Tea With Gen Z

Campus Confessions

Episode Summary

Tea With Gen Z is back with some hot tea and exciting content for 2022! In our pilot episode, join Dalal, Vini, James, Joshua and Pooja as they share some of their deep and embarrassing campus confessions!

Episode Notes

Intro Music Credits: composed by Pooja Maniyeri and Joshua Thomas

Editing Credits: Amaan Shad

Episode Transcription

Campus Confessions

Speaker1: Hi, guys, and welcome to the first episode of season two of TeawithGenZ, the podcast where we discuss the latest news by you and for you, I'm your host, Dylan. Join me with me today. We have Mr James, Joshua Puja and our creative director, Vinny. Hi, everyone.

 

Speaker2: Hey, guys, welcome to season two.

 

Speaker3: Hey, guys, so excited for this new season.

 

Speaker4: It's great to finally be back.

 

Speaker5: Hi, everyone, welcome back to our new season.

 

Speaker1: I hope all of you had a great break. Now that we're back to classes and back to the hectic university life, I thought it would be fun to sit down and discuss some of our campus confessions.

 

Speaker2: Today, we're going to be spilling some hot tea on our campus secrets, anywhere from stories, confessions and honest heartaches.

 

Speaker1: Before we get started, I wanted to ask what each of your favorite spots to hang around on campus are.

 

Speaker4: Ok. Mine is the woman's lounge, especially since it's so close to like all the areas with food, so I just get all my food and I go inside the woman's lounge. And it's also the perfect place to like sleep and it's so comfortable. It's so quite literally, it's an unspoken rule that we do not make noise there because the students send us right outside. So if someone wants to make noise, go outside, and if they if they do make noise inside, they get a lot of looks and they get the hint that they just leave. So it's a quiet place. It's perfect to eat and sleep and study and everything. I mean, I studied there more than I do in the library, so.

 

Speaker5: I think for me, it's the main building. It's really fancy, it's quiet, I like to go there and just read or do work. But if I want to have some fun and hang out with my friends, it's probably sweet. I love the vibe over there.

 

Speaker3: Uh, for me, I guess it's the Annie Burger King, because guys, it's near Burger King. That's all you need in life. It's just food's great. There's comfy places to sit there and all your friends are gathered there. You can just hang out there, whatever. And also, it has an exit right nearby.

 

Speaker2: I've been trying to think of a place that hasn't been mentioned yet, and this is going to sound a little bit weird, but I really love the elevator at SVA. No, wait, wait, there's a specific.

 

Speaker1: Why the elevator? Why? Specifically, this left elevator?

 

Speaker2: The lighting in there is so good it's the perfect place for mirror selfies.

 

Speaker1: Oh, is that? Is that the elevator? You send your morning streaks in?

 

Speaker2: Yeah. Left elevator. Perfect lighting. Love that spot.

 

Speaker3: Those specific, so, so specific teams, I swear.

 

Speaker2: How about you?

 

Speaker1: Well, I think the place where I hang out the most is currently the chemistry building. It's where most of my classes are, and I really like the new building. With the construction that I had, they had just done. It feels very fresh and new. So I sit there most of my time. I love how both Puja and Joshua picked places based on food like that's just iconic.

 

Speaker3: Where there's food there I am, and Burger King has the best food on campus right now.

 

Speaker1: I'm surprised no one picked Breakpoint because I remember when I was a first year student, everyone was hanging out there.

 

Speaker2: I love.

 

Speaker4: What I loved it, I loved it, too. How can you not love this one? I know a lot of people are going to disagree with me.

 

Speaker1: One of my confessions is I just think break point is extremely overrated. I've only been there a couple of times. I think they have a better breakfast menu rather than a lunch menu.

 

Speaker2: Hello, Breakpoint is literally like the place where main characters hang out, you know, those little booths and stuff, and then you just sit there and talk to each other.

 

Speaker1: Yeah, I remember it's such a vibe. I would sit there with my friends, but I would just not eat. I don't know. And my friends would make fun of me for it. But guys, please don't cancel me. Everyone's entitled to their own opinion. I just I'm not a breakpoint fan. I'm sorry.

 

Speaker4: I feel like a lot of people would agree with you because sometimes when I go like, I love breakpoint, a lot of people go like, why? Like, What do you what do you like there? But I feel like I like it because there are so many options like it's it's more like a restaurant where I can actually choose stuff from rather than like fast food.

 

Speaker2: So I'm going to throw this out there. Pasta station the best pasta station.

 

Speaker1: Ok, I mean, this does not relate to campus confessions, but one of my confessions is I don't like pasta.

