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All Good Spots on the Green are Taken

  • Alexander Vesenka
  • Apr 21, 2015
  • 1 min read

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As Spring slowly arrives in Worcester, the temperatures rise accordingly. The snow has all melted, leaving space for flowers, grass, and high-waisted shorts.

As a result students at Clark University have begun to enjoy some of their time on the quadrilateral patch of earth, located in the middle of all the dusty, old buildings. So many young people have chosen to skip class for the seasonal activity that it has generated a number of complaints.

Joey Pantos (‘16) was interviewed as he stood on the sidewalk with his arms crossed and foot tapping, “I just finished a big paper and was really looking forward to spending some time on the Green. But there’s just no good places to sit. I have my friends, my guitar, and my hookah all ready. I just can’t find a good place lounge. My arms are also getting tired.”

The Freudian Slip followed Pantos into the library, where Julia Rhodes, another frustrated student, was encountered. “I hate doing work in the AC on such a nice day. In addition, I feel like I’m just not getting enough out of college if I don’t hang on the Green once a day. Most importantly, I was going to make use of the surprisingly good wifi.”

After some further investigation, The Freudian Slip found that the culprits sitting against the Atwood walls, and the few other nice places, were in fact those no good First-Years who have nothing better to do.

 
 
 

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Hipster Quote of the Week:

The message at the end of “The Tortoise and the Hare” isn’t that ‘slow and steady wins the race’, but actually a well-remembered quote from the 1977 Disney classic “A New Hope”: “Great kid! Don’t get cocky”. Bullshit that the hare was gonna lose that race if he didn’t choose to stop for a nap and a snack and whatever else he did. Bullshit that the tortoise was going to catch up in any capacity if the hare didn’t slow down for him. Maybe that platitude makes sense, but definitely not in this situation.

 

A race is a sheer contest of speed. No other skills go into that. The tortoise and the hare aren’t making miniature wooden horses and getting judged on the craftsmanship of their products alongside their finish time; they are moving from one point to another. In no universe does slow and steady win that race. Slow and steady wins no races, except for races where the point is to go as slow as possible. Even in cases where slow and steady could be considered a possible alternative to fast, such as the aforementioned miniature-wooden-horse-making competition, someone who can do similar quality work at a much faster pace still wins that competition.

 

Slow and steady does not win the race. Not being too full of yourself does.."

 

~Nick Gilfor

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