Point: I Wanna Step on the Reynolds Club Seal<\/b><\/p>\n
Everyone\u2019s always saying not to step on the seal in the lobby of the Reynolds Club. \u201cYou won\u2019t graduate in four years,\u201d they say. \u201cIt\u2019s bad luck,\u201d they say. They\u2019ll recite story after story: perfect kid, straight-A high school student, stepped on the seal once, dropped out within 48 hours, started doing PCP, moved to Alaska, dead in the Aleutian islands at 25.<\/span><\/p>\n I don\u2019t care. I used to, but I\u2019m not scared anymore \u2014 I just want to do it. Ever since I toured UChicago, I\u2019ve been curious about what the bottom of my size-12 Nikes would look like stamped on the golden phoenix tile. I\u2019ve had an insatiable curiosity:\u00a0 How would the texture feel against my feet? What would it feel like to cause such a selfless, artistic spectacle?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n If I\u2019m being totally honest, not graduating on time doesn\u2019t sound like the worst fate ever \u2014 it\u2019d just give me more time to collect free T-shirts. Plus, the seal\u2019s here, and once I graduate and move to Alaska, I\u2019ll never be able to step on it again.<\/span><\/p>\n Counterpoint: I Want the Reynolds Club Seal to Step on Me<\/b><\/p>\n Have you ever looked at the Reynolds Club seal? I mean, <\/span>really<\/span><\/i> looked. Take more than just a passing glance at it and notice its breathtaking beauty. Soon enough, you\u2019ll be staring down the barrel of an inescapable conclusion: the Reynolds Club seal is hot.<\/span><\/p>\n The first time I realized the Reynolds Club seal was a 10 was O-Week. There was something about the velvet rope they used to guard it, some smoldering sense of mystery that drew me in. I knew, then and there, that I WOULD be stepped on.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s not like I haven\u2019t tried to make it happen, either. I\u2019ve dropped subtle hints \u2014 every time I walk through Reynolds, I make sure I\u2019m looking my best. I step directly over the seal, taking long, sultry strides. Late nights when nobody\u2019s there, I spend time standing next to the seal, hoping against hope that it will notice me, that maybe the seal is watching. One day, maybe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s not like I haven\u2019t tried to make it happen, either. I\u2019ve dropped subtle hints \u2014 every time I walk through Reynolds, I make sure I\u2019m looking my best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":902,"featured_media":5880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5881,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879\/revisions\/5881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}