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:
- Please don’t ask me if I am someone’s younger sibling on move-in day. I am in college.
- Nothing ties your dorm room together quite like the footstool you use to get into your bed.
- 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.
- I take pride in the fact that my feet don’t touch the ground when I sit in Kimball or Dinand.
- How to carefully get out of bed in the morning without injuring yourself forever remains a mystery.
- As soon as the wind picks up, being blown across campus becomes a high possibility.
- Climbing up Holy Cross’s hills with little legs like mine may as well be considered another sport here on campus.
- 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.
- No, I am not going for a jog, this is just me trying to keep up with my friends.
- Walking from Kimball up to Hart feels like the equivalent of climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro.
- Standing near the football team is secretly terrifying.
- Getting stopped by public safety as they question your age has become routine.
- Every time you make it out of Stein Hall during the changing of classes without getting stampeded feels like a small victory.
- 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.
- 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.