Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for March 25, 2024

Tiffany is back!! Both her and Bets are tired. I wonder where this arc will lead?

It would be nice if we actually saw them go to their math class.. met their teacher, maybe introduce a new student or 2?

Aww, I don’t want to go back to the Moony Roomies again.

Tiff and Bets have a week of college, and maybe Les and Gunther, maybe a new hunk for the girls to fawn all over.

6 hours. My wife works 10-12 as a tax accountant 7 days a week from end of January till mid April.

Best gear up Tiffy.

I wonder if Gunter is tiring her out along with th Byzantine reading. Its multi tasking

Whoop it up while enjoying the exploits of Boris the Bulgar Slayer?

I knew some who partied quite a bit. Most of them did not last very long.

I haven’t seen Tiffany having a wild happy time recently – if ever.

I am surprised that they are taking the same level math.

Not all colleges have the whoop-it-up reputation. U of Chicago students proudly proclaim that their university is “where fun goes to die.” One well-attended student-organized event a few years ago involved a contest between two students to see which one could correctly recite the most decimal places of pi. Audience members cheered for their chosen favorites as the event kept on going and going and going. . . .

Tiffany is being sarcastic.

At my school, there were dorms for whoopers, and dorms for students with engineering classes at 8 AM.

I missed an English final because I got up, got dressed and fell asleep sitting on the side of bed, putting my shoes on. Stayed up til 3 AM studying.

I never had an 8 o’clock class. Earliest was 9 and that was for “Variations in Human Sexuality” No problem getting to that class!

Finally. A comic strip about real life.

Admittedly, my university years were probably the most sleep-deprived time of my life.

Partying? I got up at 0500 three days a week and left in the carpool 30 minutes later for clinicals. Partying was physically impossible.

I even made the yearbook after senior year. There was a pic of me in a nightshirt just half in the door (covered with comics, so a notable door), saying, “Shh! I’m trying to sleep!” Having my own room helped. Of course, when I was there, I was in what used to be nun’s cells when it was School Sisters Of Notre Dame. It was known as a study dorm. Well, that and the non-traditional students’ choice.

Been there done that and I survived only to pay back my student loans forever.

It’s been a loooong time since I was in college, but I did very little whooping. I worked 6 days a week and studied the rest of my free time. I’m wondering if I should be surprised that I STILL dream about being in school, needing just one more class to get my degree, but forgetting to study for the final exam??

I scheduled my classes after 11am.

Aaah—the peace and serenity of the Byzantine era, ruled by laid-back Justinian and no-BS Theodora!

Pity it was overthrown in 15-something.

Don’t stop disrobing with just the jacket, Tiff. You can take the whole arc getting ready and taking a long, hot, relaxing shower.

Tell us what you know about Nikephorus II, the “White Death of the Saracens”. Or the Sack of Thessalonika. Cough it up, Bets.

Why is Tiffany hanging up her coat on a hook om the wall of what appears to be the common room (the one with the couch) instead of in the closet in her own room?

I hope it’s about whoopin’ and not poopin’

About time they went back to the fact that much of the cast is going to college. We haven’t seen ANY of what Luann is doing there. She’s still a student, right? Is she still meandering around trying to find a major?

Tiffany you’re the one who signed up for class at 8 am

So bets, how often do you think about the roman empire?

I wonder what Knute has been up to?

I didn’t have the means to afford regular college. The best I could afford was community college and even then, I’m still paying off that loan.

I may not have been a good college student. I never cared for the bar scene and aside from a few parties, never really got into the heavy drinking / drugging we keep hearing about.

I only took one 8am class. First year, first semester. Astronomy. This was a subject I actually thought was interesting. Yikes! Collij R hard!

9 chapters on the Byzantine era? I once read an entire book about the rise and fall of Constantinople. It was utterly…Byzantine, yukyukyuk…

I get lectures to watch while I exercise and the ones about the Byzantines was more of a course on Religion than the Byzantines. Profs tend to go off on tangents.

The rest of Bets’ last word – ie.

Nice to see Bets intent on her classes after her slump following giving up social media (not to mention being on the road).

Ha! My freshman calculus class DID start at 8 am! It can be done!

Then, why Tiff did you schedule yourself an 8AM math class? I guess you were asleep at the time of scheduling.

They study? They actually study? I thought they spent all of their time talking and creating drama LOL! Actually, it’s nice to see these characters behaving responsibly. I sure do hope Bets got smart and gave Gunther the heave-ho. It would be nice if all of the college girls in this comic met new boys.

Glad to be AWay from Brad and Toni!

Oh god, Bets is back…ugh!

Ooo! SIX hours! The poor widdle baby! She needs some time off.

