Top 10 Things You May Learn While Attending a Public University Whether You Want to or Not The Sequel
by Allison Egley 08/15/06
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Top 10 things You May Learn While Attending a Public University, Whether You Want to or Not – The Sequel
10. How to climb the aptly named “Cardiac Hill” in less time than it takes to complain about having to climb it.
9. A five story elevation change from one end of campus to another is really not much as it seems…
8. A two story elevation change when walking around one building is much more impressive.
7. Theological debates at 3am can be rather enlightening.
6. An eight-hour power outage can instill in one a great disdain for squirrels and cause a formerly peaceful student to declare open season on squirrels.
5. When spoken by the choir director, “Fascinating!” is not a compliment.
4. The choir director doesn’t have much faith in you when he begins directing by counting off “1, 2, good, luck.”
3. Diamonds come from clams, Maine is the small rectangle in the middle of the New England states, and a free verse poem has more rules than you care to remember, including a one sentence limit, and a limit of 2 words per line. (Author's note: These are paraphrases of things one of my instructors actually said, all in the same day, and in the span of one hour.)
2. When walking across campus in a rainstorm, shuttles are never around. They miraculously show up when you are 10 feet away from your destination.
And the number one thing you may learn while attending a public university, whether you want to or not is...
You can judge the quality of the food in the cafeteria by the length of the pizza line.
Here is a link to the "prequel" to this top 10 list.
http://www.faithwriters.com/article-details.php?id=49296
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Please add to your list: you can always pick out the student who spent the least amount of time on their studies - they make list of things they "learned" in 4 years of college :). Loved the "lists".
