Madeline Diamond
Reporter
At this point in the school year, most students’ social media news feeds have been bombarded with “Insert Prestigious University Name Here Class of 2017!” posts. If you’re a senior lucky enough to have decided where to matriculate next year, you have probably entered into the strange realm of accepted students Facebook pages.
In theory, these pages are a great resource for incoming freshman to learn more about their school, as well as their future classmates. However, somewhere between the allure of actually being accepted to a university and the thought of being connected to completely new people, something goes awry. Eager collegiates feel the need to post about their likes, dislikes, perhaps even their SAT scores or where else they applied, turning the pages into non sequitur central.
If you are an underclassman, I suggest that you visit accepted2017.com, where you will find a compilation of strange posts from various universities.
My experience with the accepted students Facebook page is like any other. At first, I was excited to meet my fellow Bucknellians. Then, as the posts started piling up, I wondered if I had made the right choice of colleges. Here’s a gem for you:
“Anyone else pumped for the Alpaca farm near campus?!?! lol.” (There was also a link to said Alpaca farm but I won’t bore you with that.)
The cynic in me yearned to snarkily reply, “anyone else pumped for the federal penitentiary near campus?!?! lol.” Yet I refrained. I could have been looking at my roommate for all I knew. On an unrelated note, I might have seriously reconsidered my college decision had I known that a high-security prison was located a mere ten minutes away from campus. I digress.
My best advice when navigating this social media adventure is to take these college Facebook pages with a grain of salt. College is an exciting time so some accepted students may get a little over enthusiastic. And there is nothing wrong with that. Maybe I wouldn’t be so fast to post about alpacas or my love of playing the recorder, but I genuinely applaud my future classmates for doing so.
