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dafnap ([info]dafnap) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2004-02-25 21:47:00
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Frosh, posh.
Ah, the dear old UCLA comm, the LJ community for all of us that call UCLA, "that place where they hurt us" as we like to call it. We have plenty wank: there's the fact that construction involves using a drill on the 7th floor of the res halls at 8:00 am during finals week, or the fact that the on campus Republicans have waged a holy war against MeCha, or the fact that the dining hall only gives us one piece of fruit, or the fact that there was that dead homeless guy in the bushes next to public sciences for a week (so that was that smell). We got plenty of wank and it smells worse in the rain.

But dude, this is the stupidest wank since the pro-lifers thought it was perfectly acceptable to post wall-size pictures of bloody fetuses as elementary schools were doing tours that one week.

And yes, I realize that I described all the wank that's not in the link, but the rest is much funnier, I swear. The link is just...lame.

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[info]rogue
2004-02-26 07:02 am UTC (link)
... Wow, I am so glad I'm not going to be living in the dorms.

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[info]musette
2004-02-26 08:03 am UTC (link)
And I am officially glad I didn't go to UCLA with half my high school best friends.

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[info]rhi_silverflame
2004-02-26 08:04 am UTC (link)
Wow . . . suddenly I'm glad my application to transfer there got rejected back in '97 . . .

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[info]janegraddell
2004-02-26 08:28 am UTC (link)
Let me see if I'm interpreting this correctly.

1) UCLA undergraduates call themselves first-years, second-years, etc. rather than freshman and sophomores and so on. This is not something new, it is a somewhat established tradition

2) calbruin has decided this is illogical, and that everyone should use the "proper" nomenclature.

Right.

Next thing you know, he'll be telling us to call it "erotic fan fiction about two characters of the same sex."

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[info]apoplexia
2004-02-26 11:26 am UTC (link)
Well, he does say "Taurus excrement," thus pretty much ensuring his place in Wank. Frankly, I'd be happy if more American universities adopted this nomenclature, since it would save the rest of us from having to remember that a junior is a third-year; at least, I hope I've got that right. I have rarely seen a post-graduate get so defensive about the notion that someone is going to mistake him for an undergraduate (possibly on the basis of his opinions, I guess). But there's a really simple way around the problem: someone asks you what you're studying and you simply reply "I'm working on my PhD." Elaborate as required, although I wouldn't recommend it.

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[info]phosfate
2004-02-26 04:23 pm UTC (link)
...a junior is a third-year; at least, I hope I've got that right.

*ponders*

I can't remember.

I'M FREE!!!

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(no subject) - [info]smo, 2004-02-26 04:41 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]phosfate, 2004-02-26 04:58 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]smo, 2004-02-26 05:04 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]sagralisse, 2004-02-26 05:33 pm UTC

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[info]katemonkey
2004-02-26 08:43 am UTC (link)
Dude, I'm still entirely too focused on your brief mention of a dead guy. Yo. Yo.

Never had shit like that at Tulane. Go Green Wave!

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[info]ailei
2004-02-26 03:39 pm UTC (link)
Go Green Wave!

No, we just had Mardi Gras spillage and beads in the trees and the losingest football team....what? Ever? At least in 1993.

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[info]phosfate
2004-02-26 04:22 pm UTC (link)
We had a philosophy professor who threw himself out his office window one night. By the time class started the next day, the spot was marked only by a suspicious wet spot on the pavement - until somebody added a chalk outline. With a smiley face.

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Re: - [info]ailei, 2004-02-26 04:23 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]kijikun, 2004-02-27 12:08 am UTC

[info]katemonkey
2004-02-26 05:48 pm UTC (link)
Oh, I never paid attention to the football...I spent most of my time trying to dodge the drunken masses on their way to the Boot for watered down $1 beer.

but wooooo for Tulane! Because it was Harvard of the South!

(heh.)

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[info]kyuuketsukirui
2004-02-26 10:50 am UTC (link)
My alma mater! :D

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[info]smo
2004-02-26 09:21 pm UTC (link)
Invader Zim!

*fangirls your icon*

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[info]majinkarp
2004-02-26 01:07 pm UTC (link)
Shit, I'm applying there to do linguistics for grad school. There aren't a lot of people like that at the school, are there?

