As students at Georgetown, we know smart. Campus is swarming with budding intellectuals, professors with multiple master’s degrees and over-achieving students.

The creators of Sleepwalking must have been doing just that while they produced this film. The story of a 12-year-old girl dealing with the abandonment of her mother, the film never takes off and, at nearly two hours long, severely drags. Suggestion: Skip Sleepwalking altogether and take a nap.

Being well-liked is a concern for most people, especially during high school. For Charlie Bartlett, it is his only goal. The film Charlie Bartlett tracks a teenage boy as he attempts to gain popularity and helps people contend their personal demons as they experience the awkward time between adolescence and adulthood.

Hollywood loves to send its viewers messages of their liberal tendencies, especially regarding politics and the government. War is, of course, bad. The rest of the world hates us (Americans, that is). And the government is constantly lying and censoring what the media tells us.

People’s inward desires do not always reflect their outward actions. The characters in “Black Comedy” are battling this conflict, but luckily for them, most of the play takes place in complete darkness, allowing them to go after what they really want without needing to hide their true desires.

Remember the days of WB classics like “Popular?” Could you ever imagine watching an episode and discussing its international cultural merits in a class at Georgetown?

The new CW show “Aliens in America” was not only discussed in classes this week, but there was also a screening of two episodes and a panel discussion including the writers, Moses Port and David Guarascio, on campus this past Tuesday evening.

A world away from Washington, D.C., but only four hours ahead of Georgetown, studying and living in Dakar, Senegal has its challenges. But the off-the-beaten-path program also brings incredible rewards.

The everyday challenges that come with living in Africa can seem startling at first, but it’s nothing you can’t get used to.

Dubbed the “Holy City,” Touba is the sacred center of the Mouride Sufi brotherhood. Curious to discover what it is all about, some of us students took the hot, sweaty, four-hour ride into rural Senegal.

My Catholic host family was apprehensive about my going, certain that I would convert to Islam. My dad wouldn’t let his own children go because he said people there try to covert visitors at every opportunity. He even warned me not to eat or drink anything there, because “something” in the food and water makes people want to stay in Touba and become a devoted Muslim.

One assumes getting around Dakar would be easy considering all the options for public transportation. But traveling around the city proves difficult, especially when compared to a trip around the District.

If a taxi is your desired mode of transport, you should have no problem getting one to stop, as there are far more taxis than other cars in Dakar. But that’s just the start of the trip. For starters, in Dakar, the taxi driver doesn’t need to know how to get to where you’re going; rather, you need to know how to get the driver there. Sometimes you can ask if the driver knows where something is, but you run the risk of getting halfway there when it becomes clear that he has no idea where he’s going.

Ah, the honeymoon period. That blissful, intoxicating point in a relationship when everything is going just right: you never fight, you laugh at everything and you can’t get enough of each other.

But of course, it never does last long enough. And for the couple in Candy, the troubles that come after the end of their honeymoon period are harder than what most couples encounter.

Based on the novel Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction by Luke Davies, Candy tells the tumultuous story of Australians Dan (Heath Ledger) and Candy (Abbie Cornish) as they fall deeply in love — and heroin addiction.