39 Signs You Went To Trent U #TrentU
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Image via @MitchChampagne
Trent alumni might well feel nostalgia when they read this list of signs they went to this awesome U...
1. You know the joys of two reading weeks
2. ISW week means something to you
3. You partied hard at the Commoner, then stumbled home across the bridge to Champlain or LEC, or tried to find your house at Otonabee—er, was it G or H or...?
4. You've taken part in the Great Race
5. You've totally rocked HOTT
6. Harvest Weekend was a much needed break
7. You played ultimate frisbee—whether or not you were good
Our Aaron Elliott (far left) during his (all-star?) Trent Ultimate Frisbee Days
8. Bata library became your second home
9. You listened to "Closer to Fine". A lot.
10. You accidently got on the George St N. bus at least once or twice instead of the East Bank one
11. You listened to Trent Radio. Or were on it. Or hosted a show
12. You had existential, philosophical conversations at the Only Cafe, and solved many of the world's problems there
13. You pulled an "all nighter" at the Piggy/Trash instead of studying
14. You've won a peanut race
15. You were at Bacchus
16. You've fallen asleep, and maybe snored loudly, during a early morning lecture at Wenjack theatre (after a late night out)
17. You jumped in the Otonabee
18. You know what the love shack is at Club Vibe (and hopefully you avoided participating in it!)
19. You styled with your headband, wristbands and high socks playing squash at the AC
20. You dreaded walking across the bridge in the dead of winter
21. Your name was somewhere on a desk at SC 137
22. You ate at the Great Hall at Champlain College
23. You attended a Stop Light Ceilie
24. You welcomed turning onto the 115 to head back to Trent
25. The bookstore became the bane of your existence
26. You played hacky sack. Lots
27. You played at Justin Chiu stadium
28. You attempted to walk the drumlin
29. You've reenacted the scene (in your head, at least) from The Sword in the Stone with the Trent Sword sculpture
30. You've earned your Pig's Ear Diploma (below, Prof. Symons getting his)
31. You knew a guy named Cowboy
32. You had Birkenstocks before they were cool
33. You fell in love—both with Peterborough and maybe with that someone special
34. You knew Paul Wilson
35. You were on a first name basis with all your profs
36. You were in a band, or knew someone forming a band in your hallway dorm
37. You wore plaid and had a beard
38. Getting your class schedule and realizing you had to be on the main campus, then a class at Traill College, then a class at Peter Robinson. Doh
39. You ordered greasy pizza late at night, hung out with your dorm mates, and watched David Letterman.
***Add to our list here!
—by Aaron Elliott and Neil Morton
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