Movie myths about college life?

[HEyHEY]

My personal favourite is how in movies dorm rooms are always these really cool looking rooms that are huge. You never see a dorm that is about 12 feet wide with yellow brick walls and a window at the end with shared bathrooms.

What myths do you notice?

[MercutioATC]

1. Yellow! You had YELLOW?

Mine were "digestive enzyme green".

[HEyHEY]

2. More of a faded baige

I obviously never studied cause I spelled that colour wrong

[Guy Fawkes]

3. Notice how they always eat right in movies...

No romen, no chicken noodle soup + doritoes... They don't even have the decency to eat cereal night and day!

[0rganism]

43. "I'm a Zit!"

Best. College. Cafeteria. Scene. Ever.

[bigwillq]

4. That even if you're a big dork you could always get a girl

if she's drunk enough.

I never got a girl.

Oh, wait, it was the boys that I wanted!

[Guy Fawkes]

11. How about: even the gay guys can get a girl?

Ever seen "Porn and Chicken"?

[bigwillq]

16. Never saw that movie (nt)

[Terran]

5. Way too many cool people

At Berkeley, the dorms were definitely not considered a cool place to live. One moved to the Co-ops as soon as possible.

[rwenos]

6. Berkeley in Early 1970's

My favorite myth, propagated by "The Graduate": That girls at Berkeley all looked like Katherine Ross.

More like Irma Bunt.

Playboy rated the worst campuses for girls at US Universities in my freshman year at Berkeley, 1971-1972.

1. Army (no co-ed then -- all boys.)
2. Berkeley

[Terran]

45. hmmm

I guess all the dumb pretty ones were attending UCLA then. :eyes:

[calico1]

7. Before I opened the thread I thought

the same thing. Some of those dorm rooms look nicer than houses I have been in!

[HEyHEY]

8. Another - evil, arrogant professors

I found most of min eto be pretty nice people.

[DrWeird]

9. Another dorm room myth...

dorm rooms contain a variety of posters, or none at all.

In fact, every dorm room in North America has, on it's wall, a very large poster of Bob Marley smoking an enormous joint. Some of them are different pictures of Bob Marley smoking a variety of of enormous joints; nevertheless, all dorm rooms (and college student apartmens, frats, houses) have posters of Bob Marley smoking enormous joints. It's ubiquitous.

Btw, why is Mr. Polar Bear giving Mr. Seal a pat on the shoulder?

[HEyHEY]

12. Cause the seal ripped down a predictable Bob Marley poster...

Off some punk ass English student's wall at the University of Ohio.


Another dorm room cliche - A bong sitting on a shelf

[DrWeird]

13. Yeah, that's a cliche.

They're usually under the bed.

[HEyHEY]

14. Exactly

Also, when I was at Universite Du Quebec I was hanging with this american girl who said its rare to have campus clubs and bars in the US, is that true?

We had a club and bar there

[realisticphish]

17. we only have one

i think it has to do with liability, etc. but there are bars 15 feet from campus, so no big deal

:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[HEyHEY]

18. Yeah, but if they're drinkin - it may as well be going to education

Right? set up the pubs, pump revenue back to the schools

[DrWeird]

19. A bar on campus?

Unheard of. The cons would go nuts. In my undergraduate college (Western, actually, you may have read about this) an art student showed an art project with a naked woman in it. A local state representative wanted to cut funding to the school.

A bar near campus? Plenty. Although they're usually not very good.

[HEyHEY]

21. Shit, I remember during frosh week

They had a drinking contest at our local pub. THe last team to throw up won. I'm serious, I actually felt it was a bit extreme and had to leave.

[DrWeird]

22. Drinking age makes a real difference.

Bars near campuses here get inspected an awful lot. As such most students drink at house parties.

Or, if you live in Bellingham, you head to Vancouver. Sucks being designated driver though.

[HEyHEY]

28. Now I remember you!

Yeah the Blarneystone...you cut in line and said "I'm Dr. Wierd I can cut any line I want."

Then we got drunk and beat up a bouncer for wearing a Man-U jersey

[Lydia Leftcoast]

34. In the good old days

when Wisconsin allowed people to drink beer at age 18, the University of Wisconsin had a beer pub on campus known as the Rathskeller.

When I was in grad school at Yale, the Graduate and Professional Students' Society had its own building complete with bar, the only part of the building that was ever used much.

However, since the drinking age in Connecticut was 18 at the time, all the undergraduate parties featured legal booze, including those held in the residential colleges.

[TheMightyFavog]

38. It's still there, actually!

I was in Madison in May to meet a professor from a distance ed class for a field trip to New Glarus. The beer bar at the Rathskeller is still there. We ate lunch there and I enjoyed the cool German murals on the walls.

[yvr girl]

Younger drinking age in Canada

Most college students are of age in Canada, since our drinking age is 18 or 19. Which means that most freshman can drink. In many states it's 21, which would be junior year. Perhaps a US schools can seem to be supporting an activity that is not lawful for most of their students.

