Yeah pretty much, at least in my dorm. It’s just “goof off all day every day” until a paper’s due, at which point it turns to “oh shit oh shit oh shit” for a few hours.
Did I ruin war movies for kids I was teaching leadership? I told them to pay attention to what the leaders do and say, figure out if it works and then try those techniques.
chronicler
Did an assignment comparing The Matrix and Inception once. Both are very fun movies. Both become much less fun when watching it with a critical eye, dissecting everything for layers and layers of meaning. Both stop being fun entirely after watching it four or five times for quotes and to make sure nothing contradicts anything you’re saying.
…yeah. Procrastination is natural. Setting a chore to a bongoing soundtrack makes it less of a chore. It doesn’t make it a party.
Kat
Man. Wish I went to a normal college. (Extension campus. Cheaper, way less fun.)
begbert2
I went to a normal college and it wasn’t any fun at all. What do they do at yours, waterboard you?
(Full disclosure: I didn’t live on-campus. But still.)
I just got a care package full of candy. I’ve existed on chocolate and bottle caps for the past few days.
Cassidy
Snkrs bars? TOO SOON. TOOOO SOOOOON.
NCP19
i c whut u did thar
begbert2
You think that’s too soon? Robin wanted to eat him before he’d even died!
(Ducks and runs before being shot for mentioning details of other comic. Disclaimer no implication that DoA Robin eats hamsters is expressed or implied intentionally or otherwise not valid in all states all rights reserved.)
Wandering Meme
see, and people wonder why they put on pounds later in life and just cant get them off…
“Honey, does this dress make me look fa-”
“Youuuuu bet’cha…
…
…what? Honesty is the foundation of our relationship!”
Laura
Hey, I know this wonderful just-past-teenage metabolism isn’t gonna last, so I’m enjoying it while I can!
The right (or very wrong) ava can give some comments a ‘unique’ flavour.
Joraiem
Oh yeah, I totally agree, I just hate the comments afterwards that go “Oh that gravatar makes it SO MUCH FUNNIER.” Which is why I was ashamed of myself.
are you kidding? thats like half their income, drawing america’s children to useless one-trick pony toys for them to collect like pokemon, and fattening our kids up with greasy, ensyme injected meat!
Oh, but not if you get the apples or milk! That’s their way of making it a “very healthy” lunch at a fast food restaurant. Which, in this case, is cause it’s apples instead of fries and milk instead of soda, but what kid now a days wants that?
I went nuts on the Transformers toys at Burger King when they had em ^.^
Eh. Yes and no. High school generally has more busy work and more political stuff changing the game on the students. College (for me at least) seems to have more challenging assignments, but with more space to do them (and more time to procrastinate) so it feels relaxed and easier.
Laura
College seems easier to me. But then, I is a English major.
Joraiem
I is English major too! Well, writing major. Basically the same thing.
It is easier, but I have like 3 essays due every week. It’s not horrible, though, I actually prefer it to the busy work of high school.
They only say that. They didn’t have to walk ten miles, uphill, through the snow, just to get to school. Without shoes.
Michelle J Caboose
Both ways.
Roborat
Don’t forget fording the raging river while fighting off the grizzly bears
chronicler
Highschool I had ridiculous amounts of homework due every night. I swear they gave me more hours worth than there were in a day, and my parents wouldn’t let me stay up late to get it done. Sweet crap the math alone was almost enough to undo me. Get home at three with three hours of math homework. They knew I had three other courses right? Everyday felt like I was being buried alive in a thousand tiny errands and they’d always try and surprise me with entirely new types of work I’d have to figure out on the fly.
College I probably technically have more homework, a smaller number of larger assignments so it’s easier to manage. Plus less time spent in class means I have more time to do it. Couple that with the fact that I have the freedom to sleep as little as I need in order to get the job done and it all becomes quite reasonable. Additionally, I get to choose all my courses so that they’re tailored to my own strengths. The course descriptions are detailed to a degree that there aren’t a lot of surprises. I feel that for myself, personally, College has been far easier than highschool.
That’s my story anyway. I’m sure a lot of people have different stories to tell.
113 thoughts on “Diversion”
Jen Aside
What Walky is saying is BUY THE DAMN PANTS
Wandering Meme
Psst…Joyce!
Pants = Happiness! mmk?
johannhowitzer
Who cares what he’s saying? Never losing your childhood = awesome. Dorothy clearly does not truly live.
