Top Five Ways To Spot a Freshman

Published September 10, 2007

1. They’re wearing their Class of 2011 yellow T-shirt like a badge of honor (see this issue’s tri-factor).

2. They’re the three kids already in class when you mistakenly get to your 11:15 class at 11, convinced you’re already 15 minutes late—a fete only possible due to a mad dash up the hill from off campus during which you cursed every drink and cigarette you’d had the night before.

3. They’re the kids who when you see them beg one or more of the following questions: Has that poor little guy/ gal fallen off of one the famous UVM tours? Is that person walking with them a professor or parent? What the hell is in the water nowadays?

4. One is never spotted solo, most are known to travel in packs, usually with atleast one campus map in hand.

5. They’re rarely looking down or ahead. Most are seen looking skyward at the highest tiers of the buildings as if their architecture might in some way reveal their obscure names. If not skyward, others are seen looking wide-eyed from left to right in an effort to take in all of the UVM experience between classes.

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