Yeah pretty much, at least in my dorm. It’s just “goof off all day every day” until a paper’s due, at which point it turns to “oh shit oh shit oh shit” for a few hours.
Did I ruin war movies for kids I was teaching leadership? I told them to pay attention to what the leaders do and say, figure out if it works and then try those techniques.
Did an assignment comparing The Matrix and Inception once. Both are very fun movies. Both become much less fun when watching it with a critical eye, dissecting everything for layers and layers of meaning. Both stop being fun entirely after watching it four or five times for quotes and to make sure nothing contradicts anything you’re saying.
…yeah. Procrastination is natural. Setting a chore to a bongoing soundtrack makes it less of a chore. It doesn’t make it a party.
You think that’s too soon? Robin wanted to eat him before he’d even died!
(Ducks and runs before being shot for mentioning details of other comic. Disclaimer no implication that DoA Robin eats hamsters is expressed or implied intentionally or otherwise not valid in all states all rights reserved.)
Oh yeah, I totally agree, I just hate the comments afterwards that go “Oh that gravatar makes it SO MUCH FUNNIER.” Which is why I was ashamed of myself.
are you kidding? thats like half their income, drawing america’s children to useless one-trick pony toys for them to collect like pokemon, and fattening our kids up with greasy, ensyme injected meat!
Oh, but not if you get the apples or milk! That’s their way of making it a “very healthy” lunch at a fast food restaurant. Which, in this case, is cause it’s apples instead of fries and milk instead of soda, but what kid now a days wants that?
I went nuts on the Transformers toys at Burger King when they had em ^.^
Eh. Yes and no. High school generally has more busy work and more political stuff changing the game on the students. College (for me at least) seems to have more challenging assignments, but with more space to do them (and more time to procrastinate) so it feels relaxed and easier.
Highschool I had ridiculous amounts of homework due every night. I swear they gave me more hours worth than there were in a day, and my parents wouldn’t let me stay up late to get it done. Sweet crap the math alone was almost enough to undo me. Get home at three with three hours of math homework. They knew I had three other courses right? Everyday felt like I was being buried alive in a thousand tiny errands and they’d always try and surprise me with entirely new types of work I’d have to figure out on the fly.
College I probably technically have more homework, a smaller number of larger assignments so it’s easier to manage. Plus less time spent in class means I have more time to do it. Couple that with the fact that I have the freedom to sleep as little as I need in order to get the job done and it all becomes quite reasonable. Additionally, I get to choose all my courses so that they’re tailored to my own strengths. The course descriptions are detailed to a degree that there aren’t a lot of surprises. I feel that for myself, personally, College has been far easier than highschool.
That’s my story anyway. I’m sure a lot of people have different stories to tell.
I’ve noticed a startling trend in Dumbing of Age…
…People don’t often like to part their teeth. I mean, not like they did in It’s Walky! Circa 2004. Perhaps teeth parting is something learned at a certain age in Willis’ world?
That’s not actually teeth – that’s the shining light of God, manifesting itself by making their heads glow from the inside out. The camera isn’t usually in a position to see it, but they’re casting little beams of light on the opposite wall every time they open their mouths. (There’s also two little dots shining on the floor from their nostrils.)
This happens less for the older characters because god has rejected them. When you see a tongue, that means the character is flirting with eternal fiery damnation.
I’ve actually seen a lot of Burger Kings recently with this huge area in the middle of the seating section, that has two tables filled with computers.
It’ll be like:
/ \
[Booth]
Where I’ll be sitting at the booth, and in front of me there are those two tables meeting at an angle, and all the other tables are scattered around the walls outside that area.
It really does make you feel like a starship captain. If that makes any sense.
I haven’t actually been into one of the recently remodeled BK’s yet. I’ll have to keep an eye out. I had heard that a lot of stores were being done in a sort of NuTrek aesthetic.
I never acted mature in college when it came to relaxing. We had movie nights and video game nights almost every week. It’s how they got me to curse and addicted to the Need for Speed series.
Yeah, Walky. Real college students break into Burger Kings at night and SLEEP in those things, not play in them. You’d be surprised at how much I save on housing.
Oh, Dorothy. That’s how you’re supposed to act in college.
