While some ran laps, students at Boston University and surrounding schools celebrated, not with applause and cheers, but with bottles and booze. April 17 marks another holiday known by most as “MarMon”— an abbreviation for “marathon Monday,” though it mainly describes an all-day drinking fest.
I have never run a marathon.
And because I have never run a marathon, I can say with certainty that it’s impossible. A hilarious conception. A totally insane, completely preposterous, unthinkable,...
Boston University Police Department officers squad-ing up in front of StuVi II. Freshmen carrying suspicious Aquafina bottles filled with orange liquid. Hordes of sorority women in matching T-shirts. All...
I’m not a fan of shortening words for just for the sake of speaking less. MarMon sounds less like Marathon Monday and more like a word for a female Mormon. Is it really that hard to say Marathon Monday? Is your life actually better from the 0.53 seconds you saved from shortening the word?
