When I first attended IU in 1990 I had 8am classes five days a week. One of them was calculus. I dont remember ever having a problem sleeping during that time.
When I came back in 2000 I never slept through the night between then and now.
I noticed a group of people, about my age or older, mostly women who had aged well like myself who could pass for their early twenties. All of these women had the counenance of seasoned prostatutes. They had a grid of apartments, dorm rooms and classes so that all were covered. They would leave their cell phones on in class frequently recieving calls at the most crucial point of a lecture, they would use their housing in your vacinity to ensure that you can not sleep and do homework early before class starts late in the morning or near noon. At first I thought I was the focus, but I realized that no one here is supposed to do well. I just fit a profile of very smart and hard working poor, disinfranchised, excluded people who could get in to no other university due to mishaps in the previous educational experience. I was a person whose grades did not reflect my real possibilities for achievement. I was also an asian girl who had been passed for white without my consent or cooperation. I was also lucky not to have been simply murdered.
