poetry in commotion...

College Reunion

The Corpus Christi reunion is this saturday night, a chance to go there, have a couple of drinks, still hang out with your friends and see if the people you hated are worse off than you. Sure, it's going to be nice to see some old friends again and all that. But seriously, reunions are just one big penis measurement contest (or the girl equivalent), where instead of penis its job/car/partner. No one can truly say "oh I'm going there to catch up with old school friends I haven't seen for awhile", because if those friends were so great, you wouldn't have stopped hanging around them. Yes I am a cynical bastard, but the only things I've heard people tell me about the reunion is something along the lines of "Man I can't wait to show those dicks how big a tosser they were". And that quote was paraphrased, not made up.

I must confess a guilty pleasure of mine - no, nothing like that. IvyGate and Sex and the Ivy are two sites I've been frequenting more and more. As a young collegiate slacker mortgaging my future on a combination of rampant alcoholism and just damn plain laziness, I really enjoyed my uni life. The Romanesque architecture, sprawling lawns, idyllic lifestyle and most importantly, heavily subsidised campus tavern made for a really great...learning...experience. UWA, and universities in general, are also unique in that they serve as microcosms of the world around us. The political movements and politics("University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small" - Henry Kissinger), the campus rivalries, the mix of different backgrounds and ethnicities, and how sometimes we took ourselves too seriously over what are ultimately trivial things. Hence, those two blogs really bring that nostalgia home to me, despite the fact I only left last year. It's funny how I found every excuse to sleep in, skip class and go drinking when I was there, but now that I've left, it's the campus I miss most of all.

And yes, Curtin still sucks (but not as much as ECU). Cheap parting shots are highly underrated.


"If you were a function, I wish I was your derivative, so I could lay tangent to your curves" - yes, we have a winner

posted by jaseypoo! @ 8:54 PM