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21Apr/120

A random memory from my very first week of college

I just remembered this random memory from college... So I've decided to write a post about it.

OK, I write songs... but lyrics sometimes don't always come easy to me... well I had an idea as soon as I got to college to write a song without writing the lyrics.  I wanted to see if I could get help writing the lyrics from other people!

So here's how it  worked... I took out my notebook and a pen.

I wrote two words at the very top of the page.  The two words were "light buzz".  Why light buzz?  Because our light in our room was buzzing.  And that's all I could focus on at the moment.

I headed around the dorm and with the notebook and pen.

I asked each person I saw to write an immediate thing to the line item above.  So the first person I encountered wrote something in response to "Light Buzz".  They wrote "bee".

I went to find a second person.  And immediately... they wrote boobies.... it was all downhill from there.

I let the experiment run for about a page.  Then I went back to my room and tried to write more lyrics because my little have everyone else write the lyrics quickly changed to the type of things that people write on the bathroom wall.

You knooooooooow where people just finish each others sentences and finish everything with "In bed".

Ok well so then I tried round two.  I wrote down the word college.  Then I went out and had people only write each line in response to the word college.

That worked slightly better but I didn't have anything good enough to write a song with.  I think I gave up after that.  I think my next step was to go around with  a recording device and record people... but that just turned into the song...

"The College Party (Featuring 20 people from IUP)"

It's on this site.  You can listen to it on my recordings page.

Anywho... SOoooooo that's one of the many things that happened my first week at college.  It didn't pan out too great for me... however it was pretty good for some laughs.  Some of the things people wrote were pretty hilarious and I think we ended up keeping the sheet of paper on our wall for a month.

BUT... if you are bored and live in a dorm like setting you can try the experiment on your own!

Get a notebook or piece of lined paper.  Get a pen.

Try out either each person responds to the thing the person wrote previously.  Orrrrrrrrrr, try out writing down one word or phrase and having each person write something in response to that one phrase.

Maybe if you are into writing short stories or poetry you can then use that to make a poem out of it!  Or you can use it to write a short story!

Either way it's bound to be fun and it's a good way to spend an evening.  It's also a great way to meet new people around the dorms and spark up convo!

 

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