Last Blog of the Year!

June 7, 2009 - 9:46 PM

HOORAY!! I am done with my junior year of college! All of my final papers have been completed, with the exception of one that I sent away for editing on a second draft. This term was a wonderfully educational experience. My women's history class was great because it taught me about the goings on of the 20th century through a perspective that meant something to me. Media economics gave me an opportunity to build my confidence in a subject that I usually do not consider myself competent in. I found that the material that we covered was easy to understand, and because I got it, I took a liking to the subject. Writing the final papers was actually really fun because it gave me an opportunity to see and demonstrate all of the things I learned this term. It was great because I took classes that genuinely interested me.

However, while I enjoyed academic pursuits, my friend's sister Jesse spent the final weekend of her junior year wreaking havoc on the car of one of the snottiest seniors that ever attended Newport High School.

When the seniors congregated for a locked-down senior night at the high school, Jesse and her friends decided that it was the perfect opportunity to spite the snot!

She and her friends bought 300 yards of saran wrap, put up their hoods, and dodged the security cameras while they covered the snot's small truck with plastic, bark dust, coffee cups, and even a shovel which they adhered with the strength of the cellophane.

By the wee hours of the morning, the girl had been alerted to the offense and threatened to call the cops. Because Jesse's curfew had passed, a friend of hers went to clean up the mess. Although the prank was ultimately unrewarding, the experience must have been. I am sure that when Jesse looks back at her high school years, she will remember things like cellophane pranks. It was so fun to hear Jesse tell the story of such antics.

I was happy to see her enjoying her youth in a way that only high school kids really can. Once we get to college, people find ways to get drunk, get laid and skim the surface of their course material, losing the ability to find the fun in harmless retaliatory shenanigans.