on being cool

I had a really bizarre conversation today with a guy in my tech class. I told him that my graded assignment wasn't in the stack to be handed back, even though I had turned it in. I proceeded to pull out my laptop to email the assignment to the teacher as she instructed. He said it was people like me that made him look bad. The only thing I know about this person other than the fact that he is from Lebanon and has fun hair is that he has spend the entire semester finding ways to get out of doing assignments while coming up with excuses to turn those assignments in weeks after they are due. Fabulous, for him. The assignments aren't even hard, which is the funny part. In fact, they're rather interesting.

I know he was kidding, but he's probably right. I like to be responsible, do things on time, and respect the professors. But that's neither here nor there. My point is, the fact that my first instinct after being told to email my assignment was TO EMAIL MY ASSIGNMENT made me not cool. He said something along the lines of, if you do what we do you could be cool.

HA!!!!!!!

I said, I'm not concerned with being cool.

I proceeded to have a conversation in my head about how silly the notion was that in the early to mid-twenties, anyone was concerned with being cool, especially if being cool meant being a slacker loser.

Seriously? To me, being cool means being yourself and not apologizing for it.