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\u201cHey everybody take a look at me, I’ve got street credibility.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0George Michael spits truth and funk as I make my way to algo at around 8:57 AM. I\u2019m dodging and weaving through the crowds: gaggles of Canada-Goose girls, couples taking up two-thirds of the sidewalk. Pass me or be passed, suckers; these steel-toe waterproof boots aren\u2019t holding up for anyone. Up ahead, I see a busy intersection.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHey! Hey jerk, you work, This boy’s got better things to do.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>Doesn\u2019t George Michael technically have a job as a singer? <\/span><\/i>As usual, during class changeover time, the line of cars is massive at each stop sign at the three-way intersection by Uris Hall. Small clusters of people appear at each crosswalk, with some sweet little Asian girl obediently waiting for the car to go by, but scurrying across when a jogger blasts through. There\u2019s always people crossing, crossing, crossing… the first car can only edge up, wait, edge up, wait\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWham, bam! I am a man. Job or no job, You can’t tell me that I’m not.\u201d<\/b>\u00a0The music courses through me like adrenaline. Why the hell should I stop and let any cars go? They\u2019re just another obstacle to dodge, a hunk of metal at that. There\u2019s hundreds of students that have places to go, classes we\u2019ve paid too much to go to. I\u2019m going to miss my professor\u2019s carefully calculated latest pop culture reference because YOU couldn\u2019t wait another 2 seconds? My swift steps will cover that crosswalk before you can mutter your favorite traffic cuss under your breath.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDo you enjoy what you do? If not, just stop.\u201d <\/b>As if I heard a careless whisper utter the lyric, I stop. I don\u2019t enjoy waking up to go to this awful class. I know the professor will joke about crazy Ithaca weather. <\/span>Do you enjoy what you do? <\/span><\/i>I\u2026 I don\u2019t think I\u2026 but then what do I\u2026 <\/span>If not, just stop<\/span><\/i>. And I have stopped. I hear car horns blaring. A blue bus is rounding the corner right towards me. But I do not move. I don\u2019t enjoy what I do. My eyes finally slide to the car directly in front of me. George Michael nods slowly in the driver\u2019s seat, dressed all in white in a baby blue Kia. “<\/em>Don’t stay there and rot,\u201d<\/em> he whispers, before revving the car and flying over me and into the beyond. I did not stay there and rot. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDo you want to work? – NO \/ Are you gonna have fun? – YEAH.\u201d<\/b> Everybody say Wham! – WHAM! \/ Say Bam! – BAM! \/ Everybody say Wham! – WHAM! \/ Say Wham, Bam! – WHAM! BAM! \/ Can you dig this thing? Are you gonna get down? Said one, two, three, rap, c’mon everybody \/ Don’t need this crap!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody say Wham! – WHAM! Say Wham, Bam! – WHAM! BAM!\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Matt Barker ’19<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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