Everyone loves to giggle at oblivious freshmen attempting to swipe their ID cards to get onto the White Loop after a long night on Frat Row, but getting around campus would be much less of a hassle (read: shit show) if everyone understood how the CATAbus worked. These routes have become familiar to many of us, but at one point in time, they were foreign to us.
It wasn’t until the end of my first semester that I began to understand Happy Valley slang -- and I’ll admit that I continue to learn new terms from time to time. However, since I’d never wish that pitiful feeling of sheer cluelessness upon any innocent freshmen, I decided to compile a list of these terms. Call it Penn State’s version of Urban Dictionary.
Freedom, they believe, is theirs. And so it may be...depending who their RA is for the coming semester. A resident assistant can make or break the It's-My-College-Experience-and-I'll-Do-What-I-Damn-Well-Want dream. Here are the five types of RA's that I've found to be most common.
A highly anticipated moment for any soon-to-be-Penn-Stater's summer is just around the corner -- roommate assignments will soon be distributed to the freshmen masses. There's a code of conduct that you need to abide by unless you want to be referred to as "my creepy-ass roommate" to all my high school friends before the fall semester even begins.
we’ve compiled a list of the songs that are bound to remind you of the 2011-2012 school year here at State. Whether they mark your first taste of freedom as a freshman or they represent a bittersweet goodbye for all you seniors, these tracks are certain to take up a special place in your heart from this point forward (even the overplayed ones—especially them).
We all follow, favorite, and retweet @PennStateProbz on Twitter. And of course, we all share our favorite Penn State Memes on Facebook. But alas, there’s a glorious new distraction with which to procrastinate your nights away: meet the Tumblr page that Penn Staters shall forever reblog, That’s So State.