apathy

in my physics class, we have these little iclicker, remote like things which he uses to take attendance and promote in class participation by answering questions. so at the beginning of each class, we usually have a question to answer to show that we are indeed in class and it usually has some sort of opinion or survey thing attached.

today, our choices were as follows:
(a) you are unaware of the event occurring in the country on 7 november
(b) you are aware but are choosing not to participate
(c) you are aware and are participating

7 november is election day, first of all. something that if anyone in this country has their eyes or ears open would be able to tell you.

and then the results came back.

14% of the class chose (a)
50% chose (b)
and 36% chose (c)

prof. h, who can be quite funny, although also tends to be scary, was obviously as appalled by this as i was. he made a very good point about the youth in this country:
"i know it's hard to think of something else why you only think of yourself. try to make room for the rest of the world"

check

on the way back to bc last night, as we were waiting for the bc bus to come pick us up, both chris and i realised that neither one of us really rides the bus anymore. "i wonder why that is"

and then when a bus finally did come, it was full of drunk students who could barely stand up. and then one girl puked all over the place.

we get off the bus and chris says, "welcome to bc on a saturday night. bus at midnight full of drunk kids ... check. girl pukes ... check"

no wonder we don't ride the bus anymore.