Annoying College Terms and Phrases
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Anonymous
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Anonymous
| Omg yes. I hate these assumptions that a particular college cohort is a monolith with a “level” of students. I would be willing to bet this poster bases their first impression of people on where they graduated. Gross. |
Anonymous
I love this and embrace it and will use it tirelessly going forward. I can't stand the US obsession with sports and how intertwined sports are with our education system. If my normcore posterior can annoy or deflate a single sporto by coopting "commit," then that's a day well lived. |
Anonymous
I started paying attention to college type posts on UrbanBaby about 10 years ago, every single year was “bloodbath!“ And SO much worse than any other year! |
Anonymous
It's a "bloodbath" when it's your kid's turn and the parents jumped into the obsessive madness by applying to 20 schools including every Ivy. |
Anonymous
| LOL. It must be so hard for some of you to exist in a universe where other people, well, also exist, and... use words. |
Anonymous
| Yes, the word bloodbath has been around for centuries, but the people using it these days are giving real "Look at me! I've read The Hunger Games" vibes. |
Anonymous
No, just when people abuse the English language by using words and terms excessively and incorrectly. |
Anonymous
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The word "frosh" is like nails on a chalkboard to me.
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Anonymous
| Please pick colleges for my kid! |
Anonymous
| I'm exhausted from completing all my kids applications" |
Anonymous
| “Chance me for Ivies + MIT” |
Anonymous
| “First years” Yes, UVA you’re so special that you can’t lower yourselves to say freshmen like almost every other school does. |
Anonymous
First years live on grounds, not campus. |
Anonymous
| "Grounds" because it sounds grammatically incorrect. "Frosh" because it sounds stupid. |