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Julia Rampert '11 discovered last weekend that walking across campus at 10 p.m. with a backpack and Brown sweatshirt is far more embarrassing than making a similar journey in a tight dress and heels at 10 a.m.
Though well acquainted with the chilly morning-after trek home from a gentleman friend's dorm, Rampert has waited until her senior year to experience the most shameful journey Brown has to offer. "I've done the walk of shame from a bunch of places. Short walks across a Keeney hallway, long walks from New Pembroke to Grad Center. I've even done the walk of shame from the SciLi, Smith-Buonanno and Wilson 302," she said. "But never after, you know, studying."
Rampert said that she felt the sting of judgment from partygoers across campus Friday night. "People were eyeing my laptop charger all the way down Thayer. They knew what I'd been up to," she said. She lowered her voice and whispered, "A history paper."
Some students, including Darius Pevner '12, go so far as to make a game out of sitting on Lincoln Field to catcall students walking home from the library.
"Yeah, I think they should feel bad about themselves," said Pevner. "I see the same ones traipsing home from a different floor every night, working on different assignments. It's disgusting. I'm not saying they can't have intellectual lives, but come on. That's not what college is supposed to be about."
Some walk-of-shamers are plagued by even more pressing frustrations than the judgment of their peers. Georgina Mifficent '12 has been making the walk of shame from the Rock about once every weekend, and said she is annoyed by the library's lack of commitment to her.
"I feel like if I'm going to go over there every Saturday night, I might as well leave a notebook and some sweatpants there. But the staff won't even entertain the idea. It's just disrespectful the way they kick me out with my backpack when they're done with me every night at 10," Mifficent said. "I'm almost starting to think they want to keep the place empty so that other students can study there."
