30 Official Big Moods of Fall 2017
1. The squeak of prep boys’ voices.2. Cheering harder for the debate team than for the football team.3. Giving d-hall the high praise of calling their macaroni and cheese “edible.”4. Considering that maybe, just maybe, the Mooch would be a better president than Trump.5. Wondering if your own self-abhorration is a good topic for your Common App essay.6. The way you can just tell that someone plays lacrosse. Maybe it’s the hair7. Being late to 8:00 am class but everything being fine because your teacher is even later.8. Doubting the administration.9. The way family weekend always falls on the one weekend you’re most busy and the subsequent guilt you feel when you’re not with your mom the entire time.10. People cutting in line.11. The Puritans.12. Hearing preps discuss their future careers at Goldman Sachs.13. Eye contact with the one other person who actually talks in your English class.14. Going to Club Night, then being surrounded by yelling people and Wanting to Die™.15. Dean Cosgrove’s sensual, curly mane.17. Your mom asking if Ganesh is a restaurant.18. Using temporary hair dye because you’re not edgy enough to go all in.19. Wondering if Stu Co is going to get anything done besides getting the entire Exec Board into Harvard.20. Wondering what your life would be like if you were tall enough for crew.21. When preps haven’t discovered how to tweeze their brows.22. Asking your advisor how required that one “required appointment” really is.23. Ordering Penang not because it is delicious, but because it is there.24. Wanting to ask a proctor for help, then realizing that you are the proctor and having to ask yourself for advice.25. The way new students dress exclusively in Exeter gear.26. Principal MacFarlane’s art scarf.27. Thinking you’re on the fourth floor of Phillips Hall, then realizing you still have one more flight to go even though you’re perspiring both rampantly and aggressively.28. Being told to “have fun” dealing with issues of racism and cultural difference29. When your teacher brings snacks but you’ve already had breakfast so you can’t eat them without feeling ingenuine.30. Replying all to emails.