Not only do I have no business crashing a lecture for a class I’m not in, I have even less business in a sociology 101 tutorial where the tutor is completely unaware I’m not supposed to be there. But there I sat on a Tuesday afternoon in the first SOCIO101 tutorial of the semester, 2048 open on my computer, my friend who is actually in the class next to me.
My initial intention was just to zone out a little, since my friend and I are the kind of pair to go to each others classes just for something to do (literally just tweedle dee and tweedle dum), but then I looked up at the first slide the tutor had put up on the screen. There sat four words that made me question life a little.
Today – the urinal game.
Right, so what had I just walked into? No part of me really knew what to expect, and then the tutor pulled up that one game some people might have seen on TikTok where you have to guess what urinal you’d use based on what ones others are using. Certainly a way to make tutorials engaging, but good lord, some of it was just pure carnage.
After a very long discussion about urinal etiquette, we moved on to discussing coffee; why we drink it, why we don’t drink it, why people think it’s normal, all that jazz. Someone in my discussion group brought up energy drinks as a comparison, so I took my blue V and slid it under the table.
My friend and I then caused quite a scandal when the first years we were sitting with found out that we were both third years and twenty (rude, we’re not that old), and we had to spend far too long explaining why we were there. In all honesty, I don’t blame a first year for not understanding why I was getting actively involved in a tutorial for a class I wasn’t taking and had no clue about. It’s called ‘I’m procrastinating work from classes I am in, and this is how I’m doing it’.
Overall, an interesting hour of my life. Little tip for first years though; don’t be so nervous to put your hand up. Don’t even put your hand up, just yell shit out. Be vocal. Give any answer, even if it’s wrong. The awkward silences after the tutor asks a question is understandable for your first class of your first year of university, but it’s much more fun to talk over each other.
9/10. Extra points for the urinal game.
