•that awkward moment when you forget your locker number at the gym and have to punch your code through nearly all 50 lockers to discover yours at the very bottom...and then that awkward moment when you do it again.
•I hate gullible people. You will get run over in the real world if you believe everything everyone tells you!
•When will people realize you don't have to reinstall Safe Connect every time? Just exit your internet browser, double click the existing link in your launch pad, and reopen the internet. Damn, for someone who got into AU, you all are pretty technically inept. Oh, and you're welcome
•"You know how girls get, right?" Yes, I do, because I AM a girl, and I hate girls who make excuses for not having a handle on their emotions. Is it your time of the month, sweetheart? It's mine too, you don't see me sobbing and yelling and freaking out - take some Midol and get over yourself!
•Really? REALLY? You're going to get mad at me that I didn't post Happy Birthday on your Facebook wall? I'm sorry I enjoy human interaction. And don't flatter yourself by thinking it was a personal vendetta against you. I purposely ignore everyone's birthdays on Facebook to provide the illusion I'm not on it as often as I am. And by often, I mean all the time
•My foreign born professor constantly uses the word "sexy" in place of "provocative". It makes for an interesting block class, but really, when is someone going to clue him in?
•I call visits to the hospital "wrist band parties" to make myself feel better
•@"I will be your Daniel Jackson!!!" I didn't check the rants yesterday but we need to make this happen.
•Dear hopeless roommate, I'm going to get out my judge's podium to: first let you know that Rousseau is dumb, second that I (as a physical being) cannot fall out of an immaterial object, and, third, you are not more important than I. I'd just like to let you know that if you were to fall off your pedestal, I think you'd gain freedom from those chains... Memphis vs. Georgetown game coming up...super siked. Finally, some real athletes in this city!!!
•NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT!
•Dear Roomie, The only way I tolerate you being so obnoxious is the knowledge that if you ever got too awful, I could majorly bust you. I took pictures. I have proof. Love, A Gal With a Plan
•@sweatshirts from other schools: I love my Georgetown and BU sweatshirts because they're warm and comfy, I also paid good money for them and will wear them if i god damn please. I do have AU pride but just dont love AU sweatshirts. sorrynotsorry
•why are the rants so small?!?! make it stop, you're ruining the highlight of my day!!!
•I thought I would become more functional in college, but unfortunately I'm just becoming more neurotic :( Spent 3 hours yesterday unable to move because I was depressed for no reason at all, and my social skills haven't improved since I was 14, as I'm sure my professors will testify by means of upcoming participation grades..
•@"To the ranter who corrected the grammar of the “freshman girl biddie” post, I like you. Good work.": Thank you! Just trying to protect the AU community from content-changing grammar mistakes.
•I don't particularly enjoy concerts, and should prob make other plans on a Saturday night, but instead i'm going to ur final a capella performance. You prob wont even know that i attended, or say "hi" to me, but thats okay. just hearing you sing will make it worthwhile :)
•I love reading intelligent responses on Eagle Rants. It gives me hope knowing that among the numerous biddies and frat boys here at AU, there are students who actually think.
•@Panama ranter: But in PANAMA...
•I miss the James Wigley rants. And I miss James Wigley.
•NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!
•To person who won't let other opinions sway them: I completely agree! Last year I was so uncomfortable with myself thinking that everyone around me was constantly judging me. Now, I just do as I please and don't let other people's opinions affect mine and I am soo much happier! Good luck in your quest to self-awareness
•@person who who wants AU to have a football team: One of the top reasons I came to AU was because it DOESN'T have a football team. I'll choose intellectual/quirky/nerdy/interesting people over a school of brainless jocks any day. Not having a football team is one of the biggest assets of AU.
•Dear poor unfortunate person who wishes Au had a football team: College football and other sports are the reason college tuition prices are skyrocketing each year. College football coaches get millions while students struggle in debt for years after college because the college spent their money on sports instead of scholarships. So proud to be an AU student where community service and humanitarian work are more important to this school that football.
•I wear sweatshirts from other colleges sometimes because I like to get a shirt from every college I visit. It doesn't mean I don't love AU. But sometimes I like to feel extra smart and wear my Harvard sweatshirt. That way people think maybe I got into Harvard and chose AU instead. haha
•Actually putting two sentences after each sentence is proper in eery format. It is not a thing of the past. One spaced sentences are sloppy.
•@"If you are a professor and assign a book, and then for the second half of the semester assign readings that are online, why assign the book at all? Thanks for wasting my money, dick." Due to copyright laws, if the professor assigns more than 30% of the book, he/she must require you to buy it. If this bothers you join the movement for freedom of information.
•Support freedom of information. Copyright laws that only allow the rich to purchase information and read articles on databases prevent those in the world who cannot afford an education from being able to have the same access to knowledge. We have the technology to allow all published information to be freely available to anyone in the world with access to the internet. Tell the government and the database corporations that everyone deserves the right to information and to repeal unethical copyright laws.
•I don't think a good morning text and a goodnight text is too much to ask from a long distance boyfriend. Am I wrong here?
•I'm scared I'm going to fail. :(
•The ABA does not require that law schools grade on a curve. So why do law schools insist that they must give D or below to 30% of each class. It's very demoralizing. And it creates unnecessary competitiveness. If law schools would allow everyone to be able to get an A, then maybe people would be more willing to help one another learn the material. This would create an overall greater understanding of the law for students, thus creating a better future generation of lawyers for those in need. Win/win.
