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If you find yourself living on a college campus, you are highly advised to play Human Versus Zombies. The basic gist of the game is that everyone playing, save one zombified individual, starts out as a human. Play takes place over the entirety of a campus, save classrooms and dining halls, and a game lasts for some predetermined amount of time, usually a few weeks. The first zombie player attempts to tag human players as those students walk to and from class. Whenever the original zombie catches someone, that someone also becomes a zombie, and tries to infect more humans in turn. A zombie must catch and 'feed' on a human every so often, or they starve. The game ends when time expires, all humans are zombies, or all zombies starve. Most variations of the game also give humans the ability to temporarily disable zombies by shooting them with foam darts or the like, thus inspiring countless nerdy spine shivers of joy.

Why play? The answer is simple and compelling. To put to rest boredom.

Life contains myriad boring moments. Yes, a ten to fifteen minute walk from one's room to one's place of education can sometimes be uplifting and scintillating, but by virtue of happening every day, these walks have a definite tendency to grow hackneyed.

Picture two scenarios - the first - that you grumble out of bed, dress yourself, and take a slow boring walk to morning class - the second that you grumble out of bed, and stalk cautiously across a minefield of potential shame, clinging desperately to the scrap of victory that is your human status. The second scenario makes tasks as plain as crossing an open field between buildings into an exhilarating challenge.

If your campus puts on such a game, join it. It's not like you were going to be doing anything better with your 10 minute walks.

P.S. The new sleeping pattern has proved itself to be excellent. On Tuesday nights I ignore it however, as my earlier class comes at 1:00 on Wednesday.