Providence College is a unique place with unique traditions that unite the student body. Here are the 18 rights of passage for the Providence College student.
1. Turning 21 and ordering your first beer in McPhail’s.
No more milkshakes for you.
2. Having so much work that you stay in the library until closing.
They have to make it extra creepy by flickering the lights as a warning.
3. First walk of shame home from Eaton St. after a night of questionable choices.
Hold your head high and your high heels in your hand.
4. When you give up reading for Civ and just start Sparknoting everything.
5. When one of the ladies who swipes your card in Ray remembers your name without looking at your ID first.
AKA when bae notices you.
6. Getting yelled at by the lady in the post office for having the nerve to forget what the combination to your PO box is.
7. Getting your first picture with Friar Dom.
The creepiest mascot in the Northeast...and perhaps the world.
8. Waiting helplessly for the RIPTA that’s 25 minutes late because you don’t have a car.
It’s cheaper than Über.
9. Experiencing the bedlam that is Civ Scream.
“Is that streaker wearing the horse mask in my seminar?"
10. Spending a semester sprinting between your 8:30 and 9:30 classes because one is in Smith and one is in Harkins.
11. Suffering crippling disappointment when the Ruane Café won’t take your Starbucks gift card… because they’re not a real Starbucks…
12. Getting denied from your first club.
"Birthday? June 12, 1996...I MEAN 1992!"
13. Realizing Friar Bucks aren’t endless when you run out of them four weeks into the semester.
14. Your first walk from the mall to Chipotle.
Trudging up the giant hill to Thayer St., you wonder if it’s even worth it (of course it is).
15. Your first golf party.
Is it smart for an intoxicated sophomore dressed in pastel to be wielding a putter in a dense crowd?
16. Having to evacuate your building at 3:00 a.m. because some genius pulled the fire alarm.
17. Your first course registration.
Don’t be surprised when CyberFriar crashes, PC Secure fails, and your next semester falls to pieces around you. Hope you have a lot of backup classes.
18. Graduation.
Somehow you made it through eight semesters, and now you have the paper to prove it.