I go to an art school - here are some things I've experienced:
We have memes that are schoolwide. My freshman year, someone went around and hung up print outs of Mr. Bean in the most obscure places - off light fixtures, high up on walls. Last year, one of my friends started drawing sexy Baymax everywhere - imagine Baymax but with the fish-netted sexy legs, lifting one leg into the air.
One kid brought a cot to school.
The Halloween before this past one, one of my classmates came in wearing her full fursuit and grabbed my water bottle and stuffed in her snout (the mouth of the suit was open). (Same girl brought it to our discussion on Furries in my sociology class last week).
In the Illustration labs, there are these huge tables that take up most of the room - well, I walked in one morning, one of my classmates was asleep, on the table, cuddling a giant teddy bear.*
A couple kids did this dance down the hall earlier this semester.
I'll add more if I think of them.
*Oh, right, I forgot to mention our school is open literally 24 hours, 7 days a week, so that we can use the studio space.
I go to an art school - here are some things I've experienced:
We have memes that are schoolwide. My freshman year, someone went around and hung up print outs of Mr. Bean in the most obscure places - off light fixtures, high up on walls. Last year, one of my friends started drawing sexy Baymax everywhere - imagine Baymax but with the fish-netted sexy legs, lifting one leg into the air.
One kid brought a cot to school.
The Halloween before this past one, one of my classmates came in wearing her full fursuit and grabbed my water bottle and stuffed in her snout (the mouth of the suit was open). (Same girl brought it to our discussion on Furries in my sociology class last week).
In the Illustration labs, there are these huge tables that take up most of the room - well, I walked in one morning, one of my classmates was asleep, on the table, cuddling a giant teddy bear.*
A couple kids did this dance down the hall earlier this semester.
I'll add more if I think of them.
*Oh, right, I forgot to mention our school is open literally 24 hours, 7 days a week, so that we can use the studio space.
I go to a university that focuses on Sciences and Technology and Language. I'm an engineering student so I go to the engineering building and it's a common sight to see senior engineering students sleeping in the hallways. The guards were called one time because the sleeping seniors were blocking the stairs.
I go to a university that focuses on Sciences and Technology and Language. I'm an engineering student so I go to the engineering building and it's a common sight to see senior engineering students sleeping in the hallways. The guards were called one time because the sleeping seniors were blocking the stairs.
I go to a University with a huge fountain that they let students into (easier than trying to keep us out) and yearly this thing is filled with bottles of bubble bath. It turns an entire side of campus into a bubble bath and it's great.
I go to a University with a huge fountain that they let students into (easier than trying to keep us out) and yearly this thing is filled with bottles of bubble bath. It turns an entire side of campus into a bubble bath and it's great.
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A couple kids did this dance down the hall earlier this semester.
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oh mah gosh YES XD
A couple kids did this dance down the hall earlier this semester.
oh mah gosh YES XD
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I go to a pretty large univeristy (there's like 37,000 students I think?) so crazy things are ALWAYS happening. Here's just a few that I can remember off the top of my head:
- Did anyone see that barbie jeep girl that went viral last year? She goes to my school. She got her license suspended after driving drunk, and so her dad took her jeep away. She got mad, and went out and bought a little pink barbie jeep, and rode it around campus.
- We have a guy here we call the 'Bubble Believer'. He is an AMAZING person. He goes and stands at the front of the library and blows bubbles and yells at us, but he yells nice things like 'YOU'RE GONNA DO GREAT THIS SEMESTER', and 'GO ACE THAT FINAL'. He's great, and he looks like Jesus.
- There's the ripstick guy. You know those ripstick board things that were cool for like a month? He has one that he rides around campus, but he's absolutely hardcore about it. He zooms around all over the place and honestly I don't know how he hasn't hit anyone yet.
