"I cut myself; doesn't anyone care?" senior Ben Dewhurst said after cutting his hand with a saw while destroying a folder divider.
Sophomore Josh Tarroll aimed a squirt gun at him and said, "Do you know what a lot of people do with wounded animals? They put them out of their misery."
Dewhurst spent most of his first day back to school at the telecommunications media lab repairing computers, restoring software and cutting a folder divider into plastic squares to cover faulty firewire ports.
"I didn't think [starting class] was that big of a deal," Dewhurst said. "I've had a lot of fun, but I really just want to have a job laid down so I can be financially secure."
Dewhurst woke up two hours late Monday, foregoing a shower and gelling his hair to make it to class by 11 a.m. Seniority has its perks, he said.
"By senior year, everything seems to level out and people just seem to chill out," Dewhurst said. "There's not one person you could say isn't a cool person to hang out with."
His sociology professor was relaxed; she forgot her own book and borrowed a student's copy. The professor said she would be checking up on students' progress on their papers and suggested they not wait until the last two weeks to write them.
After class he ate lunch (purchased with a gift certificate) at the Atrium, then went to work at the media lab, which he called the "TCOMM bar" because of its popularity among its students.
Dewhurst looked his schedule up online about 12 minutes
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