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A question for graduates first:
1) Do you really miss college or not?
Oh, hell yes. That's why I'm looking into Grad schools now.
Okay, now for everyone!
2) What college do (or did; we'll use present-tense from now on) you attend? Where is it? Is it's focus more art or science or what?
University of MA, Dartmouth. It's in some East Bum-f*ck part of the state, supposedly only a few hours from the Cape. It was really hard to tell what most people went there for, but it seemed to be mostly arts and sciences.
3) What movie college reminds you of the one you attend:
"P.C.U." all the way. UmassD was insular subculture hell.
4) Would you ever join a frat or a sorority or would you take pains to avoid those people at all costs?
Oh, damnit. We had a *special name* for the frat boys at Umass (Yagbow; and any idiot chicks that hung out with them were Yagbetties). I'm sure there are pleanty of nice frat boys, but these guys were invariably idiots. Anytime you visit campus and you see a pack of big meathead guys in their pre-Durst baseball caps and Aberracistsexistassclowns and Fitch shirts approaching, RUN!!!
5) Do you find yourself hanging out with "the weird people" (anyone who isn't in a frat, especially if they're way geeky)? If you hang out with the wierd people instead, would you make up a Weird Kid Frat (a la "Revenge of the Nerds")? Would it work at your school?
My friends were mostly art and psychology majors, and they weren't *way* geeky. High-Functioning Geeks, I suppose you'd call them. Anyway, a Weird Kid Frat would be dead on arrival at Umass.
5) What's the strangest thing you ever saw at your college? What's the strangest thing that ever happened at your college? What's the strangest thing that ever happened at your college that involved you?
Too many to mention here. I'll go with my favorites:
a. Probably that astonishingly scary exhibit in the art building from the artist that likes to paint freaks and hermaphrodites. I had to pass by those paintings every day for a month to get to class and ho-lee shite. That and the damn scary number of squirrels and giant geese.
b. This one was way fun. There was this Yagbowe who got kicked out of his frat and wandered around drunk and breaking into people's dorms. Now, keep in mind that the dorm me and my friends were living in at this point was a little house made out of industrial-strength cardboard. He'd only need an X-acto knife! Yay!
c. The day I had to be a (as somebody called it somewhere in a fanfic I think) "Mushroom Trip Tour Guide". Actually, being the only person NOT on drugs in a dorm is kind of fun.
P.S. to those of you still in college: For the love of God, CHERISH IT!!!!!
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