 

Speaker4: You know what? I love you because I'm like,

 

Speaker1: I really

 

Speaker4: Don't like it. And people, people like people just don't understand me. But like, yeah,

 

Speaker2: I'm speechless right now. Like, my jaw is dropped. I can't. What is this?

 

Speaker1: James, you're not want to talk, James. You are not want to talk. You don't eat rice. You don't eat chocolate. Ok. So it's OK, people can have their own food choices.

 

Speaker5: No, I can't understand how you don't like pasta, I like pasta more than I like pizza, so.

 

Speaker1: Oh my god. This is quickly turning into a food episode. Let's get back on track. Ok. But even other than food related, both both of you picked Student Center like the main hub to be the student center. And I remember as a first year student, like, that's where most people would hang out. But also, I remember the extreme anxiety that I would feel every time I walked into the student center because I was like, I'm definitely going to run into like a lot of people I know. And it was really intimidating back then. I don't know why now, maybe because I'm a senior. It's not that intimidating. And it's just like, Hey, whatever. But do you guys not feel that?

 

Speaker4: I don't know. It depends on the people I was with. So like if you're actually right, if I was with a group of people in student center, I wouldn't feel intimidated. But if you're walking alone into it, it's like all these people know each other and like, you're just walking through and it's kind of awkward. But yeah, right now I just like, I have my favorite spot, so I just chill that if someone wants to come, that's fine. But if, like, I'm not with anyone until it's actually cool, now you're right.

 

Speaker2: Guys, I love the student center is an extrovert, it's literally my place to go and meet new people, and each time I'm there, I feel like I'm meet a new, interesting friend. You know, although campus confession, I suck really badly when it comes to remembering faces and names, and I have an embarrassing story about that. So this one time I just walked into the student center, I saw a guy and I was just making conversation. I'm like, Hey, you know, my name is James. I don't think we've met. What's your name? And he literally looks at me and he goes. James, we've met yesterday and I was so embarrassed. Uh, yeah, I don't know. I just don't do well with faces and names.

 

Speaker5: Yeah, that happens with me, too, especially with the masks, I cannot recognize anybody, and while I'm just walking on campus, someone says hi and I don't know them, but I pretend like I know them and sometimes that works. Sometimes it just backfires. Like, there is this one time when I pretended to know a girl and I was going to meet my friends, I was like, Come along with me, we can sit together. And then when it was time to, like, introduce her to my friends, I did not know her name. So that was so awkward.

 

Speaker1: But for me, guys, I relate, but I don't forget people's faces. The struggle for me is that with the mask, my glasses fog up really easily and I don't like I cannot make out people's facial features from very far distance because I don't see that well. So I see like a silhouette of someone waving at me and I'm like, Why is this person waving at me? I don't know who they are. And nine out of 10 times I either waved back or just ignore. And then the next day they would come to be like, Wow, I waved at you yesterday and you ignored me. You're so rude. And I'm like,

 

Speaker2: I just didn't see your glasses can relate to that story.

 

Speaker1: It's just a pain I struggle really badly with, like making out people's facial features from afar, so I can't even tell that they're smiling at me or not. I'm just like, Do I know you? I don't know you. Who are you?

 

Speaker4: I know, like with glasses, it's such it's so much trouble and the masks as well, but also with the whole online like one year of online learning, I've made so many friends who I don't know their names, I don't know their faces and like, like in in the online situation, everything was just a mess, like time space maids, everything's like blurry. So I actually had this story where I thought two people, two friends of mine, were the same. So there was a friend I met like physically and in the first year and the friend that I had last semester and online, they have the same name. So when I come, you know, when I come back to campus and I see both of them on the same day and I don't know who one of them is, and I'm like, Hi, where are you? She was like, I took a class with you last semester. We talked so much online. I was like, No, that was that was my first year friend. She was like, No, she she has a different she has the same name, but she's a different person. I was so struck because I see them both on the same day and they have obviously they have different clothes. They have different hair. I'm like, When did you cut your hair? When did you change your clothes? She's like, What is wrong with you? And the thing is, I'm seeing them on the same day. So it's like I have a class with one of them in the morning and one of them the night. We're all in the same major and I'm like, that day. My mind was blown. I'm like, What is going on? But then I was like, Wow, they are two different people.

 

Speaker2: Sounds like Peugeot's catfished herself, she is like, I'm talking to this person and then turned out to be someone else.

 

Speaker4: Now, also speaking of like online friends, even with like with the masks on and everything, I've met so many people when I'm waiting to get my QR code scan because there's always such a long line and it helps to get help. It helps to have someone to talk to.

