IC Chronicles: Episode 1.

This one time, at the Info Commons...

This post herein signifies the commencement of a series to follow which shall be known as the IC Chronicles.* Issues both academic and completely time-wasting in nature will be detailed whilst I sit in a $30 million marvel, most of the time trying to study but instead blogging to avoid the actual work that I have to do.

So can someone tell me why it is that the group study rooms are open at the top? Can someone tell me why air flow took precedence over precious space for people to pretend to study while instead drawing pictures on the SmartBoard computer screen? I know, I know, Loyola is going green.

Sheesh.

This afternoon, while studying in one of the most Eco-friendly buildings in the Midwest, what with all the glass and the group study rooms not really even being group study rooms, I discovered as I was trying to read from my textbook, "Adolescent Development," that my book was RIGHT.

Allow me to explain.

Apparently, right now we are in the time of total chaos.

Or so my textbook for my Adolescent Development class states. I was a bit skeptical of this.

I wasn't sure how I felt about F. Philip Rice and Kim Gale Dolgin telling me that I'm currently at an age where my life should be "stormy and stressful" and that I really don't know who I am because I am undergoing "individuation" right now, which is the "formation of my personal identity." WHA?

I thought, "C'mon, Phil and Kim. Are you sure you weren't just trying to make some money off a book? Quit making stuff up."

Then, as I glanced up for the fifth time after reading two pages, I noticed that Brian, unknowingly being his iPod-happy self, is indeed an "adolescent," one who apparently is undergoing a momentous time of "self-discovery" and "sturm and drang" or, as G. Stanley Hall put it, "storm and stress," and so he must listen to some music to drown out the turbulent nature of this time in his life.

Look closely at Brian.

Now check out my textbook:

This was not a set up.

I swear.

*Information Commons. You probably figured it out, but for Daus, I just wanted to be clear. ;)

Comments

[BRR]

sweet pic of that hottie with the iPod.

[Daus]

I really thought that IC meant Ice Cold :)