by trogers5 on January 27, 2022

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Best Icebreakers to Start off the Semester

• Anything other than name/major/hometown.
• What’s your least favorite icebreaker?
• What’s your favorite book?
• What song describes your life right now?
• If you were a potato, how would you like to be cooked?
• If you could audition for one TV show, which one would it be?
• If you could only listen to one album for the rest of your life, what would it be?
• Do you fold your pizza?
• If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be? (The answer is salad)
• Best fruit story (shoutout Dr. Stevens)
• Choose a famous person you’d want on your team for a zombie apocalypse.
• What actor do you feel should play you in the movie about your life?
• What’s your shoe size?
• Hand out literal Ice Breakers.
• What’s your MBTI type?
• Do you prefer morning or night showers?
• What fictional family would you be a member of?
• Anything but syllabus quizzes.

by The Cowl Editor on December 9, 2021

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Holiday Miracles That Would Make Me Cry (of Joy)

• Getting an A on every single final
• My plants coming back to life (looking at my succulents…) 
• Getting off the waitlist for my classes 
• My BOP fish still being alive after break 
• Finally getting a stimulus check (to spend on Christmas shopping)
• Colleen coming back to life (fly high queen)
• Getting a response on LinkedIn
• Securing the internship I’m completely underqualified for
• Actually being able to do what I say I can on my resume  
• Getting no Friday classes
• Finally shooting my shot with my crush 
• Finding the perfect temperature for my room 
• Fulfilling all my New Year’s resolutions
• Learning how to cook (finally)
• Finishing my elaborate alternate universe
• Actually being the main character 
• Getting Nate Watson to follow me on TikTok

by The Cowl Editor on November 18, 2021

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Things to bring to Friendsgiving 

• Buffalo chicken dip
• A rotisserie chicken 
• Anything but deviled eggs
• A solid playlist
• Microwave mashed potatoes 
• A can of raw pumpkin
• Political debate topics
• Store-bought pie
• Dollar Tree decorations
• Conversation topics (to avoid awkward silences)
• Craft supplies (to make hand turkeys)
• Welch’s sparkling cider
• Friends
• Friends Thanksgiving episodes
• My incredible sense of humor
• Tea ☕

by The Cowl Editor on November 4, 2021

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Worst Times To Have Fire Drills

• During my shower 
• In the middle of a midterm 
• During a Zoom class
• 7 a.m. on a Sunday morning 
• Ten minutes before my paper is due…I still have two paragraphs to write
• When you’re in the middle of a good dream 
• Three a.m.
• When I’m cramming for finals
• In the middle of doing the crossword in The Cowl
• When you’re testing out your new microwave…oh wait, you’re probably the one who set it off
• Right before you get to the punchline of your funny story
• Halfway through the last season of You
• In the middle of my chem lab (did I turn the Bunsen burner off?)

by The Cowl Editor on October 28, 2021

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Worst Candy to Get in Your Trick-or-Treat Basket

• Milk Duds
• Candy corn with the chocolate on the bottom
• Granola bars
• Apples
• Green Kit Kats
• Black licorice 
• Toothpaste 
• 100 Grand bars 
• Laffy Taffy 
• Dots 
• Anything grape flavored (tastes like cough medicine) 
• Bit-O-Honey 
• Circus peanuts 
• PayDays 
• Lemonheads 
• Hard grandma candies
• Scorpion candy 
• Tootsie Rolls (especially the fruit-flavored ones)
• Pretzels
• Really small gum
• Spicy candy
• Raisins
• Good & Plenty
• Mini soda bottles
• Clementines
• Werther’s caramels
• Gumballs that look like eyes
• Only one tiny piece

 

by The Cowl Editor on October 21, 2021

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Ways to de-stress during Midterms

• Count your ceiling tiles
• Count the squares in the wall
• Talk to your cinderblocks
• Take a walk down Chad Brown
• Smell markers
• Go Halloween decoration shopping and get scared by some of the ones in Target that jump out at you
• Start manifesting
• Start knitting
• Sleep on top of your textbooks to absorb info via mitosis (wait…it’s osmosis)
• Read The Cowl
• Go on Yik Yak
• Re-read Dean Sears’ emails

by The Cowl Editor on October 7, 2021

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Who Should Perform At Late Night Madness?

• Strictly Speaking
• Special Guest
• Anaclastic
• Friar Dom and Huxley as a duet
• The Yodeling Kid (Mason Ramsey)
• The Wiggles
• Dixie D’Amelio
• Trisha Paytas
• Lil Nas X’s baby
• The PC Pep Band
• Father Shanley
• Alabama sorority girls
• Fifth graders doing the Whip and Nae-Nae
• The Hype House

by The Cowl Editor on September 30, 2021

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Weirdest Reasons People Get Fined

• Breaking a ceiling tile (and bringing it outside for some reason)

• Pulling the fire alarm as a social experiment

• Opening the emergency door to throw out a beer bottle

• Opening the emergency door to sneak friends in

• Breaking the dryer door

• Stealing a COVID sign

• Breaking into the telephone and data room

• Making a fun game out of knocking down the exit signs

• Stealing the soap dispensers (at least you’ll be clean)

• Stealing shower curtains (seriously, why?)

• Playing real-life Mario Kart with the move-in carts

• Setting off a smoke alarm because you burned microwave popcorn

by The Cowl Editor on September 23, 2021

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Most interesting stickers I’ve seen on campus

• Bo Burnham quotes
• Stickers from bananas 
• Father Shanley’s face
• Huxley
• The “Berries and Cream” guy
• The ones they gave out during orientation week
• B.O.P. stickers on people’s laptops who aren’t in B.O.P.
• A singular wooden spoon
• Apple logo stickers on MacBooks 
• Stickers from hometowns/states
• Faded involvement fair stickers 
• Cowl stickers (can we get some please)
• “I voted” stickers from seventeen-year-old freshmen 
• The chapel
• “Gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss” with little star emojis 
• The Office or Criminal Minds (why is it always Michael Scott in a bandana?)
• Friar Dom

 

by The Cowl Editor on September 16, 2021

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• Wolf howls (in chorus)
• Flood warning notification (why is it so loud?)
• The water dripping from the leak in my ceiling
• The toilet in my apartment randomly flushing in the middle of the night
• My freezer deciding it’s broken
• Roommates brushing teeth very loudly
• People aggressively slamming their dishes onto the Ray dish return
• Footsteps above me while I’m trying to sleep (especially flip-flops)
• People still trying to do the thing where they lick their finger before turning the page of a book
• Roommates clipping toenails
• Really bad club remixes
• People typing their “notes” in class
• Someone dropping their Hydro Flask