Listomania: Things Friars Keep In Their Robe Pockets

by The Cowl Editor on April 4, 2019

Features

Travel-sized Bibles

Incense

Handwarmers

More pockets

Rosary beads

Map of campus

Tide-to-Go stick

Copy of The Cowl

Backup robe

Cigars

A collection of ABBA CDs

The mystery of the Trinity

Unconsecrated wafers (#afternoon snack)

Personal autograph by Coach Cooley

Martin Luther’s 95 Theses

Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica

Listomania: Ways to Get Accepted into College

by The Cowl Editor on March 21, 2019

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Cure cancer

Join a fake crew team

Sell your soul

Have your parents get a second job at the college

Create your own college

Live in a tent on campus and go to classes until they give you a degree

Know a guy

Become a prodigy

Ask Lori Loughlin for advice

Lower your expectations

Get hit by a car while visiting campus

Donate the Torch

Be a well-rounded student-athlete with an amazing resume, extracurriculars, and a good personality, and hope that is enough

Listomania: Stress Triggers

by The Cowl Editor on March 7, 2019

Features

The PC Men’s Basketball Team

Seeing professors in the gym

To snow day or not to snow day?

The Starbucks line five minutes before class

Taking someone else’s laundry out of the machine

11:55 p.m. instead of 11:59 p.m. deadlines

The Dunkin’ line on the weekends

Walking from Smith to Ruane in between classes

Getting a job before graduation

The Thursday nugget line

Senior year housing as a sophomore

Networking

Eaton Street Café lines on the weekend

Having to spend a $1 fee to transfer money to PC Cash

My parents

Everything

Listomania: What We Hear at PC Men’s Basketball Games

by The Cowl Editor on March 3, 2019

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“Sakai Ashton-Langford”

“The only reason I’m enjoying this game is because of my drink.”

“When are we going to score? My legs are hurting.”

“Watson really filled into his body.”

“We scored a goal.”

“Coach Cooley is a well-dressed man.”

“The Shoe Shuffle is rigged.”

“Get that man a steak.”

“How many periods are left?”

Dance team comes on: “There are families here.”

“Alpha is the coolest name ever.”

Other team enters: “Safety School.”

“They call it a free throw for a reason.”

“Break his clavicle.”

Listomania: Things You Shouldn’t Say to Your Crush

by The Cowl Editor on February 14, 2019

Features

I Googled how to slow dance

You smell different when you’re awake

You remind me of (insert family member here)

We would make cute kids together

You look better than usual

I love you (#thankunext)

I get sweaty when I look at you

Have you put on weight?

I liked your pictures online better

My other personalities and I think you’re cute

My mom said I should talk to you

I think we are cousins

I accidentally swiped right

I knew you were the one from the moment I heard your voice on Xbox live

Listomania: Things that make me sad

by The Cowl Editor on February 8, 2019

Features

Ray

The fact that I have to figure out what PC Cash is

My diminishing PC Prints balance

Broken elevators

The laundry room being on the ground floor

Shoeboxes (aka Aquinas doubles)

Lack of insulation in windows

Communal bathrooms

Physics

Professors canceling class but not telling anyone

Professors not canceling classes

The lack of a panini station in Ray

Having 8 hours of class in one day

Polar Vortex

The men’s basketball team’s record

Listomania: Essentials for Super Bowl Sunday

by The Cowl Editor on February 1, 2019

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An extra TV if you smash yours

First aid kit

Lucky underwear

A pound of buffalo wings to stress eat

Extra pants in case of an emergency

Liquids to hydrate

Water bottles to pee in during overtime

My autograph from Tom Brady (#humblebrag)

Fire extinguisher

Face paint

Extra couches

A shoulder to cry on if your team loses *cough LA fans*

Best of Maroon 5 playlist

Ice for drinks and injuries

Listomania: Most Awkward Small Talk

by The Cowl Editor on January 24, 2019

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“How is your family?” -My Boss

“Good to see you.” -Someone I‘ve never seen before

“What classes are you taking?” – All of my professors

“Where are you living?” -My next-door neighbor

“Abroad changed my life.” -Everyone who studied abroad

“How are you?” -Person walking in the other direction

“Come over anytime.” -Person who doesn’t say where they live

“How is your syllabus week going?” -Someone taking four classes

“What did you do abroad?” -Everyone who didn’t go abroad

“I haven’t seen you since last year.” -Person trying to be funny

“Let’s catch up soon.” -Person I haven’t seen since New Student Orientation

“What is your New Year’s resolution?” -My Mom

“I’ve missed Ray.” -Said no one ever

Listomania: Reasons Why My Bank Account is Empty

by The Cowl Editor on January 18, 2019

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Late night McDanks trips

Renting textbooks for spring semester

Tijuana, baby

That gym membership I still haven‘t used

Had to convert money to PC Cash

Stocked up on Costco’s 27 lb Mac & Cheese Storage Buckets

Getting “Mo Bamba” on vinyl

Buying mango Juul pods off of Ebay

02908 Club

Legs & Eggs

The Friars Give Event

Amazon Prime “discounts” at Whole Foods

Government shutdown

Throwing up in an Uber

Study abroad expenses

Listomania: The Festivus Airing of the Grievances

by The Cowl Editor on December 8, 2018

Christmas

All I can do is procrastinate

Ray (#BringBackThePaniniStation)

Ban electric scooters

Professors moving finals a week earlier

Saturday finals

Dorm fines

Dunkin’ getting rid of the peppermint mocha

Getting misdiagnosed by the Health Center

Running on three hours of sleep

Running out of toilet paper

Winter songs pretending to be Christmas songs (We see through you, Baby It’s Cold Outside)

Secret Santa

Family asking me what I am doing with my life

The Christmas tree on Slavin lawn being the size of my thumb

Group projects

The landscaping crew mowing the lawn during the winter