What is “East Campus” you might ask, dear reader?
East Campus is a tragically beautiful (yet awesome) slum place to live during your undergraduate years at Mizzou. It’s a big, magical, non-stop party with all your friends. Imagine a place where a thick layer of cigarette butts and shattered beer bottles litters the rundown lawns and crooked sidewalks. A place coated by a thin residue of shame that comes up easily when you scrape at it with a fingernail. A place where the brick-lain streets are bathed in streams of sorority girl tears flowing richly into the Natty Light-filled sewers. East Campus, a prime place for the housing of Who’s Who in Mizzou. We mean this when we say it: It’s the best place ever.
- Hodgepodge Fraternity Housing = Questionable Living Conditions & High Rent.
- Freshly Remodeled Housing = Great Living Conditions & High Rent.
- Likely Unlivable Housing = Subpar Living Conditions & Cheap Rent.
These are your options on East Campus, choose wisely.
Choose cheaply.
Seth and I chose cheaply, as did Cam.
And here is your East Campus midweSTYLE in option, “Likely Unlivable Housing”:
WHY THIS LOOK WORKS: Nautical and military style? Sure. It’s called, the navy.
You can get these shoes at Famous Footwear. Is anyone listening? Famous Footwear, I say.
by Clark’s, size 11.and doesn’t mind us coming over just for baked goods.
by Jeffrey
Lauren - First of all, i found your blog through what i wore and i absolutely love it. Second of all this post made me laugh hysterically because I too went to Mizzou and know exactly what you are talking about. Your description of east campus was perfectly written and so on point – loved it!
David - …and that’s why I never lived on campus. Well, also because I went to college in my home town and I didn’t need to. But yeah, mold, booze, shame pretty much covers all of what I did see of the dorm life. You never forget that smell…
jeff - Glen – Wait, we were those half-drunk firework-crazed boys…
Jenna – The ode speaks to many who have attended a large, public university with housing that was once beautiful and historic in their college town. While visiting Ohio State, I ventured off to a party there and it was an all too familiar situation. It felt and smelled like home: mold, booze and shame.
Jenna Brucoli - That first paragraph is kind of the most lovely and prosaic way to describe collegiate housing. It also makes me realize that while our campus apartment situation at Ohio State is quite similar, our campus fashion is tragically suffering.
Glen - Hear hear. Long live East Campus… A place where the should-probably-be-condemned-properties flow like wine, and the half-drunk-firework-crazed frat boys instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano
Seth J. Putnam - Looks like we have another convert to the beard club. Seriously though—thanks for reading, Taylor. Glad we could put frame around the vivid shit-show that is East Campus.
Taylor - I started following ya’ll after someone tweeted a link to your blog. This is the most amazing description of East Campus I’ve ever read. It was funny 8 hours ago and it’s still funny.
Side note: Beards are ALWAYS a plus.