<p>How many of you visited campus and rubbed the boot of Woolsey?</p>
<p>Our tour guide warned us not to...she said some people pee on it. Ick.</p>
<p>Urine, at 98.6 degrees fahrenheit, is one hundred percent sterile....</p>
<p>Not being superstitious, I didn't. But plenty of the other guys in the tour did.</p>
<p>And I heard stories like siliconvalleymom's so I'm glad I didn't :)</p>
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Our tour guide warned us not to...she said some people pee on it. Ick.
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As I've posted before, that's where the luck comes from.</p>
<p>When did this "tradition" start, anyway? I don't remember it from 30 years ago.</p>
<p>Haha I rubbed it. :) Good stuff.</p>
<p>That tradition is non-existent. Nobody here in their right mind rubs that statue's disease-riddled foot. I have no idea why they say that on the Yale tours. </p>
<p>(Harvard also has the same "fake" tradition with John Harvard's statue that they mention in their tours.)</p>
<p>I rubbed it. After all, I need all the help that I can get.</p>
<p>Nobody really cares about the foot except kids on the admissions tour. Students don't pee on it either; they simply don't care. </p>
<p>I think a higher proportion of kids who don't rub the toe get in than those who did (just my guess though). I certainly thought it was silly and didn't rub it.</p>
<p>I rubbed that boot. And that's why I'll get in.</p>
<p>I deliberately did not rub the foot, so that if I don't get in, I can blame it on that and not my actual failures.</p>
<p>...also, I don't care if urine is sterile. Ew.</p>
<p>Heh... our guide didn't tell us that. He just said that he rubbed it, and that he was pretty sure that it was how he got in.</p>
<p>I rubbed it, I think, a couple of years ago. But, honestly, I don't think that that is what is going to get me in/or denied/deferred.</p>
<p>I kissed it! Too bad I decided not to apply...</p>
<p>My tour guide was so shocked that she got out her phone and took a picture of me kissing it. (not kidding)</p>
<p>mmm - I love kissing pee</p>
<p>I rubbed it, but I'm still convinced that I'm screwed.</p>
<p>Heh...</p>