College sucks. At least, you think so.
You don't care what anyone says. College is basically an adult kindergarten, one where depressed teachers try to uphold some semblance of order in their classes full of drunk, disorderly, or just plain stupid students (and you use the term 'students' extremely loosely) that are only there because their rich parents want their brain-dead children to have some sort of higher education. Either that or sports scholarships. Goddamn sports scholarships.
When your best friend leaves for greener pastures over in Equestria, you start dreading who will take his place as your roommate. Naturally, it happens to be an Equestrian that takes his place—and you're put in charge of making sure she feels at home.
Second-person perspective. Contains anthropomorphic ponies.
A short story that I will add to when I'm not working on more important stories. Enjoy it for what it is, and try not to look to deep into it.
FirstI feel like I've read this story before. Did you post this about one to one and a half years ago then delete it?
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Something like that.
I Like This ! WOOO
I think I've read this before.
God Damn It!!!
ahh, the quest for cabbage
Eheheheh...
You know me... Well then, Im'ma have a look-see.
"Shit."
My thoughts exactly.
I like this guy. I probably would be beating myself up over that too, although more than mentally.
Welp, there goes numbers.
Shit ton of work, awkward sexual tensions, and perpetually-serious deans?! Ayep, that's college.
Now this just got all the more enrapturing... Gotta say, the backstory alone is kinda... wow. Just by itself, I mean.
Sleep is for the weak!
Thou shall not take me, confines of sleep!
I really enjoy this. I hope you keep updating it.
Aww.
Harsh.
Introducing her to the internet, eh wot? Please, I implore you, unnamed protagonist whose-name-seems-to-be-lost-to-time, do not allow her into the clutches of 4Chan!
I don't think that'll end well... Dash is a prankster, yes, but I dunno if she'll take it well now... Adding that to the fact that everyone will be watching, to take a gander at the new pony in town.
I was kinda expecting Twilight when I saw 'Anthro', to be honest. In a foreign college setting such as this, I think Twilight would've performed the role just the same, if not better. We already have Anthropomorphism focusing on RD (although that story is most likely thrown to the wolves, anyway). Dash is my fave and all, but I just felt like spouting some more useless conjectures.
In spite of that, however, the humor is relatable and top-notch. The backstory is quite enrapturing, as I stated previously, and the basic foundations for this alternate universe were laid out for the most part. You have a semi-plot-driven story that contains many of the slice-of-life components present in the other anthro story. I greatly look forward to seeing how our hero's antics pan out in the future, while getting a good laugh at the same time.
... It's mighty good to have you back, and seeing you at full capacity is just an added bonus.
Take it easy, now!
I feel like this will be similar to The Roomate
May i add this to my group?
Uggh... Now I have to think of a name for him... Marcus, he's called Marcus now.
Eeyup.
You said that the rest of the mane six is on earth, you should expand on that in other stories once your down with this one.
The fuck do you have against people on athletic scholarship?
You know, I really like this. I've forgotten how nice your writing style is like, Divide.
After I saw that the password was cabbages, I looked up the cabbage guy from Avatar: the last Airbender.
This is a fun story! I look forward to more!
I will name him frederick mcferish the 12th... No clue why
I love the idea that Equestrian citizens don't speak English!
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They're freeloaders that get paid by institutions of higher education to do something that has no practical value for society while other people have to pay them to learn how to be productive members of society.
I presume that you belong to said group?
Hm, this looks very, very nice! I can't wait to see how it progresses forward.
I have a thought however. How the 'fur on the hands' work? I need a proper explanation for that.
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Which is apparently not working on Earth, according the story.
And real life.
Anyone else wanna make a guess?
3920672 I almost feel bad for posting this massive comment, and yet at the same time I don't feel bad at all.
The freeloaders?
I take it that you have absolutely no idea what happens in college athletics, you just sit around and make assumptions of how student athletes must be treated and how its so unfair.
Sure there's the big name guys at the top Division 1 schools who happen to get full-rides. Sure there's the North Carolina State Universities where they let their star quarterback skip all of his classes and still graduate. Sure there are that less than 1% of student athletes who can do whatever they want.
