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==Summary==
The Morgendorffers visit [[Doug
The prep course is held at [[Lawndale High]] and includes several freshman and sophomore students. The instructor coaches them on how to take exams and invites them to consider what they want out of college. Students daydream about their college future life: [[Kevin Thompson|Kevin]] imagines himself as a successful QB; [[Brittany Taylor|Brittany]] imagines receiving her diploma while walking on a model runway; [[Jane Lane|Jane ]]imagines herself a successful artist, having ditched college; Quinn imagines herself being the roommate/object of desire for three good-looking male students; Daria imagines being invited to go to grad school while still a freshman (however, even in her fantasy, the rationale for the invitation disappoints her).
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All students have to visit a college as part of the course, so Jake and Helen enthusiastically decide to take their daughters to their ''alma mater'', [[Middleton College]]. When they visit the campus a few days later, they are greeted by [[Heather]], their tour guide. The four quickly separate as Helen and Jake want to check his old room and Quinn wants to check the fraternities and sororities.
Helen and Jake reminisce in his old room, whose student occupants seem only to hang out, listen to loud music, surf the web and pay no attention whatsoever to the visitors. Suddenly remembering the sexual mores of college students, Helen rushes out in a panic, searching for Quinn, asking students of her daughter's whereabouts and posting notices. Helen's searches are fruitless and she succeeds only in being harassed by male students who are pledging fraternities. Meanwhile, Jake visits the loan office
Daria and Heather end up in Heather's room, where Daria can see college student life firsthand: watching [[Sick, Sad World]] and, according to Heather, working a stupid job and asking the parents for money. When Heather receives her term paper by mail, full of mistakes, Daria turns it into an opportunity to make fast money, as she offers to rewrite or correct papers for the ignorant and/or lazy college students.
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==Trivia==
There's a coloring mistake in the classroom scene which depicts [[Jodie]] with white arms and legs, and in another [[Scarlett (character)|Scarlett's]] jacket becomes beige.
Quinn ended up on a date with the "[[Push Comes to Love]]" instructor, on the premise that there was a make-out scholarship -
MTV's
The famous Middleton College would be revealed in subsequent episodes to be famous for being a
The letter Quinn receives from Manatee College is reproduced in ''[[The Daria Diaries]]''.
The music during Brittany's fantasy scene is one of the few instances where the original tune wasn't replaced by generic music on both the Video and DVD releases, that was because of the announcer singing along to its distinct melody. The song in question was "The Female of the Species" by the British band Space.
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Jane's views on college would resurface again in Season 5 and "[[Is It College Yet?]]", where she'd again not want to go to college, afraid she wouldn't be able to manage it and wouldn't be good enough to get in.
Daria only loses her essay-writing job because Helen found out: when Jake learns about it, his only concern is whether Daria remembered to get paid in cash ("good girl").
==“College Bored” and Fanfic==
[[Alternate universe]] versions of this story include [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=33319 Homeless Daria 3: A College Try Gives Me Blisters] by [[RX-87]] and [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=464468#p464468 Mad Dog's Legacy 3: The Old Middleton Try] by [[Hyrin]].
The events Brittany refers to at the end are depicted in [[Kristen Bealer]]'s "[[College Disorientation]]".
Daria writing papers for the undergrads in this episode has been used in some fanfiction as a possible side occupation for Daria, exploring her mercenary side. Examples include: [[Daria's Season of Good Will]] and [[Out of the Slushpile]], both by [[Nemo Blank]].
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[[Middleton College]] would later be used or referenced in some fanfiction works.
==Transcript==
[[College Bored/transcript|Transcript]] originally from [[Outpost Daria]]
==External Links==
* [https://sites.google.com/site/dariatranscripts/103-college-bored Transcript] at [[Daria Transcripts]]
* [http://dariaphans.blogspot.com/2007/03/it-kind-of-sucked-review-of-college.html “‘It Kind of Sucked’: A Review of ‘College Bored’”] by [[CINCGREEN]] at the [[Daria Fandom Blog]], March 17, 2007
* [https://archiveofourown.org/works/17623430/chapters/41550302 Episode Analysis] by [[WellTemperedClavier]]
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