And I should get around to posting some of the NYU comm wank some day...

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[info]rogue
2004-02-27 07:52 am UTC (link)
It's Los Angeles. There's at least fifty of every type of person in existence here. Those of the stupid persuasion breed faster, so... there's quite a bit more than fifty.

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[info]eiviiaru
2004-02-26 04:58 pm UTC (link)
I'm not sure whether the wank or the non-wank stuff mentioned in the above post scares me more.

(There was a dead guy in the bushes?! For a WEEK?! Sorry, going back into tiny-liberal-arts-school hiding now.)

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[info]smo
2004-02-26 05:05 pm UTC (link)
(At my tiny liberal arts college, it was big news when four people (gasp!) got alcohol poisoning at a "big" campus party. I don't getcher big sprawling state schools, no sirree.)

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[info]virago
2004-02-26 06:08 pm UTC (link)
Indeed. That's just scary.

(I'm out now, but still. Whew. O_o)

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(no subject) - [info]smo, 2004-02-26 10:33 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]musette, 2004-02-27 05:56 am UTC
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[info]sanguinary
2004-02-26 09:57 pm UTC (link)
I can still remember the last time someone died and wasn't found for a couple of days around here (1998, winter, one of the town's three bums froze to death). They covered it on the news for weeks.

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(no subject) - [info]smo, 2004-02-26 10:31 pm UTC
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[info]eiviiaru
2004-02-26 10:50 pm UTC (link)
Okay, so we're not that buried... or, rather, we're inbred and desperate enough that people getting trucked to the hospital for stomach pumping isn't entirely uncommon. Of course, then you hear stuff like the RAs who held a "Tequila Night" for their freshman hall, with predictable results...

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(no subject) - [info]smo, 2004-02-27 03:31 pm UTC

[info]evening_rose
2004-02-27 02:02 am UTC (link)
Not exactly a small school here, Georgia Southern University (Yech...glad I dropped out). Biggest news here for a while was the two frat boys (I think they were frat boys) who bought a couple of hatchets at Wal-Mart, drove down the highway, pulled onto some guy's farm, and proceeded to behead chickens. Because they wanted to know if chickens really do run around after their heads have been cut off. o_O; Yes, they were very drunk. No, I no longer claim this state. I came from Florida. ::nod:: ::shifty eyes::

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(no subject) - [info]smo, 2004-02-27 03:29 pm UTC
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[info]janegraddell
2004-02-27 05:08 am UTC (link)
I got my undergrad degree at the University of the South (aka Sewanee) which is a teeny Episcopalian liberal arts college on top of a mountain, where there was nothing to do on the weekends but drink. Or study, if you were into that sort of thing, which I was. :) It was kind of a rare weekend when there weren't one or two good-sized parties with the expected resultant drunkeness.

Despite that, it's actually a pretty darn good school academically, but much to the mortification of the trustees the college nearly always makes the national top ten list of party schools. We slipped to 8th place overall this year, I'm told, but hung onto 2nd among private schools, not too shabby for a campus of around 1,100.

It was a really interesting place, sort of a "book in one hand, booze in the other" atmosphere.

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(no subject) - [info]smo, 2004-02-27 03:25 pm UTC

[info]dafnap
2004-02-26 07:05 pm UTC (link)
It's really not as bad as it sounds...well, ok, "dead guy in the bushes" sounds pretty damn bad. The guy was a homeless guy that got a heart attack and fell into the bushes, so it wasn't like anyone put him there. He just fell there.

Hrm.

That didn't really help, did it?

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[info]virago
2004-02-26 07:38 pm UTC (link)
I think the key word here is "week," not "bushes." ;)

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(no subject) - [info]smo, 2004-02-26 10:32 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]musette, 2004-02-27 06:05 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]smo, 2004-02-27 03:21 pm UTC
Re: - [info]musette, 2004-02-27 06:24 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]eiviiaru, 2004-02-26 10:48 pm UTC

[info]teratologist
2004-02-29 10:40 pm UTC (link)
See, when people die at Cornell, they usually have the courtesy to leave a note, so the bodies are found pretty quickly.

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