At the risk of sounding really Negative-Nancy-ish, I'm going to need to vent about some things I've noticed on campus lately. Certainly, I don't mean to suggest that all Wake undergrads are this way, nor do I mean to suggest that our little campus community lacks any redeeming qualities. Still, these are obnoxious.
1. Undergrad girls talking about going "out" when referring to an on-campus frat party. When you go to the dorm across the quad (or, worse, when you walk up a flight of stairs), you're not really "going out."
2. Being "engaged." Really, if you're engaged, that's great. But if what you really mean is that you really like your significant other, that doesn't constitute plans for marriage. If there's a ring on your finger and a wedding date in your future, that is quite different from the fact that you met this guy in a bar two months ago and he mentioned your future together (indeed, he was referring to Myrtle Beach for spring break, not Hawaii for your honeymoon).
3. Complaining about money. You don't get to whine that your parents are only giving you $2,000/month instead of $3,000 because the economy is down. You don't have bills, you don't pay rent--if you can't live on half that amount, you've got problems.
4. Assessing other people's financial statuses. When showing my students the Obama infomercial before the election, one girl mentioned that the featured family couldn't be poor since they had a full gallon of milk in the fridge. Putting aside the fact that that's such an asinine standard to use, you don't get to judge other people's socioeconomic situations.
That's all for now. There are certainly more, but these are the big ones. Please, stop being idiots. kthx.
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