Legally Blind Observations

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Figured I’d make this a thing, on the off chance it catches on or whatever. It’s up in the makeshift sidebar to the right, underneath my eyes up there in the corner, sammiched between the link to my Twitter and the link to the list of people that I would maim in the street. Haha.

Feel free to suggest additions to the list. I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s screwed up a couple times in the past four years at school. 

1. Do your gotdamn homework: Unlike high school, professors aren’t gonna hound you for work. They don’t give a damn if you pass, they have a bunch of other classes and are probably writing their own papers for publication and/or continuing their own education. They don’t have time for your bullshit, so get the homework done. 
2. Stay healthy and stay active: Nothing will screw up your day/semester more than being sick a lot. College will introduce you to a lot of new stuff, including new foods and new locations that may mess with your allergies or whatever have you. Know what you’re eating, and know how it was prepared if you can. Missing class due to sickness is permissible, but definitely avoid the hell out of it. Missing a week of class because you caught a bug from funny food you ate puts you at a huge disadvantage. And stay active. Most schools have a gym that’s free for you to use. Take advantage of it. Staying active in high school, at least in my experience, was a lot easier, because we had mandatory gym. Between homework, partying, staying up late, and video games, staying active in college is a little more difficult for some. 
3. Figure out how to study as soon as you can: Everybody does it a little differently. Personally, I like to read the materials for the test for an hour, then do something mindless for an hour (play video games usually), and then repeat. If I wind my brain up too much for too long, I just don’t wanna do shit, so I do something mindless and fun to keep myself in line. I figured out this “trick” last semester (which was my first semester of my final year… a little late). Find out your trick as soon as you can, and stick to it. 
4. If at all possible, find off-campus housing after your freshman year: This one is more case-by-case, but still something to consider. College is expensive, bottom line. A lot of that cost comes from room and board. Some colleges require freshmen to live on campus for their first year (I know St. John’s did with me). That’s cool, because that’s how you make friends. I really wish I had gotten a job and gotten off-campus housing after my freshman year. I would’ve saved a shit-ton of money. Like I said before, this is case-by-case. In some places this is impossible because you need a car and don’t have one. I go to school in New York City, which isn’t one of those places, but there are plenty of places that are like that. In some cases you won’t have enough money or a roommate who doesn’t suck, etc. etc. 
5. WRAP IT UP: For the love of all that is pure and lovely, have safe sex at all times. STDs are no joke, and neither is getting someone pregnant or getting pregnant yourself. Dudes: wear a fucking condom. Chicks: make sure your dude wears a fucking condom, and if you’re on the pill or whatever magic you ladies are onto these days, make sure you take it/do it/whatever and stay on top of that. Cannot stress this enough. 
6. Don’t be an idiot: This is a wide-ranging rule. College assumes you’re an adult, and will treat you as such. Fighting will get you arrested, and expelled. Getting caught with any kind of illegal drug will get you arrested and expelled. I knew kids that ran a nifty little drug operation out of their dorm freshman year. The cops found out, and I haven’t seen them since. It’s obviously not my place to tell you what to do, and I’m not trying to Dad-talk you, but is getting high or fighting someone worth throwing your ENTIRE COLLEGE CAREER away? Don’t be an idiot. Most schools have a waiting list for classes and dorms. If you fuck up and get kicked out, there are MANY people ready and willing to fill your space, and they will do so in a heartbeat.
7. Sleep is your friend (courtesy of serbu009): Yeah you’re gonna have to pull an all-nighter or two (or three or four), but every night shouldn’t be an all-nighter. Not sleeping can and will hurt you, whether it be through being irritable, sleeping through important alarms, sleeping in class, etc. etc. If any of you have been following me for any reasonable amount of time you know that I tend not to sleep kind of often (at least during breaks from school). I’ve fallen asleep in class, slept through a noon class, etc. etc. It’s not fun and it makes you look and feel like an idiot. Far be it from me to tell you when to go to sleep, but you should know yourself well enough by now to know that if you have a 9am class you need a certain amount of sleep, and how much time it takes you to get ready and get to campus, and plan your night accordingly. Also, as silly as it sounds (especially to you folks still in high school), NAPS WILL SAVE YOU. Even if you don’t necessarily sleep, just resting is amazing and will do wonders for you. I nap at least once every day, either after class or if I have a long break in between classes (because I live off campus and don’t like going back and forth unless I have to do so), find someplace and rest. I even have a chill playlist on my iPod for when it’s loud around me and I need to get some rest. TL;DR: Get enough sleep, nap when you feel you need to. 
8. Get to know your professors: I don’t mean be their best friend, but if you have a class with a professor and do well and enjoy the class, and can take another class with this professor (as long as doing so would contribute to you graduating), do so. Build up a good rapport with as many professors as you can, through class participation, getting good grades, demonstrating understanding of concepts, abstract thinking, study groups, whatever. Do it often, do it as early as you can. This way, when you get to your senior year, you’ll have a stable of professors that are willing to put their academic and professional integrity behind you by writing letters of recommendation, which are amazingly powerful aids in getting you into fellowships, graduate and doctorate programs, and employment opportunities. This was something I personally neglected until very recently, and I’m paying the price for it; I’ve got two out of three recommendation letters and I’m hoping beyond hope I’ll connect with a professor well enough in this final semester to snag the third. Don’t make the same mistake. Between making sure you’re going to graduate, taking any tests (GRE, LSAT, etc. etc.), and trying to figure out where you’ll be after graduation, the last thing you need is another worry piled on. 
9. Surround yourself with people who want to succeed: We’re social animals, and it’s more likely than not that you’ll adopt the attitudes and behaviors of the people with whom you spend the most time. If you surround yourself with people who don’t give a damn about school, are always skipping class, etc. etc., that becomes the norm, and you’ll be more likely to follow suit. I have friends from high school that I party with when I go home, but a lot of them are going to be super-seniors (5th year undergrads) next year because that’s all they do at school. The point is this: have fun with school and have fun with your people at school, but remember that the first reason you’re at school is to, y’know, get an education. A (usually) very expensive education, at that. Don’t waste your and your parents’ money by surrounding yourself with people who aren’t gonna push you to succeed. Honestly, I’ve learned at least just as much from conversations with friends as I have from class, because the people with whom I associate are trying to be something and they have something to say.

