This post was co-written by Colleen Kemp ’20 and Sarah Hoffmann ’20.
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10 o’clock list: Who Studies Where on Campus
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Library grumps are some of the best Kenyon people I know, and I know a lot of Kenyon people. But who are the library grumps? What makes them tick? How is a library grump different from a Gund Commons giggler and how are both united by a shared hatred of study-space ignorant homework completers? In this list, I won’t answer any of those questions, but I will make sure you get up to speed on the various Kenyon study space populations. This way, when you have an interaction with a steely-eyed, Adderall popping Junior, you’ll know exactly where to flee afterward.
Note: this list is not intended to enumerate the existence of every single study spot on campus, only to characterize the students who study in the listed locations.
- Gund Ballroom– First years. And people pulling serious all-nighters who live North. Continue reading
Stock Answers For Questions Your Parents Ask You Every Week
“No, mom, I’m totally getting to bed by ten each night.”
Being the parent of a college student must be stressful. For the first time since their birth, baby is out of reach, on a campus full of drunken heathens and at risk for communicating with radical academics who salivate at the chance to indoctrinate them into an anarcho-communist lifestyle. To make up for the lack of physical contact, parents try to call their college students at least once a week to check up, just to make sure baby is still alive.
The questions they ask never change. I’ve become convinced there is actually a script parents use for talking to their college aged kids. To help even the playing field, here are some stock answers to the questions parents love to ask. Continue reading
Club Olin Has a (Criminal) Meeting Room
All the cool kids study here.
Guys, I go hard at Club Olin, all the time. So when I discovered a room in Chalmers that I didn’t know about, I was like, what?!
The room I discovered just this past week, the Ringwalt Room, is tucked away on the second floor of Chalmers. To find it, walk straight past the circulation desk and hang a left after the microfilm (now there’s a sentence I never thought I’d write).
So what’s this oaky, pedagogical paradise for?
10 o’clock list: “College Problems” from Last Week
We’re almost homeward bound. Did you finish the year with a splash?
The week before finals week was bound to be a stressful one. Take a study break while we examine last week’s crises.
1) The Internet went down. So did my life. First it was isolation and denial: “No, it can’t be down. Everybody else is still studying. Omigod it’s just me.” Then it was anger. And growling. Then it was bargaining. “Maybe I can get on Facebook from Kenyon’s homepage. NO? Kenyon.efff.u!!” Then it was a deep sadness, in which I simultaneously tried to reload Netflix, Facebook, and Gmail for a half-hour. Finally, acceptance: “Well… I guess I can go talk to people…I guess.” Continue reading
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