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Class of ’17, enjoy your lazy days
Dear Admitted Students,
We’re so excited for you! We know you can’t wait to be here, and we can’t wait to induct you into our secret society welcome you. It may seem like college is too far away. In the meantime here are some tips to feel like a Columbia student regardless of where you will go to school.
1. Stop eating food your parents give you. Only eat cheese samples, pizza, and sandwiches. Then be confused when you run out of money.
2. Bitch about something called UWriting and Frontiers. A lot.
3. Find a middle school cafeteria’s max occupancy level, put twice that many kids in there, and call it “Ferris.”
4. Complain about how many classes you have that day and go to 70 percent of them. Just kidding. Go to 40 percent of them.
5. Say “heteronormative,” “phallic,” and “social construct” when you don’t need to.
6. Tell people you go to Williamsburg often.
7. Work out twice per semester. When you do, text everyone you know and say “Sorry I missed you, I was working out.”
8. Whine quietly when you have to walk to somewhere 100 yards away (Butler) and whine really loudly to people you don’t know when you have to walk somewhere 400+ yards away (“Why did they have to build Pupin there? Really?”).
9. Tell everyone you live in “Manhattan.” Not New York. “Manhattan“–specifically, the UWS. That means Upper West Side, duh.
10. Make NYU jokes and then get dodgy when people ask you about the last time you went south of 92nd street.
11. Mention in casual conversation that the chandelier on the Vampire Weekend debut album is from St. A’s. Like that society at your school. Basically your school is just really important in all facets of life.
12. Do the same thing for Obama and Alexander Hamilton. Also for Kerouac and Ginsberg, except do it in a coffee shop in Williamsburg.
13. Have dinner at seven and then buy yourself chicken wings and Jamba Juice at ten-thirty.
14. Stay at your public library for 52 hours straight. Leave notes to make sure nobody takes your spot. Get lucky. Don’t get lucky.
15. Complain that your school has no sense of community or tradition.
Enjoy the rest of your year. Succumb to senioritis. YOLO.
Love,
Bwog
LOOSE SEAL!!! via Shutterstock.
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@SEAS 2015 @oh?
Your columbia education has made you too PC. just because i’m saying something that’s true but a little racist, your feathers get all ruffled.
@oh? @SEAS 2015: ew you could just not
@SEAS 2015 you’re probably from the same part of town as the staff or can speak their kind of slang or something because unless you can roll up with some sort of swagger and say “yo” a lot i don’t think you’ll get any respect from staff.
@anonymous south of 92nd is really pushing it. more like south of 110th, north of 120th, east of amsterdam, and west of riverside drive. my life is confined to that box.
@hey what about absolute bagels
@Anonymous I’m not the only one?!
What is “Lincoln Center”?
@alum it’s sad to think that probably a good chunk of the incoming class won’t get the loose seal reference
@CC'15 I love Columbia. Best decision I ever made was to go to this amazing school.
Congratulations! Get ready for a great adventure.
@CC'14 Hate on Barnard if you’re a Columbia girl. Well, it was kind of a rule of thumb until that stupid Obama thing. Then everyone got all sensitive. But it’s okay to hate them in a non-public forum.
Call GS kids “grandpa” but respect them for the amount of work and real life they’ve been through.
Get used to dealing with people with completely shitty attitudes. You want to see a registrar? Get ready to deal with a bitch. You want to get money back because your laundry machine didn’t work? Get ready to deal with a bitch. You want to get into your dorm (that’s not Carmen. Sir Michael’s the bomb)? Get ready to deal with a jerk.
HOWEVER
Don’t ever ever ever let anyone tell you that you shouldn’t try your very hardest to enjoy being here. I know there’s a lot out there about how Obama hated it here, how someone committed suicide, how some sophomore dropped out and started a blog… But if you really just sit down a realize “Wow, I’m in the greatest city in the country, studying at one of the finest institutions in the world. The name Columbia will open a thousand doors for me, and my safety net, by graduating from here, will be much stronger than those who went to places other than me.” Yeah, sometimes it sucks here (especially freshman year), but there’s so many things that Columbia has to offer that even if you have a rough time, you should take advantage of them.
Oh and don’t forget to ask upperclassmen for help. We really want to help you. Just reach out. If you’re lost, ask someone. Really, don’t be shy or ashamed. College was a frightening new experience for all of us. We’ve been there.
@CC '13 if you think everyone else is a bitch/jerk, chances are you’re the problem. stop projecting.
@other CC'13 yo, seriously though? i can’t believe the bitches/jerks you mention are all administrative staff, hospitality, and public safety. for 3.5 years those have basically been my favorite people on campus. most of the bitches/jerks i know are students…mostly greek life kids…oh and premeds. fuck premeds…
@Pre-med '13 I agree about pre-meds. It’s part of the reason I’m considering not applying to medical school.
@Quitter's attitude I’d like to remind you that if that’s what you decide, its no one’s fault but you own.
@Pre-med '13 Duly noted. No excuses, just considerations.
@Pre-med Student Ah, yes, let’s insult and make generalizations about all pre-med students when many, if not most, of them have given up all physical, mental, and social stability for the next eight or so years just to care for victims of disease. Yes, some of us are huge jerks. However, many of us aren’t jerks in the slightest.
@Hey, It’s spelled “Carman.”
@Anonymous Oh yea. Save yourself a lot of trouble. Don’t go to Columbia. I had an awful time and dropped out.
@CC '13 way to go, bwog. lower their expectations, spare them the heartache.
@uplifting 15 :)
@Anonymous and if you get a class in SIPA, wallow in your misery.
@Anonymous I love Columbia!!!
@CC 12' It’s terrible either way, brace yourselves
@CC 12' It’s Frontiers…enough with this Frosci business
@jersey kid ” FOND MEMORIES OF AFTERPROM WEEKEND DOWN THE SHORE…AMIRITE JERSEY KIDS?”
yes, you are right
@anon Barnard, take note.
@barnard student shan’t
@I award you no points and may god have mercy on your soul, Bwog. Do the exact opposite of what Bwog says at all times, children.
@100angrygorillas What you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it.
@CC'13 what does this even mean?