{"id":34098,"date":"2016-03-30T16:13:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T15:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/?p=34098"},"modified":"2016-03-30T19:18:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T18:18:19","slug":"six-types-of-aegeeans-that-you-can-find-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2016\/03\/30\/six-types-of-aegeeans-that-you-can-find-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Types of AEGEEans that You Can Find Around"},"content":{"rendered":"

AEGEEans come in numerous and \u00a0wonderful varieties. It\u2019s hard to find anything wrong or hilarious about most of them, but we’ve dug deep and found six remarkable types of AEGEEans. Together these six types might one day end up in a sitcom that\u2019s situated in, let\u2019s say, for example, a Community College. However, before we give these different\u00a0types of AEGEEans their television contracts, let\u2019s first see who they are.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n\"AEGEEan1The Orwellian.\u00a0<\/strong>If you\u2019ve ever met an AEGEEan, who constantly corrects you when you, for instance, say \u2018European Night\u2019, instead of \u2018Local Training Course\u2019, or who\u2019s often offended by politically incorrect jokes, you may have met an Orwellian. Orwellians are masters of relabeling concepts or using euphemisms, and therefore, possibly unintentionally, are great at restricting thought. After all, if we cannot phrase our thoughts, because certain words or names of concepts are restricted to us, we can never express these. \u00a0It is, of course, kind and sensible, if not prudent, to speak in a politically correct language, but only up to a point that you are still in control of your own thoughts; without peer- or self-censorship. The largest threats to a free-thinking democracy, therefore, do not only come from jocularly speaking authoritarians, but also from Orwellians under the guise of strict political correctness.<\/p>\n

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\"AEGEEan2The Industrious.\u00a0<\/strong>Because of the negative representation of the Orwellians, it should be cleared up that by far the most knowledgeable and active members of AEGEE are \u2018the Industrious\u2019, AEGEE\u2019s Crew of Action Heroes. They are unstoppable, can fix any problem, are sometimes hard to follow, and will do basically any job there is: they\u2019re essentially AEGEE\u2019s Poles. Industrious people, you may not star in a film alongside Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, or Arnold Schwarzenegger, but your efforts are highly valued and there\u2019s nothing that can stop you. You\u2019re like Kanye West without the ego, or Taylor Swift without Kanye West.<\/p>\n

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\"AEGEEan3The Sage.\u00a0<\/strong>You might think that AEGEE is for students, which is true since one of the \u2018E\u2019s clearly stands for \u2018students\u2019 (just learn French, you\u2019ll get it). Some AEGEEans, however, are \u00a0alarmingly old. I\u2019m not talking about\u00a0long-term students, or recently graduated ones, or even honorary members. They\u2019re all (very) active, and perfectly fine. I\u2019m talking about the \u2018Sages\u2019, those old members who never go to any activity, but somehow they are still a member of AEGEE. It\u2019s like they paid their membership ten years in advance and then promptly died in their house, never to be discovered by a loved one. Sages are so old that they don\u2019t act like children, they have children. Sages are so old that they think Czechoslovakia is still a country. Sages are so old that they think their advise is somehow more valuable than that of your local Advisory Board. Sages, you\u2019re old, you\u2019re done, and you might want to move on to Les Anciens. It\u2019s not the retirement home, everyone says it is.<\/p>\n

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\"AEGEEan4The Sugar-Snorting, Happy-go-Lucky, don\u2019t-you-need-any-sleep? Pixies.\u00a0<\/strong>Imagine that at the Agora. You\u2019re sleeping softly, when suddenly a bright light flashes, music starts playing, and someone starts pulling\u00a0your leg. You hear a shrill voice yelling, \u201cwake up AEGEE-People\u201d, the voice of one of the Pixies. You\u2019ve barely slept after the party last night, but those Pixies stayed there longer than you. You desperately need to drink coffee, but they don\u2019t. They don\u2019t ever get sleepy during the day, and you know they\u2019ll be just as hyperactive at the party this night. You don\u2019t even know, if you\u2019re fit enough to go to the party at all this night. Are you getting old? Have they discovered the cure for eternal youth? Would it be legal to try their cure for eternal youth? But you don\u2019t have the time for that, cause, before you know it, you fall back to sleep\u2026 early. Good night.<\/p>\n

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\"AEGEEan5The Party-Animal.\u00a0<\/strong>AEGEE is all about making new friends, expanding one\u2019s national horizon, and maybe feeling a bit more European. It\u2019s also not intended to be entirely serious; we have fun at socials, or on trips, exchanges, or even at the Agora. However, to some, AEGEE\u2019s not intended to be serious at all. These Party-Animals go to socials, because there\u2019s booze; they go to European Nights, because there\u2019s booze; and they go on trips, because there\u2019s booze\u2026 and the vague promise of casual procreation. Party-Animals, you\u2019re a source for great fun, but we don\u2019t like to nurse your hangovers and we don\u2019t like\u00a0you\u2019re the reason that there are condoms in our welcome package, other than safe sex. Oh, who are we kidding, we love you. With moderation.<\/p>\n

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\"AEGEEan6The Hibernator.\u00a0<\/strong>Summer is by far my favourite season of the year. Especially the late spring\/early summer, when all the flowers are still blooming and when that weird kid nobody likes can\u2019t leave his house, because of his wicked hay fever. But there are some AEGEEans who are so in love with the summer, they basically just show up for the Summer Universities. These \u2018Hibernators\u2019 only see AEGEE as a cheap way to go on holiday. They\u2019re the unknown members you think are new, but have actually been in\u00a0AEGEE for years. They\u2019re the strangers\u00a0who suddenly turn up on an exchange and who you think belong to the other local. They love to travel, but are not fun to travel with; they\u2019re basically your parents, which is a shame, cause some of these Hibernators are actually nice people.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Do you have a favourite type, do you find these recognisable, or did we miss one? Let us know in the comments and on Facebook.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Written by Willem Laurentzen, AEGEE-Nijmegen
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