primitives remember college days

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101899252

Oh my.

applegrove (53,091 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

What stupid thing did you do in college? I collected pennies one year. As I was moving out of my dorm room I found the pennies. I didn't want to take them home.............. so I threw them out. My friends didn't let me live that one down.

trof (41,572 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

1. It would be a long list.

I was in college 1959-1963.

Yes, we had panty raids.

I once ripped a cloth towel roller cabinet off the wall of a public restroom, carried it back to the fraternity house (yes, I was one of THOSE), and installed it in my room.

I believe alcohol was involved.

I believe the statute of limitations has lapsed.

On a bet, I chugged a fifth of corn liquor.

I won the bet and immediately barfed the booze.

And the pizza.

Good thing I did, or I probably would have died of alcohol poisoning.

If you think my college experience sounds a bit like 'Animal House', you'd be correct.

baldguy (27,826 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

2. One night, we piled 7 people into my Pinto & drove to Niagara Falls, with the odd guy in the back.

Not like it sounds. The Falls is only about 10 min away from the school.

As the three couples wandered off by themselves (what else do you do at 2AM at Niagara Falls?), the odd guy decided it would be cool to climb over the fence & romp at the edge of the Gorge. When we found him, it took us about 20 min to convince him to come back.

And yes, alcohol was involved from the beginning.

Chan790 (12,190 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

3. Flung a flaming Christmas tree from the roof of the dormitory...

like a javelin, into the parking lot.

There was alcohol involved. I do not believe I was wearing pants. It was January.

Kaleva (7,627 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

8. You could have lost the important stuff by fire or frost bite!

Chan790 (12,190 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

11. I nearly lost my job...

I was the RA. The RD sent me an email and said she wanted to meet with me at 3PM. I figured I was done and was planning how to come clean when I walked in. I got there and she was there with the head of Campus Security and just as I was about to confess, they asked if I knew who had done it and asked me to keep an ear out as part of the "team" investigating the "act of vandalism"

Vandalism? It was my tree. I bought it for the floor-lounge. I paid for it. I can't be the vandal of my own tree.

bluedigger (5,767 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

4. Stopped going to a couple classes after the withdrawal period had closed.

Zeros do not average well in your GPA.

Chan790 (12,190 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

7. I did that.

Second semester senior year. In my defense, I was having a nervous breakdown because I'd been standing in front of the Pentagon when the plane hit...and nobody from my thesis adviser to my friends noticed that I was wigged the **** out and had stopped sleeping or getting out of bed.

The dean let me make-up my classes over the summer at a local state college.

benld74 (3,320 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

5. 'Lost' the deposit on an apartment, by NEVER taking care of the place

Really needed that $350 a few years later!

Survived

But NEVER, EVER 'lost' another one!!!!

Kaleva (7,627 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

6. Studied. Made the Dean's List.

Generic Brad (6,668 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

9. Made the largest beer can pyramid on campus

It went from floor to ceiling. And the monument would still stand today had it not been for the fact we forgot to rinse out the cans before we made the pyramid. After 30 days the smell overcame us.

applegrove (53,091 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

10. My girlfriends and I would call ourselves Phillis, Gertrude and Agnes when we went out to bars. We just went out to drink and dance a little. Both my friends had boyfriends back home and I wasn't really looking to hard.

The Velveteen Ocelot (31,080 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

15. Drank 141-proof rum mixed with cherry Kool-Aid and spent the night lying on the floor of a toilet stall in the dorm bathroom, occasionally pulling myself up just far enough to call Ralph on the big white phone.

Smoked a bit of reefer and then piled into an old Volvo with eight other stoned people on a below-zero night to go to a porn movie, where we laughed our asses off and managed to distract and annoy the pervs sitting by themselves with popcorn boxes in their laps.

Hitchhiked.

rrneck (9,589 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

16. Graduate.

Odin2005 (43,195 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

17. Started a fire in Chem lab

Had way too much fun with dropping sodium metal into water!

^^^the 300-pound professionally handicapped primitive, who's riding the disability gravy train.

If one can get through college, one can work for a living.

Manifestor_of_Light (14,205 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

29. Burning magnesium in a test tube is fun too!!

Really freaks out lab partners.

Magnesium burns with a brilliant white light. It's what they use for most explosions in movies.

bigwillq (58,065 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

18. Drugs

But it was oh so much fun.

Lionel Mandrake (2,682 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

19. I took 24 units one quarter, just to prove that I could.

I had to study all the time, and I didn't get much sleep. It wasn't fun. I'd never do that again.

