In high school, there were the jocks, the cheerleaders, the nerds, the emo kids, the drama kids, and so on (kind of like the cast of Glee). As we transition into high school, some of these stereotypes stick around while new ones are formed. At Binghamton, you’ll meet various peculiar groups of people who you’ll either learn to love or learn to hate.
1. The sorority girl: She’s probably from Long Island, has perfectly flat-ironed hair, and wears her sorority’s letters on her t-shirt or sweatshirt along with leggings, uggs, a Michael Kors watch, a Longchamp purse, a North Face jacket, and three to seven girls who look just like her. In class, she participates constantly and is intelligent even though she says “like” every other four words. After class, you’ll probably catch her on her way to Bartle at Jazzman’s picking up an iced coffee, which she’ll complain isn’t as good as Starbucks. Well, duh. But when she’s not busy studying in Bartle (a.k.a BBMing her sorority sisters in the white room and whining about how much work she has), she’s out shaking her groove thang at JT’s. To the right, she’ll have her ladies, typically dressed in crop tops, black mini body-con skirts, and Steve Madden pumps, and to the left, you’ll find her boyfriend. And yes, he’s in a frat.
2. The frat bro: Pretty self-explanatory. Think about every college movie you’ve ever seen and picture those caricatures of frat boys they create. They’re basically that minus the whole being ridiculously hot thing.
3. Mr./Miss I love to hear myself speak: Again, the title kind of gives it away. But we all know this person. They ask questions that shouldn’t need to be asked. They speak when they aren’t even being spoken to and generally at the most inopportune times, like when class is three minutes shy of being over. They want the professor to like them so bad that their eagerness to be wanted generally makes the professor want to throw things at them. Sometimes when they do decide to raise their hands and be called on, they’ll just repeat what the professor already has said with no more insight to add. Really? Do you not realize what you’re doing? That’s pretty difficult to comprehend since the entire class lets out a deep agitated moan every single time they hear your voice.
4. The overly-involved Republican girl: She’s a member of every club on campus and probably president of a handful of them. She may even be our president one day. She’s smart, which sometimes makes her pretentious, she’s wealthy but would rather save money attending a SUNY than somewhere like GW, and she looks like political candidate Barbie. She seems sweet but she’s a little mean. She’s met you several times but never remembers your name, or pretends not to remember your name. She’ll probably be valedictorian and her speech will be something boring about how we are the future.
5. The party animal: Every school has one. They go out every night, well, at least Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. They are your go-to “I want to black out tonight” partner-in-crime. They drink like they are a 6’8’’ 347 lb. middle aged-man even though they definitely are not. They hook up with more girls/guys than you’ve ever hooked up with in your lifetime and they’re not even that attractive. During the day, they’re hungover, but during the night, they’re under the influence of substances you may have never heard of yet still manage to maintain a GPA over 3.4. You secretly want to be this person.
You may think that we’ve skipped “the nerd.” Well, we sort of did. You see here at Binghamton, we’re all nerds, just different kinds. We all want to get good grades and have awesome money-making careers when we graduate but we are still your typical crazy college kids.