Believe me, I know. I work at a Walmart that is near a state university. That’s how the students act when they come into my store every night. And twice on weekends. >_<
Okay Dorothy, while we’re pretending to be all mature and going to college and shit, are we also pretending we don’t watch Dexter Cartoons with the guy who pretends he’s a starship captain?
My college friends and I distracted ourselves by running around in the woods pretending we were fighting goblins and orcs.
We also amused ourselves and broke up the monotony of classes by staging random acts of weirdness… sometimes with the cooperation of professors.
Few things will wake you up more than when a knight in armor wanders in mid-lecture and proceeds to beat your professor with a rubber chicken. Or a group of serious-looking, business suit-wearing, briefcase-carrying people take their seats in the center of the dining hall and suddenly break into a rendition of “Tarzan Boy.”
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What Walky is saying is BUY THE DAMN PANTS
Psst…Joyce!
Pants = Happiness! mmk?
Who cares what he’s saying? Never losing your childhood = awesome. Dorothy clearly does not truly live.
That’s not what college kids do? Because I’m almost certain that’s what university students do all the time…
Yeah pretty much, at least in my dorm. It’s just “goof off all day every day” until a paper’s due, at which point it turns to “oh shit oh shit oh shit” for a few hours.
Hell, one of my assignments involves watching the Matrix and I STILL haven’t done that yet!
We are talking about the first Matrix, right? What the hell’s wrong with you? D=<
Unless you're playing either Arkham City or Skyrim. Either of those would justify it but STILL all-floor movie nights are a must.
Don’t be too hard on Icalasari, whenever any book or movie becomes homework, your willingness to read/watch it drops.
I ended up watching Birth of a Nation for a class I am currently taking.
I tried watching that on youtube, I didn’t even get to the controversial parts before I got bored.
“Say what you will about it, at least it’s an ethos”
Shut the hell up, Historyman, you’re out of your element.
Oh come on, just use the whole quote! “Say what you will about the tenents of National Socialism, at least it’s an ethos.” 😉
what if your homework is video games?
also, its different if you’re watching it to analyze it. you’re no longer being entertained by it, so fun is right out the window.
“watch this movie, BUT ALL MIRTH IS FORBIDDEN!”
i’ll do it later. tv.
Did I ruin war movies for kids I was teaching leadership? I told them to pay attention to what the leaders do and say, figure out if it works and then try those techniques.
Did an assignment comparing The Matrix and Inception once. Both are very fun movies. Both become much less fun when watching it with a critical eye, dissecting everything for layers and layers of meaning. Both stop being fun entirely after watching it four or five times for quotes and to make sure nothing contradicts anything you’re saying.
…yeah. Procrastination is natural. Setting a chore to a bongoing soundtrack makes it less of a chore. It doesn’t make it a party.
Man. Wish I went to a normal college. (Extension campus. Cheaper, way less fun.)
I went to a normal college and it wasn’t any fun at all. What do they do at yours, waterboard you?
(Full disclosure: I didn’t live on-campus. But still.)
Uncharted 3 for me
I love those hours! They really show you what you’re made of…
Tears, caffinated beverages, the sixth stage of the five stages of grief, and multiple levels of fail…good times.
They don’t do it at Burger King. That’s what the science labs are for.
…before or after a couple of pints AND a dare?
Who cares if you’re in college? When I was in college, I ate chocolate cake for dinner.
You haven’t lived until you have ice-cream for breakfast.
My staple diet was Snickers bars…..
I just got a care package full of candy. I’ve existed on chocolate and bottle caps for the past few days.
Snkrs bars? TOO SOON. TOOOO SOOOOON.
i c whut u did thar
You think that’s too soon? Robin wanted to eat him before he’d even died!
(Ducks and runs before being shot for mentioning details of other comic. Disclaimer no implication that DoA Robin eats hamsters is expressed or implied intentionally or otherwise not valid in all states all rights reserved.)
see, and people wonder why they put on pounds later in life and just cant get them off…
“Honey, does this dress make me look fa-”
“Youuuuu bet’cha…
…
…what? Honesty is the foundation of our relationship!”
Hey, I know this wonderful just-past-teenage metabolism isn’t gonna last, so I’m enjoying it while I can!
I despise comments based solely on gravatars. Really, I do.
But oh my god adorable Joyce made this comment SO CUTE ASHFSAJE
You need to calm down, here, have a jellybaby.
Mkay.
