1. You know what a Moodle is. And that it is not nearly as fun as it sounds.
2. You look forward to your birthday/half-birthday only because of the free small milkshake you get from Student Development.
3. You know that LIFECORE has nothing to do with music or pornography, and lacks excitement because of that.
4. You’ve piled 7 people into a compact car and drove it past the second star to the right, and straight on till morning. (Applebees in Roseville)
5. You own a burned copy of any Shane & Shane CD. Even if your way hardcore, you still listen to it when you “giving devotions a go again”.
6. You have picked up a copy of The Northerner, thumbed through the entire paper and didn’t find even one article worth reading.
7. You’ve left the cafeteria with food other than ice cream. Shame on you.
8. You’ve attended a sporting event for the single purpose of eying your crush. You pretended to care about the game, and then left before it was over.
9. You’ve laughed, cried, slept, clapped, and sang during Chapel, as well as at it.
10. You can’t wait until graduation. Mainly because you could really use a beer right now.
Woodward
Bernstein
Saturday, March 22, 2008 at 4:25 pm
3. well our lifecore includes pornography quite a bit…. well at least discussing it….
Saturday, March 22, 2008 at 4:46 pm
i never got a free milkshake on my half-birthday! lol i imagine they only give free milkshakes to people on their half-birthday who have their birthdays over the summer…
Saturday, March 22, 2008 at 6:31 pm
Where’s Woodward been? Did he not come back from Spring Break? Oh . . . another tell-tale sign you go to NCU . . . when someone asks you if you are going to Mardi Gras this year it has a totally different meaning than at ANY other college!
Sunday, March 23, 2008 at 12:46 am
11. Spring break involves either going to a new exciting place via NINEDAYS and converting the heathens or going to an old familiar place via your friend’s ‘89 Geo and becoming a heathen all over again.
Sunday, March 23, 2008 at 4:25 pm
I love the genious in basically all your articles, but it is the slight shred of honesty sometimes that is a little bit scary…
Sunday, March 23, 2008 at 9:29 pm
#10
Some of us can’t wait until graduation…the pressure is just too much.
Sunday, March 23, 2008 at 10:37 pm
This post: weak stuff.
You have done much better.
Monday, March 24, 2008 at 2:38 am
Sure they have. But hey…it’s only two guys with crazy imaginations. They can’t do it all on their own all the time…so quit complaining unless you’re going to submit something yourself.
Monday, March 24, 2008 at 8:52 am
#12 If on paper you’ve ever been a student commuter who lived at home with your parents in the UP of Michigan and drove the 9 hours to school….. every day.
Monday, March 24, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Cough… One Guy… Cough
Monday, March 24, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Oh, so true.
Monday, March 24, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Every once in a while there’s a good article in the Northerner. Which is usually anything written by Reed Carlson.
Monday, March 24, 2008 at 10:35 pm
To be quite honest. Last year I called and sent emails to the editor(s) of the Northerner asking if I could write opinions or have a column or something. I never heard from ‘em. 100,000 hits later…
It was probably the best thing that could have happened. I’ve had a blast.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 12:28 am
True that. I stopped seriously reading the Northern Light when they printed the same article twice on the same page, just with different titles.
On top of that, the article wasn’t even good in the first place…so printing it twice was a real bad move.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 1:23 am
Anon-odyne. You must have been moodled as a child. Let it go man, let it go.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 11:10 am
Ha! I have about eight (blissful) years between me and dropping out of North Central… I forgot about the no-food-taken-out-of-cafeteria rule!
Back when I went there, we all would walk down to TGI Friday’s downtown, or squeeze in the compact car to Old Chicago in Uptown for $2 pizzas and wings. I don’t remember ever doing Applebee’s in Roseville back then.
We did do the dollar theater quite a bit, though. I remember sneaking in to see “There’s Something About Mary”, and when we inevitably ran into acquaintances from NCU, we lied and said we were seeing “Ever After”.
Keep it up, Bernstein. You’re doing a great job. And, hey, if you ever need a guest columnist, my friend Nayana might be interested in a “Memories of North Central” thing…
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 1:11 am
Jen…sad to inform you…that Fridays Downtown is long gone. However, in its place (maybe not the exact location, but really close by) is a delightful Brazilian restaurant called Fogo de Chao. It’s amazing…but like 40$ a person.
Were you not allowed to see R-rated movies at all???
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 10:10 am
Ed… yeah. I know. And I love Fogo de Chao… I plan to do a little economic stimulatin’ there when my check comes this summer, if ya know what I mean.
No R-rated movies. And no VCR’s allowed in the dorm rooms. It was kind of before DVDs were so commonplace… but I do remember watching one on a girl’s PC and feeling horribly naughty.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Well, if it makes you feel any better, I had an RA who would sit down and watch the R-rated movies with the guys on his floor…so…
I guess the overarching reasons that NCU has to put these rules in place were more for the people whose faith (and tolerance level) is weaker than the rest of us who can see gratuitous violence and hear excessive profanity and not be affected by it.
In short, we’re hopelessly desensitized to it so it doesn’t bother us. Irony is a funny thing…
In the long run that’s probably a bad thing…oh, if only Jesus had preached against R-rated movies…
Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 11:58 am
There is a film called This Film Is Not Yet Rated that shows how arbitrary the MPAA rating system really is. I don’t believe it really means much.
One caveat… don’t watch This Film Is Not Yet Rated if you’re overly sensitive to the profanity, sex, etc… the MPAA refused to give it an R rating. (Though that also may have something to do with the subject matter.)
Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 12:14 pm
I think I heard about that one. Sounds interesting…