We here at NYU Local want you to get the most out of your time here at this prestigious university. One of the best ways to really get your money’s worth is to make fun of people during class. Luckily, the constant stream of pretension, BS, and ignorance during class discussion fuels hours of ridicule.
Today we present a new way to channel your derision: Gallatin Bingo. The game brings together the best quotes, mannerisms, and quirks of the Gallatin student body to create a source of endless entertainment during class. Despite its name, the game could well be played in many NYU classes outside of Gallatin.
Like any bingo game, it is best played with multiple players using varying boards. Our sample board and the rules are below.
Rules:
1. A player may mark an X in one of the boxes if the player hears a classmate, not including him or herself, say the stated term/phrase or perform the stated action.
2. A player may ask classmates questions in an attempt to induce them to say the stated term/phrase or perform the stated action.
3. A player cannot use any of the words on his or her board at anytime during the class.
3. One non-player must be designated judge to resolve disputes and approve references and variations (explained below).
4. A player must record all references used (i.e. if someone cites an obscure film and you mark an X in the box, write down the cited film) for judicial review at the end of the game.
5. Variations on the above words/actions are permitted. For example, use of the word “juxtaposition” would allow to cover the first box. Record all variations for judicial review.
5. When a player has marked an X through one full row, column, or diagonal, they must loudly shout “bingo!” to be declared the winner.
The above board is just one possible board among many. Please share your best ideas for new boxes in the comments.
Thanks to reader Gabe Schoenberg for designing and sharing Gallatin Bingo. The boxes were created by Schoenberg and many members of the NYU Local staff.
These might be old because I graduated 5 years ago but:
1) “I’m starting a zine about…”
2) Majoring in “Music Business”
3) _______ Industrial Complex
Majoring in “Journalism and [other major offered in CAS]“
these are pretty funny but I think the best one I’ve encountered has to be (it wasn’t a gallatin class but it was gender and sexuality studies)
“I don’t know if anyone’s read [title], it’s only available in the untranslated German…”
*cue looks of incredulous disdain*
also using the word reify. which means exactly nothing, and it gets used all the time. it is literally a prefix and a suffix with no word in between. sometimes academia makes me want to pull my fingernails out.
globalization and it’s repercussions in relation to the socially constructed ideals of gender and sexuality within the post modern nationstate.
hedonism and pop culture identity.
hermeneutics.
…etc
Just an FYI: My Gallatin professor left this up on the projector throughout class today to see how many we could get.
YES you put “it’s post-modern because…”
I LOVE NYU LOCAL. getting a tattoo of the logo on my chest.
i like the center tile, if i imagine “space” is pronounced “spah-chay” and is an obscure south american socialist freedom fighter who started a kickstarter from jail
Jake Moore, I love you.
NYULocal, I love you for the “Useless reference to Facebook, Twitter” square. In my time at Gallatin, the one thing that irritated me the most were the Manhattan-born-and-raised JAPs majoring in something to do with media, the way they would respond nasally to every question and seem ~clever~ and ~hilarious~ when they compared salons or, like, the Pony Express to Facebook. How RELEVANT! How CULTURALLY APT! How WELL YOU CAN LINK BETWIXT THE PAST AND THE PRESENT. GOOD FOR YOU, GLENN COCO.
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Bingo!
This idea belongs to Amelia Ekus and myself. I’m glad Daniel Seth was able to get two milliseconds of web fame from it.
“Thanks to reader Gabe Schoenberg for designing and sharing Gallatin Bingo. The boxes were created by Schoenberg and many members of the NYU Local staff.”
I’m wondering where this bingo board was found. I know the people who conceived it 3 years ago and it appears that the credit has been given Gabe Schoenberg…
If they had made a Gallatin Bingo board, they would have made a Gallatin Bingo board. (HT Mark Zuckerberg)
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Why couldn’t you have made something like this before I graduated? The creator of this game must have taken some pretty aggravating Gallatin seminars.
From my one year in CAS, I think that board should have spots for the different websites you see on other students laptops, i.e. “Student watches two shows back to back in Hulu”, “Student has four facebook chats going at the same time”, and “Student raises hand and says something completely unrelated in order to earn discussion points, then puts earphones back in and un-pauses show on Hulu”.