College students of your experience that are not of this earth

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They come from some strange alien planet. And they say things like the guy in this story, shared from a coworker who just experienced it at a lab in the library:

"A guy and girl just came down to the MRC and wanted to
check out computers next to each other (ahhhhhhhhhhh).
There was however a problem, his registration had
expired. So he can't figure out what the problem is,
he is registered for classes etc.. I ask him if he
took a semester off at some point. So he says, (and I
am serious here) "oh, I only take classes in the
Fall". He then tells us what a pain it is to have to
leave school and then come back each year."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

this about that new tom wolfe?

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahah. No, but why not?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

A friend of mine (a college librarian) is fond of saying that college education is the one industry in which the "customers" are actively trying not to get their money's worth.

― Nemo (JND), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

This is true.

― Leon the Fratboy (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

the vaccination industry

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Ya know, that's not the worst way to finish school. Graduating when you're 26 wouldn't be such a bad thing.

Going back to school after Christmas in the winter --- Dud.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

We had a Vancouver girl break down and cry for days when it snowed an average snowfall of a foot or so and she couldn't wear her sandals.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

A friend of mine (a college librarian) is fond of saying that college education is the one industry in which the "customers" are actively trying not to get their money's worth.

Funny, my girlfriend and I talk about this a lot. She's noticed that her younger sister is a LOT less irritatingly flakey now that she's finished college and working for a living. Post-secondary schooling has become a holding pen where one's adolescence can be extended for an extra three to five years.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Of course the fact that quite often it's the customers' parents who are actually paying may have something to do with it.

― Nemo (JND), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

this would probably have been me, when i was at college. i was something of a spectre, i think.

― John (jdahlem), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

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