Tuesday, October 13, 2009

How many UWC students does it take to change a light bulb?



Answers:

* At Red Cross it takes five. Four to strap on snowshoes and hike 10 miles
to the nearest store to get the new bulb and one to screw it in.

* At Li Po Chun it takes twenty. One to change the bulb and the other
nineteen IB Physics HL students to find a new way to engineer it so it
never has to be changed again.

**At Atlantic College it takes slightly more than three-hundred. One to
complain that the bulb died and to call a campus meeting about "Dead
Bulbs." The rest to sit around for several hours complaining that the bulb
died and that dead bulbs are a major problem at the College.

* At Pearson College it takes four. One to negotiate between the Quebecois
and Anglophiles over which language to use in obtaining the bulb. One to
call a press conference discussing with which third world country that they
were negotiating for the release of the hostage bulb. Another to declare it
a political refugee and secure safe passage into Canada. And, finally, one
to make the foreign bulb fit properly into a Canadian socket.

* At Southeast Asia it takes only one. In an orderly society, one
individual always will take the responsibility for replacing the
dysfunctional bulb such that all others may equally enjoy the light.

* At Waterford it takes three. One to go buy the bulb. Another to explain
that the bulb was NOT a South African bulb, but a bulb in Southern Africa.
And one to screw in the bulb, counter-clockwise... just like the water down
the drains.

* At Adriatic it takes eight. One to screw it in and seven to throw a party
over it.

* At American West it takes none. They have enough funding to pay someone
to change their light bulbs for them.

* At Simon Bolivar it also takes zero. There is no electricity at Simon
Bolivar, only pigs, cows and corn.

* At Mahindra it takes three...... 1 to go buy the lightbulb and 2 to remove the snake in the room before putting in the lightbulb.

* At Mostar it takes 4, one to go get the lightbuld, one to sweep for mines on the way, one to back up the preliminary minesweeper and pickup eventual limbs and another to screw the light bulb in.


* At Costa Rica it takes the whole campus, someone sends an email exposing everyone who has a broken bulb and runs rumors about one's who don't even have a bulb, then another one would send another email threatening to kill the one who sent the first email...then everyone send emails to everyone else disclaiming the first emails and protesting against them...then ... we have a community meeting for people to swear at and threat the senders of those emails... then we decide to go for a candle march in the middle of the night and realize that we don´t even need the bulbs... they´re too environmentally unfriendly.

4 comments:

  1. every UWC should read this before leaving hehe :D

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  2. There's a UWC missing I believe, so...
    At UWC Maastricht:
    1 to notice the bulb has gone out and write it in the maintenance book, then notice nothing is happening. That 1 then calls a student-led meeting to complain and find solutions to the problem, after 4 hours they go to the school with the solution, fill out 50 forms requesting permission for a new bulb; wait 2 weeks for approval to then be told that the new bulb will not be funded by the school, so the entire community must then be involved in the fundraiser for the bulb.
    2 students then choreograph a flashmob and organise for everyone to parade in the streets. Finally the maintenance guy may take pity on us and come and sort it out.

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  3. Excellent! Is it true about the mines though? Cos if not its unfunny!

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