First-Year Utters ‘So It Goes,’ Looks Around, Repeats a Little Louder

Sunday, September 16, 2012

High school graduate Connor Lang was shocked to find that his carefully timed “So it goes” was not noted by a single person in his hall, despite its perfect placement at the end of a conversation about the St. Louis Rams’ overtime loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars. The Vonnegut quote, which Lang had been saving since his fifth block AP Literature class, was ignored throughout the evening as he used it to refer to everything from overcooked microwave nachos to his roommate’s unfortunate stubbed toe. The eighteen-year-old’s efforts will not go unnoticed, however, as he’s already devised a plan to bring up the same conversation tomorrow. When asked to comment, Lang stated that his hallmates could “just go obscenity themselves” and were “a bunch of phonies anyway.”