Things that Make Me Smile: Nonsense Conversation.

This morning, AWC (with whom I had a GREAT dinner at Burger Joint last night) and I indulged in a favorite pastime of nerdy Princetonians: Comparing our Residential Colleges to the Hogwarts School's Houses in Harry Potter.

Just a little FYI:

Princeton's Residential Colleges:

Left to Right: The shields of Butler, Mathey, Whitman, Wilson, Rocky, and Forbes

• Butler
• Forbes
• Mathey
• Rockefeller (aka "Rocky")
  
• Wilson
• ...and though it was not open in my time there, Whitman.
  

Hogwarts's Houses:

• Gryffindor
• Hufflepuff
  
• Ravenclaw
• Slytherin
  

Our Conversation (which is admittedly useless in the scheme of the world/our lives, etc.):

AWC: ok how would you match up HP houses with Pton Res colleges

I think I usually thought Butler was Slytherin

Rocky was Gryffindor (biased much?)

Wilson was Ravenclaw

and Mathey was Hufflepuff

and forbes was like where Hagrid lived

(no offense.)

CJM: hahahahhaha ok, it's totalllly biased by your experience

because i ALWAYS thought that since so many ppl from Rocky ended up in Ivy

that Rocky = Slytherin
AWC: yeah I've heard that one a lot

CJM: and that Forbes was really noble

AWC: hahahaha

CJM: so Forbes = Gryffindor (biased much?)

and that Hufflepuff is for the lame-os

so Hufflepuff = Wilson

AWC: BAHA

CJM: and like Butler = Ravenclaw

and Mathey doesn't matter

wah wah

AWC: alright alright I can dig it

CJM: but Forbes = Hagrid's house? makes sense

because it's SO.FAR.AWAY

but Whitman screws it all up

AWC: oh yeahhhh

stupid whitman

whitman's like one of those schools from russia that comes for the big ball

CJM: it was hard enough fitting 5 res colleges into 4 HP houses

but 6 is impossible

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No offense to the Wilsonians out there...or to Woodrow Wilson himself. What do my Princetonian readers think about these pairings?

Apologies to my non-Princetonian readers. I'm not trying to exclude anyone, but Reunions begin two weeks from yesterday, so I've got Old Nassau on my mind...

Happy Weekend!
Cxx.