The One With The Nutty Professor
Surprisingly, my first and only class today (January 20th/Inauguration Day/Obama Day/Goodbye, Bush Day/whatever you’d like to call it) perfectly coincided with Barack Obama’s inaugural speech from 11:00-12:30. So instead of watching history in-the-making, I walked in to Social Foundations 2 – a class about politics and current events and not-so-current events – and listened to history already made. How exciting…
Surprisingly, I honestly couldn’t tell which one of the people in the room was my professor. I mean, it couldn’t have been the dude (really, I’ve never felt that term was more appropriate) in the front with duct tape covering the holes of his cargo pants and the gray t-shirt with the most obvious stain on the front of it. But what was I thinking? This is NYU; there are no rules about what you should and shouldn’t look like. AND YEAH, he was my teacher, wearing New Balances and cursing a lot. Like, a lot. Like, every other word out of this dude’s mouth was “fuck”. “Why the fuck are we here?” and “Some people just don’t know what the fuck is going on” and “We should just turn on the fucking bat light.” Is he trying too hard? I can’t tell yet. He’s certainly not trying too hard to impress us with the way he dresses… but we’ll see how this goes. I’m expected to read or watch at least seven hours of news every week. Which is ridiculous because the only RSS feeds I read are Rolling Stone, Spin, and Brooklyn Vegan. I’m definitely someone who just doesn’t know what the fuck is going on in the world.
But the reason I didn’t mind missing the inauguration festivities is because this dude made me really excited for the rest of my life and not just the next four years. You know what he told me? We’re in college to learn how to RULE THE WORLD. Fuck yeah!
The Dude? NYU professor? Both? Yeah.
Tags: Barack Obama's inaugural speech, Goodbye Bush Day, Rule The World, The Dude
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