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25 Random Thoughts You Always Have During Your Three-Hour Lecture

Zoning out is your brain's way of saying, "You look bored. Let me take you to a better place."

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Every college student has that one class that they just can't seem to pay attention in. It's typically the two-hour or three-hour lecture classes where the professor talks in a monotone voice about the most boring subject on the planet.

Whether it's your history professor talking about ancient Mesopotamia, your P.E. teacher talking about how "important the quad muscle is", or even your religion professor going on and on about how skeptical Christianity is.

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Student Life

I Have Changed Since Starting College... Shocking

Sweats? No thanks...

Missouri State University

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Morgan George

I used to think that I would never change. The image I made for myself in high school was the persona that I wanted to portray for the rest of my life and even in college. In high school, people knew me, not by name, but because of how well I was dressed.

I may have even been overdressed (I wore a business dress and heels on my birthday one year because that was my favorite day to dress up). On a normal day, I dressed up. I would get up early, curl my hair, so my makeup, and dress to impress. Every. Single. Day. If I didn't, which was rare, people really wondered if I was sick or something because that wasn't me.

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Sometimes, Your Fondest Childhood Memories End Up Being About Sports

Will I have that time again when I embrace the softness and warmth of my athletic passion?

Rutgers University

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Sometimes, Your Fondest Childhood Memories End Up Being About Sports

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I have never been on a sports team before. However, just because I never tried out junior varsity or varsity team does not mean I do not play a sport. Actually, I do play one which is softball. You will see how soft this story sounds.

My sisters and I loved to play baseball in Wii Sports. There is no softball in that game in case if you are wondering about it. I remember all the home runs that my sisters did. I wonder if we can do one in real life. Actually, in real life, it is not that easy. I played this sport again in an after-school program called Goodworx during fifth grade. We played it because it was recreation time. When I first played it, I stunk. I could not hit the ball and it was very hard to do so. I only hit it once on a sunny day and that was it. The same thing occurred in gym class during sixth grade and if I remember clearly, I abandoned the sport for a while. When I entered high school, I heard that they had tryouts for the softball team. I just thought that it was a very bad idea. I just left and went on my own way.

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Fitness Is (Fun) For Everyone

Why we need to focus more on the fun behind fitness, and encourage everyone to find their own way.

Emory University

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Elena Pesavento

Fitness is for everyone. This statement is not a rare one, however, it is rarely believed. In America, we exist in extremes when it comes to fitness. There are individuals who are the fittest and most premier athletes in the world, but there are individuals who deal with chronic illnesses due to morbid obesity. The spectrum is wide, and the amount of people at those extremes is very high. A CDC study found that only 22.9% of individuals between the ages of 18 and 64 (adults) were exercising the recommended amount. This recommendation is 150 minutes/week of moderate aerobic physical activity, or 75 minutes/week of vigorous aerobic physical activity. This statistic means that over three-quarters of the nation do not find only thirty minutes a day, five times a week to exercise.

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Health and Wellness

I'm The Girl At The Gym Who Notices The Stares From Other People More Than The Burning In My Thighs

I can't stop thinking about what other people think of me.

New York University

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I'm The Girl At The Gym Who Notices The Stares From Other People More Than The Burning In My Thighs

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The room where I have resigned myself to doing spin classes—which is also the room where I have resigned myself to doing Pilates classes—is entirely mirrored. There isn't a spot in the room where I can avoid meeting my own gaze as I struggle to follow the instructors' leads.

I'm the girl who invariably finished the timed mile last in middle school. I was so bad at running that all the other kids clapped when I finally got to the end of my last laps. I routinely skimped on my push-ups in P.E. In fact, I did the bare minimum in every exercise, a low standard I wouldn't have accepted of myself in academic classes. But I hated the feeling of being behind everyone else, made conspicuous by my inadequacy. I tried to minimize that shame.

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Zoning out is your brain's way of saying, "You look bored. Let me take you to a better place."

1. I'm really freaking hungry.

2. Is that me that smells... there's no way... what is that smell?

3. Where did I put my student I.D.?

4. If you think about it, I just have to make it through 30 minutes six times.

4. I wonder what my cat would be like if he were a person?

6. Wow, okay buddy in the front row, let's quiet down with the Chick-Fil-A.

7. Is that guy sleeping or is he dead?

8. WHY didn't anyone tell me it was going to be 100 degrees in this classroom?!

9. Just two hours and fifteen minutes left.

10. Oh, shoot... my stomach just growled so loud. This is the most embarrassing moment of my entire life.

11. If I passed out because my blood sugar dropped I could leave class.

12. How do they expect me to get from one side of campus, all the way to the other side in 10 minutes??

13. I would be out of class if I were in high school.

14. Half of this material I'm not even going to need in life.

15. If the apocalypse happened right this second, what is the best possible weapon that I could find?

16. Alright, girly, if you keep clicking your stupid, pink, sparkly pen we're gonna have to take it outside.

17. An hour left.

18. Ok, hypothetically, if aliens were to come down onto earth, and come in this classroom...what are we even supposed to do?

19. How does someone talk for three hours straight?

20. Oh my god... he's actually snoring.

21. Literally 30 more minutes.

22. I'm literally going to have to walk for five years to get to my next class.

23. I swear if he assigns a writing assignment with five minutes left...

24. THREE MORE MINUTES

25. I am truly a survivor.

Sweats? No thanks...

1. I wear exercise clothes

2. I. Love. T-shirts.

3. I don't wear makeup that much

4. I wear tennis shoes

5. I eat actually college food

6. I go to the gym... to sweat... for fun

I like cats... like alot

8. I nap hardcore

Will I have that time again when I embrace the softness and warmth of my athletic passion?

Why we need to focus more on the fun behind fitness, and encourage everyone to find their own way.

I can't stop thinking about what other people think of me.

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