It's my 6th ever university O week this week, and I'm a bit over it. I am experiencing that feeling everyone gets when the students are always 18 years old and you (lecturer, staff member or other) are aging. But there were a few highlights:
Christian groups handing out apples to tempt vulnerable new students/babies. Do they get the significance of the serpent/apple/eve scenario? Or are they just encouranging people to be healthy?
Computer companies trying to sell stuff. Students buying their own computers on student incomes, Hello?
Students bringing their mums. Hello?
Students being picked up by their mums outside my office. Although, I have been known to get my mum to pick me up too, and that's even more sad because I'm a postgrad.
The fact that the young guys (not that there are many) actually look embryonic to me now rather than cute. It occurs to me that it's not fair how young women are seen as the most attractive of women, yet young men all have pimples, bad haircuts and, like males of other age groups, are frequently obnoxious and no older woman (except Demi Moore) would even want one.
