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Score Your Brownie Points!

Staying in touch with people can be difficult in college. AIM is great, but your parents might not be so computer-savvy. And, you'll probably have one friend who just isn't on AIM all the time. (Strange, we know.) Believe us, you don't want your mom yelling at you because, "You never call home." Nor do you want your mom calling you on a Saturday night when you're drunk with your friends, insisting that you talk to her. Here are some little things you can do to keep in touch with your parents and friends, wherever they might be.

WARNING: PERFORMING THESE ACTS IN PUBLIC WILL
GENERALLY MARK YOU AS A FIRST-YEAR

  • send pictures of your room when it's all pretty after you've moved in

  • call home while on the Quad and wave at them through the webcam mounted on top of Bender Library

  • send pictures of you and your roommate/friend at a monument

  • leave a card to your roommate on his/her birthday in your mailbox

  • send a postcard to younger siblings/people you used to babysit for

  • take your laptop to TDR or The Tavern and have a long distance lunch date via AIM with your parents/sibling/friend back home/friend at another school

  • bring home a DC souvenir