It’s just hard to be calm after watching a music video featuring vagina-shoggoths.
…And no, there is no easier way to describe it.
I gather that it’s not a pop song then.
It’s the new Miley Cyrus.
iT SHOWS WHAT YOU NEED TO DO TO SHOCK ANYONE ANYMORE AS SEX, FOUL LANGUAGE AND VIOLENCE IS SO LAST tUESDAY.
I read that comment and I thought I saw “vagina-shegoths”
Cue a very odd Phendrana Drifts flashback……
But is it not a wonderful thing to connect the comment and an image together for others to ready and gain a greater effect from?
Case in point.
The right (or very wrong) ava can give some comments a ‘unique’ flavour.
Oh yeah, I totally agree, I just hate the comments afterwards that go “Oh that gravatar makes it SO MUCH FUNNIER.” Which is why I was ashamed of myself.
It’s kind of a Don’t Explain the Joke thing.
It’s your last chance to act immature. Dorothy just grew up too fast.
If you’re not still immature at 35, you’re not trying hard enough.
Bonus points if you’re still immature in your mid-40s?
They still have Kid’s Meal toys over there in the US?
Yeah, the proposed laws to make them illegal haven’t taken effect everywhere yet.
Because it’s being challenged in the Supreme Court.
Yep. I still buy myself one if I like the theme.
That’s about the extent of my toy collecting, but I love my Happy Meal toys.
are you kidding? thats like half their income, drawing america’s children to useless one-trick pony toys for them to collect like pokemon, and fattening our kids up with greasy, ensyme injected meat!
They’re the saviors of our economy!
Oh, but not if you get the apples or milk! That’s their way of making it a “very healthy” lunch at a fast food restaurant. Which, in this case, is cause it’s apples instead of fries and milk instead of soda, but what kid now a days wants that?
I went nuts on the Transformers toys at Burger King when they had em ^.^
2 words: lactose intolerance.
I dunno, that totally sounds like college to me.
Since when does “in college” have any correlation to “mature”?
It does have a correlation! Negative correlation counts.
I concede the point.
I don’t think mature means what it used to, for instance movies rated M for mature often end up featuring lots of schoolboy humour and poop jokes.
I think maturity means knowing when it is and isn’t appropriate to act immature. There’s a time and a place for poop jokes.
Hee hee! You both said poop.
What were we talking about, now?
something about duty?
heh…..
Huhhuhuhuh, you said duty.
Haahahah, yeah, and poop.
Shut up, dumbass.
When i was in ‘College’ (aka University here) it was the PERFECT time to do kids stuff!!
I heard that high-school is harder than college these days.
Eh. Yes and no. High school generally has more busy work and more political stuff changing the game on the students. College (for me at least) seems to have more challenging assignments, but with more space to do them (and more time to procrastinate) so it feels relaxed and easier.
College seems easier to me. But then, I is a English major.
I is English major too! Well, writing major. Basically the same thing.
It is easier, but I have like 3 essays due every week. It’s not horrible, though, I actually prefer it to the busy work of high school.
I asked this cos I only ever did up to Year 10 myself and that was decades ago.
I was curious as I heard about how much homework kids get these days.
They only say that. They didn’t have to walk ten miles, uphill, through the snow, just to get to school. Without shoes.
Both ways.
Don’t forget fording the raging river while fighting off the grizzly bears
Highschool I had ridiculous amounts of homework due every night. I swear they gave me more hours worth than there were in a day, and my parents wouldn’t let me stay up late to get it done. Sweet crap the math alone was almost enough to undo me. Get home at three with three hours of math homework. They knew I had three other courses right? Everyday felt like I was being buried alive in a thousand tiny errands and they’d always try and surprise me with entirely new types of work I’d have to figure out on the fly.
College I probably technically have more homework, a smaller number of larger assignments so it’s easier to manage. Plus less time spent in class means I have more time to do it. Couple that with the fact that I have the freedom to sleep as little as I need in order to get the job done and it all becomes quite reasonable. Additionally, I get to choose all my courses so that they’re tailored to my own strengths. The course descriptions are detailed to a degree that there aren’t a lot of surprises. I feel that for myself, personally, College has been far easier than highschool.
That’s my story anyway. I’m sure a lot of people have different stories to tell.
But that’s what I do in college.
What else could you possibly distract yourself with in college? Lectures?