 

Speaker1: I have an embarrassing story with QR. Actually, I have two embarrassing stories with my QR codes. The second day of uni last semester, I was waiting in line to get my QR code scanned and I was getting very frustrated because it was very hot and I was waiting in a long line. So I had the QR code open on my phone and I like put my phone down a little bit like slightly to the side of my my body. And then when it was my turn to scan, I just showed the phone to the security guard and the security guard just gave me this look. He looked at me very confused, and I look back. I'm like, What? Like, What's the problem? And he's like, Hello. He looks at the phone. I turned the phone very frustrated because I'm like, I just want to get into the building. It's very hot, and I see that I had a WhatsApp chat open and I was just showing him that he was just casually reading my texts and the look of panic on my face was like, Oh my god, I'm so sorry. Please. I accidentally clicked away and he was just like, OK, like, calm down. But it was very embarrassing because I was giving him attitude. Like, obviously it's not his fault, but I was just very hot and like, frustrated. And they came out on him.

 

Speaker2: Imagine if it was like a selfie of you. It's like, Look at it. Look at my photo

 

Speaker4: That actually happened to me once. Like, I was also waiting to scan the QR code, and I take it a selfie with a friend. Like, No, actually, no. I've taken a selfie of myself, like with a posing in front of the building or something. I was showing over the photo and it was like, What is wrong with you? Like, don't show the

 

Speaker2: Step, which is like, Compliment me, compliment me.

 

Speaker3: You guys, you're not that famous yet. I just do it. Just do it.

 

Speaker1: No, but see that instant traumatized me. And now I like always make sure to have my QR code. I'm staring at my phone the whole time. But like two months after that, I went to the mall with my friends, and as we were entering the building of the mall, I pulled out the QR code to show the security of the mall. And my friend just looks at me like, Are you OK? I was just like, What? We just got our QR codes.

 

Speaker3: No way. No way. I've done that as well at the mall by accident.

 

Speaker4: Wants to know I'm not alone,

 

Speaker2: So I've stopped myself from doing that many times. Like I've thought about it, you know? You know how it mostly scan you for your temperature? I always think that they're scanning a QR code. So I'm like, OK, let me pull it up now, so we don't hold up the line and I'm like, Wait, we're not in. You need

 

Speaker4: Guys. Imagine the security guard that had to deal with my selfie instead of the QR code. Like, you must have been like, why? Why am I in this job? Like, what? What did I do to the this?

 

Speaker5: You guys, my experience with QR codes is so different from yours. You all have your QR codes ready to be scanned, and my phone is always boarded inside like body buried. Ok, my phone is always hidden inside, like my millions of bags and I have to hunt for it and I make the line behind me. Wait, so it's always embarrassing because I never have it ready. And this brings me to my campus confession. I carry like three really heavy bags every day because I come all the way from Dubai and my mom packs me like five different, different boxes because I reach home late as well, and I have to carry them around. So this one particularly hectic day, I thought I'd leave my bags in one of the classes and just pick it up at the end of the day because I couldn't be bothered to carry them around. So I did that except when I was going to take them back. There was a class going on in that classroom. I did not notice and I just walked into this whole classroom of students middle school, and everyone's just looking at me like, Do you need something? And I panicked. I didn't say anything. I just ran back out. So yeah, that's my campus confession. And it happened late last semester right before finals.

 

Speaker1: That's happened to me as well first year, and I wanted to cry honestly when I left my laptop in the lecture and then I refused to go and get it. I just saw it from the little glass panel on the door and I was like, OK, when the lecture is over, I'll go and get it.

 

Speaker2: Guys can keep my laptop. You know what? Happy birthday!

 

Speaker1: Yeah, exactly. I don't want to deal with embarrassment.

 

Speaker4: But Vinnies bags are huge, she gets like three bags every day, so I can imagine like her lugging them out of the class that were being so funny, though, you would have provided entertainment for the students in the lecture.

 

Speaker5: I think I've provided enough entertainment when I ran out without saying anything less what?

 

Speaker3: The guys I most like me, I just leave all my stuff anywhere I can find a table and I'll just leave them there for the rest of the day. Normally I'd leave them the library because that's where I would study. Which brings me to my campus confession. So guys, I had one day where I went to the library saying I was going to study, and I ended up sleeping from nine a.m. to six p.m. in the evening.

 

Speaker2: In the library.

 

Speaker3: In the library.

 

Speaker1: No one woke you up.

 

Speaker3: No one cared. And when I came back, I had my friends had taken so many photos of me so embarrassingly, and I was just dying of embarrassment when I got back home.

