Welcome home, folks!

As Penn Staters return to Happy Valley for another school year, we thought it would be fun to theorize some trends around campus. We’ve compiled a list of the best prop bets for the first day of classes.

For those unfamiliar with prop bets, Onward State co-founder Evan Kalikow put it best: “A prop bet is short for proposition bet. Basically, it’s a bet on something not commonly betted upon. For example, lots of people bet on the score of the Super Bowl, but how many people bet on how many times the winning coach will say ‘humbled’ in the post-game press conference? That’s a prop bet.”

Just a reminder, Onward State is not a gambling organization and does not endorse gambling in any way. However, we do endorse having a good time, so here are some bets we came up with.

Prop Bets

• You get a random classmate’s phone number to potentially study with them: 5-1
• You actually text that random classmate with the intention of studying: 60-1
• The line at Starbucks in the HUB is under 15 minutes: 25-1
• Dropping a class before the end of the first day: 60-1
• Your professor lets you out early from your first class: 5-1
• You end up at a bar after class: 6-1
• You already don’t feel like cooking, so you just get Snap Pizza: 11-1
• Getting to class before the professor: 4-1
• Walking to class instead of taking the bus: 15-1
• Professor playing popular music before class to seem cool: 10-1
• Looking up your professor on “Rate My Professor” during class: 20-1

Over/Under

• Number of times you will hear the word “demure” against your will: 9.5
• Minutes waited in line at Panda Express: 10.5
• First-year students swiping into the IM Building: 465.5
• Times pretending to not recognize someone you vaguely knew last year: 3.5
• Pages of syllabi you actually read: 15.5
• Number of beers consumed in all of State College: 780.5
• Minutes spent listening to music on Spotify: 120.5
• Times hearing “We Are” somewhere on campus: 2.5
• Number of Spin bikes rented: 85.5
• Phone battery when you get home from class: 20.5
• Times someone asks how your summer was: 12.5