Jocks and theatre kids. Comparing them is like comparing apples to oranges; There are actually a lot of similarities and that idiom has never made sense. 

The Athletes

• Institutional funding
• High quality facilities
• Support from the administration
• Kenyon College Instagram posts
• Excused absences 
• Making mom proud
• Coach Bolton
• Concussions

The Drama Kids

• Can drink year-round
• The Bolton
• An actual major
• Making mom proud until deciding to major in it
• Kenyon alums who have actually “gone pro”

Both

• Have dressing rooms
• Struggle to balance schoolwork
• Dumb hours (athletes: too early; theatre: too late)
• Roll up to Peirce in packs post-practice/rehearsal
• Cast/Team parties
• Ingroup bias
• Costumes are worn
• Unsustainable career paths
• No one outside of the community comes to events
• “Seasons”
• Kenyincest
• Troy Bolton
• Are not getting paid for this

Maybe we’re not so different after all.

We’ll come to your big game if you come to our thesis? ;)

xoxo, Jane&Ellie