Thursday, April 16, 2009

The Nonsense 9: Campus Life

I decided today to go on campus and wait around for my lunch on Franklin Street and I just find the ridiculousness of people's conversations and what people do. It is just interesting to see all this put together and it will be one of the reasons why I will not go back on campus.....Well if I don't have to.

Everytime I see people holding hands, I just want to do the liu kang flying kick and kick both of them simultaneously. It's not that I'm just lonely or anything but come on, do all that on your own time. I don't need to see that every 30 seconds from different people.

You might want to say that I'm lonely and want somebody hand to hold but that really isn't it. I just feel like walking together is enough and it isn't like somebody is just going to snatch your girl/boy and run away. You all weight too much for that.

Frat boys, what is with the khaki shorts? Is there some sort of code for this? I don't even have to see you at your frat house to be able to tell that you are in a frat. Then just hearing them talk, "We are about to go crazy this weekend. We are about to go to some sorority and wreck shop."

Okay the latter I made up but how does this behavior start. Your pops was in this same frat and you've had a silver spoon in your mouth forever. You feel entitled to think that you are better than everyone else. I know this doesn't stand for everyone in a frat however often when I do see these guys I just have to be like, somebody needs to smack you to reality and tell you that you still have to do work. Maybe when you cannot find a job after college then that would show up. But then again you have your father to fall back on right.

I overheard this conversation when I was waiting for class to start and these two girls were talking about where they are going to live next semester. And they were talking about neighborhoods in Chapel Hill and they referred to a couple of neighborhoods as "bad areas". And I wonder what constitute as a bad area? I know the general population of these neighborhoods and they are African American and I wanted an explanation of why they thought these areas were bad. Maybe they could have said high crime rates. That could be true, I'm not going to say that it is but someone can run up on you at anytime. Another student can come out the bushes and rob you without you even knowing that it is a student. I know that these are just examples but I just don't think that you need to say. This neighborhood is bad without saying why exactly is the reason because without the reason then it makes others think that they are bad areas just because African Americans live there.

I will give you an expample on how you can use this. In Atlanta, I would say that I was living in a bad apartment complex. For one thing, someone robbed another person in broad daylight, there was a drug dealer living below me, one of my teammates lived in the back of the complex and there were random people coming in and out of an apartment (black, white, and hispanic) and my teammate told me that none of them actually lived there because during the day they checked inside and the place was pretty run-down and looked like someone just left their shit all around. And during 5am one night, I saw a pimp with one of his "employees" and they were talking. It was funny because the pimp had a crazy lookin hat on.

Now except for one time, I hardly mentioned race and you can make your own decisions of what group of people lived there but I think you need to be careful when you say that one area is a bad area because in a way you might be acting somewhat racist (whether you're black or white)

-You heard that somebody got shot at BW3s?
-Somebody got shot at BW3s
-What has the world gone to? I cannot even get my 35 cent wings without getting shot.

I have nothing to say about that convo I just overheard it on my way to class and thought it was funny.

You have to be careful what you say. People are always listening. You never know what you might say to somebody and then all of a sudden you are in deep trouble with the words you speak. Just be careful.

And I have one more week of classes and I do not plan on going back to the Pit, Quad or anywhere like that. I've got a lot stories from you guys as it is :P

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