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| It got weird last night. |
Those who keep up with their RMU gmail may have noticed something odd last night. In order to better tell the story let's start at the beginning:
At 2:55 p.m. Monday the Office of the President sent out an email to all Robert Morris students. President Dell'Omo announced to us that tuition and room and board fees will go up, resulting in a 3.44 percent increase in the cost of attending Robert Morris. Surprise! We go to a private business school, it's going to be expensive.
So that's that, right? Not exactly.
A little over seven hours later a response showed up in our inbox's from an RMU student. This is what Zachary Burke had to say:
Before we go even farther, can we stop an applaud this kid? Let's think about what just happened here. Zac not only read through all of the original message, he took those numbers and made his own projections FOR THE NEXT THIRTY-SIX FUCKING YEARS. Seriously, who does that?
Then, not only did Zac compose all of his numbers into an email, he actually tried to send it out as a response to the entire student body... and it worked! Again, who does that? Has anyone ever even tried responding to one of these before? How did he think to give this a try? How long did he spend crunching these numbers and composing that message? What would he have done if the message didn't send? I still have soooooo many more questions.
What happened next sparked the most intense and hysterical 15 minutes I've ever spent at RMU. People were not pleased (all names and e-mails have been erased from this content. All images came from yesterday's e-mail chain)...
As you can see, things started to bombard quickly. Some were NOT happy they were on this list and obviously, to solve this problem, they replied to the email. Others took full advantage of this opportunity to talk to every undergrad at RMU by broadcasting their events and personal lives:
People were still not happy and looking for answers:
Why would you want to leave this though? It was just getting good:
Then all hell broke loose:
We finally had a Karvel Anderson mention:
This was hysterical because it came from RMU power forward Aaron Tate, who I have never seen open his mouth to talk one time. It was just that type of night:
A few meme's made the round:
Also, give credit to Ty Hartin, who I think was the first person to advertise himself:
This was my personal favorite but I don't really know why:
Things were looking good:
And then just like that it was over. RMU stopped letting gmail respond to everyone and it was done. In about 15 minutes there were 156 messages sent. I was a little disappointed we didn't have a "do you even lift bro" or a terrible chain message like "if you don't forward this 10 times by 3:00 a.m. a little girl will suck you down the shower" but all in all great job.
Which brings me to this last message I personally received from Zac:
Don't be a bunch of pricks, guys. Zac simply responded to an e-mail and there's no need to send him hate mail like this wasn't the funniest fucking thing you've ever seen. And don't tell me you had anything better to do at 10:15 on a Monday night, because you didn't.
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--Chris Cappella
--@C_Cappella
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