Listomania: How to win The Bachelor/Bachelorette

by Connor Zimmerman on March 5, 2020


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Woo the producers/Chris Harrison

Sabotage the other contestants by putting a metric ton of garlic in their food

Pull a power move and propose to the Bachelor/Bachelorette

Replace all the girls’ makeup with clown makeup

Rig the rose ceremony

Make the other contestants fall in love with you

Don’t be fake

Be fake

Steal the champagne

Cry 24/7 (eye drops are a must)

On the hometown visit episode, lock the Bachelor/Bachelorette in your closet so that they can never meet your chaotic war zone of a family

Bring a cute dog with you (hypoallergenic to be safe)

Run into your ex while on the show

Hot air balloon

Follow Tiff and Earl dating advice (this is how we win)

Tell them where you hid the bodies

Blackmail/extortion

Give an ultimatum 

Have a traumatic childhood experience 

Don’t have a significant other

Listomania: Plans to Make for Spring Break

by Connor Zimmerman on February 27, 2020


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Go to Namibia (they have a significant cheetah population)

Go to your bed/hibernate

Go to any place that has better food than Ray

Fyre Festival 

Buy a ranch in the old country

Go to space (the final frontier)

Hop the fence and explore Father Shanley’s house

Do your taxes

File your FAFSA

Go down a Wikipedia rabbit hole

Binge Shane Dawson conspiracy videos

Dabble in Scientology

Watch the Oscar nominees you never got around to

Get your textbooks for this semester

Reverse engineer a Boeing 737 Max

Steal the Declaration of Independence

Prove that the Earth is really flat

Make money (so that you can afford to go on Spring Break next year)

Listomania: How to make someone fall in love with you

by Connor Zimmerman on February 14, 2020


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Stand outside their dorm room with a boombox

Leave them on open on Snapchat

DM their ex on Instagram

Take them out to Ray

Photoshop them into pictures with you

Bring them chicken nuggets on Thursday

Go to the chapel with them

Express your feelings in Morning Mail

Steal a golf cart and drive them to their classes

Hide under their bed

Give them all your Friarbucks

Tell Dot to tell them how you feel

Buy their Black and White Ball ticket (if $20 isn’t an act of love, I don’t know what is)

Wear clean clothes

Wear their clothes

Request their location on Find My Friends

Watch You for tips

Get them the flame from Slavin lawn instead of a candle

Listomania: Ways to avoid catching the flu if your roommate has it (not recommended by the Surgeon General)

by Connor Zimmerman on February 7, 2020


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Sleep in the library

Spray Lysol in their face as they sleep

Wear a hazmat suit

Gently cover them with a tarp

Replace their shampoo with Purell

Quarantine them in the tunnels

Eat one whole orange

Scratch that—eat nothing but oranges

Snort Emergen-C

Create the super soldier serum (Captain America never got the flu)

Change the locks to the room so they are locked out

Hack into CyberFriar and change their GPA to 0.00 so they get kicked out of PC

Start a public health campaign where everyone tapes their mouths shut so that no one can spread germs ever again

Get them audited by the IRS so they are sent to federal prison

Accept your fate

Listomania: Other ways Ray could have listened

by Connor Zimmerman on January 30, 2020


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Move the pizza again (it’s messing with my feng shui)

Bring back the panini station

Give me iced tea or give me death

Paint it in a neoclassical style

Carpet all of Ray (and I mean all of it)

Have every menu curated by Paul Rudd

Get Ray onto [insert Food Network show here]

Make the pasta sauce less watery

Get normal toasters instead of the incinerators there now

Replace the lettuce with more salad toppings 

Hire Remy from Ratatouille (might as well put the rats to good use)

Make it so I don’t need an atlas to find the utensils

Dress as the Blue Man Group instead of the red aprons

Make Dot the head of PR for Ray

Give more Friar Bucks to the 7 meal plans as well (P.S. I’m a broke senior)

Be open later on the weekends to nourish my hangovers

Alumni should be open on Sunday…there I said it.

