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End to freshman year
Posted on 09 June 2023.
Hello fellow freshmen,
Has Drexel convinced you to turn your 5-year program into 4 years? Don’t worry, if it hasn’t yet, it will soon enough.
We all came in as overachievers, thinking we would be studying on the weekends and only go out on Fridays to socialize. I personally had a rule that I wouldn’t go out on Thursdays. The rule was officially broken as of yesterday.
A good amount of us also learned how fast our bank accounts can be drained from 2 a.m. Domino’s orders and bribing bouncers. Huh, what, who said that?
Speaking of good times, have any of you actually explored the city yet? Because my friends and I have been saying we should go out on Saturday mornings since welcome week, but a handful of us end up waking up at 3 p.m. because of an… eventful… Friday night. I bet you’re wishing your Friday nights were momentous because the person you’re into finally came over; but honey, you’ve got to accept at some point that they’re just not that into you. Yikes. You were actually just drowning your sorrows at that time. This is when we tell ourselves we are in our unattainable era and will study until the end of the year. Then we run the Thursday night business back.
Did I get just about everything about your first year? Live, laugh, love college.
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Graduation
Posted on 09 June 2023.
The circled entries are items 34-Across may need for Commencement.
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Worst Things That Happen While Traveling
Posted on 09 June 2023.
1. Early morning flights
This should be illegal. Nobody should have to wake up at 3 a.m. Might as well stay up the whole night.
2. Having water during TSA
Going all the way through security, only to get stopped because you wanted to stay hydrated.
3. Your favorite shop being closed
I just wanted coffee, what do you mean the Starbucks will not open till later? This goes back to those unethical early morning flights.
4. Gate changes
I went all the way to one side of the terminal, now I have to go to the other side? This is too much exercise.
5. Delays
Enough said.
6. Long waits to board
I am too impatient to stand in line. I just want to get on the plane.
7. Middle seats
Being stuck in the middle of two strangers on a flying tin can? I am good, thanks.
8. Crying babies
Do we all pray that when we see a baby at the terminal, they are not on our flight? Or is it just me?
9. Airplane food
It’s edible…I guess.
10. Lack of content
You thought you downloaded enough content? You were wrong.
11. Rocky landings
Landings are worse than takeoff, I said what I said.
12. Long deboarding time
As much as I wanted to get on the plane, I want to get off it so much more.
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College grad life
Posted on 09 June 2023.
Happy graduation seniors! I’m sure you all are very proud of yourselves for making it this far, whether you did four years or five years at Drexel.
Let’s run down how you may have gotten to this point.
Your first few weeks at Drexel consisted of going to the library and finding your favorite spot that actually made you productive. Then you made friends and started working in the basement of the library, which we know is just a place for social hour — and that’s when it all went downhill.
You learn about how your friends are using Chegg or ChatGPT on their assignments and you tell yourself you’ll never be one to use those sites. And then it’s 11:51 p.m. toward the end of your first year and you forgot about an assignment that’s due at 11:59 p.m, so you use a site ‘just this one time.’ Well guess what, by your co-op term, you may as well work for one of the organizations because you’ve become a master at using them.
And don’t even get me started about the quarter system. Let’s be real, no matter how much we tell incoming students, even by senior year, no one gets used to it. We all slack off until two days before the exam and cram in the Dragons’ Den, telling ourselves this is what works better for us and how we perform better.
Then the situation turns into your parents texting you on week nine asking how studying for finals is going, and you tell them you’ve been in the library all night when you were actually going crazy at JJ’s. Such hard work has gotten you here! Congratulations!
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Posted on 12 May 2023.
The theme of this puzzle is based on the 2001 Steven Spielberg film. The shaded entries are the words 53-Across recites to 58-Across to activate his imprinting protocol.
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Top 5 Red Flags in Guys
Posted on 07 April 2023.
1. If he asks to Facetime on AOL.
Does this still exist?
2. If he forces you to share one of your dreams, then he deciphers why they occur
Why did you psychoanalyze me? This isn’t a therapy session.
3. When he asks you to pay first at the coffee shop, but then pays for his drink with a 2-for-1 coupon.
Was this date just a way for you to get free coffee?
4. If he stays at the location of your date and doesn’t tell you why until you find out from a friend that he was waiting for his mom to pick him up.
Dude, I could have just given you a ride home.
5. If 6 months after you end things, he asks why you ended things because he didn’t think anything he did was wrong.
Just go on Reddit and do an “Am I the asshole” post.
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