Saturday, September 22, 2007

Wires Hit Campus

Today I experienced life as a college student with braces.

That's right, I took my first UCLA extension course and I will admit, I was pretty freakin' excited about it.

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Can you see the excitement through my braces?!!

Call me a nerd but the thought of getting to go to class, meet people my age, and hold a number 2 pencil, was pretty amazingly sweet.

While I was nervous about bringing the wires to class, I was soon reminded of an important part of high education -- the habitation of ugly people.

A few too many years back, while in college, if someone told me I had to get braces,I would have died. Literally. No, seriously. Like....jumped over the Richland Bridge.

But here's what I learned today...it tooootally doesn't matter. As long as they're unshaven girls with pegged jeans and plastic barrettes in their hair, and hairy guys with t-shirts of solar systems, there is a place for braces on every campus in this country!

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God bless the union of higher education and orthodontia.

3 comments:

allison said...

That's encouraging. Worst fear? Starting college in braces. (At this point, that's entirely possible).

BTW, your posts are so funny, always make me laugh.

Anonymous said...

:( I just got my braces today and I start college in less than a month and like you said I feel like jumping off a bridge.
:(

Anonymous said...

I guess I'm the one with wierd tastes but I love girls with braces. I guess theres something irresistable about metal in a girls mouth, dont know why.