Friday, November 9, 2012

College Logic

I'm not sure what the root of this phenomena is, but once you get into college, your thought process completely changes and makes your decisions be completely legitimate to you (even though adults just don't get it).

For example:
- When the cafeteria serves macaroni and cheese that is gross, you decide that you MUST HAVE good macaroni and cheese.  You then hijack the nearest car, drive to Safeway, and buy boxed macaroni and cheese.  Unfortunately, you forgot that you don't own a pot or have any way to use a stove to actually make the macaroni.  The next logical step is to use your electric tea kettle to make the macaroni - not only that, but you then feel brilliant for having discovered a new use for electric kettles.
- When it snows during the night but it doesn't really accumulate enough to build a snowman, you proceed to steal the snow off of parked cars and pile it up into a snow-lump.  You also continue to do this even after you have set off three separate car alarms.  You then act indignant when security shows up and tells you to stop.
- When you get tired of doing homework and have a slight mental breakdown from the futility that is organized schooling, you do not simply take a break.  Instead, you challenge your hall to a "worm race", a game that you invent on the spot which involve wrapping yourselves tightly in blankets so that you can't move your arms or bend your knees, and then seeing who can get to the library and check out a copy of "As You Like It" the fastest.  Then, you decide that you are really cool (which is a conclusion that is reinforced by the sudden popularity of "worm races" on campus.)

With college logic, nothing is off-limits, and nothing is stupid until you have thoroughly experimented and proven that it isn't smart.  If you practice college logic now, you will be a revolutionary in college like the certain Frosh who invented "Worm Racing".

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