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Colorblind Student Disappointed With First New England Fall

Colorblind Student Disappointed With First New England Fall

Campus CultureFreshmen October 5, 2022 The New England Classic

“I don’t get it. The colors aren’t that different. They’re just like… muted? Sure, the trees are little bit grayer than normal. That’s cool,... Colorblind Student Disappointed With First New England Fall

Fall equinox, yes!

Leaves, red and yellow. Pretty.

Orange too sometimes.

~ BC Alum and Nobel Poet Laureate, Angoo Full (MCAS ’72)

UPPER CAMPUS — For many students, September 22 marked the beginning of the best season of them all, autumn. Students jumped for glee as the date welcomed crisp temperatures, big, plump pumpkins, and satanic, ungodly Halloween rituals. For many freshmen, this will be their first fall in cooler temperatures. Reigning from New Mexico, the falls Nora Dogrene (CSOM ’26) experienced were never as grand as the Hallmark movies made it out to be. For Dogrene, moving to Boston opened academic doors and meant some new personal experiences, like her first real autumn. 

Dogrene was disappointed to find that the Boston fall was much more lackluster than anticipated. “My friends keep giggling about the crunchy leaves and geekin’ about the trees,” Dogrene told the Classic. “I don’t get it. The colors aren’t that different. They’re just like… muted? Sure, the trees are little bit grayer than normal. That’s cool, I guess. I just feel like I’m missing something.”

When Dogrene handed in her first Portico assignment, an intensive month-long project to create the color wheel, her professor Larry Bussyness seemed worried. The entire wheel was an assortment of purples and browns. “I’m not sure if this is some sort of abstract masterpiece or the poor girl just doesn’t know she’s colorblind,” Bussyness said. “I gave her an A.”

At press time, Dogrene was seen trying to return to BC by taking the redline into Southie.