Here at Kent State, Thursdays are the last day of the week for us. Unless you have Friday classes, in which case, you usually ignore them and still check out for the week on Thursday. Lately, Kent State has talked about how they want to start enforcing Friday classes. We'll see how well that works out for them...
Even if that rule does get enforced, we will not stop the tradition. Kent State is widely known for going out on Thursdays. While not many schools understand, we don't expect them to, because anyone who doesn't go to Kent won't understand. For those of you who are reading and don't go to Kent, here is a look at what a typical Thursday night at Kent State would look like as told by Nick Miller from "New Girl."
When you first wake up from your nap and you try to get yourself pumped.
You are waiting for your friends to come over before to help you pick out an outfit.
You finally found the perfect outfit and you're ready to go!
When the uber arrives and everyone successfully makes it into the car.
You get to the bar and realize you're way too broke to be getting drinks, but you do it anyway.
When your friends get there and you're ready to tear up the dance floor.
It starts getting later in the night and you realize you have lost all capabilities to form a coherent sentence.
Therefore, you think it's a great time to go talk that guy over there.
You eventually find out what a mistake that was and beg for your friend to rescue you.
After that, you figure it's a good time for you to leave.
You wake up the next morning and your mouth feels like you just licked sandpaper.
Once your friends wake up you recap your entire night, trying to piece it together.
This may sound like a typical night at any college town on any weekend, but Thursday nights are what make Kent State into Kent State. Every college looks at us like we are crazy when we say, "we go out on Thursdays not Fridays; we use Fridays as our rest day."
Every other weekday before Thursday, we walk through classes and homework in zombie-like states with only our presence available, but not our actual being. So let us students sit and patiently wait for the next Thursday to come around. Although we might regret it when some of us, unfortunately, have to wake up Friday morning and go to class, it's not enough to stop us from going out every Thursday.
Don't fight try to fight the urge to go out, because you will regret not going more than going out and then waking up and feeling like crap. Kent State will always win and will always get the best of you every Thursday night. But I wouldn't have it any other way.
