Humor In The Strangest Places

I imagine every school has that class or major where the students band together to survive, or simply just like to hangout. Yeah, my major is like that, but not in the traditional "we like to party" sense. Because we all work in programs regularly that only a couple of us can actually afford, when classes end in the evening, we usually end up together. Not all of us may be doing work for the same class--although many times, that's very much the case--but we're all in it together.

So what do a bunch of sleep deprived computer nerds do to pass the time together, you ask? Well... :D

There are several things that end up going on in our lab. Most of it includes youtube in some fashion. There's the occasional tone-deaf sing-along and the grumpy "old" man who screams "SHUT UP YOU NOISY KIDS!" Hehe, just a joke (kind of). And then you have people from other majors who wander in and ask for you to show them your latest work. They get all googly-eyed and then go back to their own major's hells.

And then... you have the odd ones in other majors who give rides home only to their friends and ultimately pick and chose who they consider to be a friend. They may even create their own monologue in the process, deciding who gets to ride in their car and who gets hung out to dry. I kidd you not.

And then of course, the humor doesn't end when you actually get into class either. Since artists are visual, sometimes the professors use visual aides like a piece of chocolate to describe the layers of HTML code. Even better, I find are the times when students' minds have obviously been elsewhere and they start talking about their favorite TV shows and outrageous findings. Among them are subjects like Twilight porn and how high that pile of cat shit was in "that dude's" apartment on Hoarders the night before (right after lunch no less).

Art students have no shame. They are taught to let ideas flow and never kill even the most ridiculous thought right away. Their mental filter has been turned off, so they talk about everything and anything, and expect other students and their professors to join in. And the funniest part is, hardly anyone ever notices that normal people aren't like that. In Art school, everything is fair game, so be sure to laugh at the craziest of it.

~ C.Mitchell