Aggie seeks advice via TSC flyer
An anonymous Aggie, self-named “Flyer Girl,” has started seeking any kind of unsolicited advice from fellow Utah State University students this past semester. Her posters can be found all over campus, especially in the Taggart Student Center.
Flyer Girl seeks advice from all Aggies.
“I always love to receive advice,” Flyer Girl said. “As a university student, I am surrounded by smart people who probably have great advice to give or at least some witty things to say.”
She is seeking all kinds of advice and feedback ranging from relationship advice, politics, career advice to simple suggestions.
Utah State’s Flyer Girl has not received any advice submissions yet though.
So to start off a culture of sharing, Flyer Girl decided to give Aggies some of her own advice in hopes it would encourage students to share advice with her.
“I would tell people to try to dance a little more, spend time swaddled like a burrito when you feel confused, go to SNAC when you’re stressed about money and wear your onesie to class when you feel sad,” Flyer Girl said. “Question everything and investigate the evidence for all dearly-held beliefs. Wait until you’re 27 to get married, get lots of vitamin D, and watch as many sunsets as you can. If you’re deciding between a book or a movie, choose the book. My biggest advice however, would be: don’t spend too much time on your cell phones or social media.”
But the advice flyer is not Flyer Girls’ first.
Flyer Girl started out her career by asking Aggies the odd, yet intriguing, question: “Are you a clam?”
“I’ve met almost 50 people weird enough to respond to my posters, and more than half of these folks are self-admitted clams,” Flyer Girl said. “If there is an underground clam population in Utah, I’d like to know about it.”
Flyer Girl said she was enthralled to receive that many responses from Aggies declaring their clam status to her in rather odd ways.
She received stories from students detailing
mournful tales such as one short anecdote of a “human who is not a clam, but has spent their life wishing for nothing more than to be a little clam resting peacefully on the dark ocean floor.”
Other stories told grappling tales of USU “clams” who believed in horrendous humans, who believe themselves to be superior to the Aggie clam population and then outlined the subsequent measures necessary to release clams from humanities subjugation.
Flyer Girl invites more people to respond to her “are you a clam” posters.
“I like strange people,” Flyer Girl said.
She said she wonders where they have all been hiding and invites all Aggies to step outside of their shell and allow themselves to be strange.
To share your advice with this clammy sleuth seeking more advice, email Flyer Girl at talktotheflyer@gmail.com.
Photo illustration by Jared Craig