Classroom Etiquette

There’s a class, I won’t, say the name of it, but this class reaffirms my position that Howard has some of the dumbest kids the US has to offer. You’d think after many years of being in school, you would have a grasp on classroom etiquette. However, these fools refuse to give in. So I just want to break down some of the rules of proper classroom etiquette and mannerisms.

1.    1. It’s nearly the end of the semester. You’ve been going to class for at least 2 and a half months. Why in the HELL is your phone still going on off in class? Why are you still forgetting to put your phone on vibrate when you enter class? Is it really that hard?

2.  Ladies, nappy horse hair weaves are not conducive to the learning environment. In fact, studies indicate that students are distracted by your nappy locks. There is no reason why your hair looks like a wet mop. If you’re having a bad hair day, wear a hat or some type of head scarf.

3.    3. Coming to class, signing the roll, and leaving minutes later does not constitute as ‘being in class’.

4.    4. Speaking of the roll, unless you’re sitting in the front or back of the row, pass the sign in sheet to the person IN FRONT of you. Not the person to your left. Not the person to your right. Not to the person in the Financial Aid office. To the person IN FRONT of you. It’s not that hard.

5.    5. When you see the roll coming around, have a working pen/pencil ready to sign the roll. Don’t get the roll and spend 10 minutes looking for a pen. You saw the sign in sheet coming.

6.    6. If you come late, do not come to class all loud; dragging the desk in front of class, cutting off the professor, letting the dorm slam. Just tacky. If you’re going be late, please be as quiet as possible when entering.

7.    7. Do not sit in the front and fall asleep. It makes you look like an idiot in front of the professor.

8.    8. How are you gonna come late and then fall asleep in class?

9.    9. If you’re going to be more than 30 minutes late for class, just don’t come; unless it’s Tuesday or Thursday. Freshman year this fool walked in to class at 9:58.

10. 10. Professors with sloppy handwriting is very irritating. It is not a sign of intelligence. I don’t care what people say.

11. 11. Professors with thick accent, you know damn well can’t nobody understand a word you are saying. Write what you’re saying on the board. It’ll save a lot of time.

12. 12. Professors, when half the class is sleep or doing other things, just dismiss class. You’re boring, and wasting people’s time.

13.  13. Please refrain from asking dumb questions in class. I will never forget the fall of 2008. After a quiz, the professor told everyone to pass up their quizzes. Ten minutes later some girl asks, “did you collect the quizzes?”

14. 14. If you’re in an auditorium classroom, don’t come in late expecting there to be seats in the front.

15. 15. How are you gonna come late, and then leave early? WTF was the point in you coming to class?

16. 16. Always agree with the consensus. If the class says push the test back to next week. Agree. Don’t say let’s have it now. You’ll end up on the back of a milk carton.

17.  17. Not coming to class because you didn’t do the assignment doesn’t give you an extension on the assignment. It’s still late whenever you turn it in.

18. 18. Please be aware of what you wearing when you come to class. A gentleman wearing a sleeveless bubble coat and a “Gucci” sun visor caused a massive disturbance in class one day.

That also includes stuff like this:

And this:

19. 19. Don’t be triflin’. Clean up the four course meal you had once class is over.

20. 20. Last, but not least, try your best not to be loud and wrong. I cannot stress that enough. I will laugh uncontrollably.   

My life at Howard University.

When Will You People Learn?

Howard has to have some of the most socially illiterate people I have ever come across. The past two days have been....well I can't put it to words, so I'll just use emoticons. The past two days have been like this , this , and this .


So Tuesday morning, I usually wake up a little after 10, usually 10:15, no later than 10:30 since I have class at 11. So I wake up to the workers doing construction.. So the sun is up and it's sunny. So you know I'm thinking it's about 10, 10:15. I look at my phone. It's 7:42. WTF??? Who in the hell commissioned DC construction workers to begin working so early!? And they weren't doing anything average like fixing a broken sewer pipe. With the noise they were making, you'd think they were erecting a skyscraper. I look out my window to see this:

Pounding the pavement and drilling holes in the ground. Like seriously??? Really??? It didn't cross their minds that people would be, oh I don't know, sleep??? What you're doing at 7:42, I'm sure you can do at 10 or 11. And the vibrations were ricocheting all throughout my room. My bed was like moving like one of those vibrating beds at a run down Vegas motel. They were relatively loud. I couldn't even watch my Step By Step in peace. I was highly disturbed.

But whatever.



