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36 Thoughts While Attending a LAN Party

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at UW Stout chapter.

In an effort to more thoroughly understand Stout’s biggest on-campus student org event, Her Campus sent two writers to witness it in action. Here’s what we thought: 

1.    What does LAN even stand for?

2.    How do they do this for 48 hours?

3.     Why do they do this to themselves?

4.    It is way too dark

5.    It’s so loud

6.    There are so many people here

7.    And so many computers

8.   This is the scariest thing I’ve ever seen

9.   Why is it called the People’s Organization of Networking Gaming?

10.  Is it communism based?

11.  If they call themselves PONG, then I expect Ping Pong to be one of their tournaments

12.  Or like…beer pong

13.   I’m living out that SNL Esports sketch right now

14.  There’s yelling!!

15.  There’s one woman in this organization and I would die for her

16.  Who thought this was a good idea?

17.  Does anyone who does this actually not look dead after?

18.  What does participating in LANs do to your soul?

19.  Will there be any virtual LANs during corona?

20.  Can there be a GirlsGoGames LAN?

21.  Can I just play Webkinz by myself?

22.  I’ll just play Nintendogs in a corner by myself

23.  Who wants to make fun of Episodes with me?

24.  I wish I was in bed right now 

25.  This was a bad idea 

26.  I smell pizza, who has pizza?

27.  I just want an Animal Crossing tournament

28.  How hard would it be to take over this organization with casual gamers?

29.  How does Stout have so many gaming organizations?

30.  I wonder what’s on TV right now?

31.  Why does PONG treat their President like a God?

32.  I’m so tired

33.  This is when my sleep paralysis demon shows up

34.  Is this even legal?

35.  Should this be legal?

36.  So this is what the student center looks like at 4:30 in the morning

Chaos personified. See y’all again in October!

 

Hannah Plitzner

UW Stout '23

I'm a college freshman going into Entertainment Design! I like movies, dogs, and drawing. My pronouns are she/her.
Stephanie Zengler is a Business Administration major and Communication Studies minor, and she completely understands if you think her last name is actually Ziegler. Like a lot of business majors, Stephanie has a favorite Andrew Carnegie quote, and like a good communication minor, has very strong opinions on the Oxford comma. Aside from being a Stout student, Stephanie is an avid fan of Bay Area sports, Fleetwood Mac, and the amazingly perfect show Dollface.