The “Free Food WashU” chat currently has 3,008 members and operates as a sort of civilian reporting system where WashU students can write in orders they aren’t going to pick up or leftovers from events for other students to grab. It was originally created to reduce food waste on campus but has since transformed into a service for hungry students. While the chat is part of WashU undergrad culture, we wanted to test its practicality and determine if someone could feasibly eat based on the GroupMe offerings for an entire day. 

WashU’s MFA in Illustration & Visual Culture (IVC) program houses a group of talented, innovative, and accomplished artists. You might be surprised, then, walking into their “Roxy” studio late on a Friday afternoon. Every other week, 15-20 of them, along with WashU undergraduates, independent authors, and more, listen intently as a picture book is read to them.

I sat on a school bus with just a notebook, a pen, and $20 in my pocket for lunch, alongside roughly 25 other WashU students whom I had never met before. I had no idea where we were going, only that I was supposed to look “picture ready” (per the organizer’s instructions) and would be back on campus by 4pm I was being (voluntarily) kidnapped for the day!

For her entire life Ella Scott has been obsessed with pink.
Growing up it was just a favorite color, but after she watched “Legally Blonde” in high school for the first time, the hue “revolutionized” her life. A couple years later she walked across the stage at high school graduation with Elle Woods’ iconic line, “What? Like it’s hard?” on her cap. 

From late-night dorm hangouts with new friends, triples converted to doubles, ping-pong and foosball tables in common rooms and elevators, air conditioning, ice machines and filtered water dispensers on each floor, to stolen laundry in the dryer, flooded bathroom floors, and burnt microwave popcorn that has left a lingering smell, the dorms on the South 40 provide the all-encompassing first-year dorm experience, full of highlights and horror stories. 

Walking into your first semester of college can be an unnerving, yet extremely exciting experience. With a new campus, new teachers, and new friends, anything can happen! For some, a major component that determines your experience at WashU is the person you spend a large portion of your time with: your roommate. Roommates: you either love them or you don’t. Everyone has a different experience.

Finally feeling settled into your sophomore-year housing? Too bad. It’s time to start thinking about housing for next year! You’ll want to get a head start because, unfortunately, junior year housing is probably the most chaotic. For one, you’ll most likely be transitioning into apartment living for the first time, which is a big change. This comes with an avalanche of options, from locations, to layouts, to buildings.

So, you wanna have a dorm party. Maybe you’re tired of endless bidding over GroupMe party-ticket messages; maybe you’re thinking of a chill night in; maybe you’ve just been somehow assigned to host the afters. Whatever the occasion, the dorm party is a certified classic function. So, if you’re looking to throw a night everyone will remember (but not because of a mass email from the RA), here’s your ultimate guide.

So, you’ve been placed in a traditional suite. The world is over. You can feel the panic creeping in, and your roommates are random, so you don’t know who you’ll spend the next nine months with. Well, two random suitemates turned friends are writing this for you, so know it’s not all catastrophic.

It’s getting to that point in the semester where I need to figure out where to live next year, and I’m overwhelmed — I feel like I don’t know enough about my options to make a decision. Please help!