Gratitude is always important, but we recently celebrated an entire day dedicated to it. And there are lots of things to love: turkeys, colorful leaves, family…the usual.
We at 4E have compiled a list of 101 things that Georgetown students are and should always be grateful for:
- That one time my professor tore into that know-it-all when she said wrong things
- Professors who ignore the instructional continuity policy
- Roommates who don’t suck
- The Instagram “gufreshmendoingthings”
- Inattentive student guards
- Free food
- Free t-shirts
- Student discounts
- Getting a table in lau
- Leaving lau
- Not having to go to lau
- Club Lau
- The really nice security guard in lau who doesn’t judge me for always leaving lau really late
- Netflix
- Netflix and chill
- What happens after Netflix and chill
- Being featured in Georgetown’s Instagram
- The girl who lends me a chair from her table so that I can put my feet up
- Dogs
- Let me say that again: dogs
- T Sweets
- Christmas lights
- The “share location indefinitely” feature on the iPhone
- Brown house
- Slutty brownies
- Friends who distract you via text message while you’re in a boring class
- Georgetown basketball
- Professors who are chill
- Professors who care
- Free Chipotle
- When the guy at Chipotle doesn’t remind me that the guacamole costs extra
- Guacamole
- Beyonce
- Friends who make you food
- Friends who actually return the stuff they “borrow”
- When the pasta line at Leo’s isn’t eight miles long
- The “doge” meme
- First dates
- Second dates
- What even is a third date?
- Brunch
- Drunk brunch
- Not throwing up at drunk brunch
- The friend that patted my back after throwing up at drunk brunch
- Tequila
- The Harbin security guard that let me back in without a GoCard when I left the building in my pajamas to pick up the Mai Thai I had ordered for the fourth time that week
- Happy hour(s)
- Nutella
- When the Metro is on time
- When the GUTS bus is on time #rare
- Finding your wallet and purse safe and your phone fully charged despite not knowing how you got home
- Losing your phone and having someone you don’t know find it in their freezer
- Awkward times in class when you are placed in a group project with a Tinder match
- Cancelled classes
- Todd Olson
- Jack DeGioia
- When the other person cancels plans first so you don’t have to
- Sweetgreen
- The bread at Sweetgreen
- Parks and Recreation
- Donald Trump’s hairspray
- When the professor forgets to pass around the attendance sheet the day you skip
- Heely’s
- Hoverboards
- Friends with free MSB printing
- Kylie Jenner’s Snapchat stories
- When your Safeway order shows up on time
- When they don’t include rotten avocados in your Safeway order
- The one crazy dude who carries on class discussions in Problem of God
- Georgetown sunsets
- When randos let you pet their dogs
- 2000’s era Cartoon Network/Disney/Teen Nick channels
- 4E (duh)
- Ducking autocorrect
- Double stuffed Oreos
- When your favorite elliptical/treadmill/bike at Yates is free
- The fact that in New York they actually put cream cheese on your bagel
- The Lau geo-tag
- People who studied abroad but don’t start every sentence with, “When I was studying abroad…”
- When you see a former hookup but you look super hot
- Chick Fil A not having E. coli
- The smoothies at Leo’s brunch
- Yahoo answers
- When somehow ace a pop quiz without doing the reading
- The kid who dropped a dish in Leo’s last week and it shattered
- DFMOs
- Group texts
- When you put your music on shuffle and all of the songs you like come on
- Professors who don’t give a sit-down final
- When the Corp’s coffee isn’t burned
- The new athletic facility that we all get to use #loljk
- The cops who didn’t arrest me when I threw my fake ID at them
- Social justice Facebook posters
- When random organizations give out free food and you pretend to be interested just for the candy
- Rumchata
- #Jesuits
- Intramural battle ship
- Epi’s lax refill policy
- Epi’s quesadillas
- Drunk Epi
- Epi
And just for fun, here are the few things we are not thankful for:
- Epi buffet prices
- Group texts
- Georgetown basketball
- Kylie Jenner’s ability to inspire an entire generation
- The cops who arrested my friend for using his fake at Towne
- The guy tapping his foot really loudly in the cubicle next to me in Lau
- The new GUTS routes
- The thin Oreos
Happy Thanksgiving, Hoyas!
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