After a grueling day of midterm exams, I trudge back to my dorm with a few of my friends to drop my school bag off before going to the Michigan Union to eat at Panda Express. Panda Express is one of my favorite restaurants ever, and I always get the same thing: one medium lemonade and one bigger plate with chow mein, fried rice, and a side of kung pao chicken. The noodles and fried rice already taste delicious, but the spiciness of the chicken combined with the two entrees simply explode in my mouth. Anyways, we made our way to my dorm in South Quad, all the while conversing about how each other’s exams went. Finally, we made it to my dorm. I opened the door, but instead of dropping my bag and heading right out, I freeze to see a potato, and worst of all, my old AP Literature Textbook from my senior year of high school. Instantly, my imagination travels back in time to the nightmares of AP Literature, especially Wuthering Heights. Just the sound of the
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My index finger slowly made its way down the page, and my eyes followed until I reached the word “potato” in the second to last stanza. Written right above the word “potato” where there was a break between two of the stanzas read “lol complete rip,” followed by the signature of one of my best high school friends. I chuckled a little, and reflected back to our conversations together. His comical style of speech was heavily influenced by the use of internet acronyms and memes, but there was not a single other person that I have ever met that had talked like that. Some of our conversations would get so carried away that we would talk solely in terms of internet acronyms and memes to the point that our speech was impossible to understand. It was impossible to understand from an outside perspective, but between us, it made perfect
My index finger slowly made its way down the page, and my eyes followed until I reached the word “potato” in the second to last stanza. Written right above the word “potato” where there was a break between two of the stanzas read “lol complete rip,” followed by the signature of one of my best high school friends. I chuckled a little, and reflected back to our conversations together. His comical style of speech was heavily influenced by the use of internet acronyms and memes, but there was not a single other person that I have ever met that had talked like that. Some of our conversations would get so carried away that we would talk solely in terms of internet acronyms and memes to the point that our speech was impossible to understand. It was impossible to understand from an outside perspective, but between us, it made perfect