I had a cultural anthropology class at 7:30. …talk about a challenge to stay awake.

Stereotype versus reality. I wonder which wins. (and, who has the caffeine concession at the college.)

I think anyone would be well rested after 8 hours of sleep. I can’t see what time it is on the clock tower, but they must have enough time for at least 7 hours of sleep. The Fuse probably closes by 11 pm so it can’t be much after midnight.

Who knew Kate Kablooie was 24/7

You only get to enjoy life if you’re rich. Otherwise, get to work!

Nine chapters on the Byzantine Era wipes you out, Bets? Whatever you do, don’t pick up Moby Dick!

Right now, I’m to sleep to care…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

I’m not sure what Tiffany is talking about here, considering she spent the entirety of her Epic Pool Party™ creepily ogling a guy through a window while hiding in her bedroom.

Sounds familiar. Six hours, Tiff? Try being on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Party? No money, no time. My college experience must have been vastly different.

Good to see Tiffany and Bets pressured by work and study. I would love to see Tiffany studying with Gunther again. But since she has the same major as Bets, she seems to be studying only with her. I fear that now Stef will arrive without the slightest worry about work or study, greatly irritating them. But I would preferseeing Tiffany and Bets try to relax by having tea with Dez and doing yoga together.

Only Legacy babies, Trust fund babies and kids who already had a seat on the board of daddy’s company could actually “whoop it up” in college. The rest had to actually study.

I had a statistics class at 7:30 three times a week and lived across town. Guess who flunked statistics? OK I dropped it.

I worked nights, so I brought a tape recorder to my 8 AM classes while I slept. It helped

The Byzantine era not only doesn’t interest me, I don’t have the slightest idea what it is. Tiff wants to know if they wore Halston or Adrian back then

Ah! She’s starting to grow up already.

Tiffany would perhaps benefit from working fewer hours at The Fuse, perhaps. I think the job is mostly about her own PERCEIVED independence more than her actual need for cash.

I wonder what sort of (likely) business math Tiffany is learning (presumption she is still some sort of Business Major).

If Bets had to read NINE chapters of Byzantine Era history…. I suspect she has been ignoring a fair amount of study for the class earlier in the semester. That is typically much to large an amount to cover in a typical day or even week of a history class. She must be cramming after perhaps sloughing off for a while.

The like from the Kenny Rodger’s song fits here… “You gotta know when to hold ‘em and when to fold ‘em.”

College to a significant extent is learning about priorities….. when you need to focus, study, and learn, and when you can relax and have fun. Both CAN and should occur…. but at the appropriate times.

I’ve taught a helluva lot of 8:00am classes and a few 7:00am classes and even some that ran till 10:30pm. They are not fun nor enjoyable…. unless you choose to adapt your routines to facilitate them. But, if you do, they can be good.

Now that I am well up the seniority queue, though, I admit I like having my schedule all midday. Gives me more flexibility to “party”. Haha! Just kidding….. kinda. ;)

I did. A math class I had in college was 4 credits, so met for almost 4 hours / week. We met 3 days a week, but in order to fit the hourly M W F schedule, we started at 7:45 a.m.

Tiff isn’t completely wrong.

If college is the happiest, wildest times of your life, you’re living life wrong. I’ve had way more fun after college. Being in the Navy helped…especially during that first deployment.

I found my 7:30 Organic Chemistry classes (then so as not to conflict with classes in the dozen or so majors that required it) so awakening I chose a German section at that time during a later semester.

But Bets, you have to make up for all that road tripping you did, remember, Greg?

Sounds like my college days. We often lacked time to sleep, eat, or get basic necessities like groceries. The idea of partying was completely out of the question most of the time.

I had crew practice at 5 am so morning classes were fine. It was late afternoon or evening classes that were tough for me. And those days when we had both morning & afternoon practice … mega tired puppy. Crew is a year round sport so no off seasons. Very few whoop it up parties for student athletes.

Too pooped to pop.

I remember those days of college past. Long nights of study, working thru all my summers to pay for tuition. Tuff exams to squeak by. No time for anything else. I was tied down to working a part-time job and going to school part time all year around to barely make it out in 4 years… but debt free :) No lingering student loan. But yeah I was burned out and needed one year to recover then off to the real world….

Ironic, isn’t it, Tiff, how work and studying collide to destroy the myth of partying nonstop?

I tested out of the only math class I was required to take in college. Got a B on the test out exam. Instructor tried to convince me that if I took the whole course I’d easily get an A. I decided I’d rather get an extra hour of sleep, and save $80 on the textbook.

At least they are serious students. Seriously tired.

I work 12-15 hours & get around 6 hours of sleep