This sounds like a fashion article but we unfashionables shouldn't be making those kind of judgements.
File Isabella Falsetti
We’re a month and a half into 2022, so we've evaluated the trends and have decided to compile a Ubyssey blog list of ins and outs: we’ve compared the things that will keep us going through till next year, and the things we can officially leave in 2021 as we come back in person and start the year for real.
INS:
- Divesting from fossil fuels
- Robert Wyman plaza
- @ubcaffirmationz
- The 99 B-line
- W standings
- Shakespeare’s First Folio
- Dropping out of your econ class 2 hours before the add/drop deadline
- ubcgrades.com
- Complaining about everything (the weather, your classes, your scuffed Blundstones)
- Taking a class that’s supposed to be a GPA booster and getting a B-
- Faculty winning all da big awards
- Suzanne Simard
- Shooting your shot via private Zoom message
- Volunteering to be co-host of a Zoom meeting so your TA doesn’t have to keep checking the waitlist
- Randomly pinning peers in a lecture to see whether you find them attractive or not
- Canvas confetti
- Class Discords
- Hybrid anything
- Buying yourself a little treat
- Becoming your own public health expert because UBC doesn't tell us nothin'
- Life-altering, last-minute back-to-campus plan emails from Santa Ono
- Asking friends to go on a walk ("in" since the dawn of time)
- Unfriending people you met in first year
- Getting refunds for concerts that have been canceled and/or postponed
- Paying tuition in Reese's peanut butter cups (go Fighting Cuppies!)
- Non-gym exercise, e.g. carrying your roommate up a steep hill, digging a big hole, fixing supply chain issues by unloading boxes of products yourself
- Keeping your camera on when you start crying during a Zoom call. Radical vulnerability is in for 2022
- In 2021, we made alt twitters. In 2022 it’s all about alt LinkedIns (what’s a finsta for linked in? A FinkedIn?). Tell the real ones in your network why you really quit that job
- Euphoria <3 <3
OUTS:
- Bowties
- The Martha Piper Plaza fountain
- Graduating “on time”
- Buchanan D
- White supremacists (also "out" for all time)
- Basketball courts (apparently)
- Running the Wreck Beach stairs
- Tuition increases
- Seminars on Collaborate Ultra
- Telling people that you’re from Calgary and being proud of it
- Opting out of The Ubyssey
- Drunk texting — too much evidence
- Pie R Squared
- Shooting your shot via Zoom and accidentally sending to "Everyone"
- IKB
- The Gallery’s limited menu due to understaffing
- The rat at Open Kitchen (not culturally, but physically)
- Class Facebook Groups
- Hybrid anything
- Boybands: Not having women in your band doesn’t make you cool! Brockhampton got the memo.
- Spotify-generated genres. You don’t know what “bubblegrunge” is, so how can you have let it define you? Spotify is the one defining you. The gaslighting stops in 2022.
- Going to the gym and spreading COVID
- Blue-light glasses: These are just a psyop by Big Eyes to sell more glasses
- Your whole sex life