It's another 2 am rant

09-15-2026

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Written by: Taxolotl

College is weird

From my dormmates leaving unwrapped condoms in the floors in the hallway to the guy running in the hallways with a taser at 1 am, there’s always something to set me off.

Courses

I am currently taking 17 (technically 19) credit hours , divided among 7 (technically 8) courses. 3 (technically 4) of those are ROTC, which I won’t go into, but I do enjoy them. I want to start by saying that my favorite course by far is SLAV-R101, its so much fun and the instructor is awesome. Next is my weird seminar class, SGIS-S150. Now, when I say weird, I don’t mean I don’t enjoy it, its also a very fun class with a great instructor, I just don’t know what im supposed to be learning. My only real meh class is MATH-M119, “Brief survey of calculus.” It’s alright, I guess. It’s a math class. I don’t really need to say more about it.

These next 2 get their own sections.

INTL-I101

This class is essential for my major. This class sucks balls. <insert cartman gif here>
Twice a week, I have to get up early from my post-PT nap to go sit in a cold room and listen to this lady talk about basically nothing for an hour. I know that sounds like a typical class, but she also assigns several hours worth of reading you have to do beforehand. Unique reading. Before EVERY. SINGLE. LECTURE. Not only that, but we also have a discussion section on Friday, on the opposite side of campus, with a different lecturer. During this discussion, she likes to present slides that she seems very proud of, despite the fact that she CANT EVEN MAKE THEM HERSELF. THEY’RE ALL FUCKING AI GENERATED. Its just so discouraging when your lecturers cant even put in the basic kind of effort to make their own slides. Oh and she marks down my group without saying a word out of the blue.

INFO-I101

This class looked fun from the outside. “A class about design where I’ll get to use my HTML, CSS, and Python skills to use, as well as actually having a reason to learn SQL? That sounds amazing!” How naiive I was. The class is beginner level. Sure, brushing up on my HTML doesn’t hurt, but dear God are my classmates some of the stupidest idiots I have ever had the displeasure of being in the same room of. To quote myself from a couple days ago in a message I sent to my friends groupchat:

"what the fuck do you mean you don't know how to create a folder jonathan. you click the motherfucking create folder button that is about 13 pixels from where your mouse is right now. go eat a shoe behind a wendys while you get a prostate exam from a racoon. fuck."
fuck everyone who has ever bought a mac, they're all retarded

(Johnathan's not his real name if you couldn't tell.)

And now for the actual, non-lab part of class. We have group project that is basically our final, as well as a bunch of mini-assignments that are part of our grade.
ROOMMATE SLEEPTALKING INTERCESSION: "What the fuck? theres nobody here..."
What these all have in common is that they are about finding an underrepresented person in a technology field and writing about them. Thats all well and fine on its own, until you read the definition of underrepresented they want us to use:
Underrepresented groups are defined inclusively as women, people with disabilities, those who were the first to attend college in their family, LGBTQI people, and five racial and ethnic groups – Blacks, Hispanics, American Indians, Alaskan Natives, and Pacific Islanders (National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, 2023). For this class, we also extend underrepresentation to people from rural communities.
I feel like I actively lose about a fifth of my IQ each time I read this. It's some of the most retarded shit I've ever read. Here's a simple translation if you ain't readin allat: "A person is underrepresented if they are not a white man." This is just poorly disguised political conditioning. Its like putting a thin layer of fondue over a steaming pile of dog shit and claiming it's a cake. Here is a much more fitting definition, I thought of it myself:
Someone is underrepresented if they themselves, their work, or their efforts are not as well known as they should be.
An example would be Margaret Hamilton. Not because she's a woman, but because whenever the Apollo missions are brought up, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin come up every time, and hers rarely does. And thats not because she's a woman, thats because she was just an engineer.

And onto the professor. His name is literally Logan Paul, so I don't really know what I expected with this. He's got a diamond stud in his ear like a total douchebag, and the way he talks is so self-important it makes me want to vomit all over his freshly laundered turtleneck. Ive never seen him wear one, but he is absolutely the type to wear turtlenecks unironically. He also gives off such cuck vibes, and given that he is responsible for the above definition (even if he didn't write it, he is the professor for this class so it's his fault I have to come closer and closer to that 80 IQ retardation limit), its probably safe to assume he likes watching his "partner" get fucked by some black chick with a dick. Fuck this guy.

Anyway, I have to wake up in 1 hour and 43 minutes.

In the wise words of Professor Robotnik, Fuck Steven Universe