2012 wants to know: Are you down?
Sheek's recent post on the incoming class of 2012 highlighted the Facebook group that's been established for high school seniors lucky enough to be coming to Wes. One thing that quickly surfaced in the comments was a reference to a particular thread on the discussion board of said group, titled "are you down?"
The thread begins with a prefrosh who writes:
for the past four years i have lived a life of crazy debauchery, including everything from vodka dorm room parties to drinking wine in the afternoon along with the californian favorite pot. lets just say i wouldnt have it any other way. and i am just wondering who else is down with whatever whenever...Amid the cheers of, "I'm completely with you on this! I'm totally down," and, "love to get fuckedu p.. any1 else love old e?" I'm left to wonder... how did the anti-party stereotype of Wesleyan that caused this person to create this thread get introduced to the prefrosh, anyway?
Did WesFest fail to impress? Has Admissions hypnotized them into thinking we don't party? Or is there something unspeakably depraved about sipping wine in the afternoon that I just don't know about?
Anyway, I don't want to burst any prefrosh's bubble—after all, sipping wine in the afternoon and drinking vodka at a dorm party is so totally debauched! But, I do want to give a hearty, if early, welcome to the class of 2012, because one of you got it right:
Hey all this is Wesleyan. Don't worry. It's going to be craaazy.
58 comments:
soooo cute,
i can't wait to lead them astray...
oh my god.
please don't project this "are you down" girl onto all of us prefrosh.
hahahaha. if it's possible to predict new memes, I think "are you down" is it.
i agree... not all the prefrosh are like the are you down girl!!!!
wesleyan will teach you that all prefrosh are the same. identical. in every way. so please, if you feel different, start speaking up about it now, because once you get to wes you'll learn that that's not the case. no one is different.
5:04 - what? why are you so bitter? don't listen prefrosh, keep an open mind and don't be swayed by the likes of "are you down girl" or by the ultra-jaded like 5:04 am
that people actually feel the need to say "i have lived a life of crazy debauchery" is so hilariously desperate. i like. glad to hear that there are other prefrosh just as weirded out as i am about "are you down" girl.
I think the reason for the "are you down" girl is because of a couple other threads was because of the threads with people who weren't into the drinking/drugs/partying scene at Wes.
i would like to note that just because you come to wes thinking you're not into partying/drinking/whatever, it doesn't mean you will stay that way. i don't mean to suggest that there is any sort of peer pressure here, i'm just saying that you may find the scene very different and/or much better than the scene at home, and start making different choices. those of you who aren't into that stuff--people just want you to be happy and having fun; nobody cares what you do, but be open-minded too!
Sounds like this "are you down" girl is a phony just trying to appear cool to here future class. What a lame attempt. God I hate high schoolers, and yes she is a high schooler! I bet she's a book worm just looking to break out of her old self. I can't wait until orientation when she eats too many pot brownies or gets sick from downing too muck vodka.
*her
ARE YOU DOWN?
if that bitch says "pot," she dont smoke enough weed.
i also came to wesleyan thinking i wouldn't drink/do drugs/etc. That changed... significantly. I don't regret any of it, though, and I feel totally in control and free from peer pressure.
pot is legit slang in some regions. though personally i prefer "bud"
in my homeland the only respectable term for it is "wacky tobaccy"
there's so much peer pressure at wesleyan... for example, i should be writing my final paper, but instead i'm commenting on wesleying.
ARE YOU DOWN?
As a prefrosh, I must say, not all of us are "down". There was a straightedge topic in the fb group, too, until the "down" people overshadowed it with their crazy debaucheristic antics.
By the way, is this girl even aware that there are harder drugs than alcohol and marijuana? Since she is so down with anything, anytime.
goddammit i'm so fucking down. this school is so fucking crazy! down down down!
woooooooooooo
I am so fucking now down!
*not
ARE YOU DOWN?
I am so down. I do all the bad drugs my health teachers warned me about. I am so cool.
..fucking prefrosh. Probably wouldn't know what coke looked like even if it was right under her nose.
I don't claim to be some drug know-it-all, but at least I don't go around facebook forums saying "I'm down"...when all I talk about using is weed and alcohol!
drugs are bad... mmkay?
I can't wait till she gets on campus so we can all judge how down she really is and then mock her.
I'm kidding... well, only slightly.
i've already made my judgment
>:E
aw give her a break, many of you were probably really naive about drugs/alcohol coming in here. hopefully she'll figure it out by the time she gets here, or at least a few months into school. I remember people who I think are cool now making really lame social attempts at the beginning of freshman year.
-09
I was really naive about the harder stuff. But at least I didn't pretend to live life of crazy debauchery.
