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on April 6, 2013 at 12:01 am…I am guessing this actually happened. Merely a hunch, if you will.
OH HEY THESE GUYS ACTUALLY GO TO CLASSES OMG
…I am guessing this actually happened. Merely a hunch, if you will.
OH HEY THESE GUYS ACTUALLY GO TO CLASSES OMG
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Lotta word cruft and purple prose in the first two panels…
That’s a lot? You haven’t read much fanfiction, have you?
Gee, I wonder why you say that…
I once had a lecturer who would spend more time talking about his kids than teaching. No joke, he actually planned out lectures involving him showing off his holiday snaps with speeches about his six-year-old’s finger paintings.
Your teacher was Lt. Col. Maes Hughes?
I’m really jealous now. Lt. Col. Hughes was one of the best men I’ve ever had the pleasure of watching on my television.
That is brigadier general Maes Hughes
Does the small minority of the cast that doesn’t die or get abducted by aliens and drafted into a secret alien-fighting agency ever actually graduate from this place, or do they just flee and count themselves lucky to have escaped with their lives?
Well, we later saw Sarah as a lawyer, so persumibly she did. And I think Danny and Billie did as well. Not sure about Howard and Mary.
… And that’s all of the characters that didn’t die or work for SEMME as far as I remember.
Danny and Joe definitely graduated. Sarah presumably did as well, being as she is a year older than them and what with the being a lawyer and everything. I don’t think we have any reason to presume Mary, Billie or Howard dropped out or anything, and I’m pretty sure Billie at least mentioned graduating.
I dunno what year Alex was in when he was taken by SEMME, but regardless not attending classes couldn’t have helped anything.
Huh. I can’t remember whether I’ve ever read that before or not. Some of it seems vaguely familiar, but other parts are utterly strange.
I’ve been in that class. It was an introductory Women’s & Gender Studies class I took in 3rd year as my social science requirement. I think my reaction was even worse than Joyce’s.
I was in a special program when I first started college and they actually required us to take a no-credit class that consisted of stuff like that. It turned out to be completely pointless because I switched majors, invalidating half the classes I took in my first year =p
I know it’s not, but I can’t stop seeing that line in the third panel as anything but Joyce’s eyebrow.
If we’re looking at the same line, I’m pretty sure it is.
We’re talking about the one that’s in her hair, right?
It’s suddenly occurred to me–we should definitely be rockin’ it like it’s 1998 by now, shouldn’t we?
It’s probably jsut me but the shadow to the right of Joyce looks suspiciously like Ken from Shortpacked. I think past Willis was in contact with present Willis when he drew this.
Are you sure abo-GAH!
That’s freaky.
Ha, I was just about to post the same thing!
This seems to be only the second time you’ve shown a character attending class, according to the location tag (third if we count the previous two strips separately).
I’m not sure where I was going with this.
That is why I was wondering if any of them ever actually graduated.
Worst class I ever took was called “Human Geography,” which you would assume would deal with things like cultural borders, evolutionary history, etc. right? Nope.
We spent one week on Post-modernism, one on epistemology, one on 18th century economics, one on the punk culture in 70’s England, one on The Matrix (seriously, our midtern was about the Matrix), then I skipped the rest of the class and came back the week before the final, and the professor was talking about black holes and space time.
The first time I ever saw anything having to do with geography was on the final, where we had to label countries on a map, which had never been mentioned in the class. It’s a damn good thing I knew world geography already, because I aced the final and got a B+ in the class. I. HATE. THAT. CLASS. SO MUCH.
How can you hate a class with spacetime and black holes?
Gasp, this takes place at a college campus!?
Originally posted:
October 9, 1998