 

Speaker1: So first of all, I have a lot of questions. Number one, where is this heavenly spot? And can I be given the directions because I want to take a nap every now and then? Secondly, how did your friends now think you died? You slept for over six hours and no one said anything, and no one even cared. What? That's a bit

 

Speaker3: Concerning. I know that. So sad. Just drag and just drag with those nice, comfy sofas to the corner of the library and sleep. No one would care.

 

Speaker2: So Josh hold up like nine to six. This is literally the time you're supposed to go to classes.

 

Speaker3: So let's not talk about it anymore, because I think you can guess that I skipped all my classes. What else can I do?

 

Speaker1: One last question. Where can we find the pictures your friends took of you? Oh, for no particular reason at all.

 

Speaker3: Those are locked, sealed, thrown in an ocean, somewhere buried deep, deep down.

 

Speaker1: And I will find them

 

Speaker2: And I will use them. Website Treasure Hunt Time.

 

Speaker1: James, let's pack up our stuff. We got something to find. But Joshua, honestly, I can relate. My friends have done so many things to me to embarrass me on purpose. One of my friends, Mr. Joseph Henry, who you all know first year we decided to go play basketball together and it was a very spontaneous decision. We booked the the gym and we went to play like basketball and I was ready. But I had forgot to pack sweatpants. But it was OK. Like, not a big deal. But little did he forget to mention that you are not allowed to wear jeans in the basketball court like it's a specific rule.

 

Speaker2: No jeans.

 

Speaker1: Yeah, OK. But like, I forgot to pack my sweatpants, and he kindly didn't mention that. So we went in and we played. It was so embarrassing because I had to get kicked out by the coach, and I just like I felt so stupid and it was so awkward. He was just like, What do you mean? Like, it's obvious you can't wear jeans on a basketball court, and I was just like, I want to kill you so badly right now. Joseph. But it's OK.

 

Speaker5: Honestly, that sounds like something I would do because I don't play a lot of sports, I suck at it and yeah, I would totally walk into the sports complex or the basketball court and make the most fancy dress and think it's normal.

 

Speaker2: Yet although your story gave me flashbacks to my own embarrassing not really sports more gym related activities on campus. So as you guys know, we have a gym at AUC and there's a coach there who's in charge of getting you started. So I went with my gym buddy Jawad, and we went there. It was her first time in the gym and were like, Give us the most basic exercise, you know, we want to be consistent. We want to come back here every single day. So start ups start us off like really easy. It's like, Sure, sure, we can do that. And you told us to like, lift these weights. You know, that was like steel rods that you have to put things into, like weights. He's like, Yeah, just lift the rod itself. No weights attached. We're like, What is this? This is so easy. Like, We can do this. And then we started doing it. You know, one two, it's like, Oh, this is a piece of cake. And then like the longer it went on, like guys, I feel like I'm like Dwight. I feel like my arm is going to give out. And then we look to or right and there's this guy benching like, I don't know how heavy it was, but it was just like, really like, you can see his biceps like when you call that like, you can see biceps like bulging. And I don't know, we felt so weird compared to him. We're like, Yeah, okay, you know what? Maybe we don't come back here next time.

 

Speaker4: I can so relate because I try to lift as well. And yeah, whenever you're like lifting, like sometimes I looks like a considerable wave, like I put 40 or 50 and I feel like so proud of myself. And then I look to the, you know, I look to my set and these girls just doing like hundreds and hundred and fifty, and I'm like, OK, let's let's leave. Probably. And it's so awkward because like, you're like, you've you start feeling insecure at that moment.

 

Speaker2: Although camp is confession, you're not allowed to take mirror selfies in the gym. There's literally a sign that says no selfies. But obviously, if there's some mirror, I have to take a selfie. Oh yes, that's my campus confession.

 

Speaker1: James only goes to the gym to take pictures and then leaves.

 

Speaker3: It's just a fact. It's just the fact.

 

Speaker2: Guys, this is such a fun episode, I feel like each time we record, we find new ways to embarrass ourselves. It was so much fun. Enter audience if you're listening and you have your own campus confession that you like to share. Head over to her Instagram at RT with Gen Z underscore and let us know we'd love to hear them.

 

Speaker1: We always respond to all of our DMs and we're very active. So don't worry, it's a safe space if you don't want us to share it. We won't, but we're always there for you for advice and just to have a laugh.

 

Speaker3: Yes, sir,

 

Speaker2: This is such an exciting way to start season two and we hope you guys stick around. There's a lot of opportunities for you to stay involved and be part of our future episodes, so watch out for them. Until then, keep sipping tea with Gen Z and we'll see you in their next episode. Bye, guys.

 

Speaker1: Bye! Have a great semester, but by CNN next time. See you later, alligator.

 

Speaker3: Actually, the crocodile