HEALY LAWN – As prospective students descended on Georgetown’s campus for GAAP weekend, one Colin McGuire (SFS ‘23) of Columbus, Ohio had a particularly harrowing episode. In a weekend full of icebreaker games, awkward silence broken only by timid small talk, and getting lost, lost, lost, a little incident on the lawn took the cake as most humiliating. He had to pose for a picture, and boy oh boy did he feel exposed.

According to Colin, he didn’t even want to get his picture taken. He cites his mom’s “lame” tendencies as a key cause for the incident. But nevertheless he found himself out in the midday sun posing proudly in front of Healy Hall. Colin’s confidence began to waver immediately. Droves of college students passed by. Some even played frisbee on the lawn not too far away. That is so quintessentially college. Colin knew they would recognize him as the imposter.

His mother’s struggle with the camera application on her phone only exacerbated tensions. After finally getting it right, she held it up only to see that the camera was still flipped from the sneaky selfie she snapped with the two of them on the plane (Colin was none the wiser). Back to square one, she lowered her phone to get the direction right. At this point, Colin’s pose had lost all of its mojo. He was slumped over, shifting weight between feet, and flashing the most wide-eyed leer you ever have seen, no tooth nor dimple in sight.

We at the Heckler were relieved to hear that the photo turned out “okay,” however we cannot speak to the damage done to Colin’s rep because of it.