Info lit or just plain lit?
I really do have great intent when it comes to blogging and posting. I even have a whole stockpile of half-finished drafts that I sift through every so often. I was just cleaning out the less…um…friendly of my drafts (I do actually have a filter, sometimes it even works) and came across this one…
I’m seeing them more frequently these days. They’re in the library just like everyone else, looking for books to flesh out a Works Cited, hoping I can connect them to a movie that will do what the assigned reading did, trying to find a topic for a Writing 121 assignment. I’m talking about potheads, stoners, whatever you want to call them.
Does that mean there’s a connection between marijuana and literacy, marijuana and community colleges, or none of the above? Hm.) I have no personal or professional judgments on those students, but negotiating a reference interview with someone who is actively craving Cheetos and a Slurpee is difficult.
I think I was planning to go somewhere funny with those thoughts, but they are just so true. This year has totally been the year of the stoner in the library. I actually don’t have a problem with that, I just get frustrated with any student who shows up unprepared and expects me to magic them through an assignment.
Let’s not be too hasty to judge, though. One of my favorite outspoken pro-weed students was apparently recently accepted to an ivy league college. Go dude, go!
Dude, you’re getting an IVY DEGREE!