[TheMightyFavog]

20. They have a bar at UW Stevens Point.

Granted the only alcohol they serve is beer, but it's a bar nonetheless.

[eyesroll]

32. My alma mater has a bar (beer only, technically a restaurant license)

...but the biggest college myth? That if you have an androgynous name, or you forget to check the sex box on your housing form, your roommate will be someone of the opposite sex. And you'll fall in love.

[0rganism]

44. What kind of students are you?

The appropriate place for the bong is pressed against the face in such a way as to create an air-tight seal...

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

25. I went to a university for five years

and never saw a bong in my life.

I think alcohol was the drug of choice there.

[liontamer]

47. lol

my freshman year roomate had an enormous Marley poster

[MrSandman]

10. And they are all so neat...n/t

[realisticphish]

15. one negative stereotype

college is always portrayed as high school with dorms (as in, cliques, etc). but when you're at a large universisty, there are too many people for cliques to exist in the general population

another myth is the marching band being dorks. i know at MY school (Ohio State), everyone likes the marching band; those who say shit about them get pounded on

:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[BayouBengal07]

23. Yeah I have a lot of friends in the band

And I'm envious of them. That's like one of the highest forms of schol spirit. I'd love to march down the field with a snare drum and belt out "Touchdown for LSU" amid 91,600 screaming fans. That and they got to march at the Sugar Bowl.

[realisticphish]

27. definately

i tried out for the OSU band last year (on bass drum, didn't make it), but im in the athletic band (we play women's volleyball, so its a good deal:)) anyway, we have a spring game, where the one half of the team plays the other half. the A-Band gets to march halftime. that was the most gut-wrenching point of my life- marching out into the Horseshoe in front of 70,000 people. not the full 105,000 the 'shoe holds, but still a big fucking leap from 800 people at a high school football game

:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

26. You hit on the one I was thinking of

that college is like high school. I went to a university with around 45,000 undergrads. There was NO WAY you could have cliques and I liked it that way!!!

[realisticphish]

31. yeah

50,000 here; i have so many friends from so many backgrounds, that i can't imagine going back to high school, where i was a "band geek", and only had 150 people in my class...now i have 10,000 lol


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[philosophie_en_rose]

24. The Crusty Old Dean

:)

Take that Bitterman!

[Twillig]

29. Does anybody actually remember who the Dean of their college was?

Does anybody actually remember who the Dean of their college was?

I've no idea. Course I spent a lotta time at the U of Minnesota.

Several Bars on Washington Ave. in the heart of the East bank. Then others over on University Ave. This was in the days of non-universal 21 yr. drinking age.

I wonder if "The Big Ten" is still down there on Washington serving up those subs..

[MrSandman]

30. Jim something...

Beam, I think.

[HEyHEY]

33. Of one yeah

Can't remember her name, but she looked like the actor who played the incredible hulk

[drhilarius]

36. Nerdlinger and I got him good with a bra bomb!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

35. The students all look as if they're about 26 or 28

That's because they're often played by actors and actresses who ARE 26 or 28.

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[AmericanErrorist]

39. Yeah, those movies featured

a lot of robots signing up donations to DU. Whatsupwithdat?

[Guy Fawkes]

42. It does exist! I've never seen it before!

I'm in love...

[flamingyouth]

40. That all sorority girls are totally creepy and bitchy

Well, that's only partially true. I suppose I'm an exception to that, along with a bunch of other great DUers here who were in sororities. :D

[regnaD kciN]

41. Studying? What's that???

How many college movies do you know where anyone but the central-casting "nerd" passes up the chance to party because they have a paper to write or a test to study for?

It seems to me that, in most such movies, it is assumed that a college education is acquired by osmosis.

[TheMightyFavog]

46. That the campus computer network

Is always accessible form anywhere in the world and that a student will have no trouble at all utilizing it during the summer for important buisness.

FUCKING SHITTY UWSP FUCKING NETWORK!!!!!!!!

:argh: x( :mad: :grr:

[Lisa]

48. ... that students have spontaneous debates in a crowded lecture theatre

This doesn't happen as often as the movies imply! Sure, it advances the plot and shows conflict, but ... I've taught classes ranging from big first-year intro courses to small 4th-year seminars, and even in the smaller more experienced groups the instructor usually has to work pretty hard to get students to discuss controversial issues. Interestingly, when I speak to them in private, many of them have negative impressions of those who speak out in class -- seeing them as show-offs, shit-disturbers, and downright disruptive.

I show movie and TV clips, bring in hot-off-the-press newspaper and Internet articles, and make deliberate controversial statements just to prod people into saying something. I've even played game-show-host and offered cash prizes to volunteers who can explain particular concepts, just to get students used to standing up in front of a big group.

Most instructors don't single out students and humiliate them in front of the class, because it creates a nasty atmosphere (and with increasing focus on accountability and student evaluations, the disciplinary repercussions even for criticizing people who come in late can be serious). One of my colleagues learned this the hard way.