On campus, there are some normal acronyms that are just a given. Saying “CAS” for the College of Arts and Sciences is pretty understandable.
But please, for the love of God. If a building is a shape, and you want to call it that shape, go ahead. There’s no shame; it’s the easiest route. There is no reason to make it more complicated than it is. No one is stopping you from just keeping it as is.
I wish someone had stopped whoever thought of making DOME an acronym for Driving Opportunity, Momentum and Engagement.
Literally, why? What is the point? It’s a dome-shaped building. Is that not reason enough for it to be called “The Dome?”
The Oval Office isn’t a square, neither is the Pentagon. Even in Albany, the Egg is just named after what it looks like.
You’d never guess what shape the Egyptian pyramids are. But did they call them the PYRAMIDS? No, they didn’t.
They didn’t decide to make a pyramid and then say, “Hm, it being the literal shape isn’t enough to call it a pyramid, let’s make it really difficult and performative, and give it a really long name that no one knows, so they just call it a pyramid anyway.”
Because, let’s be honest, that’s what it is: performative. I get it, we have an image to maintain. “Ambition unleashed,” and all that, but can we at least leash this one back up?
Sure, marketing needs to happen. I can appreciate that. I mean, how else can we pay for the millions of additions to this school, so that they can have even more abbreviations?
I can assure you that adding extra words to be fancy isn’t going to do the trick, because nobody cares enough.
I couldn’t even tell you what The DOME stands for off the top of my head. If that was the first question on QKart trivia, I’d be off in a second.
It’s okay, though, I’d just go back to my DORM where I SLEEP and EAT.
I’m still getting used to The SITE, and then they go ahead and say, “We have more!”
I’m groaning, sighing and rolling my eyes because at this point it feels like I’m getting pop-quizzed. In actuality, the only thing that’s getting tested is my patience.
I get it, it’s a small thing. It’s not a big deal. I would agree. Except it’s the principle of it all. It’s kind of like when you just start adding random things to your resume, but it’s more of a list of a lot of things with no substance than a short list with depth.
It feels artificial and shallow. It has no substance. I would much rather it just be “The Dome” because it has a literal dome on top, than it just be another thing that we want to gush over for the sake of being pretentious.
