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Friday, October 04, 2002 ( 6:05 AM ) MaltaGirl It is raining right now - the heavens just opened. The drops are falling hard on my window, on the grapevine's leaves, and on the thick layer of dust on the patio. The water and dust combine to make an earthy smell driven into my room. The smell that reminds me that there is more to life than sitting in front of a computer for most of my day. I hear thunder, and the excess rain is pouring off the roof and onto the tiled floor of the small courtyard below, but the cloudburst is almost over. The reminder of the earth is starting to fade... # ( 6:04 AM ) MaltaGirl Well it's been a reasonable week back at University. All right, it was more like 3 days but anyways. I am enjoying my lectures for the sheer pleasure of learning - being stretched for a change. Unfortunately I will also have to study quite a lot *sigh* isn't that an unreasonable demand to make of a student? I wonder if I could get one of the student pressure groups to take it up as a worthwhile cause, along with campaigns such as "Save the brown-backed lizards which live in the north-west corner of the quad" and "More money for the students who barely manage to to pay for monthly phone-top-ups and cigarettes, and want to upgrade their 2000 car for a 2003 model". *sigh* Yesterday I went to the Admininstration building on business, and had to walk through the "arts" section of the campus. I noticed that there were a lot more 'radicals' there than I'm used to seeing on the "science" side of the campus. Dreadlocks, rastafarian symbols, baggy flared jeans, odd facial piercings (I'm not talking nose-rings here). Most of these seemed to be upper-class rebels against The System. I wonder if they ever ponder the question as to what happened to the rebels of yester-year? They grew up, married and had kids and a mortgage, and became a part of The System which their own kids are rebelling against now. Must be a combination of hormones and immaturity. I guess that most science students don't rebel in that way because they don't need to. They already have a purpose in life, and they are in University to learn, not to sit in lecture halls listening to professors spout off theories of psychology and sociology, and then spend hours in the canteen afterwards discussing said theories. They know who they are, they know where they're going. To the library. # |
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