Students

All these Facebook posts about The Wiz have got me all nostalgic for musical theater, and lo and behold I found Fiddler on YouTube. :) And when I watched the scene where we meet Perchik I was all "holy crap it's all true!!!"

The old men are all standing around cursing and spitting, and here comes Perchik telling them off. As a student he wants to change the world: he wants to put words into action and all that.

Good for him! Though he is a bit of an idealist (as most students are, I think).

...except, I couldn't help but compare this to my own college experiences. My version of the dialogue went something like this:

Other universities: "You should know what's going on in the outside world!"

The Daily Universe: "Careful, my paper!"

BYU: "Why should I break my head about the outside world? Let the outside world break its own head!"

...I will never stop saying this: Provo is a bubble. ><;

And then Tevye gives Perchik the cheese and he starts scarfing it down like he doesn't know where he'll get his next meal from and I'm forcefully reminded of my own empty fridge. ;D

And can we all review that infamous line?

"Girls should learn too. Girls are people!"

"A radical!"

^_^