Just in time for the first session of Days on Campus, Spectrum presents to you a guide for survival and entertainment. Though you have to deal with a midterm, a paper, a pile of job applications, and a hoard of high school students blocking the entrance to Butler (and Lerner, and Hamilton, and Mudd, and on Low Steps, and in your room), there's always a silver lining. Namely, that hosting prospective students is a wildly entertaining and stress-reducing activity when you take advantage of the unique opportunities such an experience presents.
After talking with friends and editors, we've compiled this list of prospie pranks, so you can truly get the most out of this year's Days on Campus:
1) For those living in a double, both roommates go to pick up the prospective student. Go on and on about how much you like each other—and if applicable, about how well the blind double process worked out so well for you both. When the opportunity presents itself and one roommate is alone with the prospie, very seriously turn to the student and vent your list of grievances, relating in detail the horrors of your roommate, only to be cut off when your roommate walks in. Repeat sometime later in the day but switch so that now your roommate can vent. The key is to remain completely and sincerely (unless you don't actually like your roommate) nice to each other while both in the company of the prospie at the same time.
