Julianna Mariani ‘24
Editor-in-Chief of all Official Fizz Reports
Aside from The Spire of course, I get all my local Holy Cross news from the app, Fizz. Each morning, I wake up, turn off my alarm, and hurry to click on that shining purple logo. To recap, the latest news as I write this article has dealt with: the heroes of the club lacrosse team (shoutout boys), Aspen (the town in Colorado, obviously), and the Sunday Scaries (it’s a real condition that administration should probably put out a statement on). But the wildest news to me, a senior at Holy Cross, is that it seems the entirety of the first-year class is planning on transferring ASAP. It seems the newest class on the Hill is up in arms about our extreme party life. “I came to Holy Cross to work studiously from dawn until dusk (with the occasional all-nighter). But I can’t even focus on a Monday morning because the noise in my dorm building is so bad!” An anonymous first-year commented on the app. The comments below this specific Fizz, telling the person to get off campus immediately if they “can’t hang,” were particularly aggressive.
Another first-year commented saying “The mandated 6-8 hours of homework outside of each of our four classes is simply not enough! I was told I would be receiving 60+ hours of homework a week when committing to HC.” While I have to agree that I could always do more homework, I can’t imagine transferring out of the Party Capital College of Central Massachusetts. Assumption and Clark University gave us a run for our money a while back but we’ve held this title for years, with college students from all over Worcester coming to campus every day for our famous ragers. Although tragically, we don’t have Greek Life on campus, we do have elite sports houses! Which contributes to the inclusive nature of our student body and really brings people together as they go to war on Boyden, Caro and Clay to get into these homes.
Four years of being at Holy Cross has prepared me for a lifetime of partying, taking every moment with a positive attitude, even an early-bird 8am can be a blast with the right group of people! The party life at Holy Cross is unmatched, it’s understandable that some members of the Class of ‘27 might not be able to appreciate the supreme culture at our school. Totally understandable! It took me the entirety of my first-year and most of my second to fall in love with our celebratory lifestyle.
Holy Cross is no joke. I discovered today that the Class of ‘28’s acceptance rate is a shocking 18% (Fizz is my source obviously), with the deciding factor being how many Pitbull songs prospective students can rehearse from memory. I remember my incoming interview, or should I say audition, quite fondly. I sang a Grammy worthy rendition of “Don’t Stop the Party.” With all this said, I’ll leave it here as I must go dance the night away on this fine Sunday evening (and by that I mean spend at least 5-7 hours writing an eight page paper for my Medieval Literature seminar).
Copyedited by Sophia Mariani
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