This Date in Alex History: Jones College (2007)

This is the first of probably many "This Date in Alex History" blogs where I remember something that happened about a year, two years, or even ten years ago around this date, and talk about it. I'll try to restrict it to really embarrassing moments, really epic moments, or times that changed the direction that my life was going.

With all of the class of '12 people getting their college assignments, I'm reminded of just how stressful it can be. They're really freaking out, sending death threats to their mailmen, and offering their limbs just to find out which college they'll be placed in. So far, most of the Will Ricers, Wiessmen, Hanszenites, Bakerites, and Sidizens have found out, leaving Lovetteers and those from the north colleges sitting in a waiting room.

Last year Jones was the first college to send out their letters to freshmen. Jones freshmen were getting excited about it on facebook, and I still hadn't heard anything. It got to 2 or 3 days after the first Jones letters were received, and since I was from Austin, I assumed that if I was in Jones, I would have gotten my letter by now. This of course led me to believe I was in one of the other colleges, so I took the opportunity to get a head start on making fun of Jones college, which was especially easy since I was told by my Owl Weekend host and his friends at Brown how evil Jones was.

The next day my mom gave me a letter that she said had arrived in the mail a few days ago and she forgot to give to me. Sure enough, the letter was sent from Mary Gibbs Jones College. I felt like an idiot, then got onto facebook and shared my announcement with everyone else, and went to appologize to all of my future college-mates that I had been making fun of for the last couple days. Negative ten points for Alex.

In other news, congrats to Sang Yoon, my most awesome prospie, for getting into Will Rice College. Sure you could have been luckier and gotten into Jones or Martel, but Will Rice is a solid 3rd place on my favorite colleges, so you got pretty lucky.