Both of us are living off campus next year. We are looking forward to it, but there are a few things we will miss. For instance, the bathroom art of male residence-hall floors.
Mat: Don't be mad at the lushes on your floor who waste your damage deposit money during their drunken enthusiasm. Take a moment, and think about the creativity involved with such damage that can only come from underage, public intoxication. These individuals are the Babe Ruths of modern art. Modern art is great, the artist can put anything in his or her demonstrations without worrying about censorship - well, almost anything.
Kevin: I personally love the writings on the stall walls. When you forget your magazine or newspaper, you can always read the clever markings on the stalls.
It's interesting to watch, over a few week's time, how the different Greek letters are transformed. One week they have the prime location on the stall door, and the following week the letters are crossed out with some comment like "fags" or "dorks" written underneath. Why do people take pens with them in the bathroom anyway?
Mat: Let's face it, we are in college and we have tons of money to spend on art. After all, college is cheap and I need to find more to blow my money on. When my time at the residence halls comes to an end, I will not care for the deposit I gave my freshman year. I spent it on comedic vandalism and it's been worth every penny.
Kevin: It's going to be the small things I'll miss, like the high-speed Internet connection. It comes in handy when I'm trying to illegally download music before my class starts. Another thing is knowing before I pick up the phone whether the call is on or off-campus.
Mat: I will miss many aspects of hall life. The beautiful sounds of the surprise fire alarms each month, the elevators in Studebaker West (enough said) and the thin walls (in Stu West) which allow me to hear everything my neighbors say on both sides. But most of all, I will miss my GPA, because if I move off campus, some force will make it harder to obtain the GPA I once had (It's probably because I might not have all the background noise that moves me away from concentrating too hard). On a more serious note, the only part of residence-hall life I will miss is when I turn on the shower, it's instantly hot. I never have to worry about that, thank God.
Kevin: At the same time you're thanking God for hot water, you're praying that when you accidentally slipped out of your shower shoes, you didn't pick up any deadly fungi. As a precaution, you scrub your feet for an extra few minutes. I guess when I move into my new apartment next year I'll wear my shower shoes to reminisce about my time spent in the halls.
Final thought: We still have two months left in the halls.
Write to Kevin and Mat at twobsuguys@yahoo.com
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