- Old Main, the oldest building on our campus, is rumored to be haunted. During orientation, the Leaders host ghost tours there so of course I went. When we got there, the Leader stood in the stairway on the first floor while we gathered around him, and he started telling us the story behind the ghost there. In the 1940s during the war, this student at my school had a boyfriend who was called off to war. He was killed, and in despair she jumped off the third story balcony at Old Main and killed herself. She supposedly haunts the building. In the middle of telling the story, we heard a huge crash upstairs (it was also 12am) and we all BOLTED. I lost my shoe and someone tried to push me over to get out, so I bit them. It all happened so fast, I don't really remember much anymore. Of course, it was all staged and we realized it after we had all rushed out of the building. (And yes I went back and got my shoe).
- Last year, it flooded REALLY bad here on Halloween. A number of people lost their homes, and four actually lost their lives. There was a tornado, and I was with my boyfriend. I grew up in Tennessee, so tornadoes are something I take VERY seriously. My boyfriend thought it was funny and fricken WENT OUTSIDE to see if he could see anything. Thankfully it didn't hit us, and later that day we went to try to get to my campus so I could grab some of my possessions. I have never seen so much floodwater in my life. It was devastating. We couldn't drive, we had to park about a mile from my dorm and walk because the roads were so flooded, people were travelling by walking on the train tracks. It became real when I walked by a semi-truck that was partially underwater.
- During finals, it is completely normal to see people camping at the library. When I say camping, I mean CAMPING; they bring tents and spend the week in the library to study. They sleep there. I'm an art major, so I'm blessed that my finals are difficult in a different aspect. xD
- There's this one lady who likes to sit around in the free-speech area of our campus and yell at all of us for our religious choices. She doesn't even go here, she's in her sixties or seventies and campus police have had to escort her off campus a number of times.
I go to a pretty large univeristy (there's like 37,000 students I think?) so crazy things are ALWAYS happening. Here's just a few that I can remember off the top of my head:
- Did anyone see that barbie jeep girl that went viral last year? She goes to my school. She got her license suspended after driving drunk, and so her dad took her jeep away. She got mad, and went out and bought a little pink barbie jeep, and rode it around campus.
- We have a guy here we call the 'Bubble Believer'. He is an AMAZING person. He goes and stands at the front of the library and blows bubbles and yells at us, but he yells nice things like 'YOU'RE GONNA DO GREAT THIS SEMESTER', and 'GO ACE THAT FINAL'. He's great, and he looks like Jesus.
- There's the ripstick guy. You know those ripstick board things that were cool for like a month? He has one that he rides around campus, but he's absolutely hardcore about it. He zooms around all over the place and honestly I don't know how he hasn't hit anyone yet.
- Old Main, the oldest building on our campus, is rumored to be haunted. During orientation, the Leaders host ghost tours there so of course I went. When we got there, the Leader stood in the stairway on the first floor while we gathered around him, and he started telling us the story behind the ghost there. In the 1940s during the war, this student at my school had a boyfriend who was called off to war. He was killed, and in despair she jumped off the third story balcony at Old Main and killed herself. She supposedly haunts the building. In the middle of telling the story, we heard a huge crash upstairs (it was also 12am) and we all BOLTED. I lost my shoe and someone tried to push me over to get out, so I bit them. It all happened so fast, I don't really remember much anymore. Of course, it was all staged and we realized it after we had all rushed out of the building. (And yes I went back and got my shoe).
- Last year, it flooded REALLY bad here on Halloween. A number of people lost their homes, and four actually lost their lives. There was a tornado, and I was with my boyfriend. I grew up in Tennessee, so tornadoes are something I take VERY seriously. My boyfriend thought it was funny and fricken WENT OUTSIDE to see if he could see anything. Thankfully it didn't hit us, and later that day we went to try to get to my campus so I could grab some of my possessions. I have never seen so much floodwater in my life. It was devastating. We couldn't drive, we had to park about a mile from my dorm and walk because the roads were so flooded, people were travelling by walking on the train tracks. It became real when I walked by a semi-truck that was partially underwater.
