“Oh I had chem today didn’t I, heck!” said freshman from Chicago, Brad Chad, as he quickly left the interview, sprinting in the direction of Hamilton Hall, leaving his phone behind, open on Netflix to season two, episode 26 of “That ‘70s Show.”
Chad had been talking about how his entire first glorious year of college at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln had boiled down to him watching “That ‘70s Show” in front of different scenic backdrops around campus.
“I spent a good solid three hours just sitting in front of the Union fountain bingeing through season five,” Chad said, “and probably another four hours on the 2nd floor of Love Library North, overlooking the quad and bell tower.”
“Look at all those happy little people,” he went on to say. “How do they live free of Eric Forman’s cold steel grasp?”
According to friends of Brad Chad, he watches Netflix in class, and they estimate that he’s gotten through “That ‘70s Show” at least 27 times so far. Yet he still seems to get good grades, achieving a solid 3.5 GPA last semester.
“I don’t understand it at all,” reported Chad’s Calculus II professor, Dr. Fez. “I’ve tried endlessly to prove he’s cheating, but haven’t had any success. I don’t know how he’s doing so well without any guidance or teaching. One time, I lectured directly at him for 20 minutes and didn’t get a single look or response.”
“The only teaching I need is from the almighty guiding hands of the Formans and the gang,” Chad heartily cried.
It is uncertain if Chad’s unusual student lifestyle can hold, especially after getting a shocking zero percent on the first CHEM 110 exam. “Ha! What schmuck got a zero?” Chad was heard saying in chem lecture mere minutes before he picked up his exam, only temporarily interrupted from his Netflix stupor by the results of the exam being shown on the projector.
Chad is confident in keeping with his ways, though, citing his solution to start watching Breaking Bad.