STARBUCKS—UI senior Maggie Kemmer greeted Monday morning with a different routine.
The sequins on her Victoria’s Secret PINK tracksuit sparkled in the sun, unlike her usual forest-green knitted sweater. Kemmer jogged to Starbucks, where she ordered a vanilla Frappucino, instead of brewing her own tea and drinking it from an unwashed mug at home.
“I am just doing what feels right for me right now” Kemmer said as she put on her Hawkeye sweater and UGG boots. “I think it’s, like, really important that you just listen to yourself and forget about what everyone else thinks.”
Kemmer, an English major—although she thinks her new calling is nursing—told The Iowa Iowan that she and her friends realized the lifestyle they were living was all wrong.
The group of students used to spend their Saturday afternoons at Prairie Lights pretending to look at books or at the Java House to pregame a show at the Warehouse. Now, Kemmer says, they spend their Saturdays “day drinking” and watching whatever sports event is on TV.
Kemmer’s typical night ends on the Ped Mall, where she and her friends act more drunk than they are and dance and yell for no reason until they pass out somewhere.
“I guess you could say we’re just trying to do our own thing, instead of what’s ‘in’ right now.” Kemmer said. “We just like to be alternative and do things that really matter to us.”
