I am largely depicted nowadays as a creature the wrong gender, color, species, and age as myself. It almost certainly has mind-altering effects on me!
Plus, it's super-cute, and it serves as a reminder me of the moment where I decided to be creative for creativity sakes, as opposed to being so because I had to.
Oh, there will be spokes shooting out of it. That wheel ain't gonna roll properly.
I had that same problem in university too, along with a huge case of 'Whee I'm free I dont' give a damn about anything else! Classes? Phsstt."