- During finals, it is completely normal to see people camping at the library. When I say camping, I mean CAMPING; they bring tents and spend the week in the library to study. They sleep there. I'm an art major, so I'm blessed that my finals are difficult in a different aspect. xD
- There's this one lady who likes to sit around in the free-speech area of our campus and yell at all of us for our religious choices. She doesn't even go here, she's in her sixties or seventies and campus police have had to escort her off campus a number of times.
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Somebody launched a bottle rocked into the trash can outside my dorm and the whole can started on fire so being the desk worked I called 911 but then this kid who had been in the army in North Korea busted in and grabbed the fire extinguisher and put it out, but still TWO firetrucks, an ambulance and a police car showed up and stood around for half an our while a firefighter in full gear hit the trashcan with an axe and made it fall apart, and then just left it like that.
Somebody launched a bottle rocked into the trash can outside my dorm and the whole can started on fire so being the desk worked I called 911 but then this kid who had been in the army in North Korea busted in and grabbed the fire extinguisher and put it out, but still TWO firetrucks, an ambulance and a police car showed up and stood around for half an our while a firefighter in full gear hit the trashcan with an axe and made it fall apart, and then just left it like that.
We lived in a fairly quiet dorm, but one night decided to roll up the carpets, turn up the music, and start dancing. Someone called campus security who came to bust up our party, but they looked pretty confused that there was absolutely no alcohol there. We turned down the music a bit, but kept on dancing.
I forget how often that building had fire alarms, probably two or three times a month. We had T shirts made at one point. (That one student wore back at our reunion.)
One summer a bunch of us recreated the radio version of Hitchhiker's Guide, complete with music and special effects, and played it over the campus radio to all twenty people who were probably listening. We had a great time.
We lived in a fairly quiet dorm, but one night decided to roll up the carpets, turn up the music, and start dancing. Someone called campus security who came to bust up our party, but they looked pretty confused that there was absolutely no alcohol there. We turned down the music a bit, but kept on dancing.
I forget how often that building had fire alarms, probably two or three times a month. We had T shirts made at one point. (That one student wore back at our reunion.)
One summer a bunch of us recreated the radio version of Hitchhiker's Guide, complete with music and special effects, and played it over the campus radio to all twenty people who were probably listening. We had a great time.
Well, one time, after break had almost ended and most of my next class was in the room early, the speakers crackled and then two junior girls started talking about how they were gonna have a new advisory briefing over the speakers during their break time.
Mind you, seniors' break time ends 10 minutes or so after the juniors start their break time, so when my teacher told us to get out our laptops and start class, they started to speak.
My teacher tried to talk over them, but they were so loud that he just spoke so fast over them and then told us to do our work. Then he just stepped out the door and left us there in silence.
Several minutes after, he popped his head back in and asked if it was over yet.
... He did that about 3 times until that briefing was over.
Another one: We were having a fire drill, and we had been notified beforehand, so when the fire alarm went off, my class just calmly grabbed our things and walked out of the lab and put our stuff in our bags.
Then we grabbed them and walked downstairs with the juniors (yes, walked; the juniors took their sweet time going down the stairs and talking).
We were the only class to bring our bags with us. Adjacent classes were staring.
But then after we got back. I went to my next class with a friend also in the same class, and it turned out that other people weren't done yet (we had assembled in different locations) and we waited there for them.
While we were leaning over the railing to check, though, a teacher spotted us and sent someone up to get us.
We had to explain we were from the other side and no, they had not missed us while they were sweeping the floors.
One more. Back when I was a junior, I had just arrived in class, and I was doing my work before the teacher came in.
Then the fire alarm went out and I stood up abruptly and grabbed my things and then started to wonder why no one else was, either.
Then my friends had a really good laugh at my expense and explained that this had been happening since they got to school.
Made classes really annoying though. -.-
Every time the teacher talked, he or she got cut off by the fire alarm going off. Joy.
