"They ain't Alabama. They ain't LSU. And they're certainly not Clemson. That's why Carolina's in Chapel Hill and USC's in California and the university in this state always has been, always will be Clemson." - Dabo Swinney
There’s nowhere quite like Clemson, and there’s especially no other place I’d rather call home. Even the thought of having to step foot on that campus in the “armpit of South Carolina” sends shudders down my spine. Here are 140 things I’d rather do than be a South Carolina student:
- Drive downtown during gameday
- Live in Johnstone
- Scrub the toilets in Johnstone
- Take a shower in Johnstone
- Have 8 ams Monday through Friday
- Have 8 ams for all four years of college
- Forget to brush my teeth before a date
- Take accounting again
- Eat at Schilletter for the rest of my life
- Serve Schilletter at my wedding
- Stop aging before I turn 21
- Jump off library bridge
- Go to Fike during its peak hours
- Try and find a table in Cooper during finals week
- Never take another nap
- Break both thumbs at the same time
- Break all the bones in my dominant hand
- Break all the bones in my non-dominant hand
- Break all the bones in my body
- Listen to a USC student try to explain why they’re better than us
- Never be able to afford a meal nicer than Ramen
- Switch my major to nuclear engineering
- Slam my hand in a car door
- Slam my face in a car door
- Eat broken glass
- Step on a Lego
- Never hear Morgan Freeman narrate a movie
- Stab myself in the eye with an epi pen
- Do a cartwheel shoeless on a ground covered in thumb tacks
- Find a needle in a haystack
- Kick a door with a toothpick under my toenail
- Rip off all of my toenails
- Always be hangry
- Delete my snapchat
- Take Dulcolax before an exam
- Always have my hair ties break after one use
- Hit my hip on the corner of a table every morning
- Hit my pinky toe on a desk leg every evening
- Hitchhike naked
- Be Hillary Clinton
- Be Donald Trump
- Be Melania Trump
- Share a taxi with Rush Limbaugh
- Box against Rocky
- Move back in with my parents
- Have octuplets
- Allow my boyfriend to go to a strip club
- Live out the rest of my life as a Lifetime movie plot
- Have Herbert the Pervert narrate my life
- Relive the worst day of my life
- Have a 15 page research paper due weekly until I die
- Clean up a frat house after a party
- Room with Hannibal Lecter
- Room with that clown dude from Saw
- Room with someone who doesn’t understand the concept of personal space
- Always have to scratch my butt
- Wear a bra that’s one size too small
- Never be allowed to take off my bra
- Teach my grandma how to use Twitter
- Allow my family to see my Twitter
- Allow my family to see my Snapchat story
- Never be able to eat meat again
- Find out I can’t consume gluten
- Never experience the joy that is garlic knots
- Break both thumbs at the same time
- Listen to Will Muschamp
- Redo my wisdom teeth surgery without anesthesia
- Experience period cramps every day for a month
- Experience period cramps every day for two months
- Experience period cramps the day of my wedding
- Forget the alphabet
- Lose a spelling bee competition to a first grader
- Actually keep up with the Kardashians
- Watch Dance Moms on a loop for two weeks
- Watch those sad dog commercials on a loop for two weeks
- Babysit Dennis the Menace
- Be that kid from Home Alone
- Have political debates with everyone I come in contact with
- Have political debates via Facebook every evening
- Give up soda
- Give up chicken nuggets
- Never eat at Chick Fil A again
- Have to repeat high school
- Have to repeat middle school
- Get explosive diarrhea on a date
- Be stuck only wearing outfits from the early 2000’s for the rest of my life
- Shave with a cheese grater
- Show my boyfriend my Facebook Statuses from middle school
- Only be able to text from a flip phone
- Have horrendous grammar
- Not know the difference between ‘your’ and ‘you’re’
- Drunk email my professors at 2 am
- Always have an ingrown toenail
- Be stuck in the DMV all day
- Let an 18 wheeler run over my leg
- Be forced to wear braces again
- Wake up in a foreign country
- Walk in downtown Columbia at night
- Give birth without an epidural
- Drink sulfuric acid
- Bathe in sulfuric acid
- Never be allowed to trim my fingernails below a length of 3 inches
- Have to rely solely on snail mail
- Cut my hair, immediately regret it, and have it never grow back to its original length
- Live on the 11th floor of a building that doesn’t have elevators
- Get stuck in an elevator with Kim Jong Un
- Carry my laundry to the laundromat and then realize I forgot my detergent
- Get to the gym and realize I forgot my headphones
- Give up my childhood stuffed animals
- Give up my childhood blankie
- Tear my hamstring
- Run a marathon with a broken ankle
- Use lemon juice as eye drops
- Only be able to wear pant suits for the remainder of my days
- Be allergic to dogs
- Use toilet paper dipped in hot sauce
- Be a stockbroker in 1929
- Be a stockholder in 1929
- Date Josh Pilz
- Get a tattoo while drunk
- Get a tattoo from a drunk tattoo artist
- Get a tattoo from a drunk
- Get a hockey puck to the face
- Get a nosebleed everytime I lie
- Have to sleep in a lofted bed for the rest of my life
- Always chip my nails 30 minutes after leaving the salon
- Always under dress to professional events
- Always over dress for casual events
- Always wear flip flops
- Wear sweatpants everyday during a South Carolina summer
- Work in the food industry for the rest of my life (the general public can be horrible to waiters/waitresses)
- Never be able to take another bubble bath
- Never be able to wear fuzzy socks
- Never win at anything ever again (I’m very competitive)
- Never look at another meme again
- Get stuck on the top of a loop the loop
- Give up all of my Bath and Body Works hand sanitizers
- Never go to another free tee shirt event again
- Retake Biology
- Spend four years at Clemson and never get to meet Dabo