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[personal profile] eredien
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.

Day

30/9/03 18:08 (UTC)
Posted by (Anonymous)

stinky freakshow

30/9/03 18:48 (UTC)
weirdquark: Stack of books (Default)
Posted by [personal profile] weirdquark
Oh, I remember getting that. Not from freshman (I don't think) but there were those charming bars of soap left outside our doors when we had the commune.

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)
Posted by [identity profile] raki.livejournal.com
{hug} Photocopy some poetry and hand it out... that may help.

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30/9/03 19:36 (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] wayman.livejournal.com
Last September, you related a similar anecdote (http://www.livejournal.com/users/eredien/45079.html) about the frosh. Given Weirdquark's comment here and Signy's and others' comments last year about their experiences, this seems to be a recurring event, that some members of the incoming class don't "fit in" at BMC and have a closed mindset, and take that out on others.

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 [livejournal.com profile] q10's recent entry on the total lack of community at Swarthmore (http://www.livejournal.com/users/q10/21081.html), especially as compared to Bryn Mawr (http://www.livejournal.com/users/q10/19640.html), and how this is something some of us (myself very much included) are quite bitter about.

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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30/9/03 20:09 (UTC)
Posted by (Anonymous)
if you act rude to someone, you'll get a rude reply.

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30/9/03 21:03 (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] fangtsu.livejournal.com
Maybe they just need a good smiting.

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1/10/03 13:03 (UTC)
Posted by (Anonymous)
Mrreow! I'm sorry.

-Astarloa

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1/10/03 20:35 (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] jedibl.livejournal.com
I don't know whether this makes it better or not... but I don't think there was every a year at Bryn Mawr when we didn't say "The Frosh this year are just not up to our standards...". And then we got to know them. Yes, there will always be brats, and worse than brats. But I'm sure it took me longer than a month to settle in at BMC, and I'm sure I was very much a brat in some ways for much of my freshman year. I can think of a few interactions I regret (although I hope there weren't any in which I was so outright rude...) Anyway, give them time. Set a good example. There's hope yet.

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2/10/03 10:32 (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] gaudior.livejournal.com
Sympathy. Much of it.

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

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