Monday, April 04, 2011

The More Things Change

I know I'm about to graduate when professors start giving me a hard time for hanging out in the department office too much.
 
(standing in the hall, totally discussing my suicide prevention project with Prof Israel)
 
Prof Papa:  Don't you have classes to go to?  You just hang out here all day?
 
Prof Israel: Papa, you think I'd just idle in the hallways talking to a student?
 
Moi: I don't know what either of you are talking about.  We were discussing my final paper here and I'm a legit student.
 
At my subsequent meeting, I couldn't stop smiling over the deja vu.  I'm pretty sure I got yelled at by at least 2 different professors at the Bo' for loitering around the department office too much in senior year.  Although I guess I have come a long way since then.  At the Bo', I knew that if the front door was locked (because the office was closed and no one was there), I could always break in through the back door.  Here, I know that I better not leave anything in the office after 5:30pm because the doors lock automatically and my swipe card doesn't give me access.  That's an improvement. 

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