Inspired by Barbara Ann Kipfer's "14,000 Things To Be Happy About:"
A wall covered with books in a professor's office; professors who quote Madonna; arches; people walking to the Street in formal wear; way too much orange and black in one place; music wafting out an open window; squirrels everywhere; armfuls of library books; people at lectures they don't have to go to; new book smell; old book smell; professors who can make anything interesting; creative procrastination; ranting columnists; Insta-hots; renovated dorms; protestors who know the facts; Dylan in Dillon; lectures free and open to the public; study breaks; getting to study breaks within five minutes; newspapers slipped under your door in the morning; wine tastings; pub nights; scanner gates at library entrances; people who know stuff about computers; "the Princeton experience;" U-CALL; no one asking for your number because of U-CALL; Quipfire!; inconsistent room-numbering conventions; the Haven; walls covered with posters; future supreme court justices; pajamas at brunch in the dining hall; Forbes; Vanilla Ice on campus; van driver training; famous professors; non-famous professors who should be; cluster computers; covertly surfing while printing; movie nights with friends; "gangsta' registrar;" passport to the arts tickets you don't have time to use; columnists' hometowns; the dinky; reading old yearbooks upstairs at formals; passing a campus tour on your way to class; the bus to Rent; someone writing a song about you; Isabella; Medieval Times; suitcases rolling across campus in concert at the beginning of break; bunnies frolicking in prospect gardens; "Saint A's...premed...p/d/f...late meal...he had it comin'!;" the Wa of course; Lindt free samples; thrift store couches; the little door on the side of the chapel that sits in the middle of the wall and doesn't do anything or go anywhere except look out onto McCosh courtyard; fireplaces that don't do anything; recognizing the Wa workers; watching people run in their papers on dean's date; injuring yourself running in papers on dean's date; sitting on the battlefield at night; running through the Institute woods; playing on big piles of dirt on construction sites; having a construction worker give you a free board that you make into a shelf on your desk that you keep for three years; making four-course meals with an Insta-hot; coming down to the dryer and finding someone has folded your laundry; parents who want you to meet somebody in the laundry room; looking at big cool maps in the rare books collection; rolling those C-floor shelves around; bathrooms that get cleaned for you; facebooks; facebook games; little old professors with bowties; gargoyles; gargoyles in the shape of football players; people's class years listed after their names; an unconventionally painted automobile; professors who write columns for the Prince; feeling better after staying up until 6 a.m.; protecting a $10 coffee table; friends who send you email to cheer you up; ethernet ports in convenient locations; professors who teach "The Matrix;" late meals; emails saying you have a package; Sir Hawthorne the Hound; newspapers attempting to portray the Ivy League; professors missing lecture because they're needed in Washington; talking about bioethics one minute and soap operas the next; making pdf files with LaTeX; machine shop classes; a T-shirt with a Decepticon symbol; renewing library books online; the secret entrance to McCosh Hall; perspective"s" on Iraq outside the Frist cafe; printing double-sided; random acts of kindness; columns ranting about random acts of kindness; arch sings; doing the reading; not doing the reading; the mace bearer; class movie nights at the Garden Theater; drunken 4 a.m. emails; bike theft being the most common crime; professors with math hair; waiting in line outside PJ's on a weekend morning; Wild Oats; famous alums who didn't graduate; the snow fort in front of Dillon; friends who are geniuses but wouldn't admit it; music coming through the wall of the Frist theater while you're studying; the Brown coop; organic/whole wheat nazis; taking liberties at Wegmans; successfully baking a sponge cake; breadzilla; OA group reunions; Dylan and his locusts on the wall at Frist; free lunches with speakers; roommate competitions; roommate quizzes; the bacon semiformal; aces marking bacon strips and hookups like downed bogies; easy mac; buying a Nintendo on eBay; people's doors open; people laughing behind a closed door; going troweling; the Potato City Country Inn; taking classes not in your major that you don't have to take; uniforms for the street; professors who watch WWF wrestling; the curly staircase from C-floor to B-floor; U-Store book sales; your roommate flashing Alexander Road; still using Napster as a player; "Bridezilla;" late-night pool; staying to talk longer than you intended.
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