THESE KIDS WERE BORN IN THE FUCKING 90S!
holy fuck,
I'm old.
it's sad how quickly folks are to jump on the condescension express.
an imitation:
*knowing chuckle* she'll learn her place eventually, that hobag young'n. if the drugs dont get her the social ostracism surely will. she plainly suffers from an immature, high school personality (I am so not a fool, unlike her). Her terminology simply reeks of ignorance. She enjoys certain activities and chose to be proactive about finding others to do them with? What a savage. And especially in the way she highlights her quandary with attempted poetic embellishments; what utter childishness. Such naive worldviews are bound to be crushed if the larvae that subscribe to them ever experience life to the extent that *I* have, though perhaps the meaning will be lost on them anyways. *masturbatory chuckle*
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please shut the fuck up its obvious that you suffer from at least the same lack of foresight you diagnose in her. oh lemme guess you're a prefrosh too? nope? that's sad. (hey I can condescend too!)
Damn, I am old too. Holy shit. But despite my old age, I AM SOOOO DOWN! FOR WHATEVER WHENEVER.
i am so MOTHERFUCKING down that i am crying blood
you just wish you were down
So fucking down.
3:13, t('.'t)
i'm glad i'm the first one who didn't ignore your text wall
WOOO HOOO COLLEGE NO PARENTS!!!!
Im so fucking down down, infact im down to be down. I like pot. Im down for pot. Im down down for pot. so fucking down. more down then down. Im down to get down with pot.
thats so pathetically juvenile. i seriously don't even consider weed a drug anymore.
those that are DOWN should come DOWN for senior week... where it will go DOWN
haha 5:01, smoking a lot of weed doesn't make it any less a drug, but it makes you really down!
you're all such assholes. this girl's gonna hate wes before she even gets here
ok really, this whole thing is amusing and all, but a lot of you jerks are really making a case against keeping anonymous commenting. LEAVE ARE YOU DOWN GIRL ALOOOOOONE!!
11:10, good I'm glad.
wow 44 comments...
What is are you down girl's real name?
I come from a land down under.
VDS DOES NOT APPROVE OF THE SINGLING OUT OF THIS PREFROSH, WHO IN ALL LIKELIHOOD IS COOLER THAN EVERY WESLEYING BLOGGER, ESPECIALLY JUSTIN. WE FEEL IT IS PROOF OF THE JUVENILE, INSECURE AND IDIOTIC NATURE OF 95% OF THE WESLEYAN POPULACE. FORTUNATELY VDS, THE RIGHTEOUS REMAINING PERCENTAGE, WILL INEVITABLY ACHIEVE VICTORY. EVEN THE GZA SUPPORTS US.
GZA's down too motha fucka. i'm gonna kill a bitch
#50
I'm so down
Is there anyone less down than VDS? Somehow I doubt it.
What's VDS?
VDS is Vegan Death Squad, which consists of like, two guys who are virulently against the eating of meat, capitalism, and the general having of fun. it's kind of a lame joke and they type in ALL CAPS, ALL THE TIME
VDS IS AN INTERNATIONALLY FEARED CRIMINAL SYNDICATE OF VEGANS. STEADFAST, WITH WILLS UNBREAKABLE, WE REGULARLY STRIKE TERROR INTO THE HEARTS (ALREADY WEAK FROM COMPASSIONLESS INACTIVITY AND HIGH CHOLESTEROL) OF PUNY, SPOILED COLLEGE KIDS EVERYWHERE. POSTER @ 7:00 WILDLY UNDERESTIMATES OUR NUMBERS AND IS A PRESUMPTUOUS ASSHOLE FOR SUGGESTING WE ARE MALE. FURTHERMORE, A SINGLE ONE OF US PROBABLY HAS MORE FUN THAN EVERY MEMBER OF THE ABOVE POSTER'S ANCESTRAL LINEAGE COMBINED. WE ARE SMARTER AND BETTER LOOKING, NOT TO MENTION FAR LESS SQUARE THAN YOUR TYPICAL SHITHEAD WESLEYAN STUDENT.
WE WELCOME MEMBERS OF 2012 TO JOIN OUR STRUGGLE. CONTACT VEGANDETHSQUAD@GMAIL.COM IF INTERESTED - A RECRUITMENT OFFICER WILL CONTACT YOU.
WES CULTURE WAR 08-09
PS - WE ARE 100% FOR THE EATING OF CAPITALISM
PPS - LESS ABLEIST INSULTS PLEASE
VDS is basically a group of internet trolls with too much time on their hands. it began in 07 when MEAT club (see the post below) announced its formation, and quickly went overboard with a series of regrettable alcohol-influenced threats. VDS posts are generally characterized by cliche-ridden macho posturing (which, if you knew them, is in fact a form of self-criticism) and quasi-marxist terminology. in my opinion the fact that they consistently maintain the mock paramilitary attitude places them above entry level on the trolling hierarchy. personally i find their antics to be about a 70/30 mix of funny/embarrassing, though opinions do vary. i think only a small minority thoroughly "gets it"
haha, you guys make my day. anon 3:15, you make my day. VDS, you make me giggle. keep it up!
P.S. the consumption of capitalism is clinically proven to be healthier than being DOWN.
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