Games and books
Video games, all day. But we still have a library.
RTF$
“Tucked into the second page of the syllabus was information about a locker number and its combination. Inside was a $50 bill, which went unclaimed.”
Euphemism in higher ed
“Recruitment parties for selective living groups.”
FML in colledge
A student at my university attended a party in violation of COVID-19 protocols, an unmasked off-campus party to mark “Unofficial” — that is, Unofficial Saint Patrick’s Day. After testing positive for COVID-19, he posted a photograph of his test result to Snapchat with the caption “FML.” What a perfect me-centric way of seeing the situation.
Up the road a ways
The New York Times reports on life at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: “What the scientists had not taken into account was that some students would continue partying after they received a positive test result.”
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Colledge signage, with one less sign.
Colledge signage
A sign outside a bar, right across the street from a campus in Anytown, USA.
#stupid
“Checking on the fortunes of university hashtags always fills me with dismay.”
The Atlantic on social fraternities
From The Atlantic: “Clearly, the contemporary fraternity world is beset by a series of deep problems, which its leadership is scrambling to address, often with mixed results.”
Life in colledge
Drunken stupors and bottle rockets don’t mix.
Critical-thinking skills at Penn State
“Of course we’re going to riot,” he said. “What do they expect when they tell us at 10 o’clock that they fired our football coach?”
The rules of the game
"U HONK WE DRINK." Depressing.
Life in colledge
Colledge: “the vast simulacrum of education that amounts to little more than buying a degree on the installment plan.” My coinage.
T for texting, T for Tennessee
"Harmless fun" at the University of Tennessee
Overheard
Life in "colledge"
Overheard
"Open bar!"
Life in colledge
$160,000 . . . so as to end up flaccid, immobile, alone on the carpet of a dorm room, shirtless, wheezing, intellectually menopausal, cuttin...
Homeric blindness in "colledge"
The difference between college and colledge