Son was pranked by college students today at college open house.

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Definitely odd. And yeah, any kid would be inclined to cross it off their list.

To add an opposite experience: 1981 my Southern California public high school sent 38 of us on a college tour. Day three we are at UC Santa Cruz…9:30 in the morning standing outside of a dorm after a really lousy cafeteria breakfast. Our Vice Principal was giving us a lecture about being more upbeat in her mean tone. Suddenly, a window on the third floor opens up, an arm extends a bong out the window, and they dump the bong water out and it cover the Vice Principal. (Not intentionally dumped on anyone.) We stood there cracking up on the inside but too scared to say anything. We move on. After the tour we get on the bus and the group jokester gets on last…looks at the Vice Principal and says “hey Mrs. Green, is that a new perfume?” The bus (including the teacher chaperones) simply burst out laughing.

Five people from that tour ended up attending UC Santa Cruz.

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I’d say this is the universe throwing a pebble your way, and to listen to it before it becomes a brick.

Stuff like that absolutely figures into how I feel about things in general, and it usually doesn’t steer me wrong.

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The stuff some of us did in college can’t be printed. I definitely have stories that would make an Animal House II script. For a tamer example, I actually saw a group of frat guys I knew well dump a passed out brother on a frat house couch at the main bus stop on a busy Thursday morning.

Many of us definitely were a bit wild and weird at the time. This happened at a “public ivy”.

I wouldn’t condemn a whole school for the actions of a few weird late blooming teens. There are likely to be some misfit toys at every college!