Life Advice

Thank you all for staying with us for 24 weeks now. We love checking exonianaf@gmail.com and finding questions from you. Q1: How do I stop my fellow dorm mates from taking my snacks? I’m known as the snacklord in my dorm. I’ve got boxes of pringles, jolly ranchers, granola bars, poptarts, you name it. I have a fridge full of tea and brisk. However, being the snacklord comes with a price. My snacks? You already know my snacks make all the boys come to the yard. Uppers and seniors always sneak into my room to steal my snacks. Even when I’m there, sometimes they will come in and take them anyways. How disrespectful, amirite? I wanna show 'em a lesson.A1: ‘You know what? I’m done with you. My anaconda don’t want none of this no more. Leave me alone and pick on someone your own size.’ Use this line and you should be set. Stand up for yourself.Q2: How do I help a prep in the dorm that is super stressed about finals week? He has very high anxiety and is still adjusting to the new lifestyle at Exeter. He has no idea what to expect and I can tell she doesn’t quite know the best way to study.A2: Well prep fall is pass/fail after all so tell her to not stress too much . But with that being said, every prep should try to do well on their finals to prepare themselves for the upcoming terms. In my opinion, exam week can sometimes be easier than a normal week of school because the amount of free time that you have. You should advise her to exercise good time management. Let her know that often times exams aren’t any harder than normal tests, and as long as she studies during her free block and nights, she should be fine.Q3: How do I teach a disrespectful prep how to be respectful? For example, in evening prayer he was talking aka flirting with his date while everybody else was trying to listen to the beautiful music (courtesy of Dana Yu feat. Tommy Song).A3: It depends how you want to approach the situation. There are two roads you can take: the radical road, or the calm and collected road. If you really want him to get the message, I’d suggest you stop the performer, and publicly call him out. Ask him to announce what he was whispering to his date in front of everyone else. Most likely, he’ll leave in his embarrassment. If you, yourself want to take your own advice and be respecful, I’d suggest you pull him aside sometime after EP and tell him how important it is to the performer that students and faculty stay quiet during the music.Q4: How do I get on the Business Insider just like my man... BIG STERL. He was looking fly, and when I saw him I just thought, ‘man….gotta turn my swag on’. So as a dorm mate of Sterling’s, help a brother out and lay down some info as to how to increase my swagger.A4: Numero uno: if you wanna be a bro, you gotta rock the flow. Everyone knows, Sterling walks with the lean and swagger of an old school MC. And his companion, Henry ‘Hank’ Behrens, has the best flow in the school. Buy yourself a cap and some Rogaine, and prepare to make the greatest leap in your life: from loser to the highest status of social life that Exeter has to offer. It may be a battle, but it’s worth it, trust us.Q5: Good music?A5: Drawing Lines / Girls Names. Scholarships / Caroline Smith & The Good Night Sleeps. Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want / The Smiths. Under the Bridge / Red Hot Chili Peppers. West End Girls / Pet Shop Boys. Stakes is High / Dela. Shadow Dance / The Internet. Final Form / Everything Everything. Drown / Marika Hackman. Younger Than Yesterday / Real Estate.B5: Mason, Lazaro, and Talla are DJs for their radio show, W$GTM. Check it out on 90.5 WPEA or at www.exeter.edu/wpea on Sundays from 9-10pm.