Skipping Class

aibarr
Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:59:49 +0000

In college, one of the requirements for my civil engineering degree was to take Waves & Optics, Biology, or Orgo. I read a little further and found out it was an ABET accreditation requirement, and that all we really needed to do was to take a two-hundred-level science course, so I got the dean to agree to a bunch of us taking “The Planets”. The professor put his notes online, along with review questions for the exams, which were identical to the exams. I ended up never going to class, except on exam days. Skipped every single lecture.

When the powers that be found out I had done this, they came with sticks and beat me. Once I was bruised and bleeding on the ground, they took everything out of my dorm room, piled it into a shopping cart, and told me to have a nice life, because skipping class is just not something that someone in college does. I’ve spent the last five years roaming the back alleys of my city with my shopping cart, wondering where I went wrong. (In retrospect, I think it was the “skipping class” thing.) I’m only posting this because I sneaked up behind a businessman, clubbed him with my shoe, stole his laptop, and am swiping internet from a local dry cleaner.

No, I’m actually totally lying to you. I’m just taking a break at work from designing this here skyscraper to cruise CC and drink my latte. One sociology class? Nobody’s gonna miss you; don’t sweat it.