Let’s all grow up and get jobs like we’re supposed to!
Then we can make money and buy nice things!
After all these years of school and waking up on a Monday morning to get ready for school, class, what-have-you…now it’s all over. Never again (at least for those of us who aren’t attending graduate school, etc) will we have to wake up and go to school on Monday morning. I think this is when Mike Judge comes in and we get “…a case of the Mondays…” at work. People all around asking what it is you’re doing after the big day (graduation day) and where it is you’re going? All I know is things keep changing and everyone I know comes from somewhere I don’t and will end up somewhere I won’t be. If we all go in different places, how do we manage to stay the same? You would think I would ask, how do we all stay connected? (Don’t say Facebook.) But I know that isn’t going to happen. It is already changing and people are changing: under unnecessary stress levels for school and work, emotions are running high and the world is expecting a lot from us. Parents are expecting a lot from us. There is so much out there. Someone just told me that they don’t know where to start with the Internet. Where are we supposed to start in life? Jack Powers offered this to our senior seminar blog. I am tempted to do nothing, relax and enjoy life in Ithaca post-student life. There is so much to do, so much to read, so much to explore and a lot to think about. Right now so much is already changing I’m not sure where to begin. I am pretty sure that we are still just kids being thrown into a pretty grown up world.
In four years of college, I haven’t taken a single math course. I know IC, like many other colleges offers fundamental math courses, like “What is Math?” Not having to take math has been great. I am not a student of the sciences – I don’t even think I associate with anyone who is. I’m a humanities student – I study Television-Radio.
But when the opportunity to take a course at Cornell called “Understanding Beer and Wine,” I knew I couldn’t pass it up. So I filled out my paperwork, and IC’s paperwork, and Cornell’s paperwork. Then I enrolled in the class. When I read that we had to bring four glasses for sampling each class, I knew thought this course was for me.
But then came the second week of classes. Our syllabi had been handed out and the summary of the course had been explained. I found myself listening to professors explain proteins binding to starches and some other scientific vernacular that was over my head. The history and cultural aspects of beer and wine-making is all very interesting – those notes are detailed and thorough. The scientific notes on the other hand lend themselves to doodles and jokes about how over-my-head half of the course matter is.
When it came time for the test I studied hard. More so than I study for most tests I take at IC. (I don’t take tests at IC anymore, if anything I write papers.) An hour two days before, three hours the night before, and another two hours the morning of the exam weren’t enough.
The test was hard. I was as prepared as I could have been. And worst of all – we didn’t get any samples to take the edge off.
Ithaca College has a co-op program with Cornell. It’s a bullet-point on the tour guide’s list, to mention that if you come to IC, you are able to take courses at Cornell.
My course of study has led me to take courses at the Ithaca Campus. But upon registering for my last semester, I realized, “I’ve never taken advantage of that – I should.”
So I did. I am currently enrolled in Understanding Wine and Beer – a 400 level Food Sciences course at the Ivy League institution across the hill. Aside from the professor putting up slides of complex chemical equations, the course is a breeze.
And, everyday, we’re served four wines and four beers.
w i n e
b e e r
To quote the professor; Wine is served with food, beer is food!
1. Spongebob Squarepants turned 10 years old. Last year.
2. I’m older than most college athletes I watch on TV.
3. I don’t get carded at the BevCent anymore (may be due to my frequent visits, but still…)
4. I recently had a conversation with my parents regarding the merits of doing crossword puzzles.
5. I’ve taken a liking to Scotch.
6. All seven housemates on the Real World: D.C. are younger than me.
7. My parents are upsizing from their recent downsize to accommodate for their grandkids’ visits.
8. I’ve begun thinking about unlacing my shoes before putting them on, in order to preserve the integrity of the back of the heel.
9. I actually carry around with me a classy pen that I got for Christmas.
10. I’m graduating from College.
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