Learned the Hard Way
“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
- Oscar Wilde, Intentions: The critic as artist, 1890
Things Learned
- Dying your hair black (by accident of course) is not worth the trouble of bleaching & re-dying.
- Don't go to an animal shelter if you have a weakness for animals. I can almost guarantee you that you will either leave with one or go home feeling like you should have taken one every time.
- When you tell a friend to leave you alone, you have no one to blame but yourself when they finally do.
- Never make a five minute decision to get a tattoo. You're stuck with it for life.
- You can't always show up two weeks before the end of the semester (after missing everything but the first two days) and expect to make up everything you missed. Count on one stubborn teacher that won't allow it.
- Never trust a teacher to follow through on changing your grade from I to B – stay on their case about it until it changes on your transcript. If not, it really does turn to an F.
- Never take a drug with the side effect of making you sleepy with one that has a side effect of keeping you awake. You may or may not end up on the floor hallucinating about snakes.
- You can not escape drama. Any where you work or where people are gathered, you will find drama – but you can avoid getting involved.