<p>10) Take art classes because you might find out you like them.
9) I just sent you money last week.
8) Why haven’t you gone to any glee club concerts yet?
7) Are the turning of the leaves beautiful in Ann Arbor?
6) Did you take your medication today?
5) I never cut class when I was in college.
4) You need to study two hours for every hour in class.
3) How cute are the boys in Michigan on a scale of 1-10?
2) How many students take advantage of their professors?
and finally…
<ol>
<li><p>You can’t marry _____. He’s too good looking and he will be hounded by other women his whole life. (Spot on prediction)</p></li>
<li><p>I’m not paying for the Hare Krishna School of Architecture.</p></li>
<li><p>Get a job.</p></li>
<li><p>Get a job.</p></li>
<li><p>Get a job. </p></li>
<li><p>Weekly letters with same content “It’s beautiful day in the country. The weather is (Sunny/rainy/misty/cold/hot).”</p></li>
<li><p>I’ll never understand why you weren’t more interested in the buildings at Williamsburg.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>I don’t get really good answers to those questions, do you alwaysamom? Just mumble, mumble, mumble in a tone that-- in my most generous mood – miiiight be construed as faintly contrite.</p>
<p>“The partying starts AFTER college. The partying starts AFTER college. The partying starts AFTER college.” (My DH thinks this is quite profound and worthy of regular repetition. Whether it has any effect is anybody’s guess).</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Son, have you gone to the Career Center yet? Don’t they have people there who can help you get an internship? I mean we pay enough for this school…</p></li>
<li><p>You still sound stuffy. Why don’t you go to Student Health and see the doctor? Maybe you need an antibiotic?</p></li>
<li><p>When I was in grad school, when we had extra money, we put HOT DOGS in our Kraft macaroni and cheese.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>-and #1—When you and your gf go out to eat, does she sometimes pay?</p>
<ol>
<li>Did you check your oil?</li>
<li>Are you hungry?</li>
<li>What you have for dinner?</li>
<li>How are classes going?</li>
<li>What’s new?</li>
<li>Drive safely, don’t need to hurry.</li>
<li>Meet any new girls?</li>
<li>Have you finished your secondary applications?</li>
<li>How’s Lacrosse going?</li>
<li>Lov ya bud.</li>
</ol>
<p>Have you asked the professor about that?
Have you asked your advisor about that?
Have you asked the career center about that?
Have you asked your roommate about that?
When I was in college we weren’t allowed to have a television/a hot plate/ a refrgerator/a girl in our room</p>
<p>You have:
A/C
High-speed Internet in your room
A personal cell phone
A car
A computer
A computer that plays movies and games</p>
<p>We had:
A pay phone down the hall.
Slide rules.</p>
<p>What I say: ‘Don’t complain to me.’ ;)</p>
<p>What I ask:</p>
<p>Have you downloaded and installed Firefox 2.0?
How’s the mag lab?
Have enough money?
Do you need anything?
How can you possibly use 1200 cellular minutes per month?</p>
<p>Haha, the A/C thing. The A/C in my car is broken and even though I’m not a middle aged man (yet), I find the windows work just as well. Who needs A/C anyway? It barely worked in my old car!</p>
<p>My 77 year old grandfather asks me the following:</p>
<ol>
<li>Are you hosting another study session for your history class?</li>
<li>Did you see (insert baseball player name here) was traded/signed/released/did something?</li>
<li>You all ready to proof that paper at 7 AM? (I always get an A if I do this for some reason)</li>
<li>Have you had enough to eat?</li>
</ol>
<p>My mother usually says this:</p>
<p>“Why is your cell phone turned off/not in your pocket?”</p>
<p>(I usually use this phone at home…not really into the whole mobile thing and when I do talk outside of the house it’s always either in the car when I’m not driving or in a “private” place like an elevator that isn’t used much).</p>