Michael
That’s not what college kids do? Because I’m almost certain that’s what university students do all the time…
Joraiem
Yeah pretty much, at least in my dorm. It’s just “goof off all day every day” until a paper’s due, at which point it turns to “oh shit oh shit oh shit” for a few hours.
Icalasari
Hell, one of my assignments involves watching the Matrix and I STILL haven’t done that yet!
Joraiem
We are talking about the first Matrix, right? What the hell’s wrong with you? D=<
Unless you're playing either Arkham City or Skyrim. Either of those would justify it but STILL all-floor movie nights are a must.
Plasma Mongoose
Don’t be too hard on Icalasari, whenever any book or movie becomes homework, your willingness to read/watch it drops.
a99steaksauce
I ended up watching Birth of a Nation for a class I am currently taking.
Plasma Mongoose
I tried watching that on youtube, I didn’t even get to the controversial parts before I got bored.
Historyman68
“Say what you will about it, at least it’s an ethos”
Wackd
Shut the hell up, Historyman, you’re out of your element.
Jetstream
Oh come on, just use the whole quote! “Say what you will about the tenents of National Socialism, at least it’s an ethos.” 😉
Wandering Meme
what if your homework is video games?
Wandering Meme
also, its different if you’re watching it to analyze it. you’re no longer being entertained by it, so fun is right out the window.
“watch this movie, BUT ALL MIRTH IS FORBIDDEN!”
ryan
i’ll do it later. tv.
Habap
Did I ruin war movies for kids I was teaching leadership? I told them to pay attention to what the leaders do and say, figure out if it works and then try those techniques.
chronicler
Did an assignment comparing The Matrix and Inception once. Both are very fun movies. Both become much less fun when watching it with a critical eye, dissecting everything for layers and layers of meaning. Both stop being fun entirely after watching it four or five times for quotes and to make sure nothing contradicts anything you’re saying.
…yeah. Procrastination is natural. Setting a chore to a bongoing soundtrack makes it less of a chore. It doesn’t make it a party.
Kat
Man. Wish I went to a normal college. (Extension campus. Cheaper, way less fun.)
begbert2
I went to a normal college and it wasn’t any fun at all. What do they do at yours, waterboard you?
(Full disclosure: I didn’t live on-campus. But still.)
Lordphulish
Uncharted 3 for me
Wandering Meme
I love those hours! They really show you what you’re made of…
Tears, caffinated beverages, the sixth stage of the five stages of grief, and multiple levels of fail…good times.
iSaidCandleja-
They don’t do it at Burger King. That’s what the science labs are for.
Wandering Meme
…before or after a couple of pints AND a dare?
David Herbert
Who cares if you’re in college? When I was in college, I ate chocolate cake for dinner.
Plasma Mongoose
You haven’t lived until you have ice-cream for breakfast.
TaZZerath
My staple diet was Snickers bars…..
Laura
I just got a care package full of candy. I’ve existed on chocolate and bottle caps for the past few days.
Cassidy
Snkrs bars? TOO SOON. TOOOO SOOOOON.
NCP19
i c whut u did thar
begbert2
You think that’s too soon? Robin wanted to eat him before he’d even died!
(Ducks and runs before being shot for mentioning details of other comic. Disclaimer no implication that DoA Robin eats hamsters is expressed or implied intentionally or otherwise not valid in all states all rights reserved.)
Wandering Meme
see, and people wonder why they put on pounds later in life and just cant get them off…
“Honey, does this dress make me look fa-”
“Youuuuu bet’cha…
…
…what? Honesty is the foundation of our relationship!”
Laura
Hey, I know this wonderful just-past-teenage metabolism isn’t gonna last, so I’m enjoying it while I can!
Joraiem
I despise comments based solely on gravatars. Really, I do.
But oh my god adorable Joyce made this comment SO CUTE ASHFSAJE
Plasma Mongoose
You need to calm down, here, have a jellybaby.
Joraiem
Mkay.
It’s just hard to be calm after watching a music video featuring vagina-shoggoths.
…And no, there is no easier way to describe it.
Plasma Mongoose
I gather that it’s not a pop song then.
Historyman68
It’s the new Miley Cyrus.
Plasma Mongoose
iT SHOWS WHAT YOU NEED TO DO TO SHOCK ANYONE ANYMORE AS SEX, FOUL LANGUAGE AND VIOLENCE IS SO LAST tUESDAY.
