Backstory: student in my 9h, JT, is in about 300 campus activities plus works full time plus school full time and continually misses class because "I just can't understand it - I can't get up in the mornings... I need a better alarm clock, etc..." Well, not really - really he just needs to take a few things off his list so he can get some rest but given that this advice didn't sink in the first 50 times I told him this in response to his "I just can't understand it" it probably still won't.... Anyway flash forward to this morning when he yet again approaches me oh so amiably after class and says:
"I'm so excited I finally found something that might help me with French!"
OK, I'll bite, "Really, that's great! What is it?"
JT began to explain, in total earnestness, "Saturday night a guy from my dorm and I were walking around and we saw this orange capsule on the ground so we picked it up and opened it and we took turns licking the contents. It said ____ on it* and the rest of the night we were really wired and the weird thing is that even tho we ended up staying up all night and I was really tired, I remember Exactly Every Single Thing That Happened All Night In Absolute Detail. So I called the health center and I have an appointment with them today to see what this drug is and see if there's a chance I can get a prescription for it so I can use it during finals!"
... Just when you think things can't get any more entertaining and/or scary with these people.
*I in fact can't remember what the drug name was - it started with "A" and made me think of ADHD or something because of the prefix altho I can't confirm it has anything to do with that and in fact that might just have been my brain reading into things since I secretly believe that to be another thing going on with JT altho he's never said anything about it - it just wouldn't surprise me.
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Okay, so I think that this particular anecdote is by far the strangest, scariest and most surreal you have shared as of yet. Really. It can't get much more bizarre than that. At least I hope it can't. But it might. Who, besides JT, would a) lick some random drug that has been lying on the ground, b) share that information with their professor and c) call the health center to admit their new substance abuse habit and actaully ask for more? On an unrelated note, one of my students, Happy Holly, who has hardly attended class this semester, asked me to tranlate something into French so she could get that tatooed on her body. And here I thought she had no interest in French. Here it comes. . . WTF?
wtf indeed!!
just when we thought we had them figured out - they go and surprise us!! maybe tattooing should be our new focus for communicative language teaching - brings new meaning to the phrase "French in Action" ;)
I don't know this JT person but sadly I'm not surprised. It's too bad the campus police aren't around anymore to lock up these weirdos.
you're right altho maybe they were right to disband the campus ones...we don't need police if all such students are going to be silly enough to go to the health center and ask for drugs in person! doh!
I think it might have been Adderall - I read an article about this recently and supposedly lots of college students are using it. It's for ADHD but is a stimulant when used by those without ADHD.
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