r/AmITheHoyahole
- Isabella Pamias
- Mar 19
- 5 min read
A place to get judgment from fellow Hoyas.
About Community: 1800 Members • 20 Online
AITH for hoarding study rooms in Lau during finals?
u/UrMarketingKing52
I (19M) am a sophomore in MSB. I need to secure good study spots for the next two weeks because I have three finals back-to-back. Yesterday, my roommate helped me game the reservation system by booking three study rooms on Lau 2 under different NetIDs from 10 AM to 10 PM. I rotate between them every few hours and leave my laptop charger to “claim” them. When people tried to use the “empty” rooms, I said I was “grabbing food” and would be back in 5.
Some girl who said she was writing her thesis sat outside for an hour waiting for me to come back while I was in another room doing practice problems. A group of pre-meds took photos of the “empty” rooms and threatened to report me. But like, I can't focus at the open tables.
I know the library policy says you can't hold rooms you're not using, but everyone does this. Plus I actually show up to my reservations, unlike those who book rooms and never show up.
AITH? Could this get around and hurt my recruiting chances next semester?
Edit: Just got an email from Library Services about “room hoarding violations.”
AITH for sabotaging someone’s Royal Jacket order?
u/FatherFocaccia2000
I (20M) have been perfecting my Royal Jacket order. I've calculated the exact combination of toppings to stay under the meal exchange limit while maximizing value - we're talking double meat, extra cheese, specific veggie ratios, the works. The staff knows my order by heart: focaccia, turkey and roast beef with provolone, toasted, with arugula, tomatoes, banana peppers, and a precise 3-second mayo drizzle.
Yesterday, I was about to order when this girl in front of me literally stole my EXACT order. I heard her say every single ingredient I've spent months optimizing. She even got the 3-second sauce drizzle! So, I “accidentally” knocked her drink over, forcing her to go back in line to get a new one.
The lunch rush was intense and by the time she got back in line, they'd run out of roast beef. She had to get ham instead (amateur). Now she's telling everyone I'm the “Sandwich Saboteur” and my picture is circulating in Fizz.
You can't just STEAL someone's order? I've spent HOURS finding the perfect toasting time and sauce-to-bread ratio. This is intellectual property.
AITH? My roommate says I'm taking it too far, but he eats at Epis voluntarily so what does he know?
Edit: The Royal Jacket staff has started calling out “The usual?” really loudly, completely exposing my secret order to everyone in line.
AITH for creating a fake consulting club to reject people?
u/GregoryTheAlphaLockhart34
I (20M) got rejected from every consulting club freshman year, so I started my own. We have a 4-round application process:
Resume screen (must have 3.8+ GPA)
Three case interviews
Group simulation
Blood type compatibility test (okay this one’s just for fun)
We received 200 applications and rejected 199 people, and I find it quite joyful (alpha males assert dominance, am I right?). I sent everyone detailed rejection letters explaining why they weren't “a good fit.” Some of them were the same people who rejected me last year, sucks to suck HA. Our only client is my roommate's dog walking business. But they don’t need to know that.
AITH? The club fair committee is investigating why our table had a bouncer and velvet rope.
AITH for creating a fake Georgetown tour company?
u/BradleyCooperFan457
I (19M) noticed all these random tourists taking pictures outside the front gates, so I started offering “authentic” Georgetown tours (I named it the Silver-Sapphire Association and I’m pretty proud of that). The High-Class Silver-Sapphire Experience™ includes:
Made-up facts about buildings
A fictional story about me meeting Bradley Cooper
“Traditional” Georgetown rituals I invented last week
Photos with a dog I claim is Jack the Bulldog’s cousin
I charge $50 per person and business is booming! The official tour guides are mad because I tell better stories, but if your business fails to do a photo-op with a dupe of a relative of Jack, then your tour is just objectively bad :( Maybe watch Shark Tank for ideas on how to be innovative? Hope that helps!
AITH? The tourists get great Instagram content and I'm boosting my resume.
AITH for refusing to join my roommate’s Missed Connections campaign?
u/MakeMissedConnectionsRealAgain
My (20F) roommate (20F) has been trying to orchestrate a “natural” Missed Connections campaign. She wants us to submit anonymous posts about seeing her studying in Lau, getting coffee at Hilltoss, or “looking good” at Yates.
She made a whole Google Sheets with scheduled submission times and specific mentions of her “signature blue jacket” and “iconic handbag” so people would know it's her. When I refused to participate, she said I was being an unsupportive friend and that “everyone does this.”
AITH for saying Missed Connections should stay genuine? Like who even reads that these days, go on Hinge if you're that desperate.
AITH for starting a civil war in my class GroupMe?
u/FreudianSlipDiva4
So I (20F) am in this huge Intro Psychology GroupMe with like 200 people. Someone sent a message asking if the midterm would be curved, and I responded with “maybe if people stopped watching lectures at 2x speed and actually showed up to class they wouldn’t need a curve 🤔.”
This sparked an absolute WAR. The 8:00 AM lecture people started attacking the “watch from bed” crowd. The front-row sitters formed an alliance against the back-row TikTok watchers. Someone made a separate GroupMe called “REAL Psych Students” and then someone else made one called “REALEST Psych Students (No Tryhards).” (People started getting kicked out of GroupMe chats and it got WILD.)
Now there are SEVEN different splinter GroupMes, each claiming to be the “true” class chat. People are posting screenshots on Fizz from other groups and calling out “class traitors.” Someone even made a spreadsheet tracking who left which group and when.
The professor noticed half the class glaring at each other during lecture and asked what was going on. I said “just some healthy academic discourse” and now everyone is calling me the “GroupMe Police.”
AITH? I'm just trying to maintain academic integrity (and I may or may not be a mod in three of the splinter groups).
AITH for gaming the Marriage Pact algorithm?
u/DateMeSarah69
Look, I (21M) wanted to get a specific Marriage Pact match, so I created 17 different accounts with slightly different answers to reverse engineer the algorithm. After three days, I figured out exactly what answers would match me with Sarah from my International Politics seminar.
I submitted my perfectly calculated responses, but then I ALSO sent the exact opposite answers from another email to make sure she wouldn’t match with anyone else. Just to be safe, I also made 8 more accounts with variations of her likely answers to block potential competitors.
The Marriage Pact team emailed me about “suspicious activity” just because I used all my roommates’ emails (and some .edu accounts I found on LinkedIn).
AITH? I have not gotten a match yet and everyone in my dorm is mad that they got “error” messages.
Edit: Sarah has a boyfriend at UVA.
AITH for starting a Leo’s seating turf war?
u/TacoTuesdayWarrior12
I (20F) always sit at the same table by the window in Leo’s with my friends. We’ve claimed it since freshman year. Yesterday, some random freshmen were sitting there, so we stood next to them and stared until they left. (That’s right, go back to New South or wherever else you spawned from.) Now they’re saying we “created a hostile dining environment.”
We’ve even started leaving one person at the table from 5-8pm to hold our spot.
AITH? Someone wrote about us on Fizz calling us the “Leo's Seat Mafia,” should we make “Reserved” signs to assert dominance?
Isabella Pamias is a sophomore in the College majoring in Government and minoring in Philosophy. Her favorite drink is a cappuccino!
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