While procrastinating on a group assignment for a computer science class, four students started talking about the popular sites textsfromlastnight.com and fmylife.com and thought a Tech-centric version would be fun. They liked the idea so much they decided to go ahead and create it, and a week later launched onlyattech.net as their group presentation in a computer science class.
The site allows anyone to submit a 300-character entry that starts out with an observation and ends with “Only at Tech.”
“Twenty-four hours later, to our complete surprise, we broke 1 million hits,” said Holden Link, a third-year computational media major.
The other students working on the project are Andrew Ash, a third-year computer science major; David Turk, a third-year computational media major; and Kaliyana Finney, a fourth-year computational media major
About 70 percent of campus visits the site over the course of a week, Link said, with as many as 3,000 unique daily visitors. The group plans to continue running the site after graduating and adding “some awesome new features,” he said.
Here are some of the top entries.
- I got my Calc III test back. The bad news? I got a 45. The good news? It was the highest grade in the class. Only at Tech.
- I made a random sound in my first CS lecture; the guy in front of me turns around and says, “Indeed.” During break he asks me where I learned to speak Klingon. Apparently I said “success” in Klingon at an appropriate time, and someone noticed. Only at Tech.
- I was playing beer pong last night. The other team wanted a re-rack with four cups left. They asked for a rhombus formation. Only at Tech.
- While students were having a tough time tearing down the goalposts at the end of the Virginia Tech game, someone yelled, “You all have to get on one end! Your moments are summing to zero! It’s a simple statics problem!” Everyone around him cheered in agreement. That someone was me. Only at Tech.
- The freshman guys on my floor at Smith figured out that they could keep playing Xbox during a power outage by wiring their TV and Xbox directly into the emergency fluorescent lighting. Only at Tech.
- 01010100 01001111 00100000 01001000 01000101 01001100 01001100 00100000 01010111 01001001 01010100 01001000 00100000 01000111 01000101 01001111 01010010 01000111 01001001 01000001 00100001 00100001 00100001. That’s “TO HELL WITH GEORGIA!!!” in binary. Only at Tech.
- Today I saw a kid who had integrated three small solar panels into his backpack so he could charge his laptop while walking to class. Only at Tech.
- Overheard the following at the Clemson football game from a student sitting in front of me: “I just don’t understand girls. I wish I could I trade my girlfriend in for a helicopter.” Only at Tech.
- I walked past a very good-looking girl today and realized I was staring … not at her but at her new MacBook Pro. Only at Tech.
- My roommate bought an antique engagement ring for his fiancee. In order to make sure that it was really a diamond, he took it into his lab over at the MSE department and performed a Raman spectroscopy on it. Only at Tech.
- A girl in pajamas just got on the Stinger holding a power drill. No one seemed to mind. Only at Tech.
- The other day someone asked me if it was weird being the only girl in my CS class. I hadn’t even noticed. This was no different from my other classes. Only at Tech.
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