50 Things I Wish I'd Known when I Applied
Alex Godden (NJ), Viewpoints Editor
Issue date: 2/26/07 Section: Viewpoints & Humor
13. The phrase "building on" will become intensely irritating.
14. You will see nothing strange in the phrase "I agree completely with your comment, but you are wrong."
15. You will come to know the entire careers, family history and political beliefs of 90 people that you have not met yet.
16. Somehow, you just know which professors you can call by their first name and which you can't.
17. People in your section will know more than your professors on various subjects.
18. People in your section will not feel comfortable openly disagreeing with your professors until at least week 3.
19. By the second semester, people will feel comfortable disagreeing with professors, making jokes about cases they have written, and swearing in class.
20. A retreat is not something people do when they need to meditate, it is in fact possibly the most fun you can have in Vermont.
21. You will play the drinking game "I have never." Possibly in a hot tub.
22. When there is a state-of-the-art gym within 200 yards of your room, and you have at least four hours of spare time each day, even a die-hard couch potato will start exercising.
23. You will wish you had done analytics.
24. You will build up an astonishingly large collection of free t-shirts.
25. You will wear t-shirts displaying the names of companies you have never heard of, especially just before laundry day.
26. You will stop wearing make-up to class after week 5.
27. You will convince yourself that getting up at 5:30am to read your cases is a sensible plan.
28. You never actually will get up at 5:30am to read your cases.
29. There is always someone who knows more Excel shortcuts than you.
30. You will eat at least one meal from the same place every day for three weeks, and not find this unusual.
31. You will eat a lot of clam chowder.
32. You will come to hate clam chowder.
33. Boston is colder than you expect.
34. No, even colder than that.
35. You will buy some trendy fur-topped boots.
14. You will see nothing strange in the phrase "I agree completely with your comment, but you are wrong."
15. You will come to know the entire careers, family history and political beliefs of 90 people that you have not met yet.
16. Somehow, you just know which professors you can call by their first name and which you can't.
17. People in your section will know more than your professors on various subjects.
18. People in your section will not feel comfortable openly disagreeing with your professors until at least week 3.
19. By the second semester, people will feel comfortable disagreeing with professors, making jokes about cases they have written, and swearing in class.
20. A retreat is not something people do when they need to meditate, it is in fact possibly the most fun you can have in Vermont.
21. You will play the drinking game "I have never." Possibly in a hot tub.
22. When there is a state-of-the-art gym within 200 yards of your room, and you have at least four hours of spare time each day, even a die-hard couch potato will start exercising.
23. You will wish you had done analytics.
24. You will build up an astonishingly large collection of free t-shirts.
25. You will wear t-shirts displaying the names of companies you have never heard of, especially just before laundry day.
26. You will stop wearing make-up to class after week 5.
27. You will convince yourself that getting up at 5:30am to read your cases is a sensible plan.
28. You never actually will get up at 5:30am to read your cases.
29. There is always someone who knows more Excel shortcuts than you.
30. You will eat at least one meal from the same place every day for three weeks, and not find this unusual.
31. You will eat a lot of clam chowder.
32. You will come to hate clam chowder.
33. Boston is colder than you expect.
34. No, even colder than that.
35. You will buy some trendy fur-topped boots.
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