Quit Dorkin' It Up!

Curse of the Billy Goat, Eh?

Baseball fans of all ages watched the 2003 Chicago Cubs choke their way out of the World Series. As a lifelong White Sox fan, seeing the Cubs get so far in the playoffs, despite being whomped on by the Sox earlier in the season, really made me sick to my stomach. But, it was still rather neat to potentially witness history in making. I felt bad, because at one point… I was even hoping the Cubs would win, so that I COULD witness a part of history. But they didn’t and I’m still a loyal Sox fan.

As I’m watching the game and wearing a t-shirt I bought at the Sox game I went to earlier in the season, which had the words CUBS CHOKE in the front and CUBS SUCK in the back, I felt that I was justifying paying attention to the Northsiders without sacrificing my Southside heritage. I watched Games 5, 6, and 7… thinking I’d be able to see something special… but the only thing I saw was the Cubs choking and Cubs fans sucking. Game 6 was hugely disappointing. The idiot fan who interfered with Moises Alou’s potential catch dorked up the Cubs hopes and dreams. White Sox fans at least know to beat the hell out of the coaches of the OTHER team. These idiot Cubs fans don’t pay attention to the game and dork up what might be a once in a lifetime chance for their team. Yet another reason why the White Sox are better than the Cubs…

The Older You Are… The Dumber You Get…

This past weekend, I spent time with high school kids in Junior ROTC at their yearly encampment. And watching them made me realize that the older you are, the dumber you get. I’m not necessarily saying that we’re dumber than they are. But the older you get, the more set in your ways that you are. Younger kids seem to a lot more open to learning, whereas the older kids seem to need a lot more prodding and convincing to chance their erroneous ways.

It made me think about how that little group of high school kids is a representation of society. We do things now because that’s the way we’ve always done it. Things are wrong because they were always wrong. We’ve been living inside the box for so long and most of us are unable to even realize we’re in a box… must less attempt to think outside of it. Little kids grow up like sponges, absorbing everything around them. They’re like a blank piece of paper waiting for someone to write on them. But if someone dorks up while writing… it seems to stay dorked up, making older people so closed-minded that they’re borderline stupid. Just keep that in mind the next time you talk to someone set in their ways… you’re probably better off talking to a brick wall.

Why Am I Learning This Stuff???

It’s finally happened… Senioritis has hit me. Well… I’ve had Senioritis since sophomore year of high school… (probably one of the reasons why I ended up at UIC…) but now, I’m absolutely ready to get the hell out of here. But noooo… I’m stuck taking these random classes that will have no practical application when I graduate. Who’s going to care that I took some random Underwater Basket Weaving 101 class to satisfy a graduation requirement? We’re forced to take these classes in subject areas we don’t like and probably aren’t good at just to graduate. That’s ridiculous.

We choose our majors for a reason, it’s because we like the subject and/or we’re good at it. But stupid schools across the country also tack on random classes just to make students more “well-rounded.” You don’t see engineering students needing to fulfill a foreign language requirement, despite the fact that most engineers are foreign anyways. But Liberal Arts and Sciences seem to group every major under the sun together and force students to take random classes. Like English majors having to take a foreign language seems rather ridiculous, for example. I just wish I’m done with all this… Save me…

Stupid Vending Machines…

It must be UIC alumni that load the vending machines, because many times they are misloaded. There has been many times where I go to a vending machine to get some food and realize what I really want is behind something I’d never touch even if it’s the only thing left on the planet to eat. I don’t want to have to buy something I don’t need to get something I do. That’s the kind of money spending that UIC specializes in, not poor college students.It’s even more annoying to have pop machines be misloaded. Because you can’t see what’s in there. You push a button expecting a Mountain Dew and you get something like non-caffeinated ginger ale. It’s really not that hard to load the same pop in the same slot. It’s something little pre-schoolers learn to! The square blocks go in the square holes, not the circular ones. It’s not that difficult a concept… but yet it’s too complicated for too many people. What a wonderful world…