I mean it is a shitty serving job on a football Saturday. I am sure they are pissed to be there, but they get paid well and i’ve even seen people tip.

Based on my understanding, it isn’t that they are specifically looking for local black folks, but it is Mississippi and that is what the local market has to offer. The white coat thing is just a fancy servers jacket.

Same. To all that (son, Texas, catalogues - but leaving tomorrow rather than Sun). My kid is a minimalist and I’m cheap. He’s got stuff from Ikea and Target. He didn’t want anything except bedding and rolling laundry basket. I did get him a few extra things - extra toiletries and some bins to keep them in, a lamp,…

If I ever hire a party planner, I may specify “Ole Miss degree a plus.”

Communications majors. Just waiting for their bids from Alpha so they can clear out of that dorm and be where they belong.

I... would not cut it in a sorority.

girls were required to have a pearl necklace to wear to university events

I find it irritating too. College dorms aren’t supposed to be pretty. They’re supposed to be weird and filled with ephemera collected here and there that gives people an idea of your personality. This room looks like it’s housed by girls who deny that they poop and fart, which means they are also probably annoying.

I work for a company that sells a lot of things to southern universities and it is SO WEIRD. Like - I went to undergrad in Ohio and grad school in upstate NY. I had no conception that the university experience could be so drastically different and ... southern.

the first time I read this, i thought your mom said, “you will die all alone!” and I was like, that is the most Jewish Mother thing ever said to anybody in the history of time. and then i realized that she was just hysterical about you being alone, but still.

Still v. glad I didn’t go to college in the South