Spring Rituals: Thick or Thin?

It's that time of year again! The flowers are blooming, green grass is sprouting across the Quad, the ice-flows are melting, and the postman is delivering the dreaded college application letters to nervous high-schoolers across the country. The Bobo Blogosphere is already bustling with shouts - and apathetic moans - of accepted glee. Writes 17-year-old Julia the Jubilant at This Here Giraffe: "oh my god i'm going to explode i got into bowdoin!" (2006-03-21 11:33:00) [Figure 1] Like - we feel Ms. Jubilant's excitement, but we hope she purposely left out the necessary grammatical stops in this post for emphatic emphasis. But like - OMG! - we are so happy for you, but please don't explode! We watched a dead whale explode once from carbon monoxide buildup and it isn't pretty (hence the splatters in the screencap). Ms. Jubilant also applied to Yale (boo) and Dartmouth (double boo) but has yet to hear from those other (icky) institutions. Drakaina (nee Sharon) from Cerritos, California, also received her prized Bobo acceptance letter. Writes Drakaina at Bounded in a Nutshell: " I GOT MY ACCEPTANCE LETTER INTO BOWDOIN. YAY. The financial aid they're offering will cover about 50% of the expenses... still ~$24,000 left. Argh! Nevertheless. YAY." (2006-03-18 21:42:00) [Figure 2] Yay indeed! You deserve that bouncy mood! And thanks for not exploding, although we would argue that severing a limb is never an option. This one time at the North Pole...oh nevermind, too painful to discuss. So question: Is Camp Bobo's financial aid still need based? You know, because it's a nice system and all, but we'll be paying off our fine education till we're 80. Like - not that we're bitter or anything...But YAY! Then we have Ms. Keogryff from Denver, Colorado who writes at The Loopy Lupogryph in a post titled Attack of the College Shit: "So, yeah, apparently I got into Bowdoin. Wootness. :D I feel like I should be more excited. That worries me. Maybe everything won't become magically clearer once I have the definitive list of where it is possible to go. *panic*" ( 06:49 pm March 18th, 2006) [Figure 3] Wow. :-0 We are speechless. Just a lonely "Woot!" and an emoticon? The excitement in this post is simply too much to bear. In our book, Bobo is some hot shitzna! Ms. Keogryff continues to discuss her "stretch" applications to MIT (ugh), Yale (double ugh) and Cornell (ugh ugh ugh!). She also spent the day at the University of Colorado at Boulder engineering day. The Admiral has it on the best authority from a good friend and Bobo grad who is also Colorado native: Avoid UCB (yes, you may call it that) at all costs. Bowdoin professors are WAY hotter - since that seems to be quite an important characteristic for Ms. Keogryff.Chris at Amusingly_Odd (AKA - Lamentations of a Clever Fool) is far more "ecstatic" in a post appropriately titled !!!!: "OH. MY. GOD. ASKFJSDSKJFAL. SHOWER ME WITH CONGRATULATIONS, FOR I AM SHAMELESS. GOD. I AM SO HAPPY. I AM NOT COLLEGE-LESS. I DO NOT HAVE TO BECOME A PIRATE (despite how appealing this profession truthfully is...). Oh, life. I love you. And Bowdoin! One of my reaches! LIFE! WHY ARE YOU SO GOOD TO ME?" (2006-03-18 16:03:00) [Figure 4] Now this deserves a double Woot: WOOT WOOT!. Well done Chris - although we're curious: Are college-less high-schoolers forced to become pirates these days? Because, that just seems wrong and sad. We blame Harvard. Lucky for you, we have just the clip-art for your graphic...Also, please define "ASKFJSDSKJFAL" and use in a sentence. The Admiral would like to comment on the "OH MY GOD, YAY" factor in these delightful posts. He too remembers the stress and agony of college admissions, so these kids deserve a boisterous BW round of applause. YOU GOT IN! THE ENVELOPE WAS THICK! YOU BEAT THE NUMBERS GAME (or whatever other method admissions offices use these days). But the old man wants you to remember that there is more to life and college and all that other sappy junk. Don't like your BoboWatch hyperlink or shout-out? Take comfort: Nobody reads us anyway! Additionally, this terrible blog should in no way influence your decision to attend Camp Bobo. This site is in NO WAY affiliated with the College and is run by lame alumni with nothing better to do - and that's not because their degrees are worthless! [SOURCES = This Here Giraffe, Bounded in a Nutshell, The Loopy Lupogryph, Amusingly_Odd; SEARCH SLAVE = Technorati]