(Not weird, but funny all the same. Had a student bring in a flat screen tv once, actually. Didn't see it, but my friend was walking past the study hub and regaled with me the tale.)
Well, one time, after break had almost ended and most of my next class was in the room early, the speakers crackled and then two junior girls started talking about how they were gonna have a new advisory briefing over the speakers during their break time.
Mind you, seniors' break time ends 10 minutes or so after the juniors start their break time, so when my teacher told us to get out our laptops and start class, they started to speak.
My teacher tried to talk over them, but they were so loud that he just spoke so fast over them and then told us to do our work. Then he just stepped out the door and left us there in silence.
Several minutes after, he popped his head back in and asked if it was over yet.
... He did that about 3 times until that briefing was over.
Another one: We were having a fire drill, and we had been notified beforehand, so when the fire alarm went off, my class just calmly grabbed our things and walked out of the lab and put our stuff in our bags.
Then we grabbed them and walked downstairs with the juniors (yes, walked; the juniors took their sweet time going down the stairs and talking).
We were the only class to bring our bags with us. Adjacent classes were staring.
But then after we got back. I went to my next class with a friend also in the same class, and it turned out that other people weren't done yet (we had assembled in different locations) and we waited there for them.
While we were leaning over the railing to check, though, a teacher spotted us and sent someone up to get us.
We had to explain we were from the other side and no, they had not missed us while they were sweeping the floors.
One more. Back when I was a junior, I had just arrived in class, and I was doing my work before the teacher came in.
Then the fire alarm went out and I stood up abruptly and grabbed my things and then started to wonder why no one else was, either.
Then my friends had a really good laugh at my expense and explained that this had been happening since they got to school.
Made classes really annoying though. -.-
Every time the teacher talked, he or she got cut off by the fire alarm going off. Joy.
(Not weird, but funny all the same. Had a student bring in a flat screen tv once, actually. Didn't see it, but my friend was walking past the study hub and regaled with me the tale.)
I went to college in a place famous for its river... and its nutria. Nutria, if you didn't already know, are essentially huge water rats--the kind you punch to death in RPG sewer levels. One day I was walking to my 8AM aerobics class when I saw a squirrel turning repeated back flips in front of a nutria, who was boredly chewing on something. This went on for about 5 minutes. Man, to have a camera at that moment...
Our gym building constantly had a flock of buzzards living on it, so you'd walk up to the gym and thirty scary-looking birds would stare at you as you approached. For a while I thought it was because they were certain we were all going to stagger out from the exertion and die on the grass, but later I realized that they were eating food out of the trash cans. College students are not clean people.
My neighbor in the dorms would have loud sex every night with her boyfriend, and one morning I walked into the bathroom to see them brushing teeth together like it was no big thang. Damn that guy was sleazy. She was pretty proud of him, though. I was like GURL u can do better
My favorite story is when I was taking a shower and I heard my neighbors talking about how college was great "except for all of the classes"
I went to college in a place famous for its river... and its nutria. Nutria, if you didn't already know, are essentially huge water rats--the kind you punch to death in RPG sewer levels. One day I was walking to my 8AM aerobics class when I saw a squirrel turning repeated back flips in front of a nutria, who was boredly chewing on something. This went on for about 5 minutes. Man, to have a camera at that moment...
Our gym building constantly had a flock of buzzards living on it, so you'd walk up to the gym and thirty scary-looking birds would stare at you as you approached. For a while I thought it was because they were certain we were all going to stagger out from the exertion and die on the grass, but later I realized that they were eating food out of the trash cans. College students are not clean people.
My neighbor in the dorms would have loud sex every night with her boyfriend, and one morning I walked into the bathroom to see them brushing teeth together like it was no big thang. Damn that guy was sleazy. She was pretty proud of him, though. I was like GURL u can do better
My favorite story is when I was taking a shower and I heard my neighbors talking about how college was great "except for all of the classes"
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