What stupid thing did you do in college? I collected pennies one year. As I was moving

[applegrove]

out of my dorm room I found the pennies. I didn't want to take them home.............. so I threw them out. My friends didn't let me live that one down.

[trof]

1. It would be a long list.

I was in college 1959-1963.
Yes, we had panty raids.


I once ripped a cloth towel roller cabinet off the wall of a public restroom, carried it back to the fraternity house (yes, I was one of THOSE), and installed it in my room.
I believe alcohol was involved.
I believe the statute of limitations has lapsed.


On a bet, I chugged a fifth of corn liquor.
I won the bet and immediately barfed the booze.
And the pizza.
Good thing I did, or I probably would have died of alcohol poisoning.


If you think my college experience sounds a bit like 'Animal House', you'd be correct.

[baldguy]

2. One night, we piled 7 people into my Pinto & drove to Niagara Falls, with the odd guy in the back.

Not like it sounds. The Falls is only about 10 min away from the school.

As the three couples wandered off by themselves (what else do you do at 2AM at Niagara Falls?), the odd guy decided it would be cool to climb over the fence & romp at the edge of the Gorge. When we found him, it took us about 20 min to convince him to come back.

And yes, alcohol was involved from the beginning.

[Bertha Venation]

28. Seven people in a Pinto?!

Goddamn, baldguy!

[Chan790]

3. Flung a flaming Christmas tree from the roof of the dormitory...

like a javelin, into the parking lot.

There was alcohol involved. I do not believe I was wearing pants. It was January.

[Kaleva]

8. You could have lost the important stuff by fire or frost bite!

[Chan790]

11. I nearly lost my job...

I was the RA. The RD sent me an email and said she wanted to meet with me at 3PM. I figured I was done and was planning how to come clean when I walked in. I got there and she was there with the head of Campus Security and just as I was about to confess, they asked if I knew who had done it and asked me to keep an ear out as part of the "team" investigating the "act of vandalism"

Vandalism? It was my tree. I bought it for the floor-lounge. I paid for it. I can't be the vandal of my own tree.

[Kaleva]

12. LOL

[bluedigger]

4. Stopped going to a couple classes after the withdrawal period had closed.

Zeros do not average well in your GPA.

[Chan790]

7. I did that.

Second semester senior year. In my defense, I was having a nervous breakdown because I'd been standing in front of the Pentagon when the plane hit...and nobody from my thesis adviser to my friends noticed that I was wigged the fuck out and had stopped sleeping or getting out of bed.

The dean let me make-up my classes over the summer at a local state college.

[benld74]

5. 'Lost' the deposit on an apartment, by NEVER taking care of the place

Really needed that $350 a few years later!
Survived
But NEVER, EVER 'lost' another one!!!!

[Kaleva]

6. Studied. Made the Dean's List.

[Generic Brad]

9. Made the largest beer can pyramid on campus

It went from floor to ceiling. And the monument would still stand today had it not been for the fact we forgot to rinse out the cans before we made the pyramid. After 30 days the smell overcame us.

[applegrove]

10. My girlfriends and I would call ourselves Phillis, Gertrude and Agnes when we went out to bars. We

just went out to drink and dance a little. Both my friends had boyfriends back home and I wasn't really looking to hard.

[bluedigger]

13. I was under the impression all the girls at Bard were named Phillis, Gertrude, or Agnes...

[applegrove]

14. LOL!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. Drank 141-proof rum mixed with cherry Kool-Aid

and spent the night lying on the floor of a toilet stall in the dorm bathroom, occasionally pulling myself up just far enough to call Ralph on the big white phone.

Smoked a bit of reefer and then piled into an old Volvo with eight other stoned people on a below-zero night to go to a porn movie, where we laughed our asses off and managed to distract and annoy the pervs sitting by themselves with popcorn boxes in their laps.

Hitchhiked.

[rrneck]

16. Graduate. nt

[Odin2005]

17. Started a fire in Chem lab

Had way too much fun with dropping sodium metal into water!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

29. Burning magnesium in a test tube is fun too!!

Really freaks out lab partners.
Magnesium burns with a brilliant white light. It's what they use for most explosions in movies.

[bigwillq]

18. Drugs

But it was oh so much fun.

[Lionel Mandrake]

19. I took 24 units one quarter,

just to prove that I could.

I had to study all the time, and I didn't get much sleep. It wasn't fun. I'd never do that again.

[EastTennesseeDem]

20. Once I got really baked and took a very hard petrology midterm. I also yacked on my friend's guitar.

By "one time" I mean like about two months ago. However, I got a 91 on it so I forgive myself.

Instead, I would go with the latter because nothing good came of it. It was a quiet Saturday night and he, being the 21-year-old who had the final say on what booze to get, went for the Wild Turkey 101 (ew. ew. ew. ew. ew.). After we had had a majority of it (ew. ew. ew. ew. ew.) I passed out on his bed while he plucked shitfacedly at his better-than-average electric guitar. At some point when I was passed out, he set the guitar down, but it was strategically at my feet (I was passed out in the sitting-down-but-with-my-back-comfortably-on-the-bed position.).

I awoke and had that "Oh shit, I am about to puke" feeling. Naturally I sat up, and instead of spewing on the floor, I spewed right on his guitar that I didn't know was there. I'm not talking kind of hitting the neck with some vomit. I'm talking a fucking bulls eye, right onto the body.

He was passed out, but I still had the decency to stumble over to him and wake him up to tell him. I never could get out the words but after a couple minutes trying to tell him what had happened he turned around and figured it out (but it still took him a minute to connect the puke on his guitar with the fact that someone puked on his guitar).

There are several things that rival that, but goddamn is that one memorable (Surprisingly my memory from that night is clear, despite my BAC which had to be approaching 0.40).

Of course, I still go to college, and will still be here for another month. So I could conceivably top it. Hope not.

[Burma Jones]

21. Won a Fraternity Drinking Contest

[lastlib]

22. A 12-hour Frisbee marathon!

8 pm to 8 am

Went to bed, slept til 6 pm. Could.Not.Get.Out.Of.Bed!! Had to just lay there another two hours, trying to make my back and legs work--even wet my bed!

[noamnety]

23. I sort of burnt down part of my dorm.

I had to spend a few months sleeping on the porch while my room was repaired. Lost my 4 years of portfolio work (and the slides of it) in the fire. Ended up enlisting in the army as a result of the fire because without a portfolio I couldn't get into an MFA program.

In summary - I stored the backups of my work in the same location as the work itself. Don't do that.

[lastlib]

24. An Honors thesis....

...typed four drafts of the stupid thing (100+ pages) on a manual typewriter. That was over 35 years ago--my fingers still haven't recovered.

[mysuzuki2]

25. I dropped out of my pre-med program and majored in Anthropology.

and yes, alcohol was involved.

[becca da bakkah]

26. I Hooked My Way Through Sophomore Year....

Oh wait, that was my ex-husband's fantasy when we'd play professor and desperate-for-a-good-grade-coed. Safe word was "curriculum"!

[Bertha Venation]

27. I fell deeply in love

with a psychotic woman. No hyperbole.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

30. took morning glory seeds.

Not fun.
Crawled out of bed to the toilet and barfed em up.
In the meantime, stayed in bed being totally paranoid and screamed.

really a bad trip.
Note: Alcohol was most definitely NOT involved.