LTE: I’m The Fountain Outside Of Gasson Hall, And I Gave Up Water For Lent
Campus CultureLTE March 20, 2025 The New England Classic

Dear NEC,
I feel lost. I feel worthless. I don’t even recognize myself these days.
I am a fountain that doesn’t even have fucking water in it. It was a stupid thing to give up water for Lent. I only did it because Fr. Leahy told me that if I wanted to stay on this Jesuit campus I had to engage with my faith more. I can only blame myself for this mistake though, no one made me give up the one thing that makes me, me.
I don’t want to trauma dump, but honestly, I will because no one else will listen to me. Shocker… not that many people want to come and hang out with an empty fountain. Anyways, I have always been super insecure because my entire life I wanted to be like a chocolate fountain or something cooler. But nope. Just water, and I don’t even have that anymore!
The insecurity only got worse since this whole Lent thing or whatever. I’m haunted by all the students who walk by me and think “What a stupid fountain. You are a waste of space. Why can’t I swim in you?”
As soon as I was starting to come to terms with my new body, one of your members started paying me frequent visits, mocking me, and reminding me of what I once was. This may be the toughest 40 days of my life. I was doing well until he started filling me up with water from his water bottle. The temptations are a lot but I have to go through with this or Leahy will get rid of me.
Please stop recording me, it just makes me even more ashamed of myself. I will let you guys know when I’m me again, but I probably won’t even have to tell you. You don’t know what’s coming. Well, it’s just water, but still, my glow-up is about to go crazy.
Cordially,
The Fountain Outside of Gasson Hall