August 27, 2007
Orientation Week and High Quality T-Shirts
It's orientation week for a lot of schools in New York City, so I wrote a post at the other site about things that colleges and universities are doing to welcome incoming freshmen. They range from the mundane (a class on how to navigate City College's library) to quintessentially 2007 (how to socially network face to face in the age of Facebook and MySpace), which leads me to believe that the freshmen of today might very well be even more socially akward than I was as way back when. Fortunately, I fell in with a good crowd of people almost from the start and everything worked out fine. I bumped into one of that crowd this week on 43rd St. in Manhattan, completely randomly, as we were both rushing off to different destinations.
I e-mailed her today to say it was a nice coincidence, with a link to the post about college orientation, noting that it had been exactly XX years since our orientation. Her reply was a perfect storm of surprise, alarm, denial, and consternation in about a dozen words: "are you serious? that's frightening, i don't know what you are talking about! yikes." My sentiments EXACTLY!
As I wrote her back, I realized that the t-shirt I was wearing was purchased during that orientation week many many years ago; probably the first day, likely with money my parents slipped me after moving me into my dorm. My t-shirt is not as old the class of incoming freshmen arriving at Columbia, NYU, Fordham, and other schools across the country, but it is getting alarmingly close to the point where I will be able to say "I was wearing this shirt before you were born, so gimme your subway seat punk."
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