For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for July 12, 2023

Don’t give him any ideas, now.

Watch “Animal House”. It’s a documentary. ;-)

Our friend’s son, when he went off to uni to do theoretical physics, had an exam at the end of the first week.

This was NOT the best encouragement speech I ever heard.

Probably the most truthful, tho.

How come John wasn’t expelled after that first month?

Better yet, why didn’t his own father bug him into being a farmer, like he was?

Uhm, yeah, John, I wouldn’t be telling him that stuff, not unless you want him dropping out after the first semester.

I wish my college started off like that. I would like to have the dorm experience, or maybe join some elite fraternity and go through a ridiculous initiation. All I did was join the Marines and do off duty education. Same degree. Less nonsense. …right?

John, that is VERY, VERY, POOR ADVICE to a beginning freshman especially one away from home for the first time. I learned my lesson in the first week, tried to party and got ‘buried’ in class work from my professors ! ! ! !

After finals, I slept for more than 24 hours

Ah, to be young and able to cut out sleep. ;-)

It’s refreshing to see a parent who is not afraid to be honest with his child.

John sure didn’t sacrifice sleep when April was up in the middle of the night crying about some illness.

Told you… Fathers live vicariously through their sons. Great strip today.

You can make yourself seriously ill that way.

You would never give up sleeping with the coeds…

Strips like this remind me just how much of a fuddy-duddy I am. Before I retired, the linemen gave me my “handle” – “Party Time.” I learned it was because I was the person in the world least likely to party. They nailed it.

Yeah, pretty much. My son went for three engineering degrees at once while applying for scholarships/grants, bought a mobile home, got roommates, that covered his living expenses, he ended up graduating with a 4.0 and owing no $! He didn’t get a lot of sleep with home renovations and school projects…but no partying. Commencement speaker at his graduations!

My crew in college, or at least my best friend, wasn’t a “party-goer.” THAT is why I graduated suma c_m (REALLY?!?) laude with a 3.856 GPA. (Don’t get me wro g now, I drank quite a bit, but only 1-2 a night. Except one of those 4 friend’s bachelor party’s! I got ’FACED!!!XD)

Oh to have the energy of a straight out of high school 1st year uni student again!!

Michael may be in for a rude awakening. He pretty much goofed off in high school. And that was not exactly a top-notch school he just graduated from. The professors at the college he is going to attend may be very different from the teachers he had back home.

What worked for me was a concept known as RASABIC.

Read

Ahead

Stay

Ahead

Be

In

Class

Lawrence better be thankful he does not live in the United States. Affirmative action can get Lawrence into any college in Canada. He is a double minority.

Good strategy, John. A teenager does the opposite of what his father advises.

Yup… sadly

“Rahmspringah”

Sounds like “great” advice his dad is giving him.

One warm night, early in my first year of college, there was a blackout on campus. Somewhere out in the darkness a voice yelled, “Panty Raid”, and then the trouble really started. It took a while for the housemothers and campus cops to get things back under control since some of the young women were throwing underwear out the windows of their dorms.