Are You A Real Penn Stater? This 1980s Checklist Could Decide
Did you go to Penn State during the 1980s? Oh, you did! Are you sure about that?
Recently, a popular Penn State thrift shopping Instagram account, Joe Pa’s Closet, released photos on a “blast from the past” poster titled “Are You A Penn Stater?” The sign features a list of 80 things that determines a real 1980s Penn State student from just the ordinary, boring bookworm.
So, Onward State poses the question: Are you really a Penn Stater? Did you actually “do it” on the 50-yard marker of the golf course? Were textbooks only $25? Did you ever meet Joe Paterno?
To find out, see how you stack up against a few of the list’s many dated highlights:
- Climb Mount Nittany
- Buy a cone at the Creamery
- Actually go inside Old Main
- Cash a check at McLanahan’s (lol)
- Hallucinate during THON
- Sell your plasma
- Get lost in the Stacks
- Watch porn on campus (Was that a thing???)
- Pay your respects to Old Coaly
- Feed a squirrel
- Say “Hi” to JoePa
- Look the wrong way on College Ave.
- Lose your coat…or something else…at a fraternity (Like my wallet, right? Right?!)
- Eat a Grilled Sticky at 4 a.m.
- Go to a bowl game
- Dance to oldies at the Gaff (By 1980s standards, we’re talking about real oldies!)
- Pull a dorm prank
- Graduate within six years
- Grow up and leave Happy Valley for the real world
Let us know in the comments what you did back in the day during your time in Happy Valley.
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