My Social Problems professor is quickly becoming one of my favorites, as I near the end of my tenure at Baker College. For the simple fact that even though the classes I’ve taken with her suck (Sociology and Social Problems), she is real, down to earth, and the class discussions are beyond amazing.
Last quarter, for example, we all discussed parenting tactics, whereupon we all pretty much agreed on the same thing:
Mad props to Maddox on this image, which is NOT hotlinked.
Now, the extra cool thing about having this professor is that she’s a parole officer. So we get to learn about all the interesting ways that people decide to take drugs, and of course there’s usually someone who is able to share a personal story about it (bonus points if it involves them, but usually it’s “My Friend”). For example, we brought up all the interesting things you can use to smoke crack with, all the non-conventional ways you can take certain drugs, fun uses for Chore Boy and why you’re looking out for the guy with all the candy necklaces at the rave.
For those in the class that have had little previous drug exposure, this came as quite a shock. They apparently had no idea that people can, and will, take some liquid (insert random drug you can turn into liquid form or crush and mix with water here), smother a tampon with it, and insert it anally to get high quickly. Or that people will use the cardboard from a tampon as a blunt wrap and toke with it.
This is the point in the article where I planned on putting an interesting or funny tampon picture. However, after turning safe search off and searching google images for “tampon”, I am officially scared for life at some of the pictures, let alone the websites out there. Remember that feeling when you first watched “2 Girls 1 Cup”? Yah, it’s that bad. So moving on rapidly…
One of the girls had a lovely story to share about how she was at a hotel party and this girl kept popping X anally, after the 2nd pill she decided she didn’t give a shit and just threw down in front of everybody, where upon the professor exclaimed that she wants to party with her just for the sake of observation. Amazing.
Another girl that graduated from my high school (Mount Clemens) told a story about some dude who sat there and popped X right in class in front of the teacher. She couldn’t remember which class when I asked her, but with some of those teachers, it wouldn’t surprise me one bit.
My favorite point of the night was when someone screwed up and said you could walk up and buy marijuana from the corner store (instead of saying cigarettes). We all got a laugh of it, but the instructor said that hey, it’s possible, and if you go right up Abrahm street you can get pretty much anything you could ever want. Which was funny for a few reasons, first off being I know someone who lives on that street and know first hand how easily you can get any and everything on that street, and secondly because it reminded me of a very special Chapelle’s show episode.
Here, Tyrone Biggums is supposed to be telling kids to stay off crack, but he goes on to tell them where to go, when to go there, and who to talk to if they want some crack. Granted, it wasn’t nearly that bad, or even really the same thing when it comes down to it, and I seriously doubt that anyone left class that day to go buy crack (although I did end up down Abhram street, it wasn’t for drugs. It was to watch Saw4).
Baker College: Real education for real life. Do you guys learn stuff like this at Michigan? Oakland? Wayne state maybe. But this isn’t some BS course taught by a professor who does “studies” and hasn’t seen much of the real world in forever. This is real, this is what the world is really like, and they don’t hide it.