Spazman
I read that comment and I thought I saw “vagina-shegoths”
Cue a very odd Phendrana Drifts flashback……
a99steaksauce
But is it not a wonderful thing to connect the comment and an image together for others to ready and gain a greater effect from?
Doranian
Case in point.
Plasma Mongoose
The right (or very wrong) ava can give some comments a ‘unique’ flavour.
Joraiem
Oh yeah, I totally agree, I just hate the comments afterwards that go “Oh that gravatar makes it SO MUCH FUNNIER.” Which is why I was ashamed of myself.
It’s kind of a Don’t Explain the Joke thing.
dchorror
It’s your last chance to act immature. Dorothy just grew up too fast.
begbert2
If you’re not still immature at 35, you’re not trying hard enough.
Habap
Bonus points if you’re still immature in your mid-40s?
Plasma Mongoose
They still have Kid’s Meal toys over there in the US?
Ridureyu
Yeah, the proposed laws to make them illegal haven’t taken effect everywhere yet.
Kernanator
Because it’s being challenged in the Supreme Court.
Janette
Yep. I still buy myself one if I like the theme.
That’s about the extent of my toy collecting, but I love my Happy Meal toys.
Wandering Meme
are you kidding? thats like half their income, drawing america’s children to useless one-trick pony toys for them to collect like pokemon, and fattening our kids up with greasy, ensyme injected meat!
They’re the saviors of our economy!
saturnwonder
Oh, but not if you get the apples or milk! That’s their way of making it a “very healthy” lunch at a fast food restaurant. Which, in this case, is cause it’s apples instead of fries and milk instead of soda, but what kid now a days wants that?
I went nuts on the Transformers toys at Burger King when they had em ^.^
Wandering Meme
2 words: lactose intolerance.
Ridureyu
I dunno, that totally sounds like college to me.
Laura
Since when does “in college” have any correlation to “mature”?
Joraiem
It does have a correlation! Negative correlation counts.
Laura
I concede the point.
Plasma Mongoose
I don’t think mature means what it used to, for instance movies rated M for mature often end up featuring lots of schoolboy humour and poop jokes.
Laura
I think maturity means knowing when it is and isn’t appropriate to act immature. There’s a time and a place for poop jokes.
Rex Hondo
Hee hee! You both said poop.
What were we talking about, now?
Spazman
something about duty?
heh…..
Wackd
Huhhuhuhuh, you said duty.
Haahahah, yeah, and poop.
Shut up, dumbass.
TaZZerath
When i was in ‘College’ (aka University here) it was the PERFECT time to do kids stuff!!
Plasma Mongoose
I heard that high-school is harder than college these days.
Joraiem
Eh. Yes and no. High school generally has more busy work and more political stuff changing the game on the students. College (for me at least) seems to have more challenging assignments, but with more space to do them (and more time to procrastinate) so it feels relaxed and easier.
Laura
College seems easier to me. But then, I is a English major.
Joraiem
I is English major too! Well, writing major. Basically the same thing.
It is easier, but I have like 3 essays due every week. It’s not horrible, though, I actually prefer it to the busy work of high school.
Plasma Mongoose
I asked this cos I only ever did up to Year 10 myself and that was decades ago.
I was curious as I heard about how much homework kids get these days.
Habap
They only say that. They didn’t have to walk ten miles, uphill, through the snow, just to get to school. Without shoes.
Michelle J Caboose
Both ways.
Roborat
Don’t forget fording the raging river while fighting off the grizzly bears
chronicler
Highschool I had ridiculous amounts of homework due every night. I swear they gave me more hours worth than there were in a day, and my parents wouldn’t let me stay up late to get it done. Sweet crap the math alone was almost enough to undo me. Get home at three with three hours of math homework. They knew I had three other courses right? Everyday felt like I was being buried alive in a thousand tiny errands and they’d always try and surprise me with entirely new types of work I’d have to figure out on the fly.
College I probably technically have more homework, a smaller number of larger assignments so it’s easier to manage. Plus less time spent in class means I have more time to do it. Couple that with the fact that I have the freedom to sleep as little as I need in order to get the job done and it all becomes quite reasonable. Additionally, I get to choose all my courses so that they’re tailored to my own strengths. The course descriptions are detailed to a degree that there aren’t a lot of surprises. I feel that for myself, personally, College has been far easier than highschool.
That’s my story anyway. I’m sure a lot of people have different stories to tell.