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Santa Clara? FactsSchool Slang
- Cheefing - A practical joke involving writing on a sleeping victim with a marker.
- Forty-Eight - A noise violation warning, stating that if the police are called to the same house again within forty-eight hours, the occupants will be fined.
- Frat-tastic - Adjective describing the more enthusiastic fraternity members.
- Mert - Derogatory term for someone who believes they are cool, but, in fact, are not.
- RLC - Residential Learning Community. Not really very important.
- The Dark Side - The north side of campus, where there is a small section of student housing.
- Weak Sauce - Adjective describing something negative or uncool. Example: “I was at this cool party on the Dark Side, and a couple of merts started getting rowdy, so the cops came and gave us a forty-eight. It was totally weak sauce.”
Things I Wish I Knew Before Coming To School
- How to surf better (the locals at Santa Cruz keep threatening my life).
- RLCs don’t mean that much.
- That I would need a car to go to all the cool places.
- The ABC watches Safeway all the time.
- The Greek system is a lot different than other schools.
- They are really serious about that “Two-Hour Parking” sign.
- What a “mert” is.
Tips to Succeed
- Don’t try to take all Tuesday/Thursday classes. Sure, a
- Four-day weekend sounds great, but by the time you go to your fourth class, your brain will no longer be processing new information.
- Go to professors’ office hours to get one-on-one help.
- Show up to class every day and participate (the professors will notice if you don’t).
- Stay out of Campus Safety’s way, and especially don’t drink or smoke in the open.
- Take advantage of all the resources at the Career Center to find a job or internship that is right for you.
Urban Legends
- Bon Appetite (the company who runs the cafeteria) treats their food with a chemical in order to prevent food poisoning, but the chemical triggers explosive diarrhea in certain people.
- Santa Clara classes are actually harder than at Ivy League schools, where good grades are (supposedly) easy to come by once you get in.
- Ten to twenty years ago, the University sold the “USC” acronym to the University of Southern California for an obscene amount of money.
- The band Sublime played their last show in the Brass Rail, shortly before lead singer Brad Nowell overdosed on a nearby beach.
Traditions
- Dads and Grads - The morning of graduation, students and their fathers go to the Hut bar to “prepare” for the ceremony.
- At least once a year, a couch is burned in the middle of Market Street. No one seems to know exactly why.
- During exam week, groups of students will often lighten the somber atmosphere by streaking through the library and Benson Center.
- Midnight breakfast in the Benson Center is a significant social event for new students every fall.
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