My Dad was an engineering professor who had taught at Lehigh and Clemson and admitted that as a professor, he still had the dream of finding himself in a class at the end of the term where he hadn’t done a single assignment, read the material, and the final was tomorrow.
Possible scenerios, dreams rarely make sense, so he looks older than everyone else in the class? He was big for his age, or he was held back because he is a slow learner, or he has a hormone issue?
This hits close to another of my life-long recurring nightmares, one where it’s opening night of a stage play I’m in … but I never got around to reading the script.
Everybody seems to have a version of that dream. In my version, I discover that I was signed up for a class and forgot all about it, not even going to classes.
I wonder what version people dreamt about before universal education was a thing? Finding out there was a field that you were supposed to plow and sow, and now it’s autumn and there’s nothing to harvest?
Take heart, for ye old studies have been done that the conscientious student is plagued by variations of this nightmare. Mine is a forgotten class I signed up for to be informed that the final exam was in minutes at a location unknown to me. Wish Donald had this dream leaving America in peace while he scurries off to unsaid location as we cheer.He gives us the torments while we are wide await.
You sure that was not the paper about Joe MacBeth and this is not my Civics Course and that I am taking classes because I decided to go back to school to keep me occupied when I am not writing a comic strip?
I graduated high school over 30 years ago and still have high school anxiety. I’ll dream that I am at school and have no idea what day it is or what class I’m supposed to be in. I mean, that’s how I actually spent high school, but still, to have nightmares 30+ years later…
BE THIS GUY over 6 years ago
Just remember:
Is this a dagger which I see before me…
and
Out, damned spot!
and you got an easy B.
Templo S.U.D. over 6 years ago
those are high schoolers in the third panel? they look like elementary or middle schoolers to me
AGED_ENGINEER Premium Member over 6 years ago
Why is it the rest of the students look like third graders?
zekepotato over 6 years ago
My Dad was an engineering professor who had taught at Lehigh and Clemson and admitted that as a professor, he still had the dream of finding himself in a class at the end of the term where he hadn’t done a single assignment, read the material, and the final was tomorrow.
chris_weaver over 6 years ago
At least, this time, he was fully clothed!
Alien-X over 6 years ago
He even sleeps with his hat on backwards.
blunebottle over 6 years ago
There is an obvious solution to the problem here….don’t see any Shakespeare plays.
F-Flash over 6 years ago
Possible scenerios, dreams rarely make sense, so he looks older than everyone else in the class? He was big for his age, or he was held back because he is a slow learner, or he has a hormone issue?
tripwire45 over 6 years ago
Every once in a while, I’ll have a dream like this, but it’s college, and I’ve forgotten to go to class for three months.
dwane.scoty1 over 6 years ago
Must be a “Back-up Strip” for days that you are Clueless; More Rat is always good!
NeedaChuckle Premium Member over 6 years ago
I get nightmares that I am in college and I can’t find my classes and wind up flunking.
Andrew Sleeth over 6 years ago
This hits close to another of my life-long recurring nightmares, one where it’s opening night of a stage play I’m in … but I never got around to reading the script.
Carl Rennhack Premium Member over 6 years ago
My favorite Shakespeare play is, “Julius, Grab That Woman Now!” That was the original title. Bill’s editor made him shorten it to “Julius, Seize Her”!
Reader over 6 years ago
Today’s cartoon: Much Ado About Nothing.
Nuliajuk over 6 years ago
Everybody seems to have a version of that dream. In my version, I discover that I was signed up for a class and forgot all about it, not even going to classes.
I wonder what version people dreamt about before universal education was a thing? Finding out there was a field that you were supposed to plow and sow, and now it’s autumn and there’s nothing to harvest?
jessie d. over 6 years ago
Take heart, for ye old studies have been done that the conscientious student is plagued by variations of this nightmare. Mine is a forgotten class I signed up for to be informed that the final exam was in minutes at a location unknown to me. Wish Donald had this dream leaving America in peace while he scurries off to unsaid location as we cheer.He gives us the torments while we are wide await.
Ignatz Premium Member over 6 years ago
Hey, Stephan, Macbeth is short (one reason they give it in high school). Just learn the word “hurlyburly” and the rest is simple.
Cameron1988 Premium Member over 6 years ago
I’ve had nightmares about being back in high school until I was about 21
Greyhame over 6 years ago
Brooke McEldowney (Pibgorn, 9 Chickweed Lane) has presented his visions of Romeo And Juliet and Midsummers Nights Dream. I would like to see MacBeth.
GeifuKe over 6 years ago
You sure that was not the paper about Joe MacBeth and this is not my Civics Course and that I am taking classes because I decided to go back to school to keep me occupied when I am not writing a comic strip?
GeifuKe over 6 years ago
Wherefore art thou Stephan Pastis?
GeifuKe over 6 years ago
Sorry, Stephan, it is Pastis due.
johndifool over 6 years ago
Double, double toil and trouble…
BiathlonNut over 6 years ago
Has anyone read anything of the modern playwright, William Shakerifle?
Jml58 over 6 years ago
To sleep perchance to dream.
Vilyehm over 6 years ago
Birnam Wood
Burn-um Wood
Burn-um Wood
Drink-um Water
Read-um comic strip
Bookworm over 6 years ago
“If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well
It were done quickly." Macbeth. Act I, Scene 7.ksu71 over 6 years ago
Had a paper route in high school and for years I dreamed about forgetting to deliver.
Lablubber over 6 years ago
Pastis should have saved this strip for late July. A “Mid Summer’s Nights Nightmare”.
Troglodyte over 6 years ago
I actually loved the play Macbeth back in school. English was my favourite subject, and probably the only one in which I excelled.
GeifuKe over 6 years ago
Stephan Pastis presents “A Midsummer Nightmare’s Daydream”, followed by “The Shaming of the Through.”
Sisyphos over 6 years ago
Cartoon-Boy needs to cut down on the between-the-acts snacks and booze….
DarthRevan over 6 years ago
I still have yet to enter high school.
up2trixx over 6 years ago
I graduated high school over 30 years ago and still have high school anxiety. I’ll dream that I am at school and have no idea what day it is or what class I’m supposed to be in. I mean, that’s how I actually spent high school, but still, to have nightmares 30+ years later…
Kind&Kinder over 6 years ago
“Lord, what fools these mortals be!” —-Puck A Midsummer Nights Dream Act 3, scene 2
betsypoe over 6 years ago
OMG I have the same dreams… and it’s always the lost Shakespeare paper that sends me back to school. 8-/
Vilyehm over 6 years ago
Teacher, Teacher, “What’s a beast with two backs?”
Unlike with grade school in the 1960s, they are probably allowed to answer the question nowadays.
ND Cool Z over 6 years ago
If my autism doesn’t improve, I’m going to have to do high school for the rest of my life! NOT that I am IN a high school because I’m home-schooled.
Darth Revan II almost 4 years ago
Wait, why are all the students so much smaller? It’s high school, but they look like kindergartners.
alantain about 1 year ago
I used to read Shakespeare for fun! Well, the comedies, anyway. And yes, I do happen to be a geek.