Photographed by Paul Maffi for CR Fashion Book S/S 2013
Anonymous asked:
any advice for incoming college freshman?
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snorlaxatives answered:
sure why not!!!
- first of all don’t buy books through your schools bookstore unless it’s absolutely necessary!!!! chegg, alibris, or even amazon are some nice places where you can buy/rent textbooks for much cheaper. also here’s a post that has links to various places where you can possibly find online versions of textbooks
- exercise!!! even if it’s just a walk around campus or some crunches or push ups in your dorm. you’re gonna be eating a lot of unhealthy food (at least at my school we just have a food court with a bunch of fast food restaurants) so if you don’t exercise you’re definitely gonna gain the dreaded freshman 15
- show up to class early, at least for the first few weeks. maybe like 10-15 minutes early. your professors will take notice that you’re early and ready to learn and they’ll be impressed
- don’t skip class!!! i know there’s a lot more freedom in college than there is in high school and it makes it soooo easy to just skip class. the temptation is always there but trust me it pays off to just go to class. some of my classes last year offered extra credit in class and only people who showed up could get it. obviously it’s okay to skip class every once in a while if you need to but don’t make it a habit!
- give yourself ‘you’ time. maybe every sunday night get some snacks and watch a movie or just do something relaxing!!! college can get really really stressful at times so every once in a whole you gotta just take a little time to unwind
- make lots of friends, drink, party, have a good ass time, but don’t lose sight of why you’re at college in the first place which is to get an education. so have as much fun as you want just don’t let the fun take priority over your school work
things classicists may do to achieve that #ancient greek aesthetic
- eat figs
- buy more than one copy of a single translation
- equate beauty with death in day to day conversations
- do a group bacchant ritual which inadvertently (or purposefully?!?) kills a man, then to cover up the first murder complete a second murder by manipulating a repressed bisexual into helping you push your close friend off a cliff
- any time there is an opportunity to buy like those cheap tacky tourist-y roman or greek coins, buy those said coins
- long for a bust of yourself
- humanise figures that probably, in all fairness, shouldn’t be humanised (i’m looking at you Achilles)
- comment on the quality of the translation even though that is the highest pretentious level possible
- use ‘pathetic’ – quote “in the original sense of the word”
- question whether ‘Vergil’ or ‘Virgil’
- reblog ANY AND ALL pictures of a statue
- cry over intertextuality