You are in the commons sitting with your friends at one of the overcrowded tables basically yelling to try to be heard over the massive roar that the room seems to comprise of. More people keep piling into the room and the lines begin to look worse than they did when you waited three hours for your Lil Wayne ticket. Glancing down at the food that you now realized is significantly better than usual, you come to the revelation it an accepted students tour day. You share your newfound knowledge with your friends and together you examine the possibles standing in line, clutching their folders, making awkward small talk with one another while their parents look proudly and smugly around for their child has been accepted to Penn State.
The hearty atmosphere changes immediately when one of the tour students drops their drink glass. At the sound of the shattering glass, the dinning hall becomes instantly silent. Then, breaking the spell, one table breaks into a round of applause and rowdy cheers with more tables following suit. The movement gains momentum until most of the dinning hall is clapping and shouting with some even giving a standing ovation. Eventually the movement dies down, the broken glass is cleared away, and the roar resumes.
This is a major kaiotic moment and honestly one I witness everytime there is a tour group. There is always some poor nervous or just plain accident-prone person (I am one of these people!) who drops something or shatters something and the student body of Penn State reverts to their elementary schools days to ridicule him/her. It is done out of necessity of the Penn State student body to show (and by that I mean humiliate) the accepted students that while they might be the big seniors now, they will be the underdog freshmen again next year.
Hahaha I always feel so bad when that happens to people!
ReplyDeleteWow this is both funny and embarrassing. I would hate to have this happen to me but, as bad as it might be to say, I think that it is hilarious to see it happen to other people. Maybe I won't laugh as hard next time I see this happen but, at the same time, I will be looking for something like this when I see another tour group!
ReplyDeleteHaha I can definitely relate with the awkward accepted youngsters! I was (and still am) the Kid Who Dropped the Glass. Although I have to say, even though it is mean to laugh at them, I feel like a lot of people don't laugh out of cruelty, but rather laugh because of the shock. A lot of people tend to react that way when something unexpected happens. However, it is true that some of those cocky high school seniors do need to be put in their place! :P
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