So my 80-year-old Shakespeare prof, and my 85-year-old Mythology prof, one a highly distinguished male and the other a highly distinguished female, have undoubtedly the dirtiest, crassest vocabularies I have ever heard. (This is a SLIGHT exaggeration, but ONLY slight) I am having quite the hard time getting over my shock, and possibly my previous stereotypes about academic individuals their age. These are all quite definitely quashed now, as I am forced to re-assess my thoughts on the subject. One point I would really like to bring up to my Shakespeare professor, however, is the fact that though he has on numerous occasions made it clear that he has absolutely NO patience with delicate "euphemisms" ("passing away," "sleeping with," etc.) he employs crass euphemisms CONSTANTLY in class, they just happen to be more blunt and to the point (in essence, more offensive). The lack of logic in this simply confounds me.
Anyway...I happened to notice a suspicious gathering of students outside this afternoon as I was walking by the student center on the way to class. Since I was going to be ridiculously early to class anyway (one of my many hopeless compulsions/paranoias), I stopped to see what the ruckus was about. Lo and behold, it's Rush Week at my school! (Oops, I mean "Orientation Week" - we're going PC about it or something...) so since I couldn't be less interested in joining a sorority (even the thought makes my scalp itch), I searched through the mayhem for a familiar face or two, and discovered a table set up from VISION! (My school's main volunteering organization) So I stopped to say hi, and got an entire pile of free stuff thrust into my face! :D For simply stopping to say hi to some aquaintances and expressing my appreciation for their work, I got (for FREE!):
-two VISON t-shirts
-an adorable "donate your organs" plastic cup that has a very cute (yet completely anatomically incorrect) heart on the front!
-flyers to hand out to people who see all the aforementioned advertisments and asks me what the heck is "VISON", and perhaps best of all:
-CANDY! :D
I love my school. (Well, the volunteering office, anyway...) :)
3 comments:
Thank you so much for your great comment, I am very glad to find my work inspiring :-) Have you done any photography before ever?
Yay free stuff! Truly the best part of college.
I've never understood people who use vulgar language in a professional setting. To me, it automatically drops their respectability and IQ level.
well... i TOTALLY recommend saving for a Cannon... their color shot are amazing! :-)
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