Friday, September 14, 2012

The Great 8:00 Controversy

There are four types of classes you can take in college.  If you thought "Oh, math, science, history, and lit" then you are WRONG!  Stop being so Peak-ey or I will smite you.

Type 1: The 8:00 class (which begins in the morning at an unspecified time)
Type 2: The morning class (which is assumed to begin after the 8:00 class would end)
Type 3: The afternoon class (which is assumed to begin after lunch (or "noon", if you will))
Type 4: The night class (which is assumed to begin after dinner, when you would much rather be playing Extreme Pong with tennis rackets, a beach ball, and a ping pong table)

When signing up for classes, most people avoid 8:00 classes like the plague.  They are early.  They are scary.  They are always hard.  Take them, take them anyway.

Having an 8:00 class makes you 9,872% more productive (and gives you 236% more time to watch Psych and Dr. Who after class).  When you get up, go to class, go to another class, go to a third class, have lunch, and get back to your dorm by noon, you have about 4 hours in which to do whatever you want before everyone who didn't get up until 11:25 gets back from class.  You are then free to take those 4 hours and either do all of your homework so that you can bug people later when they are working, or watch TV and goof off without anyone knowing that you haven't done squat all afternoon.

My suggestion is try and get your schedule to look something like this:
-Monday, Wednesday, and Friday: class at 8, 9, and 10:30, go back to the dorm and goof off until 5 minutes before your roommate will be back, then surround yourself with books and make it look like you have been studying for hours, then actually study for a few hours (and watch everyone be jealous of how committed you are), then be social until bed.
-Tuesday and Thursday: give yourself a break: class at 10, and 11:45, get lunch and then go back to the dorm and do homework in the common room where there are plenty of things to distract you from your homework so that you don't actually have to do anything.  Possible distractions include: cute guys, people coloring (actually this is always happening here, not sure why), indoor Frisbee tournaments, playing music, TV, your friends, people with more interesting homework than you have, and people with questions that you can easily answer because you went to Peak.

As far as morning, afternoon, and night classes go:
Morning classes are good.  Afternoon classes are evil because they are after lunch and all you want to do is nap and/or play video games.  Night classes are the actual, literal cause of the zombie apocalypse - we all know that the humans have more fun than the zombies in those games so don't take them.

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