How to Fight TIPression

By Kathy Garner
Media and Message TIPster
TIPression: n. A feeling of depression after leaving TIP, especially strong with fourth years
There are some ways to help fight TIPression. The easiest is flipping through a termbook. Those publications hold memories! Slightly harder, but still convenient, is finding everyone you know and friending them on Facebook, adding them on Skype, following them on Twitter, etc. With technology linking everyone together, you now can have that conversation you’ve been meaning to have with all of your friends that are spread out all over the country. TIPwiki can also be good for reliving old memories.
One of the more difficult ways is coming back next year. There is no concrete way to guarantee coming back to the same term and campus, or that all of your friends will be there with you. Being a fourth year can be exceptionally difficult because there is no way to come back to TIP as a camper. After your freshman year in college, however, it is possible to apply to be an RC.

Many find music to be healing, so listening to traditional TIP songs (the most famous being "American Pie") may also help. Keep your shoelace some place safe in your room as well, and frame pictures. Keep memories alive and stay in touch.