Students kill time in unique ways

With thousands of people attending Clackamas Community College, not everybody gets the perfect schedule. Often many students attending have big annoying gaps and holes in between class hours. So what are people doing to pass the time before the next class?

No matter what time of day, on the hour, half hour, quarter till, anywhere students can expect to see bodies scattered all over the campus, waiting, sleeping, munching until the clock rolls around to the next course.

Students like Brendan Hesse, with only a short hour to spare between his classes this term, described how he can perfectly well fill up his time grabbing lunch in the cafeteria and hanging out in the always eventful and interesting crowd that lounges in the Community Center cushion maroon chairs. Around big circle tables or small wooden cylinders, the air in the community center always seems to carry an intriguing conversation. Another big time-consumer Hesse partakes in before the shuffle off to class is occasionally dabbling in the Multiverse of sorcery and Planeswalkers, commonly referred to as the game, Magic the Gathering.

In the Niemeyer Center, Jordan Prince passes his time hanging out on the couches with fellow arts and music appreciators. Other times, he takes advantage of Niemeyer’s creative aspects and pays the piano and guitar in the sound rooms.

Barlow Hall, nearly every morning, is filled with students typing away at their laptop computers, progressively working on research papers and homework for the upcoming class. Those who save homework for home and spend their precious minutes checking up on the latest Facebook wall posts and new Youtube subscriptions see using free time for work as poor time management.

“There’s a reason they call it homework,” Michael Tidwell said as he scrolled down the page of his unread e-mail messages, “and I like to spend my time wisely.”

If school isn’t driving her crazy enough, spending time on campus is just not an option for Hannah Nyrop, who always has an escape route through the in and out mass of cars in the parking lot. Nyrop takes pride in generously supporting the prestigious restaurants such as Carl’s Jr. and Taco Bell near Oregon City’s campus.

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