So's your mom!

While on my ever-continuing quest to create analogies suiting the student body at DA, I came up with a good one.

You see, this past Tuesday was a pep band practice. Said pep band is comprised of me on trombone, a teacher on trumpet, and another sophomore on trumpet. Since we had played through a bunch of songs that we already had music for, I brought some new sheet music I got off the interweb. Among several popular TV and movie themes, I thought I’d throw in the Super Mario Bros. theme song. I picked this out of several much more obscure video game songs, because I thought, well, its fun to play, and a lot of people know it, right?

Here comes pure Dakar Academy disappointment. While the teacher, about 25 years old, loved it, yet my fellow high schooler thought it was stupid. So here we are in a 2-on-1, video games V.S. not video games argument.

I’ve been brooding over this particular incident for a few days now, and I’ve come up with a perfect analogy for this student, as well as every other Dakar Academy student I’ve met so far. DA students are like moms.

(I realize that these things do not always apply to every mom, and do not mean to insult your mom or my mom)

DA students are like moms because:

1. Moms hate video games
2. Moms can be incredibly passive-aggressive
3. Moms “know what you’re going through”
4. Moms always want you to go outside
5. Moms want you to make new friends, but don’t really help the process
6. Moms rate all kinds of media by how many swears or references it has in it
7. Moms only make friends with other moms
8. Moms (pretend to) enjoy healthy food-it makes them look more responsible
9. Moms don’t understand why you don’t want to be their friend on facebook
10. Never, ever, EVER kiss a mom

-Will



"I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once."