(For Fun) McSWEENEY’S: AN APPLICANT’S GUIDE TO STUDENT CULTURE AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES

[Anonymous]

This is a year old, but it is pretty funny:

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-applicants-guide-to-student-culture-at-american-universities?fbclid=IwAR1UJbIJrq6L55J0bB508mbiBmPP-V-QuWVUyO_KmDUuByYSC8IPqXORpL0

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a year old, but it is pretty funny:

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-applicants-guide-to-student-culture-at-american-universities?fbclid=IwAR1UJbIJrq6L55J0bB508mbiBmPP-V-QuWVUyO_KmDUuByYSC8IPqXORpL0

Love this! Thank you!

[Anonymous]

So funny!

[Anonymous]

Feel free to add your own alma mater of your kid's school.

[Anonymous]

I personally love that Penn was left out. Not even cool enough to mock.

[Anonymous]

Someone add on to this...NYU? UChic? WashU? Vandy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I personally love that Penn was left out. Not even cool enough to mock.

U Pain

[Anonymous]

That popped up in my Facebook feed the other day, and the additional suggestions in the comments were hilarious.

[Anonymous]

UT Austin missed the mark for sure.

[Anonymous]

What is shiv?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is shiv?

A Whig is a homemade weapon made in prison, like a sharpened toothbrush. To shiv someone is to stab them, typically when they are unaware and typically someplace vulnerable, like through the kidneys from the back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is shiv?

To shiv people is to stab them with a makeshift knife. Generally used in the context of prisons and other places that abound with dubious people of low morals, like elite colleges.

[Anonymous]

Florida State missed marked—that was 15 years ago. Change to ECU

[Anonymous]

UCLA: Shiv Parteee at the Lamda Chi house tonight.

USC: My documentary on the history of shivving in the US prison system will be released this spring.

Penn: How can I include shiv expertise on my resume?

Tufts: I could have written a Pulitzer Prize winning play about the time I shivved someone in class to answer a question.

UVA: VA made shivs are better regarded internationally than Wusthof and Shin!

Alabama: Roll Tide!

[Anonymous]

Oberlin: following stakeholder input, we will be hosting community conversations centered on the sociological history of shivvng and strategies for eliminating shivering going forward.

W&M: those who shiv here belong here. #OneTribe