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Thoughts From A Plane

Things that go through all of our minds 40,000 feet in the air.

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Thoughts From A Plane
Brittany McGowan

Traveling is something most of us "millennial" college students want to take advantage of. Between cross-country and international students, and study abroad, a lot of us take college as an opportunity to make a new identity for ourselves in a new place. This generation wants to see the world and truly experience life to the fullest. Most of the time, those journeys start by getting to the airport, getting on a plane, and getting ready for the ride:

1. We made it!

2. Why do they board so early? The plane doesn't leave for another 20 minutes.

3. Weren't we supposed to take off 15 minutes ago?

4. Oh! We're moving.

5. ..And we've stopped again.

6. If we leave now we'll be there exactly at 10:00.

7. ...okay, 10:20.

8. Oh! We're moving again!

9. I wonder how fast this thing needs to get before taking off...

10. The ground is tilting annddd...

11. We're in the air!

12. Everything looks so tiny.

13. Look at those tiny little ant people...

14. ...ant cars...

15. ...ant buildings.

16. Oh, right, clouds.

17. How does the captain really really know where the plane is going when they can't see anything from inside the cloud?

18. Oh, right, they have navigation things.

19. More clouds! Wait- we just came out of those.

20. It's really sunny today- wait, there were clouds, nevermind.

21. I usually wouldn't even have class until now during the semester.

22. OH MY GOSH THERE'S A DOG ON THE PLANE.

23.That was a lot of turbulence- I hope it's just that. I saw 'Sully'. I know what can happen.

24. I should be able to see from here if the engines had bird guts in them, right?

25. *This is your first officer speaking- I assure you what we just hit was nothing more than turbulence* okay okay great. I'll live.

26. Food time! Chips at 9:30 a.m., yes, please.

27. I wonder where we are...

28. Snapchat geofilters don't reach this high up, I guess.

29. My ears are popping now?!

30. I hope it's nice out when we land.

31. Are we descending already? That wasn't as long as I thought.

32. That dog is being so good.

33. Look at the tiny ant buildings...

34. ...ant cars...

35. ..ant people...

36. You know, it doesn't seem like we're going that fast until we basically hit the runway.

37. Was the landing supposed to be that fast? Or bumpy?

38. Dammit, I wanted to sleep. I guess that's not happening.

39. At least I'm alive.

40. What baggage claim did they say?

41. Are we ever getting off this plane? We're at the terminal people, let's move.

42. Vacation begins...now.

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