A friend has had their IM status as "You don't have to go to school" for a bit (in this day and age, a bit probably means "between a day and a week"). Being an annoying, overanalytical, no-life English major, I have been puzzling out what that means, exactly. Because it's not like I have anything better to do, for example, write my papers so I don't have to wake up at 6:30 am to write them (on the plus side, I actually got my 5 pager, 2 pager, 1 pager, and bibliographies all done, starting at 6:30 am, going to work from 10-3, and starting class at 4:30 (and I was on time, too).
Anyway, back to "You don't have to go to school." 1) You are an idiot for complaining about school - after all, university is still mostly a luxury item for the very wealthy, the very bright, the very dumb (i.e. those who rely solely on loans and don't get jobs - me last semester), and the very masochistic. So suck it up. 2) You can skip class (probably my least favorite interpretation). 3) (My personal favorite, and least likely): School is an addiction, and you need to break it.
Actually, I was thinking about reversing this idea on my walk home from class at 10 tonight (after dodging into the library, riding the elevator up and down from the fourth floor twice because I forgot to check out some other books for my class tomorrow), was the idea that going to school is merely a formal way of achieving disciplined learning (as opposed to desultory learning, as in the horrible horrible novel Waverley I just forced myself to read for class - you think Moby Dick is horrid, try imagining it in Scottish with geneaologies instead of whaling ;-). So, laziness and desultory studies are the addiction, and going to school is your 12-step (or year/grade) program to avoid it.
I dunno - it just tickled my fancy.
(And yes, I'm doing this just to test out whether my chain-linked blogs will make it to Buzz. I really, really have no life.)
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