It gets to be late in the evening and I don't feel tired and I feel the need to stay up just because I am and not feel "the need" to go to bed. This is irrational. Don't get me wrong. If I have to get up in the morning I will make sure that I'm in bed by the time I need to be. The problem arises when it's not that time yet and I'm still up. I feel a need to fill the space. I had a roommate that would stay up to all hours watching TV. He didn't do it in our room, so I never had an issue with it, but I did start to wonder. I have always been a bit of a late owl but he was worse than me. I asked him once if he "suffered from insomnia." He replied that he didn't suffer from anything that he just slept when he was tired. I thought about that and while it did make sense, I also knew that sitting in front of a TV is not conducive to feeling tired. Once morning I woke up and noticed that he wasn't in his bed. My first thought was, "He doesn't get up early, so he must not have gone to bed yet." I was right. He stumbled into the room just as I was swinging my legs to the floor. I was still amazed. "You can't honestly tell me that you are just now going to bed." He didn't, he just collapsed on the bed and was asleep almost immediately. We had a class together that morning. We had a quiz in class. My roomie didn't make in time to take it.
Maybe the reason why I was thinking about old roommates is because we watched Monsters University this weekend. It was a good film that had some real character depth. I like the perspective on it and the way it fed into Monsters Inc - which I saw my freshman year of college. My cousin, a good friend and I would get out of class early enough to catch a matinee. We watched The One, K-Pax, Ocean's 11, and Monsters Inc on opening weekends that way. We liked Monsters Inc. so much that we went back with a larger group of friends the next day for an early showing. So we watched it twice in 24 hours. Great film. Anyway, watching Monsters University got me thinking about many of the different stereotypes about college. I think that I see through many of them because I work at one. Granted, there is plenty of things that may be accurate and I just don't see them. For the most part, I think that college is what you make it. Whatever you want to get out of it you will.
Maybe the reason why I was thinking about old roommates is because we watched Monsters University this weekend. It was a good film that had some real character depth. I like the perspective on it and the way it fed into Monsters Inc - which I saw my freshman year of college. My cousin, a good friend and I would get out of class early enough to catch a matinee. We watched The One, K-Pax, Ocean's 11, and Monsters Inc on opening weekends that way. We liked Monsters Inc. so much that we went back with a larger group of friends the next day for an early showing. So we watched it twice in 24 hours. Great film. Anyway, watching Monsters University got me thinking about many of the different stereotypes about college. I think that I see through many of them because I work at one. Granted, there is plenty of things that may be accurate and I just don't see them. For the most part, I think that college is what you make it. Whatever you want to get out of it you will.
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