“#150” is starting to get on my nerves. I don’t mind the people of the class of 2015, which is whom the numbers represent, but I don’t like the hashtag in front of it. The hashtag brings it to the sometimes good, a lot of the times horrible, world of the internet.
Some people think they’re really tough behind a computer screen. Hence, every Twitter fight ever. But “#150” has taken keyboard-toughness to a whole new level.
Some seniors this summer tried to rally for a senior-only SAC via Twitter. They gained some support, and it started looking like this year would be the first year that seniors control the SAC and force the juniors to fill up their wagons and migrate somewhere else. Yet, as always, on the first day of school the SAC was shared by seniors and juniors.
So what happened? Why isn’t this year a “#150SAC?”
Because when the first group of seniors arrived at the SAC on the first day and asked the juniors, who were already there, to move, the juniors simply replied, “We got here first.”
Had this exchange happened on Twitter, there would be an all-out-drop-the-gloves-no-holds-barred-meet-at-the-flagpole-circle-the-wagons-cage-fight-death-match because people think they’re so tough on Twitter. But life is not Twitter, so there was no fight.
Per usual, the seniors sat on the other side of the SAC.There’s a simple solution for these cowards, and it’s not instigating a juniors versus seniors rumble. They should channel their bottled up Twitter-rage and use it on empathy.
Maybe it’s some odd tradition or an inferiority complex, but I don’t understand why each new grade feels the need to criticize the grade below them. Seniors criticize juniors for taking up spots in the parking lot and in the SAC. Juniors criticize sophomores because juniors are having a rough time and need someone to pick on. Sophomores criticize freshmen because sophomores are no longer freshmen.
We all must have some pretty short memories because, when everything goes as planned, it only takes a year to advance to the next grade.
Do seniors not remember what it feels like to sit in the SAC for the first time?
Do juniors not remember what it feels like to make it past their first year of high school and finally be a sophomore?
Do sophomores not remember the fear of the first couple weeks of school for a freshman?
Sorry, freshmen. Wait a year then read the paragraph above.
Have some empathy for your fellow students and peers. We all have to go through the system and we all know what it feels like to be inferior.
And at very least, get off Twitter.
