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Whether it’s a fellow Kenyon student who just happens to be bilingual or a foreign student on a Fulbright, sometimes it’s hard to remember that your AT is actually a living, breathing human being. So when you drunkenly stagger into them at Highlighter party, here are a few strategies to guide your interaction:
- A well-timed “Hola, ¿cómo estás?” (or the equivalent in whatever language) goes a long way in awkward AT interactions because there’s no better time to practice another language than when you are wasted and have zero inhibitions about your grammar and/or sounding like a total idiot. So maybe you didn’t take those seven tequila shots expecting tonight to be educational, but that doesn’t mean you can’t learn something useful anyway!
- Make a friend! Maybe they can put in a good word for you to your professor later (example: “By the way, I saw ____ grinding against a wall/a person/a trash can in the Peeps lounge the other night, and in our 15-second slurred and incoherent conversation about them being terrible at ____ language I really got the impression that they’re super diligent and dedicated to their educational experience. They definitely deserve that A.”)
- Ignore them.
- Twerk on them.
- Make out with them.**
- If they are one of the foreign ATs here on a Fulbright, try to make their night as awesome as possible! So what if they ended up in a cornfield in Ohio instead of in New York City, you can still show them a good time (#coveo’clock).
**Not actually recommended.
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