We all have them. Those doodles and phrases that almost seemed related to something said in lecture, things that seemed at the time preferable to writing nothing at all but which later befuddle or even horrify readers. They’re the reason you don’t share your notes with needy friends—sometimes, they even keep you out of your own notebook.

This holiday season, Bwog staffers open their hearts and their notebooks to bring you only the most inexplicable mental mutterings from the depths of marathon lectures.