Everyone goes mad. All around me voices exclaim Essay! Test! Paper! Exam! Presentation! Debate! Discussion! Quiz! Dinner! When?! Tonight! Can't! Tomorrow?! Sure! Meeting! Drinks! Read! Study! Listen! Watch! Learn! Move! Sit! Sleep! Wake! Eat! Coffee! Energy! Sun! Finals! Summer! Not yet! Plot! Trip! Visit! Lecture! Class! Break! and people seem to be running around in circles thinking everything follows Murphy's Law and dropping everything at the prospect of actually finishing a task and looking far too worried about everything. This is RA at its best. The insane paradox of everything being impossible and yet everything being accomplished shows the gorgeous chaos that is studying.
I continue reading on websites the comments of people who got stuck in the 1970s and still think university students are all about drinking and sleeping in and general laziness. An interesting opinion, I must say, and one completely foreign to all who are familiar with the University College concept in general and RA specifically. The total madness of RA shows that through dedication, hard work and an incredible amount of personal craziness everything is possible. Apparently Aristotle once said that genius never goes without a bit of madness. Having observed several of my fellow students and quite a few of my instructors, I think it would be fair to say that Aristotle wasn't far off. Which shouldn't be taken as an expression of any idea that we are all geniuses, which I know is untrue. However, so many people I met here over the last 20 months brim with brilliance and most of them are, well, not mad, but indeed possess quite interesting personalities. What should be taken for truth, as well, is the infectiousness of insanity. And this particular insanity, I must admit, I find glorious.
Ilse is a second year social science student with an interest in law and law enforcement with an interest in many different sorts of media.
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