Fun Facts About Exeter
It’s October, which means that for the Exeter Admissions Department, tour season is in full swing. If you give a tour, or even see a tour, here are some fun “facts” about Exeter to tell those nervous parents with neck scarves and thirteen-year-olds in oversized suits.
1. “Exeter” is Latin for “Harvard.”
1. “Exeter” is Latin for “Harvard.”
2. Mr. Chen was once a world champion volleyball player. Teaching math is his hobby.
3. Crying is weakness leaving the body. Exonians no longer have any weakness left in their reserves by senior year.
4. Dean Cosgrove uses Pantene Pro-V conditioner to get those luscious curls.
5. Getting a classics diploma is useful.
6. Mock Trial is a respectable institution.
7. When John Phillips founded Exeter, he did so to impress a beautiful, upper class woman, the daughter of a New Hampshire statesman. That’s why “finis origine pendet” roughly translates to “finishing depends on how you start ;).”
8. Exeter has a population of 1 million people, it just doesn’t look that way because it’s spread out.
9. Edward Cullen in Twilight was named after Edward Harkness.
10. Mr. McConnell was actually a Civil War general. He time travelled to now to make sure we learn the mistakes of our nation’s past. You can tell by his stature, and the blue of his Yale sweatshirt represents the blue of the Union’s uniforms.
11. The library has infinite floors. You will never reach the fourth floor—it doesn’t exist. Where the fourth floor should be is a black hole that takes you twisting deep into the time-space continuum, never to escape your endless plight up the stairs.
12. We write all our papers in mobius strip format. Any other format is not good enough and therefore unacceptable, as of last week Wednesday.
13. We all wear wigs so the government doesn’t know what our real hair looks like. I’m actually a ginger.
14. Exeter, NH is the birthplace of John Cena, William Faulkner and Vladimir Putin.
15. As opposed to by hamster wheel, all of Exeter is powered by intro fit kids on treadmills. #sustainable
16. Nobody has ever seen Dean Mischke in person. She exists as a godly entity, residing above us benevolently.