Those people aren't even close to an accurate representation of who student athletes are. Most student athletes don't "freeload", because most student athletes don't receive any athletic scholarship money whatsoever. On my team of 30 players only 9 of us receive any athletic scholarship money at all. I can only afford to go to college because of my 1/3-scholarship. I'm receiving more scholarship money than the vast majority of student athletes, and I'm still paying 2/3 of my tuition.
Let's take a moment to go into detail what exactly being a student athlete entails.
Right now I'm spending 11 and a half hours in class each week, and the same amount of time out of class to maintain a GPA high enough to still be eligible for my athletic scholarship. That's the standard 23 hours of work normal students have to put into college each week. Mind you that student athletes are reviled by professors, because most professors consider student athletes to be guilty until proven innocent. Myself and some of my teammates have compared our test scores on written answer questions with non-athletes, and there is a significantly harsher standard imposed on athletes because how dare we freeload?
Yet its not the magical free ride that you seem to think it is, I have to travel constantly for games, and I have to spend 15+ hours a week training to stay in good enough shape to be able to be a competitive enough athlete to receive scholarship money, which at any given moment my coach can take away. I can't afford to slip up at all, lest my coach decides that he can recruit someone to do what I do better than me.
This year I broke my leg in a meaningless preseason game, and my coach told me that if I didn't recover from it than I would lose my scholarship money, and be forced to drop out.
Do you understand how awful that would've been for me? Do you get how embarrassing it would've been to go back to my family and tell them I had to drop out?
To look into my Dad's eyes, who I promised that I would be the first person in my family to get a college education, and tell him that I failed because some kid accidentally missed the ball in a tackle and broke a 2 inch portion of my shin bone off?
I spent a week crying myself to sleep because I thought my chances at getting a college degree were gone.
Yet I worked harder than you probably ever have in your life. I've come back stronger, and better than I was before, both as an athlete and as a person for what I went through.
It amazes me that bronies, a group that prides itself on being inclusive and not judging others, could have assholes like you who lump people you don't like into groups and act they're all the worst thing to happen.
Well I'll stick to my values, and not stereotype people. I don't hate everyone who doesn't like student athletes. I don't hate the professors that make my life miserable because the only way I can earn an education is through soccer. I don't hate the people who don't understand how hard I work everyday.
I just hate you.
likey so far
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How wonderful, even on the internet where it doesn't matter what others think, we can all revel in hatred towards each other. Come, let us all collect weapons and kill each other for having different views on how the world works.
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>Right now I'm spending 11 and a half hours in class each week, and the same amount of time out of class to maintain a GPA high enough to still be eligible for my athletic scholarship.
Fair enough. I concede to you on this point, sir.
>big name guys at the top Division 1 schools who happen to get full-rides
But these people? They can go fuck themselves.
>It amazes me that bronies, a group that prides itself on being inclusive and not judging others, could have assholes like you who lump people you don't like into groups and act they're all the worst thing to happen.
Welcome to the Internet.
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>the internet
>collect weapons
666 views.....
Should I be worried reading this? D:
Being mean to RD?
I WILL CRUSH YOU NAMELESS HUMAN
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I would never make a deal with the government!
Well, Maybe...
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No Blackdrag-rose, you ARE the nameless human.
Brodo McSwaggins.
That cliff hanger is so good it deserves to be condemned!
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Zeph, Science. Science, Zeph. Get acquainted.
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Neat.
Shameless self insertion is shamless
3922477 There are so many self inserts while this is a more obvious one it is certainly a good one.
Her hands may be covered in fur, but her fingertips and palms would HAVE to be bare-- either by nature or due to calluses.
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>the internet
>neat
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between the government and the devil, I'd rather make a deal with the devil. at least when he collects, he only takes your soul. when the government collects, they take a huge chunk of money if you have it and everything else if you don't.
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A brilliant sentiment, I must use that somewhere.
this story has some potential. it really does. i guess i shall keep my eyes on this.
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I am aquainted with it quite long ago, thank you.
My point is: are Equestrians that different from beings from Earth?
If you take a look at the animals that have paws, you see how the underside of their fingers are not covered in fur.
But you know what? nevermind.
Let's just roll with it.
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I also went with that.
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Marcus Kincaid. NO REFUNDS!