I always love these, Cal, and in this one in particular the two young women who seem to realize what college means, and what it meant to me when I went - all those years ago: "It's really weird to be able to do, and go and be anything that you, like, want to be, I guess?" And, the other young woman who realizes it's her "first night of being independent." The look on her face is priceless.
This is why I still love college, because there are enough kids like those two to balance out the others (and I'll let you decide for yourself which of the others I would wail about!).
Oh, Futzie, don't play dumb. This is as it always was here. We love them; we hate them. Cal is one of my favorites because he provides me a window into their humanity with these vlogzhizzlin clips. It saves me from looking at them!!
A friend's daughter (who had been having what seems to me an appropriate amount of contact with her mom during her first week at a well-respected, and pretty tough, flagship state u -- texting occasionally because she was afraid she'd cry if she called) told her mom that all the reminders that "you're on your own now" were making her a bit nervous. My first thought was what her mom told me she told the daughter: that the daughter, the child of a hard-working single mother who had already had to be pretty independent, and who had spent her summer doing a decidedly low-on-the-totem-pole retail job to earn money for college, was, in fact, already appropriately independent (as well as appropriately connected), and the message wasn't really for her. Whether the students who needed to hear the message (and their parents) got it as clearly, I'm not sure.
Maybe I'm missing a joke, but I'd guess the answer is because the modern college student is not necessarily the traditional college student of yesteryear.
I taught a summer class with 2 fifteen year olds in it, sitting next to a 69 year old student. And all ages in between. It's something that I've really liked about how my own college has changed over the years. There used to be just 18/19 year old people endlessly pouring in. Now, I find a much more interesting mix.
Why is it,
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when the innocents here
are yours, and not mine?
I always love these, Cal, and in this one in particular the two young women who seem to realize what college means, and what it meant to me when I went - all those years ago: "It's really weird to be able to do, and go and be anything that you, like, want to be, I guess?" And, the other young woman who realizes it's her "first night of being independent." The look on her face is priceless.
ReplyDeleteThis is why I still love college, because there are enough kids like those two to balance out the others (and I'll let you decide for yourself which of the others I would wail about!).
A great early semester vidshizzle.
Everything Darla said. Thanks, Cal!
DeleteI don't understand why we "celebrate" the little shits.
ReplyDeleteOh, Futzie, don't play dumb. This is as it always was here. We love them; we hate them. Cal is one of my favorites because he provides me a window into their humanity with these vlogzhizzlin clips. It saves me from looking at them!!
ReplyDeleteThat's Futzie's schtick.
DeleteA friend's daughter (who had been having what seems to me an appropriate amount of contact with her mom during her first week at a well-respected, and pretty tough, flagship state u -- texting occasionally because she was afraid she'd cry if she called) told her mom that all the reminders that "you're on your own now" were making her a bit nervous. My first thought was what her mom told me she told the daughter: that the daughter, the child of a hard-working single mother who had already had to be pretty independent, and who had spent her summer doing a decidedly low-on-the-totem-pole retail job to earn money for college, was, in fact, already appropriately independent (as well as appropriately connected), and the message wasn't really for her. Whether the students who needed to hear the message (and their parents) got it as clearly, I'm not sure.
ReplyDeleteWhy do some of them look like they're 12 and some like they're 42?
ReplyDeleteMaybe I'm missing a joke, but I'd guess the answer is because the modern college student is not necessarily the traditional college student of yesteryear.
DeleteI taught a summer class with 2 fifteen year olds in it, sitting next to a 69 year old student. And all ages in between. It's something that I've really liked about how my own college has changed over the years. There used to be just 18/19 year old people endlessly pouring in. Now, I find a much more interesting mix.
This group doesn't appear in any way "non-trad.," but some of the girls look really old. Is it the makeup?
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