Anassa Kata
30/9/03 20:56![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The Freshmen this year are not of Bryn Mawr.
Honestly, while three people shouting a Latin verb (bellow or roar) at them was not the best way to handle asking them, "please be quiet," we thought it at least humorous.
And then they said we were a "Freakshow." And smelled.
I got that in highschool.
I hated highschool.
I don't like the Freshman class (some members excepted).
And today has been mildly hellish in so many other ways. That was just something nasty that didn't need to happen to me. Today.
Honestly, while three people shouting a Latin verb (bellow or roar) at them was not the best way to handle asking them, "please be quiet," we thought it at least humorous.
And then they said we were a "Freakshow." And smelled.
I got that in highschool.
I hated highschool.
I don't like the Freshman class (some members excepted).
And today has been mildly hellish in so many other ways. That was just something nasty that didn't need to happen to me. Today.
Day
30/9/03 18:08 (UTC)stinky freakshow
30/9/03 18:48 (UTC)Is the whole freshman class like that (with notable exceptions)?
Bleh. Perhaps they will improve with time.
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30/9/03 19:24 (UTC)(no subject)
30/9/03 19:36 (UTC)So I'm curious about the pattern: Do you feel the Class of '06, as a whole, has gotten better since September 2002, through the non-fitting-in frosh either leaving or becoming more mawrtyrly? Do you feel differently about the Class of '07 frosh now than you did about the Class of '06 frosh last year? Did you observe Class of '05 or '04 frosh behaving this way in their first semesters, or did you only start to notice it as an upperclasswoman with a stronger sense of perspective and community?
I'm sorry to hear these things still happen and may in fact recur with each year's class, rather than being one or two bad eggs. But I'm hoping it's at least the case that, after a semester or a year, things get a lot better. After all, at this point, the frosh class has only been at Bryn Mawr for a month; they've seen one tradition, and that on a night with questionable weather and, er, minimal organization.
*hugs*
(Though I must add, at least y'all have a college community, and an absolutely marvelous one at that. Though I haven't yet commented on it, I strongly agree with
You've found your community, and your family, and that's mighty cool. Someday those frosh will find theirs, and for some of them, I suspect, eventually, they'll see what a wonderful place Bryn Mawr is. But it's no fun to deal with them before that. *more hugs*)
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1/10/03 17:05 (UTC)I didn't really notice '05 or '04 frosh behaving in this way, no. Nor the class of '06. Frosh have liscence to run about the halls playing and laughing; it's nice to see them do that and perks us apathetic upperclassmen up. I played touch football on Denbigh 1st my freshman year with my customs people once at 11 pm and nearly got the football stuck in the light fixture.
I shouldn't overgeneralize, either: I don't hate the entire Freshman class. It saddens me that I haven't gotten to know more of them yet, really. But I can't say that I've gotten a good reception from very many of them yet, when I do try and get to know them.
Part of it may be the acoustics on my hall, where the loud noises funnel down to right outside the doors of our hall group.
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30/9/03 20:09 (UTC)(no subject)
1/10/03 16:57 (UTC)I'd really appreciate it if you left your name or initials on your comments, though you don't have to.
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30/9/03 21:03 (UTC)(no subject)
1/10/03 13:03 (UTC)-Astarloa
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1/10/03 20:35 (UTC)(no subject)
2/10/03 10:32 (UTC)On the plus side-- you're a senior, you know? You OWN that place. You've put sweat, tears, and possibly blood into it-- the Mawr is YOURS. If anyone should be feeling out of place, it's them.
Which may well be why they're being like that.
So-- annoying to have to deal with, muchly. But you can always feel sorry for them. Even if the above is total bull-- they still don't know how to see people, and seem to think well of themselves for it. Poor idiots.
--R