Has anyone realized that Litton-Reeves is a mini high school on the Virginia Tech Campus? I have Global Ethics in that building and as soon as I set my foot upon the sidewalk leading to the door, I feel as if I'm in a completely different world. It wasn't until a couple weeks ago that I had the epiphany. I was briskly walking back to my room [I can't handle being in Litton-Reeves for long] and I was looking around and realized what had been staring me straight in the face for so long - This is Virginia Tech High School!
The cliques are soo apparent there. They have their territory and, heaven forbid, somone would try to take their place on the couches or outside on the walls.
I have it all figured out. I know exactly where each clique sits. I feel like I'm a part of Mean Girls... only this is the much more redneck, much more Ag oriented version. More like Mean Farmers.
Outside, the smoking rednecks all sit on the brick wall. They blatantly gawk as girls as they walk by without any shame. They don't even take time to pick their jaws off the ground before they start talking to their buddies about completely inappropiate things. All the while they puff continuously on cigarettes. I guess word about lung cancer hasn't spread to their neck of the woods yet.
Just inside the doors are the non-smoking renecks. Normally, these boys will be sitting on the couches as hoards of girls surround them. You can tell that these guys think they are hot stuff. All those Ag girls, talking to them, flirting with them - they are untouchable... or at least as far as they're concerned.
Spaced sporadically throughout the other couches are the misfits. An athlete here or there, a sorority girl [what on earth is she doing there??], a "normal" person. They sit in no-man's land - the couches right in front of the doors to the main lecture room in the building. They know their place - and it is no where near the rednecks. The rednecks own Litton-Reeves.
Sometimes as I'm walking to and from philosopy, I imagine in my head that the two groups get into a brawl - smoking rednecks vs. nonsmoking rednecks. I try to picture who would win. The smoking rednecks have no girls in their clique [probably because they picture themselves as God's gift to women...] and the nonsmokers have a plethora of girls on their side. This would obviously help them out a great deal, those Ag girls sure do know how to throw a punch. You have to think, if they can run a farm, they can throw a good punch.
Then I picture the smokers pulling out chains, brass knuckes, guns.... and then I remember that this group has probably never been to the inner city. Their weapons of choice are probably rifles, hot branders ,and their pet bulls.
Next time you're in Litton-Reeves, take a look around at the complex world of the underground high school at Virginia Tech. Let your imagination go wild with all the possibilities of the groups meeting and mingling together. | 
