College life is one of the more testing experiences for someone to go through. You're probably living out of home for the first time, sentenced to live in a tiny dorm with people who'll inevitably steal your snacks/clothes/toothbrush and who still aren't quite fully housetrained (you probably aren't either though, tbh).
One
student who was trying to be a good roomie and keep his space clutter-free was 21-year-old Mat George, who studied at Arizona State University. The senior had an unused microwave sitting around in his room for a few months, and decided it was time he got rid of it.
He took to Facebook, uploading a picture of the still-functioning appliance, writing: "My sister has left her microwave in my room since August. I’ve asked her multiple times to get it and she hasn’t. So now I’m selling it. Message me if you’re interested."
His younger sister, as you might've guessed, was less than amused.
The microwave pictured didn't look too shabby at all, and especially with the striking absence of food splatters, $25 was a pretty fair deal. One interested party asked about the dimensions of the microwave. It was a reasonable question, but unfortunately Mat, being a college student and all, didn't exactly have a ruler or measuring tape lying around.
So what did he do? Well, the college student did the most college thing ever and made use of something every college dorm room houses at one point or another – an empty vodka bottle. Mat made use of his limited resources and used not one but three bottles of empty New Amsterdam to give the dimensions of the appliance.
"I don’t have a tape measure but it’s about as tall as a fifth of berry New Amsterdam and has the length of a berry and mango fifth of New Am(sterdam)," he wrote to accompany the image.
While Mat's
innovative way of answering the question didn't sell the microwave, it still caught the attention of people in the ASU group.
Rachel, a fellow ASU student shared the vodka bottle photo on Twitter, where it quickly went viral.
"I decided to tweet it because as funny as it was, it honestly didn't even surprise me," she wrote, "because that's a classic ASU move."
She's since turned her profile to private, but at least all the class act comments are still available for our reading pleasure.
Most people were all for the new metric system
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Praising George for his ingenuity
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And his choice in liquor
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It caused a lot of laugh-induced pain
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And roused up nostalgia for some people who'd already graduated
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It just made people appreciate college a lot more
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And it was just good publicity for ASU really
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There was a lot of praise for the man, who clearly impressed fellow students with how "college" the whole thing was.
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George has since graduated, and he's wondering what ASU will do now that their "most innovative student has officially graduated".
The good news? He finally sold his microwave.
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And all it took was three months.
