College Kids

I don't think what anyone realizes about college or maybe they do once they leave is that there is (well for some) a lot of down time. Unlike the movies who make college seem like a 24 hour party(which it can be for the restless few), there is alot of time when there just isn't any thing to do. It's some state in the middle of expectations of what you want to have and not quite expecting the reality that nothing will. For those who expected a dawson creek, 90210, ect... view of college quickly have their dreams dashed, when Saturday comes, and you are knocking on randon strangers door, looking for a pleasant face to roam the night with you. Which just happened to me about 15minutes ago.

I've have been on this one chemistry problem for the past 2 nights. It's killing me, i have finished all my other chemistry problems on line, excpet one, which prevents me from getting a stupid check next to that section. A stupid check is driving me crazy. They don't even ask me the same question so i can't even cheat if i wanted, and i want to so bad right now. Music is on, tv is on, and i am one second away from throwing my dear laptop on the floor because i can't write out a chemistry compound in the correct form, when all of a sudden i hear a knock.

I don't get a lot of knocks, except from the Ra who is rarely here. My door is always closed, locked, and i am secured in my little space. But instantly when i here a knock, i go to the door as if this is a normal occurance. I was expecting the RA but instead are 2 eager faces in my face.

Hello Beckett

Me:[fuming over chemistry problem] Hello...who the hell are you?
(he knew my name so i thought i was in so sort of trouble, knowing that i hadn't done anything. Maybe it was housing something didn't work out, maybe my Tv is too loud, maybe my dancing has somehow caused so much noise, even though i live on the second floor and no one is under me)

Boy: Just knocking on people's door. Everyone seems to be gone.

I finally look at my door, as he repeats me name again and notice the large name tag on my door, that they put on in the beginning of the year, but that no one really takes down

Me: well it's labor day weekend.

Boy: Yeah, we are just really bored so we are going to knock on some more people's door. Do you know if anyone else is on the hall.

Me: not really but you have a couple of more doors to go, hope you find whatever or whoever you are looking for.

Boy: Bye Beckett, sorry to have bothered you.

I close my door, noticing that i am wearing my skirt jacked up way past my knees(what i'm in my room i like to wear skirts which is the only time i wear them), and i get a little embarassed.

it's a big misconception, at least on my part, that college is this 24/7 party. I think really it's just a place full of people expecting the same hogwash that is seen on tv, and somehow we try to replicate into reality which doesn't work out. Unless you count knocking on people's door ar 10 a party.

Sometimes i wonder if in this day and age wether that is all life is, some big misconception that we have, about our general lives which is soley dependent on movies, tv, and ect.

Like life is starting to imitate art. And people are becoming products of what is seen tv.

P.S(many hours later)
It now 1 am as i write this...but i finally solved the evil chemical equation. I almost cried, it took me two nights, a lot of lip biting, and almost an emotional breakdown, but i have done it and i can go to sleep now. I just had to tell somebody.