Salutations freshmen! If you are reading this, you’ve probably finished settling into your room and shuttled mom and pop off so you can start enjoying college life. Bring on the awkward dorm bonding events and Essential NU.
But college isn’t as simple as late night chats with new friends and Sex Signals. No, it can also be an extremely confusing and frightening time, especially at the beginning. This video of a cat fighting a printer metaphorically shows what I’m getting at.
You see, all of you students new to Northwestern are that calico cat, that “wildcat,” if you will. The printer, with its intricate inner workings and tendency to give you papers, represents college. University life grabs your attention at first, but soon the newness wears off and it gets weird. You try to figure it out but it never relents. But should you back away? No, you fight this fear, paws blazing. And you hope someone edits the audio so it sounds cooler.
Welcome to Northwestern. Don’t do drugs.