My Legally Blonde Nightmare

This happened to me. I arrived to class having no clue that I should have reading done. I arrived early, like I always do for a fear of being late, and took what I thought was one of the best seats in the room. I was ready to go. The professor then began to make reference to the readings for today and the email responses that he had received. I felt my hands becoming sweaty, and I started to panic. And then it happened.

The professor called on me looking for an answer. It seemed like five minutes passed by before I was able to muster out, 'What?' I was caught, even though I had planned to confess following class. I saw the look of disappoint. Followed by the wondering of how has she gotten this far. I saw the rest of my classmates give the look of disapproval with a mix of sheer joy as they knew they had not made the same mistake. The professor then called on another student, the Vivian of the class. He asked her, 'Did you know there was assignments today?' She answered with a mixture of snark and sass, 'Of, course I did. It was clearly in the emails and syllabus.' Before I had the chance to defend myself by saying I never received emails and cannot view the syllabus because the registrar had not officially added me to the course, he asked the whole class to take a vote on whether I should be allowed to stay. A unanimous vote had me packing up my books and heading for the door.

Okay, the parallel to Legally Blonde is all in my head, but I did spend most of the class frustrated and terrified that I, Sandy Kathleen, had not done my reading. I pride myself on being that student that has completed all of their reading. And there I sat, the slacker.

And tomorrow, it's going to happen again. I just know it. It is my first PhD seminar. I've read the syllabus multiple times, but my Legally Blonde nightmare is going to come true tomorrow. I'm going to arrive to class, sit down and within the first five minutes I will have another shared experience with Ms. Elle Woods.