Props & Drops

Allright, I know I’ve really been slacking off on this whole blogging thing. But I figure that since the year is coming to a close, a little summary post might be in order. So here’s a little year in review….my version of “props and drops” for the year at Fisher.

**Props to the snow day on Valentine’s day.

**Props to the new online housing system, which let us choose our new room in literally under four minutes. Definitely beats standing in line.

--Drops to whoever messed with my car in the Murphy lot back in January. Actually, drops to Murphy lot in general.

**Props to talking your way out of parking tickets (not that I’ve successfully used that technique or anything….).

--Drops to the fact that Lavery Lawn was fenced off all year. Maybe it won’t kill us, but it’s aggravating to have to walk a hundred yards out of the way to get to Basil—especially when it’s raining or snowing. As it was yesterday. Snow in April? What’s up with that?

**Props to the football and men’s basketball teams for making the NCAAs.

**Props to SGA, etc, getting three buses to take kids to Alliance, Ohio for the Final Four in December. I’m sure it wasn’t fun when one of the buses t-boned a truck, but it was nice of them to make the trip convenient for a lot of people.

--Drops to the lack of support at Homecoming. Literally the entire student section cleared out at halftime to go to a party at Naz, of all places. I realize it was raining, but seriously, if you already sat through the first half, you’re not going to get much wetter if you tough it out another hour.

--Drops to getting stranded at U of R after the Courage Bowl. The student shuttle (which was supposed to run every 15 minutes) took and hour and a half to get us…and Fisher had no idea where the bus was when we got worried and called them. Nothing beats standing on a hostile rival campus in the dark!

**Props to student involvement.

--Drops to laundry room etiquette on this campus (where's Megan?)

**Props to random 3 a.m. conversations with people.

--Drops to my RA, who was never around and thus let our floor run wild all year. I have nothing against people having fun, but when I’m trying to sleep, I’d like to do just that…not be woken up by people playing soccer in the hall or drunk guys I’ve never seen before knocking on the door and hitting on me. Oh, and last night, in the one night he decides to make an appearance on the floor, my RA was running up and down the hall WITH them…outstanding.

**Props to good pizza coupons. What? Broke college kids need to eat! Thanks, Mark’s.

--Drops to the lack of buttermilk ranch chicken in the dining hall this year. Seriously, they had it like twice.

**Props to my roommate putting up with all my insane shenanigans all year.

--Drops to drama. The last time I checked, this wasn’t high school.

**Props to Olive Garden.

**Props to random adventures (Toronto, Massachusetts, Ohio, NYC…what a year).

--Drops to the general lack of communication between various groups on campus (students, student leaders, administration, etc). It’s not so much certain issues themselves (like parking) that cause problems on campus; it’s how they’re handled. Administration needs to not be dodgy, students needs to actively seek to be kept in the know, and student leadership should facilitate that process by acting as an advocate for students….not behaving like puppets and middlemen.

**Props to meeting so many amazing people in college.

--Drops to the fact that we all be apart during summer.

--Drops to finals. If the next week and a half doesn’t kill me, nothing will.

**Props to those crazy kids who went and cleaned up New Orleans over Spring Break. I only say crazy because they act all modest, like they didn’t make a difference. Y’all did us proud.

Last but certainly not least….Props to the Courier. Because it’s been an amazing year. And definite props to our trip to the conference in New York City, which was easily the best weekend of the year, hands down.

But drops to JetBlue. Definite drops to JetBlue.

That’s all, she wrote. Good luck on finals, everyone. Don’t forget to pick up the last edition of the Cardinal Courier for this year when it hits stands tomorrow. Also check out the first-ever edition of C Magazine on Friday, and Cardinal Courier Online on Monday. That’s right, we’ve been busy. Later!