I should have written about this sooner but I was preoccupied with a paper and the Super Bowl. I seriously regret not putting money on the Colts…oh well, maybe next year I’ll be more risk-taking and put $10 on the line. Anyway, on to what I wanted to talk about.
On Thursday at noon, students at my university (UC Davis) formed the largest flashmob in US history around the ATMs near the campus bookstore, made noise while the bell chimed, and then dispersed when it was 12:01. The record should appear in the 2008 edition of the Guinness Book of Records. The amount of people that participated was estimated to be over a thousand students and it took place during the 20-minute lunch break between the end of 11:50am classes and the beginning of 12:10pm classes.
I’m definitely going to buy the book for posterity when it comes out but I feel a little bad about myself when thinking about it because I woke up ten minutes or so before it started and didn’t feel it was worth it to rush to campus when I could eat lunch and go to my 1:40 class. There are many angles of the event on YouTube so just search for “UC Davis flashmob” and laugh at the random exuberance of college students.
