Yesterday Not as Cute as Google Calendar Made it Seem

Opening up Google Calendar to see her plans for the week, sophomore genetics major Lisa Zhou reflected on how the small rectangles with a consistent color scheme made yesterday look  much cuter than it actually was.

“If you look at my gCal for yesterday, you’ll see one tea green box and one lilac box followed by 4 hours of blank space before back-to-back lemon yellow boxes,” said Zhou. “It must’ve felt great to end class in the early afternoon and have a long break before officer and general member meetings for my service org, right? Wrong. I actually forgot to do the lab report for my chem lab [lilac] so I skipped my physics lecture [tea green] only to learn I missed a pop quiz. And don’t even get me started on the rest of the day.”

Sources within Zhou’s service org confirmed that, although the events that transpired in the blank space remain unknown, the lemon yellow rectangles dealt her another blow. Zhou arrived late to her officer meeting covered in bike oil, only to learn that she was placed on probation for tardiness. Moments later, she was asked to leave before the general meeting’s ice cream social due to her new probationary status.

Zhou’s roommate, Kira Lopez, painted a picture of how yesterday concluded differently from how the calendar outlined. “Lisa marks everything out on her Google Calendar, including cooking [peach] and sleep [light gray],” Lopez said. “ I knew something was wrong when she got home an hour before she was supposed to use the kitchen. Theoretically, it should have then been even easier for Lisa to get to sleep on time, but she set off the fire alarm making popcorn at like 1:30 am, so clearly nothing panned out.”

Zhou’s calendar inaccuracy was not an isolated incident. According to a recent survey, almost a third of students at Texas A&M University spend more time planning ideal days than they do following through on the scheduled events.

 

— MSC ALITTLE