For the first three years of college I was a physics major. this story is when everyone else majoring in physics started to hate me…well, the ones who didn’t ALREADY hate me b/c i was a girl, hated me after this.
There was some fraternity decathalon on a monday morning, that i like TOTALLY had to attend, which meant i would be drinking…a lot, while running around town and campus. The whole thing was done around 3 when i realized “eff, you have lab in 30 minutes” I then proceed to run to lab, drunk, b/c at least i would be there right? it made sense at the time. I arrive and one kid asks me if i am ok, i kind of slur back at him that i am fine and then it slowly starts to spread through the class that alexis is drunk. commencement of pointing and staring begin.
Turns out it is a pendulum lab, hooray! we have to see if the pendulum’s cycle is dependent on weight or length and to what degree, sounds amazing…the room is spinning? everyone is fastening there apparatuses to the table perpendicularly, that seems complicated and involves standing. i will sit on the ground! and have my apparatus come straight out of the table! then i won’t have to stand! i can do more than one at a time! then i can get my work done faster!
Professor comes up to me “so Alexis, what are you doing over here? everyone else seems to be doing it the other way?”
“Well, this way I can measure different weights at the same time w/ the same length of pendulum, and I am closer to the ground so I feel more stable with just the one clamp then I do with multiple clamps like other students were using” (PLEASE buy it!)
The Professor announces “Everyone, I want you to look over here and see what alexis is doing, you all need to be thinking more outside the box, this is what labs are about, if you could just think more like alexis, you will REALLY be getting the most out of your education”
After the professor is done talking, another student throws some gum at me and tells me i smell like beer.
Good day.
