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My flist is all over the election so I am going to blather on about something completely non-election related. I did all my election blathering in my last post. So. I got my college alumni magazine in the mail yesterday and I spent some time reading it today, purely because this year was my 15th reunion. I did not go - my summer was far too much travel already. But the magazine is always kinda fun to look through.
Some fun factoids I learned while reading it (feel free to skip the rest of this since it is mostly navel-gazing and uninteresting to anyone but me).
The magazine is now being printed on 100% recycled paper, with soy-based ink products which are more biodegradable than other inks.
There were a number of facts about the new class of first-year students. The class of 2012...
...has three sets of twins, a set of triplets, and four bagpipers (this last one isn't as surprising as you might think. The school gives a scholarship for bagpipers who come to school and play in the bagpipe corps in the marching band. Believe me - it's huge. We also have highland dancers to go with the bagpipers and the marching band - getting four in one class, though? Quite the coup!).
...has the tallest student on campus - from Sudan (7 feet) - interestingly, it does not say if this student is male or female.
...come from 40 states and 14 countries.
The college also has a new residence hall - a Manor that has 16 four-person suites - double rooms separated by a shared bath. Oddly, the shared bathroom is the responsibility of the residents to clean.
From the alumni news pages it looks like tons of people from my class got back for the fifteenth. People getting married and having babies - one guy I knew was within three weeks of becoming a father - according to the column he was on tenderhooks all weekend that his wife was going to go into labor and he'd have to get an immediate flight out to try to get home.
And I think I've probably blathered enough. I now return you to your regularly scheduled election results.
Some fun factoids I learned while reading it (feel free to skip the rest of this since it is mostly navel-gazing and uninteresting to anyone but me).
The magazine is now being printed on 100% recycled paper, with soy-based ink products which are more biodegradable than other inks.
There were a number of facts about the new class of first-year students. The class of 2012...
...has three sets of twins, a set of triplets, and four bagpipers (this last one isn't as surprising as you might think. The school gives a scholarship for bagpipers who come to school and play in the bagpipe corps in the marching band. Believe me - it's huge. We also have highland dancers to go with the bagpipers and the marching band - getting four in one class, though? Quite the coup!).
...has the tallest student on campus - from Sudan (7 feet) - interestingly, it does not say if this student is male or female.
...come from 40 states and 14 countries.
The college also has a new residence hall - a Manor that has 16 four-person suites - double rooms separated by a shared bath. Oddly, the shared bathroom is the responsibility of the residents to clean.
From the alumni news pages it looks like tons of people from my class got back for the fifteenth. People getting married and having babies - one guy I knew was within three weeks of becoming a father - according to the column he was on tenderhooks all weekend that his wife was going to go into labor and he'd have to get an immediate flight out to try to get home.
And I think I've probably blathered enough. I now return you to your regularly scheduled election results.
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I had to go and check what college you went to when you started talking about the bagpipers. And I have to admit I had a bit of an "!!" moment because one of my best friends from high school went to Wooster as well. He was in the marching band and had to do the whole outfit, which still makes me grin thinking of it now. But, yes, just found it neat because Wooster isn't exactly a huge school that you hear everyone going to. :)
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Not a well-known school here in the Northeast, but in the midwest? Woo is known as a easy-to-get-into, hard-to-stay-in liberal arts school. Independent Study was by far the best thing I ever did in college. Not a huge school - just about 1800 students, but a good school.
I hope your friend who went marching in a kilt enjoyed his education!