Tag: Listomania
Listomania: How to Survive Winter at PC
by The Cowl Editor on November 30, 2018
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Cuddle with squirrels for warmth
Wear a ski mask
Stand inside the Calabria Torch
Put hot chocolate into your veins via IV
Buy a $500 jacket in the bookstore
Become cold-blooded
Ask your professors to cancel class in the spirit of Christmas
Burn your purchased textbooks for warmth
Admit defeat and accept Lucifer as your savior
Wear combat boots to class
Transfer to a college in the South
Email FixIt for the thousandth time to get your heat turned on
Read The Cowl by the fire in the Great Room (shameless plug)
Listomania: What Do Friar Dom and Huxley Do Over Thanksgiving Break
by The Cowl Editor on November 19, 2018
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Reenact Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
Hunt squirrels on electric scooters
Go on a ghost hunting expedition in the tunnels under Howley
Jump in piles of leaves
Feast on Ray cold cuts
Listen to Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You” on repeat
Buy mace, in preparation for Black Friday
Ball out in Peterson
Play ding dong ditch at Father Shanley’s house
Sneak onto the roof of Harkins
Slide down the shiny railings in the new science complex
Grade DWC exams
Carve the turkey with Dot and Fran
Listomania: Absolutely Real State Laws
by The Cowl Editor on November 19, 2018
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In Texas, astronauts can vote from space.
In Alabama, you cannot wear a fake mustache that causes laughter in church.
In Rhode Island, you cannot drag race horses on the highway.
In some towns in Virginia, you cannot go trick or treating if you are over 12-years-old.
In Arizona, it is illegal for a donkey to sleep in a bathtub.
In Louisiana, it is illegal to send surprise pizzas.
In Illinois, you cannot fall asleep in a cheese shop.
In Ohio, you cannot get arrested on a Sunday or on July 4th unless you are on a river.
In Missouri, it is illegal to bear wrestle.
In Washington, you can be arrested or fined for harassing Bigfoot.
In some cities in Georgia, chickens cannot cross the road.
In Idaho, one cannot commit cannibalism unless it is for survival reasons.
In North Carolina, it is illegal to sing off key.
Listomania: I Wish I Wrote My College Essay About…
by The Cowl Editor on November 1, 2018
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Getting my first library card
When my grandmother got run over by a reindeer
When I shot my brother (with a BB gun)
The time I tripped up the stairs in front of my crush
When I dropped my box of pizza at 2 am
Getting bullied by TSA
That time Stacy was a complete biatch
My stint in juvie
How Legally Blonde made me think I could be a college graduate
Committing petty theft by stealing the bowl of candy on Halloween
First time I learned how to make toast
I remember the day I was born
The day I got free soda
How Mean Girls changed my life
The time I got gum out of my hair
When I went through my hipster phase
Listomania: Couples’ Costumes
by The Cowl Editor on October 25, 2018
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Kris Dunn & Coach Cooley
Huxley & Friar Dom
Dot & Fran
Dean Sears & His Running Stick
PC Squirrel & Trash Can
Martha Stewart & Snoop Dogg
Pete Davidson & Ariana Grande (Too Soon?)
Chicken Nugget & Curly Fry
Aquinas & Marx
Trump & Kim Jong-un
Tom Brady & a Goat
Starbucks & Dunkin’
iPhone & Android
Netflix and Chill & Hulu and Committment
Listomania: Best Ways to Study for Midterms
by Andrea Traietti on October 18, 2018
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Repeatedly slam your notebook against your head
Cry on the library couch for 30 minutes and then fall asleep
Eat your feelings out in Ray
Look at “Help Wanted” ads for when you drop out
Fill out a Change of Major form
Read your friends’ papers so you don’t have to write your own
Go to your professor’s office hours to bribe your way to an “A”
Netflix and “Study”
Reserve a room in Ryan for 48 hours
Download a virus onto your computer and say it was hacked
Go home and “forget to bring your homework”
Watch an episode of The Office for every page you read
Create a Spotify study playlist
Watch Vine compilations for research
Just Give Up
Listomania*: Ways to Celebrate Columbus Day
by Andrea Traietti on October 4, 2018
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Update your Waze app so you don’t get lost on the way to China
Hang out with some girls names Nina, Pinta, and Maria
Dress like it’s 1492
Update Columbus’ Wikipedia page
Pay reparations to the Native American people
Petition to change the day’s name
Celebrate Leif Erikson Day early
Take credit for others’ hard work
Fuel the Flat-Earth movement
Discover a world that’s already been discovered
Rip out the Christopher Columbus pages in your textbook
Sail the ocean blue
Go to class anyway
*This is a satirical list that does not reflect the views of Providence College or The Cowl.
Listomania: Better Transportation for PC Security
by Andrea Traietti on September 27, 2018
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Golf Carts
Horse & Buggy
Bumper Cars
Amusement Park Choo-Choo Train
Segways
Ziplines
Tandem Bikes
Heelys
BatmobileTM
Hoverboards
Food Trucks (For Undercover Jobs)
Cable Cars
Budweiser Clydesdales
Exercise Balls
Pogo Sticks
A Subway Through Lower Campus Tunnels
Magic Carpet from Aladdin
Sketchers Shape-UpsTM
Razor Scooters
Chariot Pulled by Friar Dom & Huxley
Dragons
Listomania: Things to “Snap” Sodexo*
by The Cowl Editor on September 20, 2018
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A picture of my undercooked chicken
“Cheating on Ray with Take3”
A picture of my own cooking
“Where’s the hot chocolate?”
A picture of Dot looking sad at the changes in Ray
A face-swapped picture with the cockroach sitting next to me
A picture of my secret Tupperware full of stolen food
A picture of my cupboards full of stolen Ray dishes and cups
A video of me sneaking into MyZone
A series of photos of ethnic food fails
A video of the “better line control” on Nugget Thursdays
(A picture of my bitmoji looking confused) “Who runs this place?”
*PSA: Sodexo’s Snapchat name is “pcdining”
Listomania: Bad Reasons to Call PC Security
by Andrea Traietti on September 13, 2018
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My mozz sticks got cold.
Um, I’m kind of…stuck. In the flame.
My syllabus says that Tuesday is a Monday schedule.
I called Fix-It two months ago and they still haven’t come.
A squirrel jumped out of a trash can just to stare at me.
My professor just said “semester-long group projects.”
I saw Friar Dom outside of a sporting event.
There’s a 45-minute wait for the Eaton Street Café.
Golden Crust is closed, but I’m still hungry.
I think the RIPTA might be on time.
I ran out of FriarBucks and it’s only September.
I have to walk from Smith to Harkins in two minutes.