I’m in the library and a staff member downstairs is having a very loud and long conversation via speaker phone. I don’t want to interrupt her call, I don’t know who she is (so I can’t email) and I’m shy. What should I do?
-Tryin Ta Study
When visiting a dungeon, there are usually a set of rules enforced by dungeon monitors (DMs) to ensure that everyone has a fun and safe experience. If someone else is uncomfortable with something else going on and wants to avoid confrontation, they can ask a DM to go talk to the offending party. Since you are shy, maybe see if you can get an outgoing friend to go downstairs and ask them to close their door, or even email all the offices at once and explain in a very polite email that the sound carries upstairs. You might even avoid overhearing future loud phone conversations if everyone is aware of other people in the vicinity.
— Captain DominatrixYou have two options: head downstairs and play charades through the window of her office, or wait until the phone call is over and talk to her. The latter will probably be more effective. Express sympathy – “I know PGP recently moved offices and that the acoustics of the library are less than ideal” – before asking if, for the sake of those studying in the library, she could hold speakerphone conversations in one of the MH2 or MH3 conference rooms.
—Duchess of Deportment
A lot of my friends are graduating in a few weeks and I’m really going to miss them! How can we keep in touch?
— Missin’ Them Mindy
Honestly, short of keeping them chained in your basement, there’s no way to guarantee that you will keep in touch with all the awesome people who are graduating. Pen pals are fun; snail mail in this day and age is a slow, but unique way of keeping in touch.
— Captain DominatrixWhile I prefer writing letters (with a fountain pen, on 100% cotton paper, sealed with wax) to just about any other form of communication, modern technology provides you with a lot of options. Schedule a fortnightly Skype (or phone or Google+) conversation with your close friends. Also encourage them to come visit Olin for big events (alumni weekends, commencement, et cetera). It requires effort to stay in touch with long-distance friends, but it is definitely worthwhile.
— Duchess of Deportment
Have you ever been in bed with someone and they didn’t notice you were in bed with them the entire night? What do you do in the morning?
— Bedfellows
When I’m in bed with people, they know.
— Captain DominatrixYou could have ended the question after the first eight words, and my answer would still be “no.”
— Duchess of Deportment
Why does the MH3 men’s restroom have one short urinal and no others?
— Gotta-go Gary
I have no idea.
— Captain Dominatrix & Duchess of Deportment
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