Freshman's Prank

At PUCMM University, specifically in the architecture carrier, there`s this tradition that the juniors have. It`s called: “Freshman`s prank”. A couple of years ago, I graduated from high school. I was accepted in PUCMM University and I had decided to study architecture. I was excited about it but, little did I know what was planned for me. My first day was a clear and a little hot September Thursday. I remember waking up, after barely slept for the excitement the night before; a little tired but still excited. I prepared myself and went to the University. In general, everything went well.

The next day, I woke up with energy and prepare myself for my classes of the day. Everything went well until my design class started. The first thing I noticed was the group of old students that was in the right side of my classroom talking to each other. Then my design class started. I saw a tall, blonde and young man present himself as our teacher. Next to him was a small, dark hair man saying that he was the older student´s teacher. Our teacher said that we were going to take the class together because there was a problem with their schedule. I was ok with it and thought that the teacher was nice. I couldn’t be more wrong. After 5 minutes he started telling us the rules of the class. Everybody went silent and you could only hear his voice. I was so nervous and my heart was beating so fast I thought that everyone could hear it. I looked around the room and everybody was in shock and a little scared, too. When he finished his rules the other teacher said that we needed to do our first assignment.

They told us to group in pairs and took a piece of plastic or wood or box, whatever was there and run to every trash can of the building and made a collage with trash. “The dirtier the better”, they said. We just had 10 minutes to do it so I told the guy next to me and we ran to the trash can of the floor above us. My heart was beating so fast I thought it was going to jump out of my chest. The adrenaline was at the top and the time was running. We open the trash cans and took used papers; plastic cups with cold coffee inside and pasted them with his gum. It was disgusting and I almost threw up several times, but the time was still running. We finished and we has 1 minute to go back to the classroom. We got in time to see the teacher call for attention. He started pointing at people to stand and explain their collage. I started to panic and almost freak out when a girl finished explaining her collage and the teacher toke it, looked at it and broke it in her face. She almost cries and at that point the class was in shock. After several minutes and a couple of broken works the teacher decides to give us our second assignment.

For our second assignment, all of us needed to enter the girl´s bathroom of the floor and stay there for 10 minutes to “analyze the space” as he called it. The bathroom was small and with 30 people inside was almost claustrophobic. There were people everywhere. It smell bad inside and I couldn’t breathe. The minutes felt like hours there and the air was so hot that I was sweating. It was the worst experience ever. When finally the time past and we went to the classroom again the teacher told us to stand and explain our experience.

People started explaining their experience when the teacher out of nowhere started arguing with a student in front of him using his cell phone. The teacher threw the student´s cell phone to the trash and the student yelled at him and said that he was going to drop the class. We all freak out then. Moments later the director came and asked what was happening and the teacher explain that the student was disrespectful to him. The director laughs and said to the student that he couldn’t react like that. Out of nowhere she present us a small, mid thirties woman and told us she was our real teacher. The older students started to laugh and told us that

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