“Class Snuggie”
brown terrycloth
A Snuggie was designed to give the wearer the ultimate feeling of comfort and security when lounging, watching TV, or relaxing on the couch. My Class Snuggie is representative of my overall feelings towards my graduate schooling as I near the end of my first year.
When the Snuggie is worn by a class the students heads are seen as well as the teacher’s head, while the rest of the body is hidden, secure under the tarp of cozy concealment. At times I feel this is all they, the professors and the school, cares about; our heads. Our heads that can have the learning poured into them, our ears that can listen to endless lectures for hours on end, our eyes which droop after hours of power points, and our voices which have to speak up to be heard. What is hidden, in secure comfort, is what they seem to want little to do with. Feet that have climbed mountains, bodies that have nursed children, hands that have built houses, hearts that have worshipped, all these things seem to hold no bearing on our higher educations. “You’re graduate students now” seems to be a phrase that is thrown around a lot with so many loaded expectations connected to it. But what about what we HAVE been? Why does what we are made of seem to have so little bearing on what we are? The Class Snuggie represents an absence of the acknowledgement of students as a whole learning being.
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