Rant: Student Responsibility 

I feel as if student responsibility is something that can be undervalued even by the world's nicest professors and it can get extremely frustrating.  I feel as if we as university students regardless of age should be considered to be responsible for our own mistakes, assignments and tests with no more than a gentle reminder from the prof that is involved in the class, however that is not always the case.  Sometimes when I look at some university level classes it makes me feel as if I am back in elementary, bare in mind that this is not directed at a specific prof, class or program.

I imagine that you as the reader now expect me to go into a big long rant about the change into adulthood from adolescence but I feel as if we have all heard that speech so many times that it is completely unnecessary, so I can just dive right into what I consider to be the core problem behind the responsibility, or lack there of with some university level students.  The issue that I'm referring to is immaturity, you all know what I'm talking about, that one person in your group that comes up with a million different reasons as to why they can't do their portion of the project, or even the person that agreed to help you study for a test and bails on you last minute because they find something "more important" to do.  In all honesty this is the type of person that frustrates me to no end because they inevitably end up coming back to you asking a million questions about everything retaining to what it is that they agreed to, or were required to help you with in order to make themselves end up looking good.

To be quite blunt with you dear reader, this is also the kind of person that I feel should not even be in university in the first place.  If they are willing to spend their own thousands of dollars on tuition and books that is completely and utterly fine with me, but if you aren't capable or unwilling the required time to assist classmates in a group effort to get something done and end up sinking the whole ship as a result of your carelessness, please, I beg of you, do the university student body a large favor, take some stress off of our already stress filled lives and leave.

The Strangest Question I Have Ever Received

It was a beautiful spring day about 4 years ago, I had just gotten out of class for the day and I was meeting a friend so that we could head to his locker, grab his skateboard and head home until something absolutely ridiculous happened.

It is only fair however dear reader that before I reveal to you the insane event that took place I give you some background on what it was that had gone on earlier that day. I was never a fan of high school classes, anything from Math, to English, heck even CALM class was an exercise for me considering I almost failed it, (all you really had to do was show up and try.) Barring that in mind I did manage to have my one saving grace that day, Phys Ed! The teachers in this class were some of the best that I have ever had because they treated everyone as equals and would not take any crap from anyone, I enjoyed working with one of these teachers so much that we are still friends to this day! We had just finished another great rendition of one of my favourite units throughout the entire class, being Canadian as they come I don't think it would surprise many what it is that my answer is going to be, yeah you guessed it, it was hockey!

Needless to say, this was a perfect end to a really awesome day seeing as I had just received a pretty decent mark on an exam that I had gotten back as well, so I gathered all of my stuff and got ready to give my buddy a ride home on his skateboard (this detail will make the utmost sense shortly) Fast forward to where we left off, we had just grabbed my buddy's skateboard from his locker and were getting ready to head out for the day, our conversation on the way out went how it usually does, we talked about video games.  You are now probably asking yourself, "well what video games did they play?" As I know if I were reading this that would be one of my first thoughts, we were discussing this relativly new game, (now the most popular game worldwide) League of Legends as we had both just installed it and were trying to learn the ropes and loving every minute of it.

Then as we were about halfway to the door to exit the school and start the ride home that deeply confusing human being came up to me and said, "Hey nice new shoes!" I looked at him, looked down at my shoes and asked him to repeat himself, so he said it again, I paused and replied "These shoes aren't new I've had them for about five years." He looked at me confused took a deep breath and asked the question that to this day I still don't understand, he said to me "wow! how do you manage to keep them so white?!"

Now I completely understand that to the average person, this question would be natural but see, the thing is, I'm in a wheelchair, while I realize this post reveals my identity I couldn't help but share this story as I was hoping that you, dear reader could be kind enough to shed some light on what it is that this guy was thinking when he posed this question so that next time it is asked to me I will have a response that isn't gut wrenching laughter!

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