— Speaking of financials, it’s scary what will happen to those rich young minds with poor pockets if the Michigan Legislature doesn’t get its priorities straight.

— That hazy cloud you see lingering near the ceiling of every male dorm room hall? Body spray.

— If you do any of the following things while your roommate is in your room, it is grounds for felonious assault: Bump your bass like you’re DJing an NYC nightclub, cut particularly fragrant flatulence, stumble home with some random at 2:30 a.m. and, in the eloquent lyrics of the Bloodhound Gang, “do it like they do on the Discovery Channel” with said random.

— College students really can care about politics, as shown by the circus that was the 2008 presidential election.

— I’m probably going to get 20 nasty e-mails for using the word “circus” on the opinion page.

— In the illustrious words of the great Russell Hammond, MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo is “A GOLDEN GOD!!!!!!!!!”

— I know it’s not 100 percent fair you’re held to such a high standard, but if you’re an MSU athlete, it’s best for everybody that you stay out of 54-B.

— The smell of blossoming flowers, the sight of rainbow tulips outside Kedzie and the taste of the year’s first Oberon almost make up for the soul-sucking slog that is an East Lansing winter. Almost.

— We might disagree about their compensation, but I hope we can agree that MSU’s administrators, for the most part, work hard every day to make our education the best it can be.

— There are a lot of things — a lot of things — you can do to lose respect of your Spartan peers, but, nothing is worse than shouting these four words: “WE WANT TEAR GAS!”

— When it’s three in the morning and you’ve had a few too many “root beers” or “cups of juice,” any flat surface — concrete patio, hardwood floor, middle of Grand River Avenue — looks like a Tempur-Pedic.

— Your high school self never would believe it, but going home rules. You get good food, nice parents and fresh laundry. And you get to leave before your family makes you want to crawl back to East Lansing.

­— Nothing unites a campus quite like a national championship run. Thank you to the 2007 hockey team and the past two basketball teams.

— Scratch that. Nothing unites a campus quite like an ill-conceived logo change. Priorities, people. Priorities.

— That said, Mark Hollis is the best athletics director in the country.

— One of the best places to see campus spirit is the rock on Farm Lane. Although as I type this, it reads “National T-Rex Arms Awareness Day.”

— If I never see another PowerPoint presentation, there just might be a higher deity.

— The most underappreciated person on this campus just might well be John T. Madden. The man is everywhere.

— You would think that with the $50 I shell out each semester, CATA could get some pine tree fresheners in those buses.

— Without fail, everybody on this campus has considered jumping in front of a CATA bus, just to see if you really do get free tuition.

— It’s debatable which accomplishment is more impressive: getting your diploma after four years or not getting a single MIP after four years.

— A lot of arcane research is done at this university. Why can’t we commission more useful, college-student research? Like whether Taco Bell or The Shark has a longer line at 1 a.m.

— Quite possibly the greatest marketing campaign since the iPod spots: Cottage Inn’s Stagger Home Special.

— The best thing I learned during college: how much there still is to learn.

— The worst thing I learned during college: how you can feel so ready to leave MSU yet never want to leave at the
same time.

Jacob Carpenter is the State News editor in chief. Reach him at carpe219@msu.edu.