Because I’m a Banner demigod, I have absolutely no classes on Friday (yeah, that’s right, be jealous). But rather than sleep in or nurse a hangover, I decided to take the ultimate shopping trip: find a random person, go with them to class, repeat.

Here are the field notes, observations, and petty rants of shopping period.

9-9:50: ECON0110, Principles of Economics

8:59: Oh, freshmen. They’re still eagerly introducing themselves. Hi Carol and Jack! I remember doing that a year ago way back when. Now I bolt for the nearest spot open next to someone I vaguely know.

9:02: First thing the professor asks: “Who wasn’t here Wednesday?” She’s onto me.

9:04: Content of computer screens in the third row: MS Word, MS Word, MS Word, Spotify, Facebook, MS Word, Stickies, Gmail.

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It’s a familiar scenario: it’s late at night and you’re walking home. You want to get there as fast as you can to get to sleep and out of the cold. Even though you know that a yellow-jacketed security guard is probably waiting right around the corner, crime alert emails and stories of rogue masturbators can’t help but fill your mind. Then you walk by the MCM building, and the streetlight turns off as you pass. Creepy, right?

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