Chapter 4 - The first semester of DCC- Physics class
MY first day at DCC( Dutchess Community College)was liek the first day of high school as a freshman. New surrounds, tons of strangers, and classes that are always a couple foot ball fields apart. I remember my first class on that day as well, it was physics..... Oh joy. This was the second time i had taken physics in the same year, thank you Ketcham High for the first time.
As i entered the class, all i could do was look up, and enjoy my first college classroom. The classroom itself was about 30 feet long, and 30 feet high about. It had 6 steps that climbed form the bottem of the room to the top. Each step had a row of desks and chairs on it. I ,being new to this thing called college decided to be neutral and sit on the 4th step, right in the middle kinda of. I had arrived to my first class 15 min early, thta way i could watch as my " peers" each entered the class, one, two at a time, tryign to take it all in. There were people 20 years my senior, while there were ones my age. Each one carreid a book bag that looked liek it was prepared if the world ended that day. Me, on the other hand, only had my physics text book, and a note book. So i kinda felt unprepared , me being a freshman, or should i say " fresh meat". Overall the class was pretty quiet, everyone was focus on the educational journey they were about to par-take.
I had the luck/ misfortune of having this kid name Paul sit next to me. Now I will admit i am wierd, but Paul took it to another level. He stood about 5' 5" with long blonde hair combed up so he had spikes in the front. He wore glasses, and liek most teenagers suffered from acne. The thing that made paul stand out the most was, his way to tell stories, and my favorite thing, make dinosaur sounds during tests that we took later on that semster. He was what our society would label as a dork, but hey back then i would have taken a paper doll as a friend. overall he was a nice kid, wierd but nice.
Before i knew it, it was 10 am, time for class to begin..... yet no sign of a professor. AS i stood there watching the clock hit 1005, then 1010, i kept on thinking " wow, what a way to start a semester! The professor isn't even here, i am stuck with a wierdo next to me, and to make matters worse i am unprepared it seems. MAD GRIMEY" Then with that last thought of grimeyness, the door to the class opened adn what came through it would be one of the things that made me glad to go to college.
A girl dressed all in black goth/skater clothes had entered the class. She was like a tall glass of water on a hot summer day. She had jade for eyes, glasses that were stylish, but gave people the impression that she was smart, long red hair and blonde streaks , perfect complexion,and well just perfect to me in every way. Her name was Kadance, i fellow freshman liek me. AS she climbed up the stairs to find an empty seat, i sat there wishing she would sit in my row. Just so i could be near her. .... She passed the 4th row where i sat and sat in the fifth row.... right behind me.
I could feel my heart pounding, sweat starting to form all on my body, my breathe shorting every gasp of air. Here i was, a chubby redhead geek who was getting to seat in the same proxiamtity of this beautiful creature.I knew i had to say something, like " hey, my name is Josh, what's yours, and go form there", btu i was scared, girls to me had always been the unknown, never had a g/f , or friends who were girls. Girls to me back then were like an alien species. But i knew i had to grow up, i had to mature, i had to be man.......
I finally had mustard up all the courage, i ahd been saving in my lifetime to talk to a girl. this girl had to eb the one i would break my vow of silence with. I turned around in my seat and looked up . she then looked down at me . I said "Hey, my name is JOs..."
" Ok, people welcome to physics 101 " said the physics teacher
" WTF," i thought. I had finally mustarded the strength to say something to a girl, and low and behold the teacher came in while i was pumping myself up, and started class. All my work there gone..... Well physics came and gone, I did finally tlaked to Kadane, where i learned her name and where she worked, but besides that nothing else.
To this day i wonder what would have happend if i had acted earlier, and been a man. WOuld she be my g/f? Idk. but i can def say my first semester of physics was tolerable, thanks to her presence, and paul being a ...... well a dork.
As i entered the class, all i could do was look up, and enjoy my first college classroom. The classroom itself was about 30 feet long, and 30 feet high about. It had 6 steps that climbed form the bottem of the room to the top. Each step had a row of desks and chairs on it. I ,being new to this thing called college decided to be neutral and sit on the 4th step, right in the middle kinda of. I had arrived to my first class 15 min early, thta way i could watch as my " peers" each entered the class, one, two at a time, tryign to take it all in. There were people 20 years my senior, while there were ones my age. Each one carreid a book bag that looked liek it was prepared if the world ended that day. Me, on the other hand, only had my physics text book, and a note book. So i kinda felt unprepared , me being a freshman, or should i say " fresh meat". Overall the class was pretty quiet, everyone was focus on the educational journey they were about to par-take.
I had the luck/ misfortune of having this kid name Paul sit next to me. Now I will admit i am wierd, but Paul took it to another level. He stood about 5' 5" with long blonde hair combed up so he had spikes in the front. He wore glasses, and liek most teenagers suffered from acne. The thing that made paul stand out the most was, his way to tell stories, and my favorite thing, make dinosaur sounds during tests that we took later on that semster. He was what our society would label as a dork, but hey back then i would have taken a paper doll as a friend. overall he was a nice kid, wierd but nice.
Before i knew it, it was 10 am, time for class to begin..... yet no sign of a professor. AS i stood there watching the clock hit 1005, then 1010, i kept on thinking " wow, what a way to start a semester! The professor isn't even here, i am stuck with a wierdo next to me, and to make matters worse i am unprepared it seems. MAD GRIMEY" Then with that last thought of grimeyness, the door to the class opened adn what came through it would be one of the things that made me glad to go to college.
A girl dressed all in black goth/skater clothes had entered the class. She was like a tall glass of water on a hot summer day. She had jade for eyes, glasses that were stylish, but gave people the impression that she was smart, long red hair and blonde streaks , perfect complexion,and well just perfect to me in every way. Her name was Kadance, i fellow freshman liek me. AS she climbed up the stairs to find an empty seat, i sat there wishing she would sit in my row. Just so i could be near her. .... She passed the 4th row where i sat and sat in the fifth row.... right behind me.
I could feel my heart pounding, sweat starting to form all on my body, my breathe shorting every gasp of air. Here i was, a chubby redhead geek who was getting to seat in the same proxiamtity of this beautiful creature.I knew i had to say something, like " hey, my name is Josh, what's yours, and go form there", btu i was scared, girls to me had always been the unknown, never had a g/f , or friends who were girls. Girls to me back then were like an alien species. But i knew i had to grow up, i had to mature, i had to be man.......
I finally had mustard up all the courage, i ahd been saving in my lifetime to talk to a girl. this girl had to eb the one i would break my vow of silence with. I turned around in my seat and looked up . she then looked down at me . I said "Hey, my name is JOs..."
" Ok, people welcome to physics 101 " said the physics teacher
" WTF," i thought. I had finally mustarded the strength to say something to a girl, and low and behold the teacher came in while i was pumping myself up, and started class. All my work there gone..... Well physics came and gone, I did finally tlaked to Kadane, where i learned her name and where she worked, but besides that nothing else.
To this day i wonder what would have happend if i had acted earlier, and been a man. WOuld she be my g/f? Idk. but i can def say my first semester of physics was tolerable, thanks to her presence, and paul being a ...... well a dork.