The Community College Chronicles

Life and College Part 2/4

Well, here we are again. Back at school. How fun! Said no one ever. Sorry, mom joke. Well, maybe fun would be the right word if you go to Rutgers, but not Raritan Valley Community College. This disgusting, badly decorated, not updated shit box of a school probably hasn’t been redone in anyway since it was first built in 1965, actually later than I thought.

Winter break was really nice, if I’m being so honest. I got the chance to see friends who I hadn’t seen in months, reconnect, talk about how much sex everyone else is having, how much new drugs they’ve gotten into, and of course how much we hate school ever so slightly. Now, don’t get me wrong. I don’t hate college, I just…don’t love it so much.

Being in this school feels like everyone’s out for themselves and most kids want to go in and out without laying an eye on anyone except the floor or the nearest wall. It’s just a very awkward kind of school. We do have every kind of stereotype you can think of though. The LGBTQ+ community, the random jocks, the pretty girls, the freak-weirdos (as me and my friend call them, and by that I mean a good 100% of the population), the smarties who maybe couldn’t quite afford tuition, but excel in this school, and then there’s the occasional anti-social gym rats. So, maybe not everyone, but a little bit of everything.

As I embarked to school yesterday, I was dreading the whole drive. I have no classes with my friends, which in a sense is good, inspiration to meet people! No! I don’t want to make friends. Well, I kinda do, but NO! Too much work and social interaction for one day, I already do that at work too much.

I started off super strong too with being late to my first class and a dialogue I have created that went along the lines of as follows:

Brandon: *Walks in 20 minutes late because he didn’t see any class number on Canvas* (aka the worst app to ever exist, bring back Google Classroom for the love of Moses)

Professor: “STOP.”

Brandon: *Pauses in middle of finding a seat, as there is very few and he already feels awkward and embarrassed walking in late.*

Professor: “What’s your name?”

Brandon: “Uhh Brandon.”

Professor: “Mmm, and did you hear what girl boss over here just said?” He points to a random girl sitting in a seat to the right of me.

Brandon: “No.”

Professor: “Okay, Jeremy repeat what she just said to him.”

A dude who looked like he just smoked an entire pack of za looked back to me and said: “There’s two rules in class: Don’t be late and don’t walk in front of the professor when he’s speaking.”

Brandon: “Ah, my apologies.”

Professor: “Yes, DO NOT BE LATE. Anyways, we already did introductions, but tell the class your name, your major, work experience, and a fun fact about yourself.”

I answered all his first 3 questions and for the fun fact I smirked and said “A fun fact about me is that I was late because the classroom location wasn’t in Canvas".”

Don’t think he loved this too much, but yeah, started off strong in Intro to Business!

More to come.

-brandon