I may add stuff to this later, but yeah. This’ll do for meow.

Uncle Russel (played by Danny Glover)

(Source: iqdni99a)

iqdni99a:

I feel like guys feel one of four ways about females that aren’t a family member in their lives. 

1. We wanna fuck her.
2. We wanna marry her.
3. We hate her guts but want to fuck her.
4. We just see her as a close friend.

I think the problem comes win we can’t make a distinction between which one we want. We end up falling into the heightened sense of temptation when we got a hard dick and we just think hey vagina is vagina. But it’s not. Vagina is attached to a personality. There are very few guys out there who (besides on a drunken night of partying type of one night stand) had a one night stand and she realized it was just sex and was cool with it. Sex I think means more to women than t means to men. See men don’t think in those terms. Men who aren’t bitch ass niggas and some who aren’t committed seize opportunities to fuck when they present themselves. Sadly hard dick leads to bad decisions. We could fuck a girl and realize we wanna marry her and then we lose her. Or we can fuck a girl we hate and it’s like I can’t believe I fucked this bitch. I think in my lack of lucidity at 1 in the morning I have come up with a pre- and post-nut thought process to help distinguish between the feelings. 

1. If you can’t picture her giving head to someone else you probably love her or see her a close friend. Jealousy comes from either the idea that no one is good enough for them or that you don’t want it to be anyone but you. Unless you’re one of those weird fuckers that wanna watch their wives get fucked by people. 
2. If you can picture her giving head you probably wanna fuck her yourself or see her as a cock craving whore. This puts you in categories 1 and 3 because you’re probably thinking when and how am I gon’ get a crack at this bitch.
3. Lucky for us men we can think clearly for about 20 minutes after we bust a nut. Sadly sometimes this is too late. We can make horrible decisions when have an erection. So if you can apply the kung-fu grip to your dick. Then you will see the truth. 

I know it sounds bitch-made but men we gotta get our feelings in order. Because the last thing we want is to fuck a bitch we hate or just wanted a nut from and end up being stuck with them forever. Or worse get her pregnant and end up giving her your money for 18 years. The feeling of love that we try so hard to avoid we shouldn’t pass it up by thinking she was just another notch in the belt. This is my contribution to helping men get shit in order so we can stop making ridiculously idiotic hard dick decisions.

For the hour, this was surprisingly profound.

This blog is usually hit or miss with advice (roughly 50-50), but uh, is this supposed to be funny? Because it’s not, and it’s also not helpful.

If you’re in a triple and one roommate likes it cold and one likes it hot, open a window and moderate the temperature appropriately. If it’s cold out (like it is now), put the heat up and open the window a little. If it’s hot out, open the window a little more and put the A/C on low. Or you can just put on a sweater if you’re cold and take it off if you’re warm.