Roger Williams University is a school located in Rhode Island that is known mainly for the incredible water view the campus showcases. Just like any other school, there are several inside jokes that only students would understand, such as:
1. The joy of seeing a campus cat
There's nothing like casually walking by MNS only to see one of the several campus cats. Your automatic reaction is to scream, "Cat!" and proceed to try to get it to follow you home. In fact, you and your friends have names for them. If you see one, you must take a photo and put it on your Snapchat story. Otherwise, did you really see a campus cat?
2. Seeing someone wearing Vineyard Vines at least once a day
This should really be a disclaimer on applications for applying to a private school in New England. I have never seen so many guys in pastel shorts and a shirt with a whale on it that they paid at least $100 for.
3. The annoying PDQ Pulse emails
Thank you RWU, I got the e-mail the first time. I don't need you to send it to me three more times. I'm just going to delete it anyway.
4. The fact that Maple can't go a month without someone setting off the fire alarm
It's always great to be woken up at 2 a.m. to a fire alarm because someone doesn't know how to make popcorn. Go Hawks.
5. Getting a birthday card two months after your birthday
The mail center is just a mess. Oh, you want those shoes you ordered by next week? Better pay for overnight shipping, otherwise you'll get them by next month if you're lucky. It's okay, I really didn't want that card with a large check from my grandma. I'm just a poor college student. I can always revert to becoming a stripper to pay for my tuition.
6. Not using an umbrella when it's raining
Just don't do it. It's a rule of thumb. Not only will your umbrella turn inside out and break due to the wind, but the entire campus will never let you live it down.
7. The exhilaration of discovering that there's chicken tenders and mac and cheese for lunch
Sorry professor, I can't come to class today. I need to be at Commons by 11 to make sure I get extra mac and cheese.
8. The raccoons that live outside CAS
They seem like such rabid beasts, but really they're just hungry like the rest of us. I must say it is quite entertaining to watch an overweight raccoon climb into a garbage can. Just make sure not to look them in the eye.
9. The automatic doors in GHH
I swear, they are possessed. No one will be even remotely near the doors, and they'll open on their own. When they don't open on their own, you have to use every ounce of strength in you to get them open, and there may or may not be multiple occasions where they hit you in the face.
10. Looking forward to midnight breakfast all semester
Forget studying for finals, all I want is some sausage and pancakes at night.
11. Spending winter dying of heat
I would really like to not have to open my window all winter long to avoid having a heat stroke when I'm sleeping at night. Never thought I'd be complaining about the heat being blasted, but my room does not need to be 85 degrees year round.
12. The grass
The majority of our tuition definitely goes into paying for the grass on campus. It's raining? Time to turn on the sprinklers. Snowing? Time to cut the grass. Don't walk on the grass, don't look at the grass, and don't even think about the grass.
