The Daily Northwestern recently sent out their Freshman Guide, and oh, the wisdom it included! Most of the articles are not only inane and useless (An alarm clock is something you should pack? Really?) but coated in the tone a person uses to talk to a special puppy.

Freshmen are the new special ed kids apparently.  One piece of advice from the Guide - literally - "Don't worry. College is fun." Since when did it become requisite to speak to incoming frosh as if they rode the short bus to school? North by Northwestern even has an advice column written by a member of the Class of 2011 offering advice for the Class of 2011.

It's nice that people are offering advice to freshmen, but seriously, let's cut the condescension. They are basically the same age as the rest of campus. Making almost all of them legal, which is really the only thing upperclassmen should care about.