Students have taken to Yelp to provide a review of the year 2020 because this year has been one for the books.
Jack Supan, music theater junior, said he gives 2020 one pity star out of five. Supan said 2020 has not been good.
“It just keeps getting worse,” Supan said. “It’s on the up and up now, but it’s almost the end of the year. Pretty much everything in between March and now was garbage.”
Supan said he learned something about himself this year.
“I learned that people tend to like me more when we’re all in quarantine and they don’t have to be around me,” Supan said.
Supan said 2020 is like a restaurant that keeps bringing him the incorrect drink.
“I kept asking for a margarita and they keep giving me nasty white wine with an olive in it. And I said ‘hey this was kind of a curveball, can I just get another drink,’ and they said ‘no, because you suck and we hate you.’ They also never brought me my french fries.”
Supan said he just hopes there is a vaccine soon.
Cass King, music education senior, gives 2020 two stars out of five. He said if there was a manager, he would like to speak to them.
“So yeah, like, 2020 has been really shitty,” he said. “I’m still alive; I’m still kicking. It didn’t kill me, but it was definitely really bad.”
King said the year has seemed never-ending.
“We’ve been in 2020 for way too long. It seems like five years,” King said. “I would like for it to end.”
King said he would compare 2020 to the manager at every Steak and Shake to ever exist.
“I feel like every Steak and Shake I’ve been to, the manager has been this middle-aged man with long nails. And I’m like ‘why do you have long nails if you work in the service industry,’ but since they’re the manager they can do whatever they want,” he said. “They give you your food with their long nails, and it makes you want to vomit, but you’ve already paid for your food, so you just have to sit there and eat it anyway.”
King said 2020 is the equivalent of a sad meal.
“2020 is a really expensive dinner that tasted terrible, and the service is terrible, and you don’t get a lot of food, but the good thing is we still survived,” he said.
King said he thinks this review will make people wonder, ‘is Cass OK?’ King also said at the time of interview his power was still out from the spontaneous ice storm, and he had no food.
Hannah Kimball, design and production senior, also gave 2020 two out of five stars. Kimball said 2020 was not the year society was expecting.
“I was thinking about how we were all excited when the Roaring ’20s were going to be our thing, but then I looked into the 1920s, and it was bad. There was the depression, the resurgence of the KKK, the explosion of mass media, and I think it was more of a warning for us,” Kimball said. “I guess we got what we asked for.”
Kimball said 2020 taught her she has more patience then she expected.
“Ironically, my favorite things in the world are musicals, the Olympics and dogs, but I haven’t been able to see any musicals, the Olympics were canceled, and I can’t go to the OK Humane Society to see dogs,” she said. “2020 has really given me a reason to not feel bad for drinking wine by myself every night.”
Kimball said despite the setbacks, 2020 had some good news for her.
“I personally have never been to New York, but it’s the end goal. When COVID hit and all of the New York internships went out of the window, I still ended up getting a New York internship in July, which is great,” she said. “I also improved my six-pack of flab to a 12-pack of flab.”
Kimball said she is hesitant to predict what will happen in the future.
“Here’s the deal: I say it can’t get worse, but I can’t say that until after the election,” she said.
“I’m really excited for that reset button on New Year’s Eve. This is all a fever dream.”
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