EastTennesseeDem (2,427 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

20. Once I got really baked and took a very hard petrology midterm. I also yacked on my friend's guitar.

By "one time" I mean like about two months ago. However, I got a 91 on it so I forgive myself.

Instead, I would go with the latter because nothing good came of it. It was a quiet Saturday night and he, being the 21-year-old who had the final say on what booze to get, went for the Wild Turkey 101 (ew. ew. ew. ew. ew.). After we had had a majority of it (ew. ew. ew. ew. ew.) I passed out on his bed while he plucked shitfacedly at his better-than-average electric guitar. At some point when I was passed out, he set the guitar down, but it was strategically at my feet (I was passed out in the sitting-down-but-with-my-back-comfortably-on-the-bed position.).

I awoke and had that "Oh shit, I am about to puke" feeling. Naturally I sat up, and instead of spewing on the floor, I spewed right on his guitar that I didn't know was there. I'm not talking kind of hitting the neck with some vomit. I'm talking a ****ing bulls eye, right onto the body.

He was passed out, but I still had the decency to stumble over to him and wake him up to tell him. I never could get out the words but after a couple minutes trying to tell him what had happened he turned around and figured it out (but it still took him a minute to connect the puke on his guitar with the fact that someone puked on his guitar).

There are several things that rival that, but ******* is that one memorable (Surprisingly my memory from that night is clear, despite my BAC which had to be approaching 0.40).

Of course, I still go to college, and will still be here for another month. So I could conceivably top it. Hope not.

Burma Jones (11,437 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

21. Won a Fraternity Drinking Contest

lastlib (841 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

22. A 12-hour Frisbee marathon!

8 pm to 8 am

Went to bed, slept til 6 pm. Could.Not.Get.Out.Of.Bed!! Had to just lay there another two hours, trying to make my back and legs work--even wet my bed!

noamnety (17,743 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

23. I sort of burnt down part of my dorm.

I had to spend a few months sleeping on the porch while my room was repaired. Lost my 4 years of portfolio work (and the slides of it) in the fire. Ended up enlisting in the army as a result of the fire because without a portfolio I couldn't get into an MFA program.

In summary - I stored the backups of my work in the same location as the work itself. Don't do that.

lastlib (841 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

24. An Honors thesis....

...typed four drafts of the stupid thing (100+ pages) on a manual typewriter. That was over 35 years ago--my fingers still haven't recovered.

mysuzuki2 (2,032 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

25. I dropped out of my pre-med program and majored in Anthropology.

and yes, alcohol was involved.

becca da bakkah (25 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

26. I Hooked My Way Through Sophomore Year....

Oh wait, that was my ex-husband's fantasy when we'd play professor and desperate-for-a-good-grade-coed. Safe word was "curriculum"!

Bertha Venation (18,518 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

27. I fell deeply in love with a psychotic woman. No hyperbole.

Manifestor_of_Light (14,205 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

30. took morning glory seeds.

Not fun.

Crawled out of bed to the toilet and barfed em up.

In the meantime, stayed in bed being totally paranoid and screamed.

really a bad trip.

Note: Alcohol was most definitely NOT involved.

[BattleHymn]

And they wonder why they are who they are, where they are. 

[Ballygrl]

I was going to school and working at the same time, I accidentally flushed my brand new glasses down the toilet and flooded 3 floors at work, somehow it clogged up the system.

[BattleHymn]

I was going to school and working at the same time, I accidentally flushed my brand new glasses down the toilet and flooded 3 floors at work, somehow it clogged up the system.

If I'm asking about inappropriate details just stop me, but how does one accidentally flush their glasses down the toilet?   

[thundley4]

If I'm asking about inappropriate details just stop me, but how does one accidentally flush their glasses down the toilet?   

She couldn't see sh*t without her glasses. 

[Ballygrl]

If I'm asking about inappropriate details just stop me, but how does one accidentally flush their glasses down the toilet? 

I'm nearsighted so I have a tendency to take my glasses on and off, it was an off time, they were in my hands and when I flushed they fell out of my hands.

[BattleHymn]

I'm nearsighted so I have a tendency to take my glasses on and off, it was an off time, they were in my hands and when I flushed they fell out of my hands.

Did you install a safety net over your bowls at home? 

[Ballygrl]

She couldn't see sh*t without her glasses. 

BTW, I'm a walking disaster area, a born klutz, my Husband on the rare times he goes shopping with me? he says he can always find me by listening to the noise of items falling we were in the auto store once and they had this huge cardboard paper display of tires, all separate tires nicely put together in a display, it was all nicely set up..............until I walked into the place, he was soooooooooo embarrassed!

