“Ritual De Lo Habitual”
By Terrence Cain
This week has been absolutely nuts, at least as far as weather is concerned. You can deny it all you want, but climate change—or “Global Warming” as it was once referred to—is happening. Never in my life have I seen it go from one day in the low thirties to the next day being in the high sixties; one day full of snow and the next spring season looks like it has arrived. The even stranger thing is that it has happened numerous times this winter season here in West Texas. I had someone even tell me that we got more snow than New York this winter. Anyone who knows about the North East knows that area gets a ton of snow every winter, so it seems rather odd to me that it didn't snow much up in the Northern part of the United States. If you want to keep denying there is a drastic change in weather patterns, well you can do that all you like, but the reality is that things are changing. Whether we caused it or not, well that's still up for debate, but things are changing for sure.
There has been something gnawing at my thoughts for quite some time now and I feel it's something that needs to be addressed. If you have a cell phone, and in this modern age who doesn't, it would suit your intellect and those who surround you to put it away for the duration of your time in class. I know a lot of you probably don't care if you get a proper education or not but for those of us who do it has become quite distracting and very annoying to see you with your hands under the desk looking down at your cell phone thinking you're so clever getting away with disrespecting the professors and your fellow classmates when you do this.
I try my best to ignore the majority of you who do this, but it's getting extremely annoying and it's beginning to get my protest side all riled up and ready to start a petition going to ban cell phones in the classroom. They already have this policy in the STEPS Lab when you take a test in there that you have to give them your cell phone and turn it off, so maybe just maybe that's what needs to be done to resolve this problem that seems to be an epidemic in every single classroom.
So do us all one of two favors. Either stop using your cell phone for the hour, I promise it won't hurt you one bit to do so, or just stop coming to class all together and go look for a job if you don't think you need an education. I don't mean to sound rude, but its very rude of you to treat your professors and fellow students with total disregard and disrespect when you do what you do in class. It's just as bad as the students who fall asleep in class. I know the professors usually don't say anything, so that makes you think it's okay, but it's not. The professors have been dealing with it for so long that they've just simply given up and are only teaching to those who really want to learn and ignoring the rest of you who play with your cell phone or sleep in class. Okay, enough ranting about the annoying habits of others. I have an essay, a ton of math, and a visit to my family back in Odessa over the weekend, so I wish you all a great weekend as well. This is Howard College's blogging machine, over & out!
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