“must be a lot more powerful than I imagined. Didn’t realize I could cause such havoc. EXTRA…Cher makes Twitter IRRELVANT. News at 11” – Cher
This is an announcement post. Basically we’re announcing that this Sunday at 3PM EST, Wesleying will be hosting a Twitter chat with any and all who would welcome our snarky online presence. This is part of our 2016 Unofficial Orientation Series, which launches IN FULL FORCE on July 24th! A quick reminder that you can check out the welcome post here, the Dorm Living FAQ post here, and past years’ series here.
Confused as to what this is/why we’re doing a Twitter chat for the first time? Don’t worry: we got u. Here’s why:
Essentially, the point of Wesleying and the point of Unofficial Orientation is to provide a student perspective on student life (shocking!). But it can be difficult to have an organic back-and-forth when you’re just reading an article. Also, as a summer-before-college being, I was freaked because I didn’t actually know anyone currently at Wes (or going to Wes). So we wanna do this Twitter chat so that we can have a real-time fun time on the internet with 2020-ers, and facilitate organic interaction with current students.
Starting at 3PM, we’ll be tweeting various questions and conversation-starters as a guide. But what we really want is for people to mention us with questions about Wes, about our personal lives, about our darkest secrets, about anything really. We’ll be retweeting/replying throughout. And we’re welcoming people of all class years (that includes you, MRoth ’78) to the convo.
We’ll update this post after the chat with the best tweets from the day. Join us Sunday at 3PM EST pls. Thx. You can find our account by clicking on the username in this conveniently-embedded tweet:
In other news: QAC summer students just made a scatter plot of all rankings of Wesleyan, and it forms an image of a marijuana leaf
— Wesleying (@wesleying) July 12, 2016
We will update this post with our fave tweets from the day. See you on the internet.
Update (7/18/16, 4:09pm): Here’s some evidence of what went down:
We all get Hamilton tickets at orientation, right? @wesleying
— Ahmed M. Badr (@uBadr) July 17, 2016
We heard so many before Wes like: “Don’t people there have orgies in the library?” #wesleyinged
— Wesleying (@wesleying) July 17, 2016
@wesleying I want to know if Danny devito really was vaping on Foss. For a friend.
— sophie (@philo_soph_er) July 17, 2016
@wesleying @judge_esmith protip: if you treat points like real money, and, budget yourself, you’ll probably have so many roll over
— Sammy (@sammymorreale) July 17, 2016
@philo_soph_er @wesleying also make friends with all the usdan employees, they’re highkey the best people @ wes
— Michelle Fisher (@shirahdevorah) July 17, 2016
First Q: Fuck, marry, kill: The Pre-Orientation Checklist, increasing independence, or Target Pre-college sales
— Wesleying (@wesleying) July 17, 2016
.@jacksonbarnett @shirahdevorah my darkest secret would be like farting during sex but that hasnt actually happened its just a big fear
— Wesleying (@wesleying) July 17, 2016
@wesleying everyone should go find the stolen mummy that Wesleyan’s archaeology dept ended up with #wesleyinged
— Gabe Rosenberg (@GabrielJR) July 17, 2016
False. But I did see a sweaty&sexy Andrew VanWyngarden at R&C 2015 https://t.co/7SeZkfdBUQ
— Wesleying (@wesleying) July 17, 2016
Here’s a comprehensive guide from the @wesleyanhermes https://t.co/WTSJWN6S3S #wesleyinged https://t.co/uoAWAClN43
— Wesleying (@wesleying) July 17, 2016
Halloween when my RA slept walk butt naked and peed all over my hallmate’s clothes. He blamed it on “sleeping pills” https://t.co/mOk2RSLeBY
— Viktor Vaughn (@Xcornejo8) July 17, 2016