School is exhausting.
Especially as an adult.
Because when you're an adult, you're not as sharp as you used to be. You can't hear as well. You can't see as well. You can't pay attention for more than 30 seconds. Really it's just an exercise in futility disguised as a learning opportunity.
I give large amounts of credit to people who go back to school as adults.
Even an hour long training class as a job requirement is a struggle for me.
As I type this, I am in a class. That I can't pay attention to.
I will say though, that even as a group of adults in class, not much has changed since we were kids.
You still have that overzealous nerd who sits in the front who constantly raises his hand.
There is still that one person who falls asleep.
Someone is always late.
Everyone looks at the clock every five minutes feeling like an hour has gone by.
Doodling in your book is still a favorite pasttime.
Cafeteria food is still disgusting and there are still a ton of regular milks left with only a couple of chocolate milks left. With a couple of people in front of you in line.
And there is still one who throws spitballs or plays football with a triangle piece of paper.
There are a few things that have changed though.
You realize how atrocious your handwriting has become.
As an adult, you don't need a hall pass to go to the bathroom.
Now you can use your computer under the guise of "following along" or "taking notes" but really what you're doing is googling yourself. And your ex-boyfriend from high school.
But one very important thing has remained the same...school still sucks.
I'd be staring out the window. Hope it goes by fast!
ReplyDeleteYou know what made me feel really old the other day? Did you know they no longer make you take typing class in school?
ReplyDeleteOh yes, there's always the gunner in the front taking notes. Come on guy, this isn't life changing information. Bah.
ReplyDeleteI think you should start passing notes and see if the teacher notices. Make sure to include some naughty sketches since it's a work thing.
ReplyDeleteI went to this institute thing over the summer that took place at a college and it was like I was right back in 2003. Except now I did have my own laptop and could gchat the whole time.
ReplyDeleteGod bless gchat.
I took classes at BU for an entire semester a few years ago. Aside from learning that magazine editors are bitches, I managed to get my texting-beneath-the-table skillz back to prime form. Too bad smartphones rained on that parade. :(
ReplyDeleteI sort of feel that way every time I visit our building cafeteria. Funny how the cliques still exist.
ReplyDeleteWhereas I used to be one of the social girls with my group from work, our numbers have dwindled and now I prefer to eat in peace in the corner as a book nerd who occasionally eavesdrops on the half-English/half-Spanish conversation going on next to me (I can only really eavesdrop on the English part- I was awful at HS Spanish...).
We actually learned about your company the other day at my new job. I was all "Hey, I've heard of them!"
ReplyDeleteTraining blows, I'm currently going through mine and will be for the next week. I thought I was bad but these little kids (23 and 24 yr olds) are even worse than me. They are rude and have some major ADD issues going on, they're driving me nuts.
I hate school. I could never go back. I have to take one week training classes each year and by Tuesday, I'm ready to blow my brains out. I have ADD after about 10 minutes.
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