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Campus Bridge Collapses Due to Chunky Sneaker Epidemic
Campus Bridge Collapses Due to Chunky Sneaker Epidemic

Hindsight is always 20/20; at least, that’s what FSU’s engineers have been saying as the cause of the fateful Reynolds-Suwannee bridge collapse has become too chunky to ignore.

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The Eggplant FSUSeptember 5, 2019
Student Buys Used Textbook, Thinks They Have Discovered The Half-Blood Prince
Student Buys Used Textbook, Thinks They Have Discovered The Half-Blood Prince

Now that it is the beginning of the year, most students have resorted to blood sacrifices, selling feet pictures, and, worst of all, working for Seminole Dining in order to make ends meet.

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The Eggplant FSUSeptember 4, 2019
FSU Football Team to Be Replaced by Lake Ella Geese
FSU Football Team to Be Replaced by Lake Ella Geese

Following the recent tragedy of blowing an 18-point lead and yet again soiling FSU’s legacy of being a second-half team, Coach Taggart has decided to change his trajectory when it comes to recruiting prospects to the FSU football program.

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The Eggplant FSUSeptember 3, 2019
Indie Group Impresses FSU Audience By Sounding Exactly Like Every Other Band CDU Hires
Indie Group Impresses FSU Audience By Sounding Exactly Like Every Other Band CDU Hires

Ringing in the new school year never sounded so angsty thanks to Club Downunder’s annual Last Call Before Fall.

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The Eggplant FSUAugust 30, 2019
Study Abroad Student You Met Is Actually Just From Kentucky
Study Abroad Student You Met Is Actually Just From Kentucky

It often seems that there are two types of students on Florida State’s campus: students from Bumfuck, Central Florida, or those out-of-state overachievers whose enrollment at the university often begs the question, “how much financial aid did they offer to trick you into coming here?”

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The Eggplant FSUAugust 29, 2019
Parents Desperately Rationalize That “Every School is a Party School” While Moving Their Daughter Into Her Dorm
Parents Desperately Rationalize That “Every School is a Party School” While Moving Their Daughter Into Her Dorm

This fall semester, FSU welcomed a slew of distressed parents and their starry-eyed children to campus.

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The Eggplant FSUAugust 27, 2019
Electric Scooters Provide New, Innovative Way to Get a DUI
Electric Scooters Provide New, Innovative Way to Get a DUI

Taking notes from their ankle-splitting Razor predecessors, electric scooters have arrived in Tallahassee to provide drunk college students and overly excitable congressional interns with an exciting new chance to become victims of vehicular manslaughter - and perhaps hit some sweet jumps.

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The Eggplant FSUJuly 29, 2019
UF Able to Invent Gatorade, Unable to Bring an Umbrella to Graduation
UF Able to Invent Gatorade, Unable to Bring an Umbrella to Graduation

Tragedy struck in Gainesville, Florida, this weekend as hundreds of $25,000 pieces of résumé-ready paper were destroyed in mere seconds - and this year, it was not by the ceremonial dumping of Gatorade onto the graduates.

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The Eggplant FSUMay 6, 2019
UF to Tear Down Only Decent Bar, Cementing MadSo’s Dominance
UF to Tear Down Only Decent Bar, Cementing MadSo’s Dominance

Gainesville’s rejoicing over their new Cheesecake Factory was cut short after news broke that the only thing the University of Florida has to offer, an off-campus bar and restaurant called The Swamp, would be torn down.

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The Eggplant FSUApril 25, 2019
Man Becomes Professor After Turning In Mueller Report-Inspired Political Science Paper
Man Becomes Professor After Turning In Mueller Report-Inspired Political Science Paper

As the semester comes to a close, the drudgery of the last few exams, projects and papers has begun to weigh down on a lot of students, especially in this political climate.

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The Eggplant FSUApril 23, 2019
Friend Who Refused to Stop Wearing Jeans Feeling Really Vindicated by Recent Cold Snap
Friend Who Refused to Stop Wearing Jeans Feeling Really Vindicated by Recent Cold Snap

Board shorts and midday benders have already made their appearances at numerous tiny apartment complex pools around town as the weather slowly crawls its way to the high 110s.

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The Eggplant FSUApril 22, 2019
Professor Buys Entire Class Weed Just in Time for Course Evaluations
Professor Buys Entire Class Weed Just in Time for Course Evaluations

It’s that time of year! Your computer has crashed so many times that its like Y2K all over again, Canvas continues to collectively lose its shit and students are exercising their last shreds of freewill by roasting the living hell out of their professors through course evaluations.

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The Eggplant FSUApril 18, 2019
Guy Who Was Bullied in High School Welcomes You to This Showing at the SLC
Guy Who Was Bullied in High School Welcomes You to This Showing at the SLC

Artistic, Community-Building, Horny--these are only a handful of the many words that one can use to describe the daily happenings at FSU’s infamous Askew Student Life Center.

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The Eggplant FSUApril 17, 2019
Man Who Couldn’t Afford Coachella Tickets Wants You To Know He'd Never Go To That Sort Of Thing
Man Who Couldn’t Afford Coachella Tickets Wants You To Know He'd Never Go To That Sort Of Thing

With the wafting scents of $15 gourmet hotdogs and Boomerang Instagram stories of that one Ferris wheel, it’s clear that the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has arrived.

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The Eggplant FSUApril 16, 2019
It’s the Spring Game and Somehow FSU Still Lost Against Themselves
It’s the Spring Game and Somehow FSU Still Lost Against Themselves

In all senses of the phrase, Florida State’s football team played themselves once again in this weekend’s Spring Game.

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The Eggplant FSUApril 8, 2019
It’s Enrollment Season and Dating My Advisor Has Never Been So Useless
It’s Enrollment Season and Dating My Advisor Has Never Been So Useless

It seems that we students are constantly presented with the daunting task of deciding what classes to take next semester as we further ruin our lives.

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The Eggplant FSUApril 5, 2019
University Ambassadors and Orientation Leaders Duke it Out Over Who Has More Fun Facts About FSU
University Ambassadors and Orientation Leaders Duke it Out Over Who Has More Fun Facts About FSU

Some of the nation’s greatest rivalries are attributed to institutions like Army versus Navy or Michigan versus Ohio State, but both pale in comparison to the rivalry at what is the considered to be the oldest continuous site of higher education in the state of Florida: FSU’s University Ambassadors and Orientation Leaders.

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The Eggplant FSUApril 4, 2019
Student Starts Nonprofit After Doing 3 Hours of Service at The Big Event
Student Starts Nonprofit After Doing 3 Hours of Service at The Big Event

The Big Event, known only for being really large, has inspired the students of FSU, TCC and FAMU to give back to their community.

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The Eggplant FSUApril 2, 2019
Petitioners on Legacy Walk Only Want to Harass You to Sign Your Organs Away
Petitioners on Legacy Walk Only Want to Harass You to Sign Your Organs Away

The walk from Woodward Garage to HCB has evolved from avoiding thot-hating bible thumper to dodging petitioners with clipboards asking people to sign a multicolored sheet with big buzzwords like "equity" and "I'm getting paid $15 an hour to bother you."

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The Eggplant FSUApril 1, 2019
 Anthropology Department Introduces "Florida Man Studies" Minor
Anthropology Department Introduces "Florida Man Studies" Minor

With enrollment officially opening up once again, it's time for advisors to disapprovingly look at rising seniors who show a scary 56% completed on their academic maps and still haven't managed to fulfill their ENC2135 requirements.

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The Eggplant FSUMarch 28, 2019
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