February 06
This is the second post in our series of guest blogs from the editors of The Cipher, a magzine produced at Colorado College. Inviting them to post here is a part of The Toilet Paper’s larger effort to reach around to the community!
Misconceptions about CC students
- We live in a bubble. It is not a physical bubble, which is to say that it is easily penetrated by outside bodies. You can walk onto the CC campus without encountering some sort of invisible force-field, come into our library, use our computers and read our magazines. We have the latest issue of Cosmo. We ourselves frequently exit the bubble to go skiing.
-We are all rich and overly privileged. Many of us rely on financial aid and work-study jobs to support our elite cocaine habits.
-We like to act like we are poor. Sometimes we buy our clothing at the ARC on non-sale days, since they ended student discount Fridays.
-We do not interact with the Colorado Springs community. We frequently join the community in a feeling of solidarity while singing Irish drinking songs at Jack Quinn’s.
-We do not know how to bake. We all, at some point, considered attending pastry school in France, and while we were discouraged from our dreams by our parents and mainstream society, being told “Sugar is not acareer choice,” we continue to indulge our passion in our communal dormkitchens, whipping up the most delicious ten-layer Death By Chocolate cake you’ve ever tasted.
–Lindsay Patterson
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All that I want to know is why CC kids get 4892735784632975 crosswalks. I can see putting an extra one in the middle of the block, but you get the impression that the CC kids go out and paint themselves extra crosswalks in the middle of the night, because there’s so freaking many over there.
Sara, I don’t think any of us know either. But we could ask in turn why so many Springs residents like to drive through at 60 mph, ignoring those nice “yield to pedestrians” signs and the speed limit. A handful also enjoy stopping until students are right in front of them crossing, and then accelerating, but I think they’re just sociopaths.
Lindsay, I am amused. Great post!
Townies find it amusing that it’s the only place in town where anyone even bothers to think about stopping for a pedestrian. Issues of class and entitlement certainly arise, though we try to hit the rich ones, of course.
Actually, last time I tried to penetrate the CC force field, a big, bald security guard busted me for being a townie and told me that it was a private campus, and that me and my friends had to leave immediately. I would have shot him in the kneecaps, but I left my gat at home.