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Yang “A Lazy Damnass” Zhao
So you think that your ability to take five courses, work a part-time job, get crunk on weekends, and still have enough time left over to gloat about yourself makes everyone else lazy asses in comparison? Don’t make me laugh.
Have you ever spent 12 hours a week in a science lab doing experiments and writing reports? Have you ever had to spend three consecutive weekends in a computer lab working on projects? Have you ever not gone home from school for four days because it wasn’t worth wasting the time to commute? Have you ever felt grateful to only have 15 hours of classwork a week?
Of course not, because you, my unhumorous editor, are what us “lazy” people like to call “the fucking arts student that doesn’t know what hard work is.”
You want to know what working hard at university really feels like? Try doing the workload required by a four-course semester of average 3rd- and 4th-year science or computing classes. Better yet, spend a month — nay, a week — in the shoes of an engineering student. Those kids are nuts.
Multiple group projects, ridiculously time-consuming assignments, and countless hours hitting the books, all the while being under the stress of finding a good coop placement for next semester — being metaphorically raped up every orifice imaginable is all in a day’s work for some of us.
Do we bitch about it? Hells yes. But come registration time, we always hand over the dough and ask for seconds.
And don’t give me that back-in-my-parents’ day shit: I was going to school six times a week back when you were still learning what 10+10 is.
So four years is the only “respectable” amount of time to finish a degree? I’ll try to keep that in mind in my fourth year as I work a well-paying coop job, knowing that when I do finally graduate in two more years, I will have already established credibility in the industry with employers waiting to snatch me up the moment the robe comes off.
You make me sick.