At NCCU, every Tuesday and Thursday they have the 10:40 break, which is an hour reserved when there are no classes. The 10:40 break has a DJ blasting music. The goal is to dance, see and be seen. Also it gives organizations a chance to put out booths to share information. Today the counseling center had booths on a range of topics and I volunteered at the depression table.
One of the other guys in my program was also volunteering and he said this took him back to his undergrad days at another historically black college, where they did the same thing but on Fridays. I commented that I had never seen anything like this... When I was in undergrad we did have a "pit" where people could hand out information, but there were never set break times for everyone to gather.
I noticed that the other volunteer would exchange a hand shake thing with the other students as they left our table. I can't do the hand shake.
Later he commented that he was tired of the music, and I said, oh, actually, I know this song. It was on So You Think You Can Dance, and Twitch danced to it.... [I can't embed it, it was Twitch and Lauren to My Chick Bad]. That was the nail in the coffin. He gave me a look, and I knew..... I was not cool. What a bummer. But I had the solution in the pamphlets at my table... I could talk it over with a friend, or go to the counseling center. Naw, I think I will just eat some ice cream and watch reruns of So You Think You Can Dance on youtube.
7 years ago
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BYU has breaks on tuesday and thursday from 10 to 11... the one is "technically" for devotional, but pretty much people hang out in the student center and they have booths.
Just saying... it's not a black thing (considering I know all 3 black students at BYU ;)
Ok... further proof that I am not cool if BYU has awesome breaks :)
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