a strange student
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fleaI've been riding the bus in the mornings pretty often this year with the most unusual Looni student I've seen in my days here.
He's a tallish, skinny white man, with a short beard. He dresses in enormous t-shirts that hang to his knees, exclusively either plain white or black. He wears jeans that pool at his ankles, and Timberlands. He wears trucker-style baseball caps. He wears strongish cologne. His walk is jaunty, what I've seen described as a 'pimp roll.' (Is there a less offensive way to describe this sort of walk? It's very distinctive.) He carries a messy sheaf of notebooks and papers, no backpack. He usually has a German textbook. He gets on the bus outside of the Admissions Office, at 7:50 am - it's not near any dorms, and I don't know where he's coming from at that hour - off a city bus? From an early morning job in one of the buildings there?
The first day of classes he was in the library with two potted orchids. A coworker asked about them and he said they were presents for his professors.
He is very friendly with all the bus drivers. I've never seen him chat with a student. He's not in his first year - he's referred to "last year" in conversations with the drivers.
Basically, he's a white guy who dresses 'ghetto,' and seems to be friends with staff but not students. There's nobody else like him on campus. A year or more here have not made him act or dress like the majority of the preppy or low-key generic college students. I wonder what his story is.
He's a tallish, skinny white man, with a short beard. He dresses in enormous t-shirts that hang to his knees, exclusively either plain white or black. He wears jeans that pool at his ankles, and Timberlands. He wears trucker-style baseball caps. He wears strongish cologne. His walk is jaunty, what I've seen described as a 'pimp roll.' (Is there a less offensive way to describe this sort of walk? It's very distinctive.) He carries a messy sheaf of notebooks and papers, no backpack. He usually has a German textbook. He gets on the bus outside of the Admissions Office, at 7:50 am - it's not near any dorms, and I don't know where he's coming from at that hour - off a city bus? From an early morning job in one of the buildings there?
The first day of classes he was in the library with two potted orchids. A coworker asked about them and he said they were presents for his professors.
He is very friendly with all the bus drivers. I've never seen him chat with a student. He's not in his first year - he's referred to "last year" in conversations with the drivers.
Basically, he's a white guy who dresses 'ghetto,' and seems to be friends with staff but not students. There's nobody else like him on campus. A year or more here have not made him act or dress like the majority of the preppy or low-key generic college students. I wonder what his story is.
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Date: 2007-10-18 05:15 pm (UTC)My friend K's daughter goes to my Uni for free, and her mom drives her every day, and she is much more friendly with the staff than the students and really, frankly, could give a crap what they think.
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Date: 2007-10-24 01:04 pm (UTC)