Congratulations, friends, we made it to May. No matter how your GPA turned out, finals are officially over, and it's time for all of us to kick back and relax... unless you have summer classes, in which case you'll be back on May 16th. Regardless of whether or not you have the summer off, there are some things all Dalton State College students can relate to. One of the cool things about being from a small, close-knit school means that we're all in this journey together, so sit back and enjoy this list of things all DSC students know are true.
1. There will always be someone smoking in a bush between Sequoya and Peeples. Y'all ain’t sneaky.
2. There is a green Camaro that lives in the library parking lot. It never moves.
3. Sometimes, usually at the end of the semester, there is a giant dumpster in front of the Pope building.
4. The day the big sand pit was finally turned into a volleyball court had deep emotional significance for you.
5. @DoctorVeve’s tweets give you life.
6. Having a class on the second floor of LIA means going to the bathroom before you walk up there because only the fancy people get to pee up there.
7. There are over 5,000 students and approximately 6 parking spaces, all of which are reserved for faculty and staff.
8. You never know which entrances and stairs are going to be blocked off due to construction. It’s like a new adventure every day.
9. Having to park in the gravel lot by the tennis courts makes your soul dies.
10. No matter how hard you try to avoid it, you will eventually have a class in Brown followed immediately by a class in Sequoya. Your lungs will burn. Your thighs will cramp. You will throw elbows at everyone in your way. And you will still be late.
11. You go to school in a construction zone. Between Mashburn Hall, the Pope Center, and I-75, you’ve grown accustomed to the sounds of machines beeping and other generally obnoxious noises. They haunt your dreams.
12. Occasionally, there will be therapy dogs to pet and free food at finals. Those are good times.
13. If you feign interest about a bank account or some other service on Day for Dalton, you can get free cups, sunglasses, and other plastic goods.
14. You must walk softly down the Social Sciences hallway, so as not to disturb Dr. Ellinger’s bobblehead collection.
15. Sodas and Peace Teas are cheaper in the bookstore than in the Cafe.
16. You have been personally victimized by a rogue golf cart on a sidewalk.
17. Spring Break is in the dead of winter.
18. Gene the Janitor is one of your favorite people in the entire world.
19. The people who played the piano in Pope were never the people who should've been playing the piano in Pope.
20. Whether or not you are a cat person, you have a strong attachment to the campus cats and have been tempted to lead them into the buildings on cold days.
21. Every time you walk down any given hallway in any given building, you see at least 27 people you know.
22. The day the Krispy Kreme opened was a pivotal moment in your life.
23. No matter where you go from here, Dalton State will always be a part of who you are.
Though we may be from different parts of the world, have different plans for our lives, and different beliefs and ideas, there are some things that bring us together. Dalton State students are always united by these 23 things, no matter how silly they may seem. We wouldn't be us without our quirks.
