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The first day of school, REMIX!
January 7, 2008
Shouldn’t a one-credit, 8:00am class entitled “Lifetime Fitness” be a lecture course regarding topics such as flexibility, healthy eating, anatomy, etc.? Was I surprised by being tested on the number of pull-ups I’m capable of? Should I have worn anything besides jeans? The answer to all of these questions is yes.
At my college, only the undergraduate portion is all girls. The graduate school is coed. Both have a very small student body. Every once in a while, as I sit in the public areas packed with chicks, a lone grad boy wanders in. He looks somewhat uneasy, tossing his folder on a table in an attempt to seem completely nonchalant, and usually doesn’t stay long.
It’s the beginning of January and the AC in the classrooms just kicked in. I went out last night without a sweater. Does this mean no more snow ever? Because I would be totally OK with that.
The ghosts at the new place have been laying low, probably because I’ve been too tired to pay them any attention, even at their scariest, and once I’m asleep, all of their chain rattling would be for naught.
Thank you to everyone who did the whole Bloggie nomination thing. It made last week THE BEST WEEK EVER!
January 7th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Sounds much like the unfortunate discovery I made on my first day of my “Fitness for Life” class.
January 7th, 2008 at 11:33 am
So let me get this straight, lifetime fitness is like gym class? Oh boy.
January 7th, 2008 at 11:40 am
I had to take a swimming test in my Lifetime Fitness class. UUGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
January 7th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Classes like that should be BANNED in college! Didn’t we do enough of that in grade school?
January 7th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
That’s so much worse the the Geology class (aka death and destruction by earthquakes, volcanos, psunamis, etc) that I once took at 8am. Good morning, indeed!
January 7th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
at my undergrad we HAD to take three gym credits.
I’m not even kidding.
I took african dance one semester. Capoera the next. These are incredibly difficult disciplines.
I spent most of the time sitting by the door with hurt limbs.
January 7th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Owie! I am completely incapable of ANY pull-ups.
And no 8am 1 credit class should require more than showing up and occasionally opening your eyes.
January 8th, 2008 at 12:29 am
Did you have to take “lifetime fitness”? Because I definitely would have chosen yoga at that hour of the AM. Which I totally took for my one credit class, as well as ballroom dancing and kickboxing.
January 8th, 2008 at 2:14 am
My gym class in high school was called “lifetime fitness,” so I would have known…
January 8th, 2008 at 3:11 am
i love best weeks EVER! thats funny about the lone boy, and yeah, i would hate to walk into a class that ended up being real fitness…haha
January 8th, 2008 at 3:28 am
I was exempted from my gym class because I was into taekwondo…god, I can just imagine doing it at 8am…
January 8th, 2008 at 3:43 am
If you lifetime fitness class is anything like my middle school P.E. class then forget about it!
January 8th, 2008 at 8:45 am
I’m freaked out by the whole AC running and no sweaters thing. I think it means we’ll have snow in freakin’ April. If that happens I will be mad.mad.mad.
Lifetime Fitness? Sounds painful. Especially at 8:00 am.
January 8th, 2008 at 10:49 am
AC is on already?? It’s still friggin freezing over here where I am. I’m still enjoying my heater!
January 8th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Lifetime Fitness is the name of my gym!
January 8th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
for what it’s worth, that’s how I used to go to my first day of gym class at my liberal arts college. Everyone knows the first day doesn’t count! Maybe the gym teachers at your school are slave drivers or something.
January 8th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
An 8:00 a.m class? As your elder (I had to say it - :) ) and having been to college, grad school, college again, and law school, I highly discourage 8:00 a.m classes. Ever. It just isn’t right.
January 8th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
I dunno. Lifetime Fitness definitely sounds like a class where you have to do pull-ups to me.
January 9th, 2008 at 12:09 am
I’d be happy to take all of the snow you aren’t getting because I’m not getting it either and I seriously miss it!
January 9th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Eww, fitness. That feels like regressing back to PA high schools’ mandatory PE and Presidential Fitness test. Boo, hiss.
K.
January 9th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Congratulations on the nomination!
Oh lord, I hated doing pull-ups in Phys Ed.
January 10th, 2008 at 8:30 am
I like college gym classes. I tried my hand at fencing, took step aerobics twice because the teacher was so awesome, suffered through pilates- which it turns out I hate- and did a toning class.
I only wish I had a better physique to show for it!
January 11th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Huh. My gym is called Lifetime Fitness. And I love it. But I hate pull-ups. I’m sad for you that they made you do them in jeans.
January 12th, 2008 at 2:43 am
Damn. My GPA would be ruined with a class like that!!
January 12th, 2008 at 10:07 am
As far as I’m concerned, 8 a.m. classes should never be allowed in the first place.
January 12th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
What a weird idea. Like being back at high school.
Pull-ups? What are these? Sit-ups? They don’t sound like a very good thing to be doing to me. There are rather better ways to keep fit.