There are also loud neighbors that make loud noises through the end of the night like they stole a steem roller. <l:{D
I’ve noticed a startling trend in Dumbing of Age…
…People don’t often like to part their teeth. I mean, not like they did in It’s Walky! Circa 2004. Perhaps teeth parting is something learned at a certain age in Willis’ world?
Besides, grinding is not good for the enamel.
That’s not actually teeth – that’s the shining light of God, manifesting itself by making their heads glow from the inside out. The camera isn’t usually in a position to see it, but they’re casting little beams of light on the opposite wall every time they open their mouths. (There’s also two little dots shining on the floor from their nostrils.)
This happens less for the older characters because god has rejected them. When you see a tongue, that means the character is flirting with eternal fiery damnation.
I am in awe.
HECK YEAH! I’M IN!
That sounds awesome.
Man, that’s what I do. Except it’s in a Western-themed pizza joint, and I pretend I’m a cowboy.
Do you get many funny looks when you do this? 😀
If it was a joint near a college than half the people woulda probably thought “Seen it” or “Done it” >:(D
Thats what SHE said…
Burger Kings have atriums now? This is a thing?
I’m pretty sure it’s just a fancy way of referring to the general area between the counter and the seating area.
I’ve actually seen a lot of Burger Kings recently with this huge area in the middle of the seating section, that has two tables filled with computers.
It’ll be like:
/ \
[Booth]
Where I’ll be sitting at the booth, and in front of me there are those two tables meeting at an angle, and all the other tables are scattered around the walls outside that area.
It really does make you feel like a starship captain. If that makes any sense.
I haven’t actually been into one of the recently remodeled BK’s yet. I’ll have to keep an eye out. I had heard that a lot of stores were being done in a sort of NuTrek aesthetic.
I never acted mature in college when it came to relaxing. We had movie nights and video game nights almost every week. It’s how they got me to curse and addicted to the Need for Speed series.
Yeah, Walky. Real college students break into Burger Kings at night and SLEEP in those things, not play in them. You’d be surprised at how much I save on housing.
aaaand Walky’s quickly filling his fanservice quota.
Dorothy’s face in the last panel is priceless.
Oh, Dorothy. That’s how you’re supposed to act in college.
Believe me, I know. I work at a Walmart that is near a state university. That’s how the students act when they come into my store every night. And twice on weekends. >_<
Aw. Sad Sal in 3rd panel.
…What?
Yeees, Joyce. Gaze lovingly at Dorothy. Sail the ship with me! MWAHAHAHA!
I love this couple!
Okay Dorothy, while we’re pretending to be all mature and going to college and shit, are we also pretending we don’t watch Dexter Cartoons with the guy who pretends he’s a starship captain?
Everybody watches/reads Dexter cartoons. Even Fans! read Dexter when he was in the newspapers: http://www.itswalky.com/d/20030429.html.
Boom!
Don’t knock it till you try it, Dotty.
Dammit Walky, so close yet so far!!!
My college friends and I distracted ourselves by running around in the woods pretending we were fighting goblins and orcs.
We also amused ourselves and broke up the monotony of classes by staging random acts of weirdness… sometimes with the cooperation of professors.
Few things will wake you up more than when a knight in armor wanders in mid-lecture and proceeds to beat your professor with a rubber chicken. Or a group of serious-looking, business suit-wearing, briefcase-carrying people take their seats in the center of the dining hall and suddenly break into a rendition of “Tarzan Boy.”
Ah LARP, one of the I didn’t have the chance joys of college since I worked four nights a week
Poor Walky, nobody listens to him even though he doesn’t do anything wrong.
Poor Walky, nobody listens to him even though he doesn’t do anything wrong.
Dotwalky ship sinking… sinking… and it’s gone.
When did Walky get all southern?
But wait! It was a submarine! And it will be back, mark my words.
And it’s long and hard and full of seamen, too.
Big mistake Dorothy, the only way Walky would have listened to you is if you added the words “for wizards” at the end of that sentence. 🙁
is that lake shark ad from a strip, or a teaser for a future strip? because it looks like it could be part of a cool short arc.
“Pretrend we are in college”
Walky’s already playing that game constantly.
Update:
Walky’s prayers answered.
this is real this is happening
“Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink-offering? Let them rise up and help you, Let them be your protection.”
Deuteronomy 32:38