Anyway, there are just some things I will never understand. One of them involves common etiquette. So sometime last week I walked over to Safeway. Yes, I walked. You may say from the Towers to Safeway in Adams Morgan is a long walk but it's really not, at least imo. So like usual, I walked in and totally forgot what  I went to the store to get, and ended up buying a whole bunch of stuff I didn't go into the store for. [eats another pack of Gushers]. I didn't feel like walking back to the Towers, so I caught the shuttle at Meridian back to the Towers. So this dummy tries to get on as me and this girl were getting off. Like sir...WTF are you doing??? Did you not think there would be people getting off? You're supposed to look through the window and see if anyone is getting off before you proceed to board the shuttle. You idiot.

It's the same situation with the elevators. First of all, let me just say that pressing the elevator button multiple times isn't gonna make the elevator come any faster. So just stop. It irritates me. Anyway, let people get off the elevators before you try to pile drive your ass onto the elevator. The elevator isn't going anywhere anytime soon. And I'm sure someone will hold the elevator door open so you can get on. It's not that serious.


Whilst walking to class, understand that the sidewalk is built for two way traffic. That entails a person or persons traveling in opposing directions in single file on a walkway. That means one person on one side of the pavement, and another on the other side of the pavement. With that said, if you're walking with a friend or friends in the same direction and there is a person walking towards you, one of you needs to move over. Don't try and get by because you're gonna bump into the person. Let's use common courtesy people. This irritates me. You see me coming. You see there isn't enough room for me to walk by. Move your sloppy ass in front or behind your friend until I pass by. Flipping idiot.





My life at Howard University.

So You Suspended My Visitation...

So about a week or so ago my friend came down from Philly (unannounced). I was happy because I haven't seen the tramp in over a year, despite the fact that she lives 2 hours away. But we wont get in to that. Anyway, so I check her in and whatever. So I call my other ace boon coon and tell him the third person of the "Awesome Threesome" is in town. Of course we wanted it to be a surprise so we didn't tell him. I figured out a way to get him from where he was, back to campus. Wasn't hard, I just told him someone was wearing his clothes. Now how the he got from upper Maryland to DC is 20 minutes is beyond me. So we chit chat in the lobby of the west towers for a bit. So we tell him to try and make it back by 2 am since he lives in the east towers and has 24 hour visitation. So as predicted, he didn't make it back. So 2 am comes, my friend is sleep, I'm on my computer minding mine, and someone knocks at the door. I know who it is and what they wanted, but I didn't feel like getting up. So my friend stayed overnight, even though she wasn't supposed to. So the next day me and my two friends (the SOB that didn't make it back to campus by 2) go to lunch brunch. We have our fun and what not.

So about 3 days later, I get this letter from my RA, or SA, or whatever the hell they're called from the building manager saying my visitation has been suspended due to "improper check out" or whatever the foolishness was. Here's what the letter reads:

"It was brought to  my attention that you violated your visitation privileges. In order to get this privilege restored, you are to provide Community Service.

Located within walking distance of Howard University is Cardozo High School. Through the Howard University Center for Urban Progress a need for volunteer tutors and homework helpers are needed.

You are to provide 20 hours of Community Service, at Cardozo High School, a background clearance my [somehow the building manager misspelled "may"]  be required to work in the District of Columbia School System. 

To schedule available time please contact: so and so

Once the hours are completed, visitation will be restored. If they are not complete visitation privileges is terminated until February 28, 2010."

 [end of letter]




Are they serious???


First of all, is this Howard University of La Petite Academy? Because the lines of distinction are wearing thin. I was baffled as I was reading this "notice". And I'm in my room reading this letter like this, and wondering if they are just pulling my leg. Low and behold, they were dead serious.

Okay, now I'm all for helping the youth. That's all fine and dandy. HOWEVER, this school..no ma'am Pam. First off, the school looks like a replica of a 19th century Soviet Union prison. I think the aesthetics are the least of my worries at this point. This is the same school that went through this just recently. It is a shame that a college student has to fear for their safety at a high school.

And then THE NERVE Howard to insult me by saying, "a background clearance my be required to work in the District of Columbia School System." Excuse me??? I live in a dorm, not a halfway house. And 20 hours at that? I don't even have 20 hours worth of class per week. WTF makes you think I'm gonna spend my time at a high school tutoring Bebe's Kids? Now in the event I do decide to help out the kids, what exactly will I be doing? I know myself, if me and the students hit a snag on something, I'm gonna tell them to just cheat on the test. Yeah it's wrong, but half the nonsense I learned in high school I barely remember, or don't use now. It is really all busy work. I wouldn't be the best candidate for tutoring kids.


Long story short, this letter will find a home somewhere in the DC landfill, wherever that may be. I will have visitors whether if they know about it or not. I pay to be here. Don't restrict my rights.




My life at Howard University.