Random Education: Day 1

This afternoon I felt the urge to mingle with university students if only to satisfy that desparate desire to experience a conglomeration of high IQ - an exposure which I feel will throw a rock in my pond, lately beginning to settle into an eerie quiet.

I first made my trek over to the ROM, in the hope that all the science and history around me would jump start my brain and thus, my motivation to learn.

Later, I headed to the University of Toronto campus, randomly choosing a building. I smile as I read: "Medical Faculty". Great! My favorite subject.

As I wander the halls in search of a lecture room where I can ease into, I'm deterred at every door with a sign reading "no drinks permitted". I'm carrying my distinctive Starbucks, Cinnamon Dolce Soy Awake Tea Misto.

I become aware that I may not somehow quite blend in. Does a medical student look any different than a creative person, an arts student? I'm leaning towards saying "Yes" to that.

I'm quickly reminded of that as I walk into an empty lecture hall when I pull out my Mac. Dead giveaway! Medical students carry the standard issue IBM/Lenovo or Dell. This is a Windows crowd.

Still, I'm insisting: I'm going to attend a lecture here today. This afternoon I begin my long postponed socio-academic experiment.

People are slowly beginning to pour into the lecture hall and if the size of the class is sufficient, I'll probably be comfortable to merge in.

I enter after feeling a sudden infusion of testicular fortitude. I sit near the centre if the hall, only 2 girls sitting down below and no professor here yet.

The projector is on. It seems that a class is immenent.

What will the lecture be about? I don't know. This is what this experiment will be about: learning bits and pieces of accumulated knowledge, and at some point in the future gluing it all together to form a comprehensible tapestry of Random Education.