Listomania: Things that I learned last semester

by Connor Zimmerman on January 16, 2020


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Mint Juul pods are illegal 

I cannot responsibly manage my money (or Friar Bucks) 

They lied to me on the tour about Ray

Men’s basketball will never be able to hit their free throws

I paid $5k for a class that I skipped 23 times

I can get mono really easily (my mama always said I would be good at something)

The dorms are sticky

Mondoz is always the move, not Eaton Street

I need a new major

Clubs are really just cults on this campus

I’m not actually going abroad

Ed Cooley can pump some iron

Winter break ain’t long enough

2 or 3 cups of coffee is fine unless it’s before 2 a.m.

My parents know less about loans than I do

DWC is an informative and life-changing experience…sike

Listomania: Festivus Airing of the Grievances

by The Cowl Editor on December 7, 2019


Christmas


Not having chicken in the alumni salads

Alumni closed on Sundays (we will not be silenced)

The elevator being down in DiTrag for 3 weeks

Late Thanksgiving

When the app says that a washer is available but it’s not

Seeing ads for all 20 democratic presidential candidates

Peter as the new Bachelor (Mike deserved better)

The ending to Game of Thrones (Daenerys deserved better)

Nobody celebrating Thanksgiving (Squanto deserved better)

Taking my student loans to the grave

The monstrosity of the doors in Slavin

Not being able to domesticate the squirrels on campus

Starbucks not accepting Starbucks gift cards (I see you Sodexo)

Having no friends for friendsgiving

No baby yoda stuffed animals for Christmas

Finals week is two weeks long…change my mind

The people blowing the leaves (it isn’t fall anymore)

The sprinklers nicely watering the sidewalk

Providence College Men’s Basketball 

PARKING

Listomania: Festivus Airing of the Grievances

by The Cowl Editor on December 7, 2019


Christmas


Not having chicken in the alumni salads

Alumni closed on Sundays (we will not be silenced)

The elevator being down in DiTrag for 3 weeks

Late Thanksgiving

When the app says that a washer is available but it’s not

Seeing ads for all 20 democratic presidential candidates

Peter as the new Bachelor (Mike deserved better)

The ending to Game of Thrones (Daenerys deserved better)

Nobody celebrating Thanksgiving (Squanto deserved better)

Taking my student loans to the grave

The monstrosity of the doors in Slavin

Not being able to domesticate the squirrels on campus

Starbucks not accepting Starbucks gift cards (I see you Sodexo)

Having no friends for friendsgiving

No baby yoda stuffed animals for Christmas

Finals week is two weeks long…change my mind

The people blowing the leaves (it isn’t fall anymore)

The sprinklers nicely watering the sidewalk

Providence College Men’s Basketball 

PARKING

Listomania: Conversation Topics to Avoid During Thanksgiving Dinner

by Sarah D Kirchner on November 22, 2019


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My 90-day fiancé

The day I spent at a nudist colony

My bank account or lack of one

My tattoo of Dot 

Which state my fake ID is from

How my roommate’s drug dealer lives with us 

The demon that visits me every night

My plans after graduation

My opinions on impeachment 

The current raging hangover headache I have

The spider that whispers sweet nothings in my ear

How I definitely did not lace the turkey

The fact that I am studying abroad at home

I am pass/failing all my courses

My search for human companionship 

How my uncle is actually a b$#%!

Listomania: Things that should be Yankee Candle scents

by The Cowl Editor on November 14, 2019


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Eaton Street Cafe Mozz Sticks

Eau de Paul Rudd

Nug day

The Cowl fresh off the press

Insomnia cookies

Dunkin’

McPhail’s milkshakes (all of them in one candle with mix-ins)

McDermott

Nail polish remover

Gasoline

The smell of defeat

Harry Styles’ unwashed hair

Tide Pods (do not eat)

The expired milk in my fridge

Home Depot

Mondoz

Post SRW depression