at my university, the "business" majors (lol) all had to wear a blazer, oxford button down with tie, and khakis on one of the week days for some class or something. i never caught the details, but remembered in some class one of the other students asked one of the business boys why some of them dressed like that and he fessed up. something about being prepared for the "business world". the rest of us just looked at each other like "that sux".

i was a non-traditional, recovered dropout so i was like an old longhair weirdo (29-33) when i was there, but i went all the way in on social capital maxxing. i was no stranger to bureacratic paper shuffles, so i helped found two student organizations, was president of one, treated school like a full time job and did all the optional readings, constantly applied for scholarhips, grants, independent projects etc. won some stacks, took some crazy trips, did all the things. basically, i was an old crank and practically lived on campus like some kind rodney dangerfield situation.

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one of my favorite things about being back in school was that i could dress as comfortable as i wanted for everything, because nobody gave a fuck. that was heaven after having logged too many hours in business casual. but college? shorts and flipflops to oral exam: boom, crushed. but i would see these clowns in their neckties and crack up, because what a miserable way to be on a hot day, speedwalking to your next class or trying to snag a lunch. everybody else is laying in grass, throwing a ball around, and just chilling and you gotta make sure you don't get a mustard stain on your nice clothes. seriously, people have their whole lives to be dressed uncomfortably for some power tripping douche to feel in control, and these dumbasses are doing it in college while being charged $250/credit hour to learn a dozen accounting jargon words and how to calculate a loan amortization schedule in excel.