•I'm so sick of the New York Times running articles bashing lawyers and declaring law a dead profession. News flash, not every lawyer aspires to be a money hungry, greedy, corporate lawyer who only wants to work at a top 20 firm. Yes, there are fewer jobs at the top firms, but there are infinite jobs in terms of fixing the wrongs in society and lobbying for changes wherever there is suffering or injustice. As long as there are wrongs in society t be fixed, we will never have enough lawyers. Please stop painting lawyers as only motivated by money.
•"There are never forks at TDR, you have to walk around for like 10 minutes looking for a fork everytime you want to eat", the other day I walked around to every fork container and could not find a single fork, so I ate my salad with a spoon. :(
•I came all the way to the damn freezing cold east coast and now its almost christmas time and there is NO SNOW! I feel ripped off
•why are there no rants in the eagle? [Editor’s note: They’re in the Opinion section this week.]
•I hate people in my study abroad program right now. CAN Someone remind them that AMERICAN FOOTBALL IS AWESOME AND SOCCER SUCKS!
•woo hoo
•Person who puts two spaces between sentences: I worked in a legislative office last summer and in all of the letters we sent there were two space between sentences. OLD SCHOOL
•Dear guy next to me in the shuttle, you smell really good.
•To all you people who don't want to hear other people talk on the quiet floor - tell them to stop talking! I ALWAYS tell them off, and it WORKS. Ranting online will not.
•@2spaces: I do it too!! :)
•You are little, and pleasant, and silly, and I enjoy your company.
•This particular class group is seriously the worst group I've ever worked with. All of them are flaky and have stupid ideas. My grade on this project is doomed. Why must professors insist on group projects, WHY?!?
•The only thing worse than the sticker shock on a semester's textbooks? Sticker shock on plane tickets home for Christmas. C'mon airlines, I only know 3 weeks in advance when my finals are, cut me some slack. Whatever happened to having Christmas spirit, you soul-sucking grinches.
•Daily rants are far too much for me to handle, so I've just stopped reading them.
•My cat died
•You know you listen to too much pandora when you hear a song you like in the car and you immediately try and find the thumbs up button for the car radio.
•I miss AU professors. My grad school professor emailed me back just to tell me that he wasn't going to answer the question I emailed him about something we went over in class. No he didn't say he would answer it later. He is just too cool to answer questions that he sees as beneath him. This never happened at AU. Every AU professor I had was more than happy to answer any question I had.
•@lupus, you can do it!! I know it's terrible when your stressed with school and friends, and it feels like no one understands. but my flail up just ended, and I feel better than ever. if you EVER need a friend, want to go to the dav, get your nails done/ watch a movie... know that there's people like me who were also recently diagnosed or people in general who are there for you. hang in there, I promise it's worth it. - uggs and plaid scarf
•I once had a thing for a capitalist...
•Two spaces after sentences is very normal.
•I find it funny when people complain about the impossibility of finding a guy interested in culture rather than just partying and getting drunk, while I'm looking for a heterosexual, Christian, Republican male...guess I picked the wrong school!
•Yesterday, a girl said to me, "Being single must make you feel completely alone in this world." Should I have smacked her?
•Sidenote: It was a war, like a bunch of other WARS in Southeast Asia at the time, a massive, massive amount of people died tragically at the hands of both sides. Generally poor medicine and sanitiation combined with a prolonged guerrilla insurgency will take the worst toll on the native populace (by the way, it's Timorese not Timonese).
•I strongly suspect that some portion, be it large or small, of the students at American University claiming to be homosexual are lying through their teeth and are just pretending to be gay so that they can get in with the ladies.
•Attention: A girl talking to you =/= A girl flirting with you. -Someone who knows next to nothing about women but at least knows that.
•I wish everyone a Merry Christmas because I do genuinely wish them well, regardless of whether their faith or beliefs. When I say Merry Christmas I do not mean "You are a filthy heathen who will go to Hell for not embracing Christ", I mean "Have a Merry Christmas" that's it, no ulterior motives or nothing. Selfless goodwill and kindness to all is pretty universally considered a good thing, let's all just remember that before we start this PC debate nonsense.
•I love Canada, you guys are all pretty damn awesome and you make every effort to make sure that you don't wind up having your status relegated to "America's Attic", your jingoistic pride about having some Canadian colonists in on the British group that torched the White House in the War of 1812 is amusing, if a little disturbing.
•You know, as 50% of our floor's two gay people, you could bother to say hello and how are you to my straight self if you see me... and drop the gay lisp, we get it already.
•Don't you hate the people who snort like someone's revving up a chainsaw and sniffle and drip mucous and basically do EVERYTHING but just blow their damn nose?
•Seriously I am going to superglue your key ring to your body while you sleep, I am tired of having to let you back in after you lock yourself out, good God imagine how you're going to live without me.
•Dear Anti-Smoking Ranters, None of us smokers care that you hate the smell of smoke. Here is some advice, just keep walking. Wow, was that hard? Seriously stop trying to control other people choices. We are college students we are aware smoking is unhealthy, and yet we still choose to smoke, deal with it and just keep walking. Smoking is probably almost as unhealthy as walking around with a stick up your ass.
•Is it bad that TDR scones are usually the highlight of my weekend? Ah well. So be it.
•Check out Fake AUSG on twitter and enter the world of an insignificant and incompetent undergraduate senator.
•to the girl who is hoola-hooping on the quad..would you like to do my homework for me?
•Anderson Hall Council? More like King Rangos and his Knights of the super attractive table ;)
•I don't understand why people hold study sessions in the laundry room either... They always seem to act like you're the one that's not supposed to be there too.
•Dec. 16 can't get here soon enough.
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