Thursday, September 28, 2006

You know you go to Bard if...

Legenda: aceasta e o lista facuta de dragii mei colegi de la Bard. Am marcat cu rosu chestiile pe care le-am observat si eu in mod direct si/sau cred ca sunt total adevarate. Have fun!

-you hear people on the shuttle talking about whether the moon actually exists
-you begin to wonder whether it actually does exist
- you know the numbers of Broadway Pizza and Cappucino's by heart
- almost everything shuts down by nine pm
- everything is too far anyway
- if the shuttle drivers are ever on time, or even ahead of schedule, they do not wait
- when you say that you are going to the bars, people know you really mean you are going to the only bar around the area, which is Black Swan
- you have considered becoming vegetarian at one point in your time here
- you are vegetarian
- you are vegan
- as a freshman, you complained of how isolated the campus is
- as a senior, you are still complaining of how isolated the campus is
- you chose the college based on how isolated it is
- you love Blithewood
- the waterfalls are incredible
- the weather is crazy warm one day, and really cold the next
- when someone finds out you go to bard, they immediately ask, "what's that?"
- when someone finds out you go to bard, they immediately ask, "hey, isn't that the school where all the potheads go?"
- other people believe you are a pothead because you go to bard
- you see students smoke the herb in front of the library, the campus center, in their dorm rooms, and several other public places
- you identify really strongly with these people
- students reminisce about Drag Race as though it's the best thing that ever happened to them
- students reminisce about Drag Race even if they were too hammered to make it to drag race
- the old gym is nostalgically recalled as being the center of all social activities
- you remember the old gym as a place of puke, smoke, and smelly bodies
- it seems no one takes a shower on campus
- you don't take showers regularly, and if you do, you feel you are part of a minority
- you know the numbers of the taxi companies around the area by heart
- as a first year student, it seems the upper classmen really don't like you
- as a second year student, you feel you know everything there is to know about bard
- on your third year, you wonder where everyone is because it seems everyone is studying abroad somewhere
- in your final year, you feel like you know very few people, and can't wait to get out of bard
- every fashion sense makes sense
- all the other bard kids' fashion sentiments don't make sense except your own
- you know your professors by their first names
- you have had dinner with your professors at some point
- your professors are really helpful
- you know that when they said bard reportedly has a 11: 1 student teacher ratio, they were lying
- you come in as a computer science major and end up concentrating on theater
- or vice versa
- you believe starbucks is the epitome of all corporate evil, along with macdonald's, KFC, etc, and you don't eat in any of those place
- the view of the Catskill mountains are fabulous
- the river is breathtaking
- there are more bees on campus than people when the weather gets warm
- everyone seems to want to save the world
- the study abroad programs are great
- you make good friends really easily
-everyone appears to be lobbying for world peace, the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq, the conservation of trees, or other such causes.
- these same people own all the SUVs on campus.
- 99.99% of the school appears to be democrats.
-Donna Butt is the prettiest girl you've seen in months
-you get seriously fucked by the financial aid office on a regular basis
-you have felt that your professor needs to straighten up and fly right
-you feel like you are drowning in a sea of pretentious bourgeois white people
-the Botstein-autocracy pisses you off
-you've discussed Bakunin while playing Edward-40-Hands
-you've marveled at the immense power yielded by the head of the planning committee at Budget Forum
-you enjoy confrontations with Alex Weinstein
-Viki Papadimitriou has been extremely sweet to you one day and then brutally cold the next
-you're a straight girl who can't get a date because every guy is either gay, in a relationship, or a sleeze bag who is probably sporting an STD...
-you think your Cliff story is more impressive than mine
-you think the PAC is a waste of foil
- you're an anarchist in theory but a bourgeois socialist in practice
- your walk to class is what your non-bard friends would call a hike
-you're either staunchly against or for the color pink
- tofu, yogurt, granola, and fruit salad aren't a health fad; they're a way of life

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