now as life...

moves forward, and i come to the realization that i'm older; i begin to notice things.

i am now on both sides of the college coin. half student. half instructor. as an instructor i would just look at the students and shake my head, and wonder "was i ever like that?" as a student i'm taking a deeper look. first, girls (not women) are wearing the oddest things. it boarders on slutness/pseudo punk/cardboard cut out. i'm really not sure what is going on.

my interest is the boys (again not men). the boys are very interesting. they are divided into camps. they are either white trying to look ghetto or rap starish. mind you i'm in suburbia. or straight trying to look gay. prep is no more. prep has changed to metro-sexual. now you know that they are straight, because you notice something that is off about the whole thing. namely their heads are snapping back looking at any girl that walks by. and then you have the pseudo punk look. i say pseudo, because it is false. punk use to be an idea of not caring. just doing what you do. my view is once you try to look punk you are in fact not. there is then nothing different between the punk and the metro-sexual in theory. making sure you have the right thing on, in the right way. no difference.

this is just an old man's view in a kids game. i must be honest. community college is just a higher level of high school. this is what the average community college student is thinking...who do you know...what are you doing...how do i look. i have always been the odd man out on this. school is school. business is business. the colleges have gotten weak. during the week i am at three different community colleges. and all three do not hold friday classes. they have monday/wednesday classes. they have tuesday/thursday classes. friday classes. once and a while they will have monday/wednesday/friday classes. but for the most part they stopped these, because students stopped coming on fridays. so the schools decide that the best thing to do is to bend to the will of the student. so the students rational is "i went out on thrusday. got drunk. decided not to go to class." the school response "o.k. you poor baby. we will just stop friday classes." so now as a school lets in some way promote going out on thrusday, fridays, and saturdays. and not prepare them for the real world, when if you don't show up for work you get fired. done. out. thank you higher education.

be safe, be well...