Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 05, 2006
Transcript:
Alex: Two hours for lab report, five and a half hours for calculus... that leaves... nine minutes for all three meals! Poppy: You can't imagine what an unrelenting nightmare MIT has become for me... there's not time to eat or sleep or take care of myself. It's just grind it out 24/7! Right now I'm trying to decide which course to fail - that's what it's come to. There's just not enough time to prepare for them all. I don't know how the other kids do it. Most of the time I just sit in my room, all depressed, staring out my window at the bleak New England sky... Noise: Clik! Bip! Beep! Eeeee! whirr! Clik! Clickity, clik! Beep! Clik! Click! Alex: But then a robot scoots by my door and all is good again. GTG. Bye.