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Christendom College: The Recount of an Alumnus


Affectionately referred to as "The Dome"


For this blogpost, I was having trouble adopting a theme. I thought about publishing a piece about Obama's latest boo-boo (aka impeachable offense against the citizens of America), but few things upset me more than the things that man does. One of those things is girls posting pictures of their painted fingernails on social media.

Instead of dwelling on such things, I thought about how I haven't written about my alma mater yet. This is surprising since it's a place of such magical mystery. It is the real-life Hogwarts (don't take that in a derogatory way). In fact, I could write a blog post making parallels between Christendom and Hogwarts (log that one away, Worley).

The oddest thing about Christendom is it's popularity with it's students. As a student, you have three choices on how you define your relationship with the college: Love it, Hate it, Love to Hate it. By my arbitrary calculations, 25% love it, 15% hate it, and 60% love to hate it. The majority of us love-to-hate-its loved it more as seniors/alumni.

Diversity...son! (Aside: I love all of you, Paul come back stateside)
The sports are another oddity in comparison with the normal college. 10% of all student applicants considered Christendom College because of their sports programs. 9% of those were from St. Gregory's Academy.
#MedievalFest


The founder of Christendom College was the late Warren Carroll. He's one of my personal heroes for being a fantastic Catholic historian (too few of them). He was a great man and I consider it an honor to have met him. In a lighter vein, I just realized today that he bore a remarkable similarity to Warren Buffet, another personal hero of mine:
Maybe it's just me...














Another unique aspect of Christendom is "The Dip". This is not a dance move. Dance moves that don't belong to the "Swing", "Line", or "Square" varieties are generally frowned upon. No, the Dip is rather the bane of all Catholic women: a precipitous up and down path that breaks heels as well as dignity. If asked about it, the usual alumna response is worded in a way that conjures up this picture:
Up and down without falling? Today was a good day.
For all its eccentricities and headaches, Christendom was a great school. You can foster friendships there for a lifetime, truly. There have been 367 alumnus-alumna marriages. Woah. If you put an average of just about 140 students per year for Christendom's 37 years, that means 15% of the people that have gone there married each other. I make a lot of this stuff up but that was actual mathematical approximation.


So my advice for prospective Christedomers? Take swing dancing lessons, buy snow shoes, and learn Phantom of the Opera on the piano.

~Worley
































































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