1. The hike to Kennedy
There’s nothing better than waking up, ready to take on the day, and then you look outside the window to see a torrential downpour, just as you are about to walk for 40 days and 40 nights across campus to your Fine Arts class in the Kennedy Building. Just to have to make the same trip all the way back to the north side an hour later.
2. 8:30s. Enough said.
You always tell yourself at course selection that it’s easier to start the day early so you can end it early. Then the semester starts and every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning you contemplate if you really need your AC 1000 or WRIT 1280 to graduate.
3. Course selection IS the Curry College Hunger Games
Registration opens at 7:00, but we all get up at 6:30 and refresh the page every five minutes in hopes they open registration early, which they don’t. Then we all play in The Hunger Games for two minutes just to sit there shaking from the anticipation until your 11:30 class.
4. Knowing the STU at dinner is a mad house
The Student Center (or STU as we know it) is ALWAYS full at dinner. Everyone is in their gym clothes, waiting for food because we all had the same idea to go to the gym at five then eat at six, a.k.a. when all of Curry tries to pack into a dining room meant for 200 when there is actually 2,000 of us.
5. STU food doesn’t always mean good food
Before starting freshman year, you think the food here comes from God himself. That’s because at Accepted Students Day, Orientation, and Welcome Weekend they made it seem that way. You quickly learn that the food is just like every other school’s and when you want a good meal, you get up at 10AM for these events just to get the good food that was meant for parents and aspiring students.
6. Not having a car as a freshman
For the half of the freshman class that DIDN’T get their car on campus somehow, we know the struggle that is not having any way to get around Curry, or the Milton-Boston area in general. You always have to take that walk to Kennedy, you envy those who stroll into class with Dunkin or Marylou’s, and you cry a little inside when you check Snapchat only to see people going into Boston mid-week just for a nice stroll through the Boston Common.
7. Constant fire alarms
If you live on the north side, you know this struggle way too well. Freshmen love to pull fire alarms, burn pancakes in the NCRH kitchens, and use the explicitly marked fire exits that read “DO NOT OPEN” that immediately set the alarms off. You’ll quickly take note that this never happens mid-day either, it always happens between midnight and three in the morning the day you have an exam, and you sit outside stressing as you wait an hour for Milton Fire Department and the electrician to come.
8. The line for Late Night
Ah, yes, Late Night. The great food made by our favorite dinging hall staff members. The array of choices we have from smoothies to salad, curly fries to buffalo chicken; it’s all amazing. What isn’t amazing about it is the line that even those who pre-ordered wait in because there is no good time to go in the two-hour window that it’s open.
9. Late shuttles
For those of us that decide to take them, the off campus shuttle services are late 9/10 times. They say the University Ave. shuttle leaves at 5PM, so we all arrive at 4:45, knowing well that it will be late. Then, lo and behold, we are standing there at 5:30 still waiting to go eat Panera and shop at Target.
10. Curry is a ghost town on weekends
Finally, a point that should probably be made to those planning to come here: Curry isn’t a huge party school because most people vacate for the weekend. We all are guilty of it; going home a couple weekends in a row or even just going home frequently because let’s face it, what is there to do here all weekend aside from the occasional activity at the STU?
