Boring Class BINGO!

     So anyone who has ever been in school...and I mean ever...understands that sometimes the lectures can be the dullest things of your life and really you don't know whether cry from boredom or just sleep. But you know that you can't do either because if you fall asleep you might miss the one important part of the whole class and if you just randomly start crying people will think you are having some sort of frightening break down and you might end up getting yourself committed to some psych ward somewhere.
     Luckily there are clever folks out there {I am not taking credit for this idea, I don't think this creatively when I am uber bored in class, I just end up surfing the web} that come up with great ways to get you and your friends to pass the time in class without sleeping.
     It's called Boring Class Bingo and it is actually pretty funny to play.
     You start out with a piece of paper, any paper will do, and you draw a chart that is 5 boxes across and 5 boxes down. In the middle is your free space {sound familiar yet? Yep it's your basic run of the mill Bingo set up} the twist on this one is coming.
     Now in whatever order you choose place the following things in the remaining boxes:

• Student who obviously rolled out of bed five minutes ago
• flirting couple
• student leaving ridiculously early
• blatant cell phone use
• nodding off student desperately trying to stay awake
• shameless sleeper
• holy crap that guy/girl just won't shut up!
• [attempted] subtle cell phone use
• sunglasses indoors
• brave but fruitless show of individuality from "that" kid
• socks and sandals
• someone eating an entire meal
• achingly attractive member of the opposite sex
• flustered T.A.
• technical difficulties
• hilariousness due to foreign professor
• every adjacent student on facebook
• someone's phone going off full volume
• student arriving ridiculously late
• obviously stoned kid
• classic video game played on emulator
• student clearly working on something for another class
• that's obviously not coffee in that thermos
• professor says "divide into groups"

     Now the way my friends and I play it is we assign different point values to each of the squares because not every single one of those things happen every class period. So it is possible to get Bingo but that doesn't really mean that you are going to win the game. Although word of warning...don't excitedly scream out bingo in the middle of your boring class.....that might just get you committed to that psych ward I mentioned earlier.

Have fun friends ;)
Much love,
-L