Since Ohio University has passed the halfway mark through Winter Quarter, most students have dropped all those silly little resolutions they begin every quarter. To name a few, I will call them “being so very organized,” “trying so hard” and “dressing to impress.”
Think that’s a shame? Well, I just don’t have an interesting quip for that one. So let me just skip to the point, or as you have maybe learned by now, the sixth of ten signs that make me realize I must be in college now: The unique and only-on-a-college campus fashion.
I don’t think this is entirely necessary, but I thought this column might need a disclaimer. I just want to add before moving forward that while it might seem like I am poking fun at the different things people like to wear, it should not be taken to heart. Why? It’s because I’m guilty of it too.
Back to fashion, which many may argue isn’t really that different from high school.
Wrong.
High school is similar to some kind of exotic bird mating ritual, minus the feathers. Girls seem to have the mindset that one of the large handful of guys they grew up with is destined to be their future husband. They dress accordingly.
Welcome to college, where nothing says “come hither” like sweatpants and salt-stained Uggs.
I didn’t forget you, guys, but I’d say that you’re more likely to rock similar sweatpants and maybe, I don’t know, Adidas flip-flops?
In case you’re composing angry emails after that one, refer to the above disclaimer. Oh, and I know you’re totally thinking, “I do do that, how funny!” We’re in college. The least we can do is be comfortable.
Oh, and how could I forget the staple of a college student — the North Face jacket? If those bad boys became a form of currency, Ohio University’s student body could pay my tuition and then some. So hand them over. No, I don’t want any pinks or blues – they must be plain black. Only found 15,000 of them? I think we can do better than that.
Oh, and hair. Guys don’t need to worry much, but I have to say I’m a bit jealous of the large majority of girls that can pile their hair up so high on top their head that their total height could get them into the NBA.
Forget you, Illgauskas. With this bun I am 7-foot-4! But it’s nevertheless convenient, and for that I must applaud you.
College students aren’t always comfortable though, that’s for sure. They are also incredibly tough, especially when it comes to the weekends.
Be it wearing no shirt and painting your body for a football game (I hope I’m just referring to guys) or wearing next to nothing to “go out,” college kids look at the weather report and mentally shout: “YOU DO NOT DEFINE ME!”
Yes, in college when we go out, be it winter or summer, we don’t like to be bothered with bothersome things like coats … or pants.
I have justified wearing a mini-dress in the dead of winter by asking, “It’ll be warm inside right?” Or reflecting on my past decision, “And I mean yeah it’s only 30 degrees out, but last weekend it was 20 and I didn’t even get sick or anything!”
And shorts; guys like to wear shorts. Oh boy it’s snowing; I better throw on a scarf if I’m going to wear these basketball shorts. Cold legs? That’s why we don’t shave them!
Enough said. I got my point across. We are paying and working our way through higher education. Give us a break.
Oh, and pass me my rain boots. It’s 75 and sunny you say?
I’ll have the last laugh soon; this is Ohio after all.
Jackie Runion is a sophomore studying journalism and a columnist for The Post. Email her at jr178409@ohiou.edu.
