A few years back, Fox had a teen soap called “The O.C.” I didn’t watch it, so I don’t know any of the characters or plotlines, but I’m guessing the two non-speaking people in this cartoon are supposed to represent major characters from that show. The speaker, on the other hand, had better things to do.
And yet he is just as tan and buff as his prodigal counterparts… Is he lying? Or is this community college stuff really so magical that you can study and tan at the beach at the same time?
“is this community college stuff really so magical that you can study and tan at the beach at the same time?”
Why wouldn’t it be? You get tan from being outside where the sun shines. A “full-time” class load (note that he does not claim to have gone full-time) is 12 hours per week, and some classes are outdoors. So if, on average, it’s sunshiny out for 12 hours a day, and you have to be inside in class for 12 hours per week, that still leaves 72 hours a week you might be outside.
I find myself distracted by how much the guy on the left looks like Rod Serling.
I don’t know if it has anything to do with the topic or not, but there is an Orange County Community College in Middletown, NY
James Pollock – even if you go somewhere that you can do a full load in 12 hours, you still have assignments. It’s apparently very odd to study outside (the people in the student house next to mine seemed horrified that I was studying in the back yard. It might just be because it made them feel bad about throwing a kegger there, but it’s not as if inside was much better when there’s a keg party next door.)
“It’s apparently very odd to study outside”
Depends on what you are studying, and where. My significant studying years were spent in Oregon, and in my youth, starting about March, the skies would clear occasionally, and when it did, a carpet of young women would adorn the university’s lawns. It would be around 50, 55 degrees out, and the young ladies would be out attempting to intercept as much solar radiation as possible with their skin.
More recently, as in, a decade ago, I went to law school; no shortage of people who studied outside because of the limited interior volume of the law school’s buildings. One of the advantages of making the law review is that there is guaranteed space for you in the law review office.
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A few years back, Fox had a teen soap called “The O.C.” I didn’t watch it, so I don’t know any of the characters or plotlines, but I’m guessing the two non-speaking people in this cartoon are supposed to represent major characters from that show. The speaker, on the other hand, had better things to do.
And yet he is just as tan and buff as his prodigal counterparts… Is he lying? Or is this community college stuff really so magical that you can study and tan at the beach at the same time?
“is this community college stuff really so magical that you can study and tan at the beach at the same time?”
Why wouldn’t it be? You get tan from being outside where the sun shines. A “full-time” class load (note that he does not claim to have gone full-time) is 12 hours per week, and some classes are outdoors. So if, on average, it’s sunshiny out for 12 hours a day, and you have to be inside in class for 12 hours per week, that still leaves 72 hours a week you might be outside.
I find myself distracted by how much the guy on the left looks like Rod Serling.
It’s actually called Orange Coast College. http://www.orangecoastcollege.edu/
I don’t know why that’s funny.
Because they’re all orange?
I don’t know if it has anything to do with the topic or not, but there is an Orange County Community College in Middletown, NY
James Pollock – even if you go somewhere that you can do a full load in 12 hours, you still have assignments. It’s apparently very odd to study outside (the people in the student house next to mine seemed horrified that I was studying in the back yard. It might just be because it made them feel bad about throwing a kegger there, but it’s not as if inside was much better when there’s a keg party next door.)
“It’s apparently very odd to study outside”
Depends on what you are studying, and where. My significant studying years were spent in Oregon, and in my youth, starting about March, the skies would clear occasionally, and when it did, a carpet of young women would adorn the university’s lawns. It would be around 50, 55 degrees out, and the young ladies would be out attempting to intercept as much solar radiation as possible with their skin.
More recently, as in, a decade ago, I went to law school; no shortage of people who studied outside because of the limited interior volume of the law school’s buildings. One of the advantages of making the law review is that there is guaranteed space for you in the law review office.