I’ve been webmaster for BlogDailyHerald since midway through my freshman year. In all that time I’ve written a grand total of zero posts, preferring instead to focus on behind the scenes technology work. Now, as a soon-to-graduate senior, I’m lucky enough to have a kick-ass successor who has taken on all of my Blog related responsibilities and somehow still finds time to write fantastic posts. But through a combination of peer pressure and procrastination I’ve been given one last job to do: write my first and only post for Blog.

In keeping with my love of the Internet and all things technological, I’m going to leave the eloquent, well-written posts for the other seniors to write. This post chronicles my time at Brown in the best way I know how: with animated GIFs and photos of cats.

Freshman Year

Meeting people in Keeney (Unit 3!) for the first time:

Writing my first essays in college:
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Tonight, hundreds of scantily clad college students will converge on a small waterfront bar. I could use any amount of witticisms to describe this monumental moment, but you know what they say: a picture is worth a thousand words — but a GIF is worth a million. Will the sequence below roughly describe your night? One can only hope.

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Yeah, yeah, #whatshouldwecallWHATEVER. We all know humor is funnier when it’s Brown-specific. (Or involves Furby. Preferably both.) Did you want to be the first to create a hilarious minimalist-themed Tumblr involving recognizable Brunonian situations and awkward GIFs? Too bad, suckers. We hit that shit a while ago, and then again, Gerald-style.

We weren’t alone. The internet is overrun with College Hill-appropriate time-wastin’ GIF lulz. There’s #WhatShouldWeCallBrown (which is awkwardly aligned in my browser… anyone else? Just me?) as well as #WhenAtBrown, whose creators are impressively on top of their Sunday night HBO programming. Props to both for some quality season-appropriate lulz. If you want to stay classy, there’s also BrownGIFs, which does that whole trendy, subtle motion thing.

Want to make your own GIFs? Cinemagram does the whole isolated aspect/nostalgic filter thing for free. Go make your own Faunce steps + iced coffee GIFs. But quickly. We’re already almost sick of them.