Death by College Student

So in my real life I work at a non profit that provides financial literacy education to the masses.  Sounds thrilling doesn’t it?  It’s ok, I know it doesn’t.

Today I had to go over to the local state university as a guest speaker for a personal finance class.  The concept of being faced with a roomful of college students in daunting under the best of circumstances.  Being faced with a roomful of college students who are listening to you extol the virtues of budgeting is downright heart stopping.

I prepared handouts, I wrote jokes, I dressed nicely.  Apparently I dressed so nicely that the professor almost didn’t recognize me.  I took a deep breath and dove in.

It was much like being in front of a firing line.  Nobody smiled.  They only laughed at two of my jokes.  Unsurprisingly both involved beer.

I know it probably wasn’t as horrible as I felt it was, but man, 20 something year old kids are brutual.