In Honor of Hanukkah, Here’s a List of Things That Last Longer Than They Should

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  • Friends from NSOP
  • One ReopenCU daily attestation
  • SSOL’s downtime during course registration 
  • Your 8:40am lecture 
  • Your student debt
  • The bedsheets that you haven’t washed since your mom made your bed in August 
  • Your bootycall walk home from Mel’s to Carman
  • The JJs quesadilla line 
  • The 3 weeks between Thanksgiving and winter break 
  • Testing the waste water in dorms 
  • One Johnson & Johnson booster shot
  • The walk to EC in an $8 SHEIN denim jacket 
  • Most Columbia plays
  • Awkward elevator rides in your dorm
  • Your roommate’s dirty dishes
  • Ancient Egyptian clay pots excavated along the Nile
  • Most Spec articles
  • One disposable mask
  • Olivia’s Rodrigo’s spotlight
  • Your one Bic pen that you had since kindergarten
  • Every CC reading
  • Your study break 
  • That one pair of white Stan Smiths 
  • One bathroom stop after a night at JJ’s
  • Your annual physical
  • Your long-distance relationship from high school 
  • The walk from the scanner to the door in NoCo
  • Waiting for PawPrint to spit out your readings during prime Butler hours 
  • Me at this institution until they realize I don’t belong here 
  • Your New Yorker tote bag 
  • Your rope friendship bracelet from summer camp 
  • Your family’s intergenerational wealth 
  • That one hairball in your shower 
  • Fall semester