Top Ten: Yik Yak's
Need a place to anonymously complain about midterms, the weather or Cornell? Want to brag about how drunk you are or how much sex you’re having? Or do you just want to read jokes, some Dartmouth-specific, some stolen from other online sources?
If so, Yik Yak — an anonymous smartphone app that has picked up steam on campus — is for you. The app is hugely popular among college students nationwide, although in Dartmouth’s case, users are mostly ’18s. Users can post and read other posts from a 1.5-mile radius. Posts are often relevant to specific campus events, like Homecoming, the end of the six-week frat ban or the traumatic Math 8 midterm.
The app ranks posts in order of popularity. However, posts that reach -5 are automatically deleted, meaning that the majority of the posts are positive, or at least generally agreed upon by the Dartmouth population.
Some of the posts are laugh out loud hilarious, while others are just plain confusing. Without further ado, here are the top ten Yik Yaks of the past week, scientifically ranked by my personal preference:
10. The college paradox: Skip a class to study for said class
9. The good thing about group projects is they teach you not to hate by race, religion, ethnicity or class but by pure personal hatred
8. The weather today looks exactly like the coming down from homecoming weekend to an Ivy League workload feels… shitty
7. I need a gofundme for DBA
6. College: where it’s socially acceptable to constantly look like shit, be drunk, swear uncontrollably, and do nothing useful for 4 years
5. When you are eating alone and a hot guy comes over and asks if anyone is sitting there and takes the chair back to his table
4. The dictionary is the only place Cornell is ahead of Dartmouth
3. Philosophy in high school: who needs a cuddle buddy when you have a dog. Philosophy in college: I don’t have a dog :(
2. That feeling you get when you’re all caught up in your classes… Someone tell me what it’s like
The number one Yak combines Harry Potter references and Dartmouth pride…
1. When I’m showing my patronus to dumbledore and it turns out to be keggy. #always