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The Dartmouth
March 19, 2026
The Dartmouth

Working hard or hardly working?

Sean: YO, MAN you gotta chill out sometime. Cut that heavy-handed writing, take a deep breath and kick it like I do. I get just as much shit done as you do, with half the stress.

Patrick: Bull. Prove it. I've been spending my time actually doing something: prepping for MCAT, trying to crush medians, getting a real internship.

Sean: Yeah, but while you cry in the 1902, I get paid to play aggressive rap music behind a desk. Ladies love it when I find their lost IDs and I hold down a solid 8 to 4 shift. In short, I have mad real world skills.

Patrick: Don't tell me about the real world. I'm 21. I straight-up bar hop every weekend: Ramunto's, Canoe Club, Molly's, Salt Hill. All day every day.

Sean: Whatever, I have a stronger Twitter following than you 35 followers and going strong. You have, like, five and one of them is your sister.

Patrick: Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me because I was bullied more than you in middle school but am way cooler than you now.

Sean: Well I've seen more traumatizing events than you. And I'm still chiller than you.

Patrick: I've lost more pets than you.

Sean: I get more care packages from my mom than you do. She forget about you or something?

Patrick: I watch more Hulu than you do.

Sean: I've been peed on more times than you have.

Patrick: I have a higher vertical jump.

Sean: But I bench more.

Patrick: I embody the ideals of Dartmouth more than you do

Sean: Don't care.

Patrick: Me neither.