Everyone said the hot English teacher was a bitch, but I took her anyway. Our first week of class, she assigned a 12 page paper. It's due tomorrow. FML
I agree, your life sucks (17543) - you totally deserve it (9865)I asked my students to write a short essay on Hawthorne. Well turns out I wrote "6000 words" instead of "600". Hello 300 extra pages of reading this weekend. FML
I agree, your life sucks (6234) - you totally deserve it (23865)This girl I really like finally invited me to her house for a party. I spent all Saturday getting ready but when I got there, the house was empty. The party was Friday night. FML
I agree, your life sucks (24920) - you totally deserve it (5106)My parents left for the weekend, so I spent $200 on a party for my entire class. The only one who showed up was this creepy kid who keeps a picture of me in his locker. I told him it was the wrong night just so he'd leave. FML
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This is a paper I submitted as a sophomore to EFB 480, Animal Behavior. I got an A. Pardon the horrible sentence structure and other mistakes, it was written at 3am.
***To those who say this is "old news," I took a concept, and actually looked into it. While it was often anecdotaly known that men often choose to leave space between themselves, I applied statistics to it and offer hard core evidence. And yes, I did actually write this.
Personal Space and Urinal Selection in Male Homo sapiens, by John Vanek (Nomadofthehills), SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Abstract
Many human (Homo sapiens) males choose to avoid adjacent urinals to those in use by other males, as well as socialization while urinating. One explanation towards this distance males keep from one another is that it is simply risky to be close to another male. With external genitalia exposed, the reproductive potential of a male is at much higher risk than normal. In this paper I offer evidence to support this hypothesis, and suggestions for future study of this behavior. After hours performing this observational study, my results suggest that males do indeed show an inclination towards distance between each other while using urinals, based on an analysis of the categorical data using a chi square equation. While I found evidence to support my hypothesis, it appears that only reproductive aged males follow the personal space "rule," with examples of the elderly and prepubescent ignoring the social "rules" of distance and silence in the men's room. In addition, fathers seem to protect their sons from other males, by standing in adjacent to their progeny.
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