The first couple of day’s returning
or starting college for the first time drives both students and teachers
berserk. From slowly rising out of your soft, comfortable bed reaching to the
ground, picking up and putting on that blue wrinkled shirt over your head onto
your limp, tiresome body, or driving your cheap, beat up white van into bumper
to bumper traffic, yelling at that rich
guy in the shiny new Lamborghini for
cutting you off on the freeway. When finally slowly pulling into the campuses
few parking areas you end up trying to seize that last parking spot with the
closest walk from campus and waiting in long endless lines of bodies just to
purchase the textbooks and supply’s needed for the semester. But the craziest
thing about attending the first couple of days of college is those students
trying to add courses the very last minute, hence the dear and beloved crashers.
Most professors on college campuses around the world enjoy teaching their
students and are willing to start the lesson the first day of class but it is quite
difficult to teach when every so often a student casually walks in and says
loudly, “Are you accepting any crashers?” Students quickly tune out and turn
away from the professor in front of the room teaching, staring intensity at the
student hopelessly trying to set the class side by side with the rest of their
courses in their schedule.
It delays class time and loses student focus to learn as they slouch down in their seat glancing towards the door, trying to guess when the next “crasher” bursts through the door and announcing into the classroom their attempt to enroll as if something tragic or exciting has happened usually within the first five minutes of class. As time passes, more and more crashers poke their head in through the barley closed door like they were those brown little furry animals from the children’s arcade game Whack A Mole. If you are that individual crashing courses, be prepared to fight to your dying breath for that last spot in the course you need to take. You will slowly learn that waiting last minute trying to get into the classes you need, maybe was not the brightest idea in your book. If you are allowed to attend the course you crashed, rejoice! Congratulations and good luck with the rest of your school year!
