99 Ways To Go Insane
- Change majors at least twice.
- Live in a non-coed dorm for two (+) years.
- Get infatuated with women who have little or no emotional
warmth.
- Drink heavily.
- Change .plan weekly.
- Take both ME and EE classes.
- Time manage sponteneity.
- Set record time on academic probation.
- Solve PI to the last decimal place and/or
- Predict female behavior.
- Perform "mind meld" on chimp or humanities
student.
- Get a summer job normally reserved for recently paroled
prisoners.
- Look for a good party on Sunday night.
- Analyze and worry about everything. (except what is
important)
- Constantly remind yourself that humour and a charming
personality is better than money or looks. (yeah,
right...)
- Try real hard to be funny. (people look at you strangely
anyway)
- Do anything with a perfectionist.
- Be as weird as possible. (I guess it comes naturally.)..
- Send computer mail to uninterested parties...
- Become so bored as to read textbooks in advance.
- Procrastinate...
- Have lots of attractive friends of the opposite sex that
are seriously involved with someone else.
- Continue being nice to people who could really care
less...
- Continue being mean to people who could really care
less...
- Assume that everyone tells the truth.
- Listen to everyone else's advice.
- Be a witness to every dysfunctional relationship to have
ever existed.
- Come up with a new .plan.
- Withhold from screaming when you hear the phrase
"let's just be friends..."
- Ask a Jehovah's Witness: If Jesus were in the hospital
and needed an operation, could he get a blood transfusion
from God?
- Listen to anything by Phillip Glass. (You'd swear the
record was stuck...)
- Try to believe that the new comics can compete with Art
Gallery.
- Try to calm down a "type-A" personality.
- Think about the future... Graduation!!! Finally? Do I
HAVE to leave?
- Buy a personals paper and count the errors.
- Believe "It's better to burn out, rust never
sleeps..."
- Count the minimum number of credits left to graduate.
- Anticipate what you'll REALLY be doing after graduation.
(serious begging)
- Convince someone (or yourself) that you enjoy
engineering.
- Start seeing marriage as an option.
- Find a hobby, but never have enough time to make it
enjoyable.
- Don't burn your bridges...blow them to Hell.
- Find apathy a desirable quality in a lover.
- Make maximum effort for minimum results.
- Live a day riding shotgun. (eg. you've just started
what's due today...)
- Alternate between completely opposite behaviors. (eg. Act
different for different people.)
- Second guess what people are REALLY trying to say.
- Apologize for guessing wrong.
- Abandon common sense in the name of fun.
- Try to find someone with the answers.
- Explain something you don't understand. (great for
presentations)
- Look for lost time.
- Live with a sociopath.
- Vomit so often from drinking that it hardly bothers you
anymore.
- Stay awake in your most boring class.
- Pass up offers from attractive women to go out drinking
because you have to study, then blow off studying anyway
and sit at home alone.
- Guess what your grades will be every week.
- Figure out what you'll need to get your grad index to a
decent level.
- Explain to someone what you enjoy and why.
- Make fun of religion (realizing that you're damned)
- Try to figure out why everyone you meet of the opposite
sex either
- doesn't interest you
- you don't interest them
- already has a love interest
- is everyone else's love interest
- all of the above.
- Try to imagine what life would be like eithout
bureacracy.
- Conform.
- Go to a video rental place with 2 or more friends.
(...I've SEEN that!!!)
- Find out what parties are going on when you have homework
backed up.
- Make a "Time Management" card, then TRY to
stick to it. (I'll sleep next week.)
- Find some goals. (I'll stop procrastinating next week.)
- Deny any bizzare sexual conquest. (There is always
SOMEONE who knows...)
- Discern differences in Homecoming/Grad Prix candidates.
- Talk to a racist without getting angry or punching him
out.
- Have a crush on someone at least 1000 miles away.
- Become a love hostage. (definition available).
- Have low self-esteem wars.
- Make up nick-names for everyone.
- Chase someone without moving. (metaphoric statement)
- Get a decent Halloween costume that hasn't been done a
million times.
- Make fun of Greeks, but try to go to their parties.
- Figure out what makes you happy and avoid it.
- Get to the point where nobody gives you advice anymore.
(What am I going to do with you?; I don't know what to
tell you.)
- Try to have a rational conversation with someone who's in
love.
- Figure out how they could have made "Batman"
better.
- Live in fear of jealous (ex-) boyfriends of your female
friends.
- Having everything due (projects, tests, etc.) after a big
party weekend.
- Use your failing test scores as lottery numbers.
- Compute what you HAVE to get on your finals to pass.
- Flirt with soon-to-be-married friends.
- Come up with gross nicknames for sororities: e.g. Smegma
Kappa
- Prove that Fraternity Man (does not)= Drunken Rapist.
- Count your blessings and subtract them from your
damnations.
- Keep track of the "soap opera" of changing
relationships.
- Ask yourself "Where the hell am I and how did I get
HERE?"
- Keep making the same mistakes.
- Spend at least a half hour a day looking for something in
the house.
- Avoid soon-to-be-divorced friends. (see #86)
- Try to be taken seriously.
- Make a good second impression. (given that you've blown
the first)
- Listen to your mother list eligible women (her friends
daughters) and try to keep your stomach from turning.
- Correct your answers on old finals.
- Mire in self-pity about your dismal future.