I realized I never posted this, so here we go.
Moving into the university dorms halfway through the 2024 Fall term was necessary to pivot away from immediate homelessness. The housing staff handled the situation with grace and efficiency, and one less person is now struggling to find a place to live while in college. Making friends and setting a new routine in the dorms is normal for developing a dorm life, however a problem began to make itself known in Winter term when the new normal made itself clear — I’m 26, and noone else that lives here is above 22. At my previous house I could let the awful jokes fly and they’d be reciprocated with laughter and banter from people much older than I was, but now I’m in a situation where my influence could alter someone’s development in a way I don’t intend it to. In that previous situation I was still 25 or older and hopefully done cooking up there, but my new peers were still sizzling their frontal lobe.
Every objectively hilarious comment or joke I wanted to make was reigned in when I was at my new campus jobs, with my younger friends in the common kitchen, or studying in public areas. If I wanted to let them fly, I had to set a series of checks for myself to see if it was appropriate. All three of the following checks had to pass in order for a joke to be made. After the delivery of a joke, I may have been prompted by my friends to add my own joke to my running out of context quote collection. The frequency was plotted over days in the quarter with a mean, standard deviation, and maximum and minimum returned.
The majority of the peers I wanted to make the comment to or for had to be above 21. This was to allow for some to fly considering enough of my peers are below 21.
I could not be on the clock, but I could be in one of my professional settings. This allowed me to make comments when being a student in the labs, but restricted this behavior as a lab assistant in the labs.
If the comment was in a call, the location had to allow freedom to be vulgar with no consequences such as private rooms and unnocupied open spaces. This existed to restrict awful jokes to my partners while in a call on areas of campus where I was not secure.
I tested if this data would be interesting towards the last two weeks of Winter term, and it was. I kept a spreadsheet open and increased the count if I held back a joke or comment for the sake of being appropriate. The test run had a mean of 5.625, a maximum of 12 lock-ins, and a minimum of one lock-in (Figure 1). The lack of data on days four and five account for a trip out of town, of which it was not necessary to lock-in so no data was collected.
The test run complete, the lock-in spreadsheet was kept open for the entirety of Spring quarter 2025. March 31st-June 13th 2025 saw a maximum of 20 lock-ins, an average of 4.276 lock-ins, and several peaks (Figure 2). The start of the term had many days without locking in, then about halfway through the quarter no day went without at least one instance. No gaps were observed as in the test run, the entirety of spring quarter was spent on campus.
Some notable out of context quotes during this collection time include the following.
“What’s an empowering word?” “Gun.” (Hardin)
“Get me 30 teenage boys in a men’s bathroom, STAT!” (Hardin)
“I want to drink water adjacent fluids.” (Hardin)
“Corner pile so you can sleep, or sleep on the pile like a Bad Dragon.” (Hardin)
“Marshmallows are white, then you toast them and they’re a minority.” (Hardin)
“Widow’s chode.” (Hardin)
“If you don’t come I will sustain direct eye contact with you.” (Hardin)
“They’re not people, they’re like trinkets. Basement trinkets.” (Hardin)
For young academics fresh out of high school, college is a time of radical self exploration and professional exposure. For a 27 year old, it’s a constant reminder that the majority of the students that share the same class don’t or shouldn’t know how crazy a sex life can be just from the vulgarity of a joke. It’s funny to make comments about breeding kinks during animal physiology, but only to classmates that get it.
Many of the maxima (f>15) correspond to days playing table top role playing games with players much younger than I am, or having dinner in the dormitory kitchen with friends. The minima (f<5) for the first 35 days account for severe depressive episodes of the quarter in which there was nothing to lock in for. After day 35 the minima are caused by the criteria all being passed and the inappropriate jokes flying freely.
The beginning of the 2025 Spring quarter saw a lot of hardships in which there was no humor to access and turn into a vile joke, but that is not clear from the data. The lock-in counter only shows when I have had to lock in, not when I haven’t had to or chose not to. Starting in the 2025 Summer quarter an additional counter will be updated to show when a joke or comment passed the criteria and was made. Now with a starting point, hypothesis testing can occur in the future to consider if change is happening. This data can be useful, the consistent zeros or low scores correspond to a depressive episode right before and during its peak, and this could become a tool to catch a future episode before it becomes dangerous again.
Sebastian. Out of Context Quotes. 15 June 2025.
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