{"id":6895,"date":"2022-10-07T14:54:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T19:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=6895"},"modified":"2022-10-07T14:15:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T19:15:21","slug":"the-brackety-yik-yak-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=6895","title":{"rendered":"The Brackety-Yik Yak"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Kristi Rolf<\/span><\/p>\n

Another issue of the Brackety-Ack, another roundup of the Brackety-Yik Yak! In the past two weeks, Roanoke students took to our favorite anonymous app to vent about Family Weekend, the changing seasons, a rainy weekend, and more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the first issue of the BA of the fall season, and Yik Yakers are talking about the weather. One user questioned the need for Counselling Services and instead offered this questionable advice \u201cwho needs therapy when there\u2019s crunchy leaves.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Getting dressed in the morning is hard these days. As one RC students observed, it\u2019s \u201ctoo cold for summer clothes, too hot for winter clothes, welcome to fall in Virginia folks.\u201d It\u2019s officially the season for wearing a sweatshirt to your 8:30 and a tank top by lunch time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Two weeks ago, Roanoke was entering one of the most anticipated weekends of the year. As families descended onto campus, we saw unfamiliar faces everywhere. There were children in commons, moms on the MAQ, and apparently, fathers at frats. On Sunday morning, one student yakked: \u201cmade out with someone\u2019s dad at Pi Kapp last night, can\u2019t wait to figure out who my future step-son is.\u201d Don\u2019t think about it too hard, Pi Kapps.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I can\u2019t for the life of me figure out what caused this person to feel a sudden burst of sympathy for our primate friends. A sympathetic econ major, perhaps, mused \u201cwith the banana economy the way it is, it\u2019s a s—-y time to be a monkey.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Netflix\u2019s recent release of <\/span>Monster: the Jeffrey Dahmer Story<\/span><\/i> has true crime fans everywhere hooked. One Roanoke student didn\u2019t appreciate being disturbed in their viewing, taking to Yik Yak to entreat, \u201cwhoever is screaming outside my window do you mind I am trying to watch the damn Jeffrey Dahmer series.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The first weekend of October brought the remnants of hurricane Ian to Salem. One person took this as an opportunity to make friends, anonymously asking \u201cwho wanna go swimming in the flood water w\/ me.\u201d Alas, the forecasted flood turned out to be three days of clouds and drizzle, so it sounds like this plan was foiled.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m closing this week\u2019s column with a yak just for my fellow seniors. We\u2019ve all grown during the past three years, some in surprising ways. One senior reflected, \u201cif freshman me could see senior me in bed before 10:30 on a Saturday night she\u2019d be p—-d.\u201d Sleep tight, seniors. And freshmen, keep raging in the right while you\u2019re young.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s it for this week folks. Keep yaking until the next issue for a chance to be featured in the Brackety-Yik Yak!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Kristi Rolf Another issue of the Brackety-Ack, another roundup of the Brackety-Yik Yak! In the past two weeks, Roanoke students took to our favorite anonymous app to vent about Family Weekend, the changing seasons, a rainy weekend, and more.\u00a0 This is the first issue of the BA of the fall season, and Yik Yakers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":6896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-6895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-wellness","category-lifestyle","tag-summer2019"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Image-for-Kristis-article.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}