Granted I wouldn’t consider my summer blissful, but free time is definitely more limited now that the Fall semester has begun. This is the first time since my second semester that I’m taking 15 units and I’m still interning for three full days. The weekends can not come fast enough.
Random observations of San Francisco State University:
- The bathrooms at Thorton Hall take three flushes to flush down a seat cover and rolled up toilet paper.
- There’s WAY too many people at school during the first week. Now that we’re three weeks into the semester, it’s noticably not as packed.
- Every single one of my classes were overcrowded, with a full waitlist and another 10 people trying to add the class. Less classes, more students. Public school can be a bitch.
- They raised the price of soda in a can to 95 cents. Holy shit that’s a lot compared to how much they sell soda at the vending machines at work (25 cents).
- My Asus Eee PC 1000h is perfect for the ridiculously small desks I have in every single one of my classes.
- Some teachers really SUCK at teaching, IE my Managerial Economics professor.
- Some of my pool hall friends are changing. And I don’t know what to make of it.
A more random, longer thought on SFSU:
Obviously, yesterday was the seven-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The Republicans group set up an event held at Malcolm X Plaza between 12-2, the busiest time on campus. I was right by the door, inside of the Student Center and I looked out as they were starting. They were playing the Star-Spangled Banner and about 5% of the people outside were respectfully standing up, or at the very least NOT talking, walking around, doing whatever whatever.
I don’t find myself being a political person in any way, but it broke my heart to see the kind of indifference people were publicly showing to this moment, to see that people really didn’t give a fuck. Remembering what happened seven years ago doesn’t mean you have to support the decisions that were made after it or even the College of Republicans, but a little respect for the moment that truly shook Americans as a whole for even just one day wouldn’t hurt. Even if you really couldn’t care less about what happened or feel any sense of patriotism for America, then at least have the decency to go on about your business and talk about clothes and shoes and bullshit somewhere else on campus. I have never felt so disgusted with my own peers until yesterday.
Things like this always strike at my heart though so I don’t expect too many people to feel the same way I do. But I cried for the first three anniversaries of 911, I cried after Columbine’s anniversary, and most recently after the one-year anniversary of the V-Tech shooting. It’s wierd; it’s completely against my self-absorbed mindset.
