Efficient Living
If you are lucky (?) enough to be a college student, you know it is a very happy time for us, indeed. Student loan checks were disbursed this week. I am happy to report that I, along with many of my peers, am temporarily fabulously rich (i.e. I have money in my savings account). This will end in, oh, about a week when I have to pay rent, but I figured I should fully exploit my newfound and short-lived life of leisure by going grocery shopping. My venue of choice? Wal-Mart. The mission? Buying efficient food.
See, way back when, "efficiency" may have meant peanut butter and jelly. Easy to assemble, durable and tasty. But oh no, not nowadays. Us modern college students are wily (and spoiled). I don't want any of that snack food crap. See, before I came to FSU, I thought I was a pretty efficient individual, but I've had to streamline even MY lifestyle. I've had to exchange tortillas for my morning bagels because tortillas are pre-squashed. Efficiency means stocking up on Power bars that I can leave in my trunk when it's 10,000 degrees outside and prunes that could survive nuclear warfare, both of which mean I can head directly to the gym from work without starving to death. Efficiency means carrying cans of Diet Pepsi in my backpack so I can re-caffeinate after my athlete-worthy 15 minute sprint across the entire FSU campus between SPA4010 and Cal III.
Efficiency has even spread to my social life.
Gone are the days when I chose friends based on randomness, proximity and dumb luck (or lack thereof). I was fortunate enough to be put into a lab group with some extremely cool, like-minded chicks. So, we have scheduled regular Monday and Thursday study sessions. Since we're in three classes together, it's going to be particularly effective. I'm making friends who I like AND who are in my program AND who can study with me? Despite how illogical it is to choose friends who share my interests and work ethic, I guess it is efficient.
See, way back when, "efficiency" may have meant peanut butter and jelly. Easy to assemble, durable and tasty. But oh no, not nowadays. Us modern college students are wily (and spoiled). I don't want any of that snack food crap. See, before I came to FSU, I thought I was a pretty efficient individual, but I've had to streamline even MY lifestyle. I've had to exchange tortillas for my morning bagels because tortillas are pre-squashed. Efficiency means stocking up on Power bars that I can leave in my trunk when it's 10,000 degrees outside and prunes that could survive nuclear warfare, both of which mean I can head directly to the gym from work without starving to death. Efficiency means carrying cans of Diet Pepsi in my backpack so I can re-caffeinate after my athlete-worthy 15 minute sprint across the entire FSU campus between SPA4010 and Cal III.
Efficiency has even spread to my social life.
Gone are the days when I chose friends based on randomness, proximity and dumb luck (or lack thereof). I was fortunate enough to be put into a lab group with some extremely cool, like-minded chicks. So, we have scheduled regular Monday and Thursday study sessions. Since we're in three classes together, it's going to be particularly effective. I'm making friends who I like AND who are in my program AND who can study with me? Despite how illogical it is to choose friends who share my interests and work ethic, I guess it is efficient.