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Editor's Note
4:00 am Aug 28 - by Stephanie Prather – buzz Editor-in-Chief
Ah, the first week of classes. It’s silly, but the first few days of the semester students everywhere are still optimistic. “I will stay organized!” they say. “This class is going to be fun!” Only to discover weeks later that the class they thought was going to be great turned out to be time consuming, hard and boring, just like most of the others they’ve taken.
I’ve taken away a lot of valuable lessons like this one from my half-decade in higher education. Apparently, however, I haven’t quite mastered some of the basics. Basics like attending the right class.
Tuesday morning, after only three hours of sleep, I rushed to my first class of the morning in Gregory Hall. As journalism major, half my college career has been spent in that building. I foolishly moseyed into the classroom I thought was for my Popular Culture class without checking the room number, but after class began I realized I had been mistaken. Instead of sitting in my real class I somehow found myself in a 100-level anthropology class full of freshmen.
At that point I had the choice to leave, but when I tried to stand up, I froze. All that went through my mind was that I would have to shove past all those knees and backpacks that were in the aisle. If I left everyone would stare and realize my mistake. I would be called “that girl.”
So I decided to just roll with it and pretend that was the class I intended on taking, and apologize to my real professor at the next class period. I followed along as my fake professor went over the syllabus that didn’t apply to me. She talked about her life and her research and it seemed perfectly interesting. I looked around the room, and made conversation with the boy next to me. I played it off like I would also be learning about cultural anthropology. Too bad I would never see any of these people again. It seemed like a good class.
So please, learn from my mistake. Know that even the people who are supposed to know what’s going on can make an amateur misstep. And always double-check your room number.
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