[Ballygrl]

Did you install a safety net over your bowls at home? 

I'm very careful. It stunk that 1 time because I had just picked those glasses up that morning, brand freaking new and I guess they ended up in the sewer system in Jersey City I asked a co-worker if it was possible to retrieve them LOL.

[thundley4]

BTW, I'm a walking disaster area, a born klutz, my Husband on the rare times he goes shopping with me? he says he can always find me by listening to the noise of items falling we were in the auto store once and they had this huge cardboard paper display of tires, all separate tires nicely put together in a display, it was all nicely set up..............until I walked into the place, he was soooooooooo embarrassed!

Coincidentally, when I'm shopping with my wife, I try and stay between her and any shelves stocked with small breakable items.

[GOBUCKS]

I'm very careful. It stunk that 1 time because I had just picked those glasses up that morning, brand freaking new and I guess they ended up in the sewer system in Jersey City I asked a co-worker if it was possible to retrieve them LOL.

Back when sewerman Steve Dawes worked, his job was to sit in a little catbird seat above the incoming sewage flow from the city of Omaha.

They gave him a pole with a nail on the end, and he was charged with fishing used condoms out of the stream, so as to prevent plugging of the system.

Had anyone lost glasses in Omaha, the big guy could likely have retrieved them.

[Chris_]

I lost a pair of glasses while riding my motorcycle once.  I got caught in the rain and they came off when I tried to clean them.

I wonder if they're still on the side of Donnelson Pike somewhere, crumpled up into a little glass and metal ball.

[franksolich]

Back when sewerman Steve Dawes worked, his job was to sit in a little catbird seat above the incoming sewage flow from the city of Omaha.

They gave him a pole with a nail on the end, and he was charged with fishing used condoms out of the stream, so as to prevent plugging of the system.

Had anyone lost glasses in Omaha, the big guy could likely have retrieved them.

Good one.

Awesome.

[Bodadh]

The clostest I ever got to "college dorm life" was tech school at Sheppard AFB. The rest of my college life was "drive from home to class and then to work and back home". I used to think I was missing something by not going the "party school" route but now that I am older I know all I missed was cringe worthy stories I would never repeat anyway. And a hell of a loan debt.

[ExGeeEye]

I'd been standing in front of the Pentagon when the plane hit

Heresy!  Everybody knows it wasn't a plane but an Isreaeli ALCM launched from USS Ronald Reagan.

And don't give me "Reagan was still in the shipyard."  That's what they want you to think, and only people who are in on it would insist on it.

 

[diesel driver]

Heresy!  Everybody knows it wasn't a plane but an Isreaeli ALCM launched from USS Ronald Reagan.

And don't give me "Reagan was still in the shipyard."  That's what they want you to think, and only people who are in on it would insist on it.

 

Are you stating the "truthers" are lying?   

Blasphemy!

My college days were spent attending classes, my nights in bed with my fiance (now ex-wife).  Made the Deans List every semester, graduated cum laude.

And NO college loan debt.   

Now, the summer between graduating HS and attending college (1977), THAT is a different story.   

[NHSparky]

Did I pull stupid shit while I was in college?  Not nearly that bad, and certainly not when I joined the Navy, nor when I finished my degree.

I think the worst I ever did was launching water balloons with a lawn chair/surgical tubing setup from my dorm room over I-75/85 in Atlanta to see if I could hit the parking lot over at The Varsity.  Almost made it.

[miskie]

I never did anything stupid in college. Compared to these primitives, I have lived a fairly boring & uninteresting life. The closest it comes is the day I got kicked out of high school. --No , It's not what you think..

I went to a Catholic High school, and I had a day off the public high school didn't. Since I had a lot of friends at the public school, I moled my way in, and hung out in the library all day under an assumed identity.

The second day I tried it, they caught on and removed me from the premises. So - I did whatever the opposite of skipping school is.

[BlueStateSaint]

I think the worst I ever did was launching water balloons with a lawn chair/surgical tubing setup from my dorm room over I-75/85 in Atlanta to see if I could hit the parking lot over at The Varsity.  Almost made it.

My freshman and sophomore years, we had a crew of guys that would do that in a Subaru BRAT.  Four guys.  They'd stop, the two guys in the cab would get out, while the two in the bed of the thing would hold the sides of the surgical tube catapult, with a plastic funnel in the middle holding the balloons.  The driver would be the "commander," while the other guy from the front would load it and pull the thing back.  They would shoot four or five balloons at a group of sunbathing coeds, then get in the truck and drive away.  They had this down to a science.  (I wonder if my classmate--most of you know who I'm referring to--was ever on the receiving end? )