Yale Georgetown: Where Students Go to Hire Personal Assistants
Last week, Georgetown sophomore Charley Cooper made national news with a job listing for a personal assistant. He's 20-years old and apparently the whole college affair all too much for him to handle on his own.
According to Vox Populi, the Georgetown Voice's blog, the original as went something like this:
As my PA you will receive an email once a day by 9:00 am with a task list for that day and a time estimate for each task. Important tasks will be bolded on the list and must be done that day (even though everything on the list should theoretically be finished on a daily basis) …
PA example tasks -Organize closet -make bed -Drop off / pick up dry cleaning -Drop me off / pick me up from work -Do laundry -Fill up gas tank -bring car for servicing -schedule appointment for haircut -Pay parking tickets -manage electronic accounts -shopping and running errands -other random tasks.
Needless to say, Georgetown is not in the Ivy League. (And neither is Mr. Cooper.) But when a student does something so god-awful douchey that the Washington Post reports on it, something must be done.
Everyone's favorite Yale student, Aleksey "So Sexy" Veyner, might've done something like this. And Mike Kopko definitely started DormAid, a service that offered maid services to Harvard dorm rooms and pissed off pretty much the entire school. But Georgetown should know better, right?
After the jump, a couple of reasons why not.
Long revered as the school for the upper middle cast beltway castaways, children of diplomats, and more rich kids than the average college, Georgetown sounds like a good idea---an Ivy alternative, if you will. It's in the nation's capital. You can study to be a nurse, a foreign service officer, and a banker all at the same place. Hey, there's even a rowing team the sometimes "finishes" the race.
Then there's the whole Exorcist side of things. You've got priests eating cheeseburgers and talking about the Bible in basement-level bars. This year a minor election scandal made The Hoya---misplaced election signs OH MY!---and there's been a rash of bathroom violence. (In two consecutive weeks this month, one student was attacked by a crazy-eyed, hammer swinging villain. Another opened fire in the bathroom during the kick-off to the basketball season.)
Actually, this Georgetown place is sounding like every bit the shit show as its eight Ivy neighbors to the North.
Harvard has evidently had it's own trouble with toilets. Not to mention the fact that Boston priests also like stalking students, er, former students who now have their own late night television show.
Princeton loves them some election scandals, too. It seems like they've had candidates killing/lighting squirrels on fire or dressing up in blackface for ages.
Yale, we've already explained, is the capital of self-righteous megalomaniacs.
Brown, on the other hand, is the douchiest school.
Cornell loves animal cruelty.
Dartmouth kids are great at drinking---so much so, booze is their mascot. Georgetown kids, however, are probably only OK at drinking.
Columbia also attracts children of diplomats. (Is Glenn Beck considered a diplomat?)
And Penn. Well. Keep it up, Penn.
You're not so different after all, Georgetown! But seriously, go Google "georgetown student" and bask in your new-found prominence as a school for snots. Meanwhile, let us know if you do anything embarrassing.



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October 28th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Are you really that desperate for news that you need to write about Georgetown?
October 28th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
DERRRRRRRRP. This was on gawker years ago.
October 28th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
1. This was news a week ago.
2. Georgetown is not in the Ivy League.
October 28th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
New writer? Next please.
And I can’t believe you actually linked to that Cornell post, which is completely made-up nonsense.
October 28th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Is there really not enough news among the ivies that you picked georgetown?
October 28th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
What’s with the link overload?
October 28th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
The hammer in the bathroom incident happened at George Washington, not Georgetown.
October 28th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
Harvard has evidently had its own trouble
October 30th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
If you want some gossip about an actual ivy league school, Dartmouth’s homecoming was a fail: fewer arrests (and 2 of them were visiting Yalies), and no one touched the fire or rushed the field. This freshman class is not living up to expectations as the most competitive class in the history of time or whatever the hell it is.
http://thedartmouth.com/2009/10/26/news/homecoming
October 30th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Also, dartmouth won a football game. For the first time in 17 games. Is that really going to be ignored?
October 31st, 2009 at 5:53 pm
What is wrong with you guys? Isn’t Ivygate supposed to be about the IVY LEAGUE? We’re sure ridiculous stuff happens everywhere, but we really only want to hear about 8 schools.