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6 Lessons 2016 Taught Me As Told By South Park

Screw 2016 I'm going home.

Alie Osorio

Dec 26, 2016

Brandon, Florida

6 Lessons 2016 Taught Me As Told By South Park

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Whether you're a fan of the show or not, I firmly believe you could learn a hell of a lot from watching South Park. It may sound ridiculous, but the show has both entertained with hilarious yet highly offensive obscenity, as well as made me take a deeper look at myself and the world around me. Over the past 19 years, the shows' dark and twisted humor has poked fun at just about every topic while maintaining controversy. The fact is, the purpose of satire has always been to make a statement about real issues using comedy as a way to emphasize human stupidity-- but more importantly it's just to make people laugh about the awful things going on every day. With the end of 2016 finally approaching, I'd like to point out some of the lessons we've learned the hard way this year that we can all laugh at now thanks to South Park and all of its awesomeness.

1. Shit Happens.

I think it's a pretty clear consensus that 2016 pretty much sucked for all of us-- whether it was bad relationships, broken friendships, or just downright shitty people that came into our lives, it all served a purpose. People come and go to teach us what not to do sometimes, and in the end they help us appreciate the good people when they do come around.

2. Anything and everything can and will get made into a meme.

If there was ONE good thing that came from 2016, it was all the dank memes. Thank you, internet- you are a strange and wonderful place.

3. Anything and everything will offend everyone.

2016 was the year everything stopped being funny and started being politically correct. *Cue the mob of angry feminists*

4. Social media is taken way too seriously.

Let's all agree to leave long, dramatic, angry, unnecessary Facebook statuses in 2016, mmkay?

5. Anything is possible.

Donald Trump is our next president, 'nuff said. Dream big everyone.

6. 2017 will be better, because it just has to be.

If I can leave you with one last pearl of wisdom, it's to keep your head up and hope for a brighter future. 2016 was a shit storm but sometimes things have to get bad before they can get much, much worse, until they eventually get better. 2017 we are ready for you, and we're not f*ckin' around.

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6 Lessons 2016 Taught Me As Told By South Park

Screw 2016 I'm going home.

1. Shit Happens.

2. Anything and everything can and will get made into a meme.

3. Anything and everything will offend everyone.

4. Social media is taken way too seriously.

5. Anything is possible.

6. 2017 will be better, because it just has to be.

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No one best represents the struggle like our favorite 90s squad.

1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

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"Nobody living in one of the most influential nations in the world should be worried about making ends meet."

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1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

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5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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