#85 – Superfluous Stop Signs
This post idea was inspired by Bethel junior Sam Heckard, winner of the “Stuff Bethel Students Like” book giveaway.
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The stop sign is one of the most ignored and disregarded signs in all trafficdom. I kind of feel sorry for it. But when you look at it, all it is is just a red sign with 8 sides stuck in the ground off to the side of the road. It only means “stop” because society has told us that it means “stop”. If you do blow through it, it has no punishment or negative reinforcement to keep you from doing it again. This sign is just a big pushover. It begs to be a suggestion. And Bethel students like to take advantage of them all the time.
#84 – The Leftover Mystery Sock
The beginning of summer means the end of the school year, and that means about a thousand students moving out of the dorms at Bethel. At the end of April, students compete for elevator space, furniture carts, and fire lane parking as they transport all of their stuff from Bethel to home—whether that’s across town or across the country.
But in the mix of everyone moving out all at once, sometimes things can go missing. Sometimes students’ possessions pull a Kirk Cameron and get left behind. And no item gets stranded at Bethel more often than the leftover mystery sock.
Another Bethel graduation has come and passed. Diplomas have been distributed, tassels have been turned, caps have been tossed, hugs have been exchanged, and scores of cliché photos of graduates by the helm have been taken. Another senior class has successfully scaled the mountain of higher learning and is ready to launch themselves into what is commonly referred to by most students and adults as “the real world.”
But what does that phrase even mean? What is “the real world”? Not to pull a Matrix on you, but what is reality? And what is it about reality that has Bethel students freaked out about graduating? What is it that has students resonating with the lyrics of Adam Young, “Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn’t want to live there”?
Check Out the New Slightly Renovated Blog!
The “Stuff Bethel Students Like” blog has been under a wee bit of construction and revamping over the weekend. Here’s a quick tour of the remodeled SBSL blog page, and I promise it won’t take as long as a Bethel tour, even as small as Bethel’s campus is.
The “Stuff Bethel Students Like” Promo Video
Here it is–the “Stuff Bethel Students Like” book promotional video in all of its glory. It’s one more Bethel YouTube video that Bethel students can enjoy watching. Now available in the Bethel Bookstore!
No squirrels were harmed in the making of this video (wish I could say the same for Mike who got caught between the moving bookshelves).
The “Stuff Bethel Students Like” Book Giveaway Contest!
THE BOOKS HAVE ARRIVED!
Yes, the first shipment of the brand new book “Stuff Bethel Students Like” just arrived on my doorstep yesterday. I was so excited, I literally hugged my mailman.
The “Stuff Bethel Students Like” book is going to be hitting the shelf at the Bethel Bookstore next week starting on Friday April 20th, the last day of classes at Bethel. This way, you can grab your very own copy of the book and take a little piece of Bethel home with you for the summer (and it should make for a great distraction during finals week too).
Hey, did you hear? “Stuff Bethel Students Like” is coming out with a brand new book! Want more info? Click here.
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Bethel students have a lot of ways of getting to where they need to go around campus. The majority of students walk, because almost everything on campus is within a ten minute walk radius. But there are also many students who try to shortcut their travel time on campus by means of bicycle, scooter, skateboard, longboard and even the occasional unicycle.
But deep down, every Bethel student has entertained the thought of what it would be like to “borrow” a campus utility vehicle and drive it around Bethel for a day. You could turn a lot of heads, pick up chicks, and park it in pretty much any parking spot you wanted.
