2008 Woodie Awards
Is Jack Black in my econ class?
By: Tannen Gliatta
Issue date: 9/4/08 Section: Forum
Did you know Jack Black, Lauren Conrad and Usher all attend the University? It's true, I saw each of them as I was making my way to Olscamp. Well, sort of.
See, I have this bad habit of drifting off into my own world when I get bored, be it while I am walking to class, talking on my phone or when I should be listening to a supposedly funny story a friend is telling me. But most of all, my mind wonders sitting in class. We have all been there - even the freshmen who have only been here for two weeks. A professor stands in front of the room lecturing for 50 minutes, 75 minutes or heaven help us three hours on a subject we really couldn't care less about. So as students we find ways to combat the boredom. We doodle, make out the grocery list or text message. But one of my favorite pastimes is to look around at other people, not in a stalker-like way, but just to see what other people are doing. And after nearly four years I have realized the University has a lot of celebrity look-alikes.
Sure there aren't many that could make a career out of it in Las Vegas but they are close enough to make me do a double take as they pass by. But let's be clear, I am not talking about people who dress like a celebrity. Not everyone who wears a wide belt and head band looks like Lauren Conrad. And just because you wear skinny jeans does not mean I will mistake you for Kate Moss. In fact, in those instances the opposite happens. But some students on campus authentically look like a celebrity, some have a mere resemblance but others are a particular celebrity's doppelganger.
My awareness of celebrities is vast so I can assign similarities between students and the most obscure famous person. For example last year in my marketing class there was a Jay Mohr double. You know the guy who was in "Picture Perfect" with Jennifer Aniston and hosted "Last Comic Standing" for a few years. A couple of rows behind him sat Mary Lynn Rajskub, the actress who plays Jack Bauer's sidekick on "24."
See, I have this bad habit of drifting off into my own world when I get bored, be it while I am walking to class, talking on my phone or when I should be listening to a supposedly funny story a friend is telling me. But most of all, my mind wonders sitting in class. We have all been there - even the freshmen who have only been here for two weeks. A professor stands in front of the room lecturing for 50 minutes, 75 minutes or heaven help us three hours on a subject we really couldn't care less about. So as students we find ways to combat the boredom. We doodle, make out the grocery list or text message. But one of my favorite pastimes is to look around at other people, not in a stalker-like way, but just to see what other people are doing. And after nearly four years I have realized the University has a lot of celebrity look-alikes.
Sure there aren't many that could make a career out of it in Las Vegas but they are close enough to make me do a double take as they pass by. But let's be clear, I am not talking about people who dress like a celebrity. Not everyone who wears a wide belt and head band looks like Lauren Conrad. And just because you wear skinny jeans does not mean I will mistake you for Kate Moss. In fact, in those instances the opposite happens. But some students on campus authentically look like a celebrity, some have a mere resemblance but others are a particular celebrity's doppelganger.
My awareness of celebrities is vast so I can assign similarities between students and the most obscure famous person. For example last year in my marketing class there was a Jay Mohr double. You know the guy who was in "Picture Perfect" with Jennifer Aniston and hosted "Last Comic Standing" for a few years. A couple of rows behind him sat Mary Lynn Rajskub, the actress who plays Jack Bauer's sidekick on "24."
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