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I totally forgot about this, but it's sort of a funny story.


I was early to my philosophy lecture on Friday, so I was working on a paper. A girl from my tutorial sits down next to me--doesn't even say hi--and asks me to explain my "I Brake for Oviedo Chickens" bumper sticker on my laptop. I obliged, and 2 seconds after I finished, she asked if my school had jocks. I explained lax bros to her, and she quickly asked me if I was in a sorority. After a really brief explanation of the coordinate system, I pulled up facebook and showed her some pictures of frat houses and lax bros.

Then, she asked me if I had to pay fees to go to NUIG--currently, all education in Ireland is free, but there is a 1500€ (roughly $2,000) annual registration fee. There's been talk of doubling the registration fee next year, and there have been protests in Dublin and Galway about it. I explained that I didn't have to pay fees here, but that I paid nearly $50,000 a year to go to my university back home, so a lot of the American students don't understand why every one's complaining so much about the increase (sidenote: it also sort of makes sense now why it seems like loads of Irish students never show up to class...they're not paying $500 a credit hour to go to class) and she didn't really have anything to say.

The end!