A Day in the Life of an HCC Scholar Pt. 1

HCC. What is this you may ask? None other than the finest educational institute Houston has to offer. With its classic red brick structures, its multiple locations (all in the finest areas of Houston, of course) its challenging course work, and highly ranked professors, HCC is so wonderful that students flock to its campus during their summer hours, craving higher education.

Houston Community College, better known as Houston College of Champions.

I have had the pleasure of attending this fine College for two and a half weeks and as if 4 hours of biology five days a week wasn't thrilling enough, my adventure into the world of biology begins at 8 am every morning. The captain of this ship of learning is none other than Professor Chukwu. An A&M grad (whoop) he hails from Nigeria. His favorite subjects are mangoes and baboon butts and his beverage of choice is palm wine. Interspersed with these nuggets of pure gold is the occasional biology slideshow, peppered with earsplitting sound effects on the rare chance that someone would be sleeping through his brilliant lectures.

You know you want a piece of this.

As amazing as this class is simply on its own merit, if I did not have my phone and trusty facebook handy I might have to revert to something drastic to kill time. such as watching the world cup. or making a blog. oops...guilty on both counts.

My classmates? I have no complaints. They range from the dedicated scholars that are at least 5 years older than I am and actually have life goals to the kid that shows up thirty minutes before role is called. Shameful. There are a select few who have banded together. HCC bonding at its finest. We venture to Whataburger for free breakfast sandwiches and to Chili's for some chips and salsa. You know you trust someone when you can get into their car and let them drive you down Gessner. The few, the proud, HCC's finest.

Now that you have gotten a glimpse into the treasure chest that is HCC education, here are some examples of texts that keep me going and reveal the educational journeys of my fellow scholars.

TFTM

(texts from this morning)

(281): Left my physics stuff at home. Empty backpack. Per usual HCC student.

(281): We just spent five minutes convincing a girl that to double a mass you don't square it, like she has been doing her entire life. I want to stick my pencil in my eyes.

(713): Woman next to me just said conversate. WTF is that!?!? It's converse!!!!!! Americans need to learn to speak ENGLISH

(713): Are you ditching class again?

(713): Hahaha whatever it's hcc summer school. You gotta do what you gotta do to get through classes.

in addition to learning all sorts of fun biology facts that I am sure to use in daily life, I have been honing my art skills. Multitasking. Yet another skill HCC imparts to its students.

Doodles of the Week:

Do not take anything in the second doodle as offensive. that is real talk. go look in my itunes, I'm pretty sure I have more rap music than anything else other than country (hey, I go to A&M).

Week 3 going strong. Feelin' like a champ.