On Being A Short HC Student
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On Being A Short HC Student

Our Daily Thoughts and Struggles

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On Being A Short HC Student

Short People: We gain a great perspective on life because we are always looking up!

...But that comes with a bit of a struggle as well, especially when you're living on a hill. Here are the 15 daily thoughts and struggles of Holy Cross students of a shorter stature:

  1. Please don’t ask me if I am someone’s younger sibling on move-in day. I am in college.
  2. Nothing ties your dorm room together quite like the footstool you use to get into your bed.
  3. The excitement of receiving a parcel has really faded considering I can’t reach my mailbox to get the notification slip. Thank you Holy Cross Mail Services.
  4. I take pride in the fact that my feet don’t touch the ground when I sit in Kimball or Dinand.
  5. How to carefully get out of bed in the morning without injuring yourself forever remains a mystery.
  6. As soon as the wind picks up, being blown across campus becomes a high possibility.
  7. Climbing up Holy Cross’s hills with little legs like mine may as well be considered another sport here on campus.
  8. Understandably, Holy Cross is a challenging school. That still does not make it acceptable to use our heads as armrests when we need a break.
  9. No, I am not going for a jog, this is just me trying to keep up with my friends.
  10. Walking from Kimball up to Hart feels like the equivalent of climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro.
  11. Standing near the football team is secretly terrifying.
  12. Getting stopped by public safety as they question your age has become routine.
  13. Every time you make it out of Stein Hall during the changing of classes without getting stampeded feels like a small victory.
  14. If you’ve learned anything at HC, you know that enjoying the spring concert in the middle of the crowd or close to the stage is just not where you belong. Ever.
  15. Walking through campus during the arctic tundra we get to call winter quickly becomes survival of the fittest considering snowbanks quickly become taller than you.
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