<p>Came across this yesterday. It is a parody song about Swarthmore set to the music of an REM song. Kid started it when he was a freshman in 1990 and, for whatever reason decided to finish and record it this week, fifteen years later. Recorded it on his Mac, sang all the parts and played the guitar parts:</p>
<p>Here's a link to his Live Journal with the lyrics. From that page is a link to the MP3. It is terrific. The journal entries explain a few of the "insider" jokes.</p>
<p>We thought it was great. D was especially excited to see one of the livejournal comments refer to CTY, since she went several summers to TIP, and apparently ITEOWAWKI is played toward the end of the last dance at TIP every term, so it seems to evoke similar nostalgia among TIPsters as it does CTY kids. Just one more thing to get her excited about probably applying to Swarthmore this fall.</p>
<p>Interesteddad, did your daughter get a dorm assignment? I went and looked at the lodge where my son is going to stay - very pretty and really nice..he's lucky he had a friend with a high lottery number.</p>
<p>No. She doesn't expect to hear about a room until after freshmen room assignments are made and there is a final tally on students leaving school, going abroad, living off-campus, etc. Between reserved rooms and lottery picks, more rooms are "taken" than will be actually used. But, it will be into the summer before that is all sorted out. They don't even know the final size of the incoming class yet.</p>
<p>She's patient. She went into the room draw hoping that she would fail to get a room and get placed on the waiting list. The extra reserved rooms are better than what would have been available at the tail end of the room draw. By participating in the lottery and being placed on the "involuntary" waitlist, she is guaranteed housing. Her preference is to be in one of the "large" on-campus dorms (Willets, Mertz, Wharton, Alice Paul, Dana/Hollowell, Parish). Odds are strong that she'll end up in one of these from the waiting list, when none